Back to the Future anyone?

[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>

[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>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That's impressive.</div>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>And?</div>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>We could manage that perhaps, but I wouldn't put it on the "easy" list.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>A few thousand nuclear warheads could do the trick.</div>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>with the big ass hydrogen ones we have now? I'm not so sure.</div>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>That was a really broken conversation...</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I do that while Im at work ;)</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The planet is still inhospitable to life.</div>

[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>