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Back to the Future anyone?
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:33 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.h ... il.html</a>
Back to the Future anyone?</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:28 pm
by the Gray
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>that's incredible. Beats the York Univ discovery of turning Kitchen grease into diesel fuel.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:44 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That's impressive.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:55 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>wow, that's awesome...could change the world dramatically (but no, this isn't Mr Fusion :) )</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:13 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... n-a-can</a>
I wonder if it had anything to do with this...</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:15 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Of course, the inventor will silently be killed shortly after this, and this will be the last that we hear of the project.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:26 pm
by ManaMan
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Incredible... but something tells me that a) this is too good to be true or b) like Sine says, the guy will be "dissapeared" and this is the last we'll hear of this project.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:39 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Seeing as how this has government funding, corporate investors, and is may turn a larger profit for oil companies, I sincerely doubt it.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:18 pm
by the Gray
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, I did some digging. Thermo polymerization has been around since the 80's, Laidlaw here in Canada utilizes it in fact. Just that no one has been able to make it Profitable or Efficient before.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:18 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>by who? unlike past inventions the oil company doesn't want him dead-- they can benefit from this thing too and the gov't throwing money into it as well</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:36 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>That one is awesome too....so lets stop talking and discussing what we could do with it and DO IT!! Why havent we implemented those wind machines in every dump yet?? We come up with these awesome inventions but rarely do you ever see much more about it.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:24 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>...she said typing on her keyboard, using her computer to transmit the words over itty-bitty wires so that someone a few states away could read it at his leisure.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:26 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>And?</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:07 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Look around. There are so many "awesome inventions" in daily use that we take them for granted.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:30 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I mean shit thats gonna save us from destroying our planet and using up all our resources</div>
PostPosted:Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:23 pm
by Ganath
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Isn't that a fairly egocentric complaint? The earth has lived through much more than our petty race has managed to whip up so far.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:28 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Of course, and nothing we can do to the Earth will "destroy" it. However, we can easily make it a place that is inhospitable for us.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:12 am
by Ganath
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>We could manage that perhaps, but I wouldn't put it on the "easy" list.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:37 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>A few thousand nuclear warheads could do the trick.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:18 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>thousand? sounds like overkill to me...you could probably do it with as few as 20-50</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:23 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Or only a few near the costal reefs of Austrailia, where we get abut 98% of our oxygen.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:54 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>A few hundred could make a particular area inhospitable to human life, but I think it would take a few thousand to do that on a global scale.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:43 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>with the big ass hydrogen ones we have now? I'm not so sure.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:56 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Erm, I thought like 80% of the world's oxygen came from the Rain Forests?</div>
I looked it up..70% actually
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:58 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://rainforrest.manilasites.com/stor ... eader$9</a>
Why are rainforests so important?
Rainforests are important because they can provide us many issential things if we use them the right way. They also provide homes for animals.
Medicines
Rainforest plants and trees are used for medicine. One-third of the medicine we have come from the rainforests. Most of those cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Most of these medicines cure diseases which can kill such as yellow fever. If these rainforests die, then there will be no medicines to cure the people.
<i><b>Oxygen
The plants in the rainforests provide us 70% of the world supply of oxygen. We would only have 30% world oxygen if the rainforests are cut down. There would not be enough oxygen to provide us. Very few people would live.
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Climate
The rainforests keep our climate even so it is a temprature that we can live with.
Other Uses
Rainforests can be used for many other things such as rubber, chocolate and spices. They have the rubber tree which makes rubber, cocoa leaf which is used for chocolate and chcolate things, and the herbs which can be spices to kepp your food from spoiling. -----------------------------------------------------------------</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:02 pm
by Ganath
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Humans are about as resiliant as 'roaches. We'd get rid of our population problem real quick, but I think there'd be enough nuts with bombshelters to continue the human race.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:07 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>It doesn't make sense. Think about it, if even a few pecentage points of oxygen when down, we'd have trouble breathing. We've burned enough rainforests to prove that theory incorrect.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:17 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I dont think weve made THAT much of an impact YET on the forests. Yes weve cut down thousands of sqaure miles but the rain forests are HUGE. But, if we dont stop cutting them down....gawd I sound like a tree-hugger</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:22 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Ok I just realized that site I linked was somebody's school project or soemthing, but it still serves its purpose :)</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:33 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I dont doubt if theres ever anything that happens that widespread, there will be some people that will survive and continue...but maybe Ive read too many books ;) I mean look at the dinosaurs..and yes I know we're far superior..just making conversation</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:36 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Look up pages on plankton and algae. Multiple source quote that they provide "much of the world's oxygen". Too bad I can't get a percentage.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:37 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>That was a really broken conversation...</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:57 pm
by Shellie
<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I do that while Im at work ;)</div>
PostPosted:Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:37 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The planet is still inhospitable to life.</div>
PostPosted:Thu Apr 24, 2003 12:08 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>An asteroid that would cause a global catastrophe needs to release about 10e5 Megatons of energy. A typical thermonuclear weapon yields about 10 Megatons. You'd then need about 10,000 to have the same impact as a big ass asteroid.</div>