Because the U . S . is totally innocent of that sort of thing . <| sep |> I ' d think it gets reflected off the carapace in the same way that a bolt of lightning from a wizard , or a ray of disintegration is reflected . <| sep |> What is the question though ? What are you trying to do ? <| sep |> Love looking back on my post history here or on other forums its so clear how radically my mental state shifts over time , but I always feel like I ' m stable in whatever condition I am at , at the moment . Any time I end up in a good state , like now , I want to freeze it , capture the essence . gild the lily , and thus I destroy it in the effort . <| sep |> Sorry , but who exactly is the they you ' re referring to ? I ' d really like to know what your source is for that comment because it makes no sense . It ' s not as if we had a choice between green energy and fossil fuels at the start of the Industrial Revolution back in 1750 and opted for fossil . We used what was at hand , and we were dependant on it because it ' s all there was . It ' s not idiocy , it ' s progress . Now , I can see the argument that maybe we are lagging on transitioning from Fossil to Green at a very glacial pace , we are definitely idiots for REMAINING dependant on it in this day and age , but I don ' t think you ' ll find anyone who will think we ' re idiots for becoming dependant on something that had no alternative . If the they you mentioned do whoever they are then they ' re idiots .