Brasso
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LMFAOROFL.  Of course not.  It would be extremely costly and ineffective.
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i swear i saw the same thing happen in Futurama. : P.
dubbs
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haffeysucks wrote:

LMFAOROFL.  Of course not.  It would be extremely costly and ineffective.
Most space missions are also, but we still have them.
sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|7073|InGerLand
no, it could work, but not any time soon, and it could go far too horribly wrong.
usmarine2007
Banned
+374|6822|Columbus, Ohio
Oh brother
Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6893|King Of The Islands

Its been done:
https://www.winneroftheweek.com/mrburns.jpg

Those scientists are really grabbing for ratings now...
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
GAIKIWARRIOR
Judge Death
+64|7198|PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA
highlander 3 anyone
Masques
Black Panzer Party
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GAIKIWARRIOR wrote:

highlander 3 anyone
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mcminty
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+879|7176|Sydney, Australia
Aside from all these crackpot ideas, why don't we just cut emissions first. USA, take the lead and sign the Kyoto Protocal. Then, countries in the third world and such will follow the USA's lead. Too bad greed gets in the way of the environment...


Mcminty.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|7055|132 and Bush

Thats funny. What's next? Building a 700 mile fence along the US/Mexico Border hahah...   oh shit, wait, damn.
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unnamednewbie13
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mcminty wrote:

Aside from all these crackpot ideas, why don't we just cut emissions first. USA, take the lead and sign the Kyoto Protocal. Then, countries in the third world and such will follow the USA's lead. Too bad greed gets in the way of the environment...


Mcminty.
Better yet: wait awhile and watch the Earth plummet into another quasi ice age, as is its wont.
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|7036|SE London

I reckon it could work really well. The calculations would have to be spot on though, or we'd all be fucked.

The best way of splitting the $5 trillion price tag would be by mean carbon emissions from each nation for the past 20 years. The US's portion could have been paid for with the budget for the Iraq war - now that really was pointlessly throwing money away.
Fenris_GreyClaw
Real Хорошо
+826|6974|Adelaide, South Australia

Kmarion wrote:

Thats funny. What's next? Building a 700 mile fence along the US/Mexico Border hahah...   oh shit, wait, damn.
Thats nothing compared to the 8000km fence we built to keep the dingoes out of New South Wales and Victoria.
sergeriver
Cowboy from Hell
+1,928|7212|Argentina

Fenris_GreyClaw wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Thats funny. What's next? Building a 700 mile fence along the US/Mexico Border hahah...   oh shit, wait, damn.
Thats nothing compared to the 8000km fence we built to keep the dingoes out of New South Wales and Victoria.
I saw a documentary of that, it was nice watching the dead bodies of the kangaroos that keep trapped in it.
kr@cker
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+581|7004|Southeastern USA

dubbs wrote:

haffeysucks wrote:

LMFAOROFL.  Of course not.  It would be extremely costly and ineffective.
Most space missions are also, but we still have them.
yeah, they just give us things like modified plastics, new surgery/organ transplant techniques and tools, life saving devices, advancements in solar energy, why the hell do we keep going up there?
RDMC
Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!
+736|7019|Area 51
So in other words its like wrapping the earth into tin foil? Blocking all the sunlight and heat untill its like minus 9834689734897 degrees here and then unfoil us?


Thats nothing compared to the 8000km fence we built to keep the dingoes out of New South Wales and Victoria.
I though the fence was about 5000km long?

Last edited by RDMC(2) (2006-12-22 07:42:34)

kr@cker
Bringin' Sexy Back!
+581|7004|Southeastern USA

mcminty wrote:

Aside from all these crackpot ideas, why don't we just cut emissions first. USA, take the lead and sign the Kyoto Protocal. Then, countries in the third world and such will follow the USA's lead. Too bad greed gets in the way of the environment...


