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Post by Fusion on May 1, 2006 11:56:47 GMT -5
Oil's running out, too. Worldwide. I say that about in 10 years the Earth is going to be out of oil. Space travel better hurry up, I wanna be living in the stars when I'm 50!
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Post by RELLIK on May 1, 2006 13:42:53 GMT -5
and people wonder what happened to mars?
maybe they came to earth and martians are our ancestors.....
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Post by Ztrl on May 1, 2006 13:57:36 GMT -5
Remember that movie a few years back called mission to mars? well some thing like that what rellik said was talked about in the movie. And according to scientific evidence, it could be true. -------------------------------------------------------------- back on topic, I ride a bike almost every where. The only place I drive a car is to and from work, or unless I have to go out of town.
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Post by Sonic on May 2, 2006 12:03:39 GMT -5
It isn't terribly hard switching to different resources, Americans have just been so used to oil that they've gotten lazy. They don't see that oil is a disgusting, polluting resource that's killing our Earth. Take it from me, I live in a very polluted city. (I think NJ is the dirtiest state in the US matter of fact)
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Post by Ztrl on May 2, 2006 12:08:34 GMT -5
i thought NJ was NYs garbage dump......
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Post by Sonic on May 3, 2006 19:19:37 GMT -5
Tch, they're both dumps...
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Post by swimstud600 on May 3, 2006 19:23:35 GMT -5
The only reason I would want a hybrid car is to save money. Not to say I don't care about the environment but 1 car won't make a difference. I just don't want to pay for gas anymore. I know hybrids are expensive but it would pay for itself in the gas money you save. Its only going to keep rising in price...
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Post by Nightmare on May 3, 2006 19:35:28 GMT -5
@nightmare: Typical conservative, keeping your eyes closed in the midst of the truth. This isn't natural. Temperatures have NEVER risen this quickly in previous centuries, and that's because previous centuries still didn't abuse oil, and cars weren't around yet. We ARE causing this. Did you here what Gore said in the movie? The 10 highest temperatures in the U.S. have ocurred in the last 14 years! One more thing. By 2050, an estimated one million species of animals will become extinct due to global warming. Unless we act now, that is. Pfft, this isn't a political arguement, so don't give me crap about it. But while we're on the subject, I could give a sh!t less about what that mentally retarded idiot Al Gore said. >.> But I honestly don't think global warming is just a way for dirty hippies to scare us. But even if global warming is real I don't think it's something to worry too much about. So what if it gets a little hotter? And like Fusion said, oil won't last forever, we need an alternative energy source. I just hope that it'll be one tyhat shuts the damn yappy hippies up >.>
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Post by Sonic on May 4, 2006 11:17:28 GMT -5
I don't want to make it political either, I'm just saying that we need an alternative resource. Even if Gore was a Republican, I'd still agree with what he's saying because it's true, oil is killing our planet. And btw, think of the big picture. It might not affect us yet, but what about our great-great- grandkids years from now?
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Post by swimstud600 on May 4, 2006 18:54:28 GMT -5
In a recent change the government has decided that there may in fact be a slim chance that global warming is real and they are starting to conduct some research. Not a big change but at least they aren't totally denying it.
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Post by Fusion on May 5, 2006 7:27:36 GMT -5
Let's hope we can trust them on the research.
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Post by Ztrl on May 5, 2006 8:03:17 GMT -5
Scientists find new species in Atlantic By Alister Doyle
OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists have found about 10-20 new species of tiny creatures in the depths of the Atlantic in a survey that will gauge whether global warming may harm life in the oceans, an international report said on Thursday.
The survey, of tropical waters between the eastern United States and the mid-Atlantic ridge, used special nets to catch fragile zooplankton -- animals such as shrimp, jellyfish and swimming worms -- at lightless depths of 1-5 km (0.6-3 miles).
"This was a voyage of exploration ... the deepest parts of the oceans are hardly ever sampled," said Peter Wiebe, the cruise's scientific leader and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States.
"We found perhaps 10-20 new species of zooplankton," he said of the 20-day voyage by 28 scientists from 14 nations in April.
Most life, including commercial fish stocks, is in the top 1 km of water, but the scientists said the survey showed a surprising abundance even in the depths. The survey will provide a benchmark to judge future changes to the oceans.
New finds among thousands of zooplankton species caught included six types of ostracods, a shrimp-like creature, and other species of zooplankton such as swimming snails and worms.
Zooplankton are animals swept by ocean currents, mostly millimeters-long but ranging up to jellyfish trailing long tails.
Among 120 types of fish caught, the scientists found what may be a new type of black dragonfish, with fang-like teeth, growing up to about 40 cm (15 inches), and a 20-cm-long great swallower, with wide jaws and a light-producing organ to attract prey.
"By 2010, the research ... will provide a baseline against which future generations can measure changes to the zooplankton and their provinces, caused by pollution, over-fishing, climate change, and other shifting environmental conditions," said Ann Bucklin, lead scientist for the zooplankton census project at the University of Connecticut.
GLOBAL WARMING
Most scientists believe the planet is warming because of a build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mainly from human burning of fossil fuels in power plants, vehicles and factories since the Industrial Revolution.
The oceans absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide but the process raises levels of carbonic acid in the seas. That build-up could threaten marine life, for instance by making it harder for crabs or oysters to build shells.
Zooplankton are a key to transporting carbon dioxide to the depths because they can swim 500 meters (yards) up and down daily. Many species eat their own weight every day in plant phytoplankton species near the surface.
By one estimate, 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) of plant phytoplankton is needed to feed 1,000 kg of small zooplankton.
The expedition was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and used NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. The findings are also part of a wider Census of Marine Life trying to map the oceans.
Scientists from Argentina, Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States took part. 05/04/06 11:50 © Copyright Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of Reuters Ltd
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