What I have learnt about America from watching the X-Files
1. America has an electrical grid of a standard more suited to a 3rd world country due to frequent surges and outages.
2. When walking into a dark room, it is never an American's first action to switch on a light. It is preferable to fumble around in the dark.
3. Even when a person does try to switch on a light, most likely the globe has blown, or the breaker has tripped due to the poor quality and unreliability of the grid.
4. In most instances, light switches are not placed in the logical position next to the door, they are usually placed on the wall furthest from the door, requiring a person to fumble around in the dark.
5. Critical facilities, such as hospitals are not illuminated by bright flourescent lighting. Rather small desk lamps are used to illuminate corridors, nurse stations and patient rooms.
6. Surgical rooms and surgeries are performed with little lighting. The entire room and the surgical area are illuminated by a single dim overhead lamp.
7. Retail and commercial buildings, office buildings and industrial facilities are never brightly lit. Similar to hospitals, they opt for dim and sparsely placed desktop lamps for illumination of large areas.
Some other thoughts... Although aliens are intelligent enough to travel interstellar distances, they never figured out cable-management on their ships, with cables snaking over the floor or hanging off the ceiling like spiderwebs.
Alien ships flying through our skies are always as bright as a small sun, but are then wrapped in an invisiblity cloak shortly after landing. Seems self-defeating to brightly announce their arrival and then quickly hide. Maybe they should switch off their landing lights?
1. America has an electrical grid of a standard more suited to a 3rd world country due to frequent surges and outages.
2. When walking into a dark room, it is never an American's first action to switch on a light. It is preferable to fumble around in the dark.
3. Even when a person does try to switch on a light, most likely the globe has blown, or the breaker has tripped due to the poor quality and unreliability of the grid.
4. In most instances, light switches are not placed in the logical position next to the door, they are usually placed on the wall furthest from the door, requiring a person to fumble around in the dark.
5. Critical facilities, such as hospitals are not illuminated by bright flourescent lighting. Rather small desk lamps are used to illuminate corridors, nurse stations and patient rooms.
6. Surgical rooms and surgeries are performed with little lighting. The entire room and the surgical area are illuminated by a single dim overhead lamp.
7. Retail and commercial buildings, office buildings and industrial facilities are never brightly lit. Similar to hospitals, they opt for dim and sparsely placed desktop lamps for illumination of large areas.
Some other thoughts... Although aliens are intelligent enough to travel interstellar distances, they never figured out cable-management on their ships, with cables snaking over the floor or hanging off the ceiling like spiderwebs.
Alien ships flying through our skies are always as bright as a small sun, but are then wrapped in an invisiblity cloak shortly after landing. Seems self-defeating to brightly announce their arrival and then quickly hide. Maybe they should switch off their landing lights?