And I’m sure there were people thinking, “Ehh...It’s green wood! It won’t burn that fast! We’ve got PLENTY of time and warning!”

I’ve seen those idiots out here. They’re still here right now, asking CHP, local police, and fire if they can get escorts into their homes to collect items that they “need”, like photo…

That’s what’s creeping me out about this fire...I KNOW it’s close; I know where it’s currently burning and how quickly I can get there in a car - yet there’s no smoke by me, no ash in the air, nothing to indicate that the fire is as close to me as it is. But I can see a glow at night on the distant horizon, reflected…

The Lilac fire is scary stuff. I drive along Highway 76 every couple of weeks to get out to the Interstate 15/76 interchange, where my R/C flying field is located, just kitty corner from where the fire touched off yesterday.

Hot damn! I see a Christmas gift for my parents.

Hot damn! I see a Christmas gift for my parents.

Shhh...If you say nothing, maybe it won’t happen.

And you jinxed us. Bonsall/Fallbrook area, broke out in a fire about 2 hours ago. It’s right at the 15 Freeway and the 76, kitty corner from where I fly RC planes.

Agreed on TTR. I own several iterations, and have given my mom and my niece a copy; the latter was VERY appreciative because she was actually studying the railroads in U.S. History at the time that we gave it to her. Plus, she got to bone up on her geography skills, so it was a win-win all the way around. :)

Agreed on TTR. I own several iterations, and have given my mom and my niece a copy; the latter was VERY appreciative…

I’m just gonna say that my parents thought this would be a GREAT idea to clean the wood floors of the dog fur and dust bunnies that they have in their house.

One of my friends from high school lives in Sonoma now, and her house escaped the fire, but they’re in the process of repairing from smoke damage...I’ve been through 3 San Diego wildfires where the tri-city areas have been surrounded by fire; it’s NOT fun at all.

Well...The closest I’ve felt to “reboot” were the J.J. Abrams Star Trek, which melded the old and the new series with Spock traveling back in time to talk to the original crew; it definitely split it off into another timeline.

This is not Satan. It’s not GREAT, but it’s not Satan...

Well, we KNOW Luke’s irresponsible...I mean, sheesh! He couldn’t be bothered to track down an unregistered lightsaber that LITERALLY had his fingerprints all over it after he used it to try and take down a head honcho in the Empire and LOST it...

A lot of bad guys with guns? You mean the ones that can’t hit them? Then again...

Didn’t Einstein say he wanted to be proved wrong on some of his works?

We believe science. That is, the science that tests a theory, verifies it to be true or not, and then re-tests to verify that the results were the same.

Fish can dissolve oxygen out of water more efficiently than humans. So therefore we should start breathing water because the fish know more about it than we do.

Interesting - I did a search on it, and a Giz article from a little over 4 years ago came up in the top searches:

That makes more sense, now that I think about it...Kinda why deep sea divers were experimenting with breathing liquid oxygen back in the 80's and 90's? I remember seeing either Woods Hole or Scripps was experimenting with rats in a liquid oxygen environment on a tail end bit of Seaquest DSV, where they were kind of…

UFOs? They are still out there. And people film them all the time, at least if we go in the absolute strictest sense of the term: Unidentified Flying Object. People first saw the stealth bomber and the F-117 stealth fighter, and thought they were UFOs; they hadn’t seen anything like it before, and for them, the were…

See, I believe that there could have been a yeti/Bigfoot type of creature that lived at one time. But what surprises me is that there are bears in the Himalayas. I honestly didn’t know that there were, and that would CERTAINLY give credence to the myth of a yeti if someone saw a bear from a distance, standing on its…