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2006-01-20 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-01-20 14:36|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here's a clue for ya' - there's this big honkin' belt full of asteroids not too far away and them babies have all sorts of metal in 'em. And if that isn't enough or they run dry, there's this big thing a ways farther out called the Kuiper Belt that's just chock full of all kinds of stuff.

There's a saying about that that escapes me right now...something like "stripmine the earth now, we'll get to the rest of the planets later".

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-01-20 14:58|| 2006-01-20 14:58|| Front Page Top

#2 and if we keep growing telecomm services all the people in the world will be employed as telephone operators .... just like they predicted in the 40s and 50s.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-20 15:10|| 2006-01-20 15:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Hopefully, the islamo krazed killers will win, and we'll all merrily go back to 7th century : voilÃ ! No more extensive industrial needs, no more metal depletion! See? No need to worry!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-01-20 15:14|| 2006-01-20 15:14|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and Gaia knows best.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-01-20 15:37|| 2006-01-20 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Turn a couple of engineers loose on it and the problem will go away -- everybody knows that!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-20 15:40|| 2006-01-20 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not a regular here....but I wanted to tell someone who is...there is a new Zawahiri tape out...and he makes no mention of the missile strike...matter of fact ...he recites poetry to dead fighters in Afghanistan...its up at Counterterrorismblog....they think its an old tape.

Posted by Grins Sluper5274 2006-01-20 15:42|| 2006-01-20 15:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Grins Sluper, I sould love to read it, do you have a link? (Lots of sites show up when I googled Counterterrorismblog and Zawahiri). Thanks! :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-20 15:58|| 2006-01-20 15:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Here it is...http://counterterror.typepad.com/

Posted by Grins Sluper5274 2006-01-20 16:14|| 2006-01-20 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 When the metals become rare enough, it will be economically feasible to mine the landfills for stuff that got thrown out and not recycled. Or we can find substitutes. There is almost always more than one solution to an engineering problem; the market uses the one that is most cost effective at the moment.

Posted by Unavimp Whainter8073 2006-01-20 17:10|| 2006-01-20 17:10|| Front Page Top

#10 The total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe is a fixed amount and never any more or less.

Thusly, since chunks of metal don't tend to leave earth on their own, nor do their oxides and salts, no loss to landfills is going on. All is needed is some work to retrieve metals from their temporary repositories.

We can train some species of bacteria to aggregate metals for us.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-01-20 17:21|| 2006-01-20 17:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Site saved to my favourites. Thanks muchly!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-20 21:22|| 2006-01-20 21:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Is the article trying hard NOT to say that CCAM's commentator Steve Hoagland's alleged scheme by "global gulagists" to PC exterminate 5-1/2B of the world's 6.0B human population. more or less, prob "more", is "justified". The Left > "Quick, quick, quick, Communism + Totalitarianism + OWG + Absolutism now, D*** YOU, because the Sun is going to get hotter and hotter and then suddenly explode. We don't know when, where, or why, and so far Solar Output vv MSM/Hollywood's DAY AFTER TOMORROW is "normal, but just because we're Secular Intellectuals, Scientifists, and Pragmatists-Realists doesn't mean we have to tell you anything - you have Have H-A-V-E TO BELIEVE WE DON'T KNOW ERGO DO AS WE TELL YOU".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-20 23:25|| 2006-01-20 23:25|| Front Page Top

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