Mcminty.
because the kyoto protocal is horseshit, nothing more than global communism designed to hamstring the more developed nations by forcing them to finance the developement of the worst polluters, if you were truly concerned about pollution you would be whining about china and india not signing it, oh wait, they're not even included in it, that's right, because it's not about pollution
EVieira
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Anyone ever play Alpha Centauri?
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;  the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei  (1564-1642)
sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|7073|InGerLand

mcminty wrote:

Aside from all these crackpot ideas, why don't we just cut emissions first. USA, take the lead and sign the Kyoto Protocal. Then, countries in the third world and such will follow the USA's lead. Too bad greed gets in the way of the environment...


Mcminty.
what do you mean take the lead...even if you signed the protocol you would still be at the back
ok so the UK isn't in the lead but we are still ahead of the US
EVieira
Member
+105|6933|Lutenblaag, Molvania

mcminty wrote:

Aside from all these crackpot ideas, why don't we just cut emissions first. USA, take the lead and sign the Kyoto Protocal. Then, countries in the third world and such will follow the USA's lead. Too bad greed gets in the way of the environment...


Mcminty.
Take the lead and others follow???? Wtf?!? The Kyoto protocol failed because of US opposition. Noone needs the US to lead them, we just need the US to stop opposing it.

kr@cker wrote:

because the kyoto protocol is horseshit, nothing more than global communism designed to hamstring the more developed nations by forcing them to finance the development of the worst polluters, if you were truly concerned about pollution you would be whining about china and india not signing it, oh wait, they're not even included in it, that's right, because it's not about pollution
Fine then, why doesn't the US propose something then? Specially considering they are solely responsible for almost a third of all emissions....

And back on topic, the Russians launched a 20 meter diameter space mirror a few years ago. Although the results weren'y what was expected, it show that a solar shade is quite possible. But the effects on agriculture would be disastrous. Here is a link to the story: http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/02/05/cosm.php

Last edited by EVieira (2006-12-22 08:59:45)

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kr@cker
Bringin' Sexy Back!
+581|7004|Southeastern USA
ok, here's my proposal, be responsible for cleaning up your own damn mess and quit trying to find ways to make someone else do it for you


How's that rainforest going down there? Still expanding at record-breaking rates? oh wait, i had that backwards.
EVieira
Member
+105|6933|Lutenblaag, Molvania

kr@cker wrote:

ok, here's my proposal, be responsible for cleaning up your own damn mess and quit trying to find ways to make someone else do it for you
Fine, clean up your act and no one will bother you with signing Kyoto


kr@cker wrote:

How's that rainforest going down there? Still expanding at record-breaking rates? oh wait, i had that backwards.
Take care of your forests, we'll take care of ours. Oh, thats right, you already destroyed 95% of all the forests that covered the US... We managed to still have the amazon after over 500 years...
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;  the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei  (1564-1642)
kr@cker
Bringin' Sexy Back!
+581|7004|Southeastern USA
it'd be interesting to see where you made up......i mean got your numbers from, try to get it from a site that counts the trees that lumber companies plant instead of just the ones cut down, very vague defense, we still have our forests after 6000 years


here's a fun site, by some hippy pissed off by rush limbaugh

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mblowers/def.html

note two things, the word "virgin" used in describing the forested areas, meaning the replants aren't counted

and the dates/locations of the deforestation patterns, meaning it occurred both before america underwent it's industrial revolution, and in areas that are sparsely populated at best, meaning the human influence is negligible

Last edited by kr@cker (2006-12-22 09:45:21)

EVieira
Member
+105|6933|Lutenblaag, Molvania

kr@cker wrote:

it'd be interesting to see where you made up......i mean got your numbers from, try to get it from a site that counts the trees that lumber companies plant instead of just the ones cut down, very vague defense, we still have our forests after 6000 years
You have parks, not forests. And the little you still have is nothing that is comparable to the amazon.

kr@cker wrote:

here's a fun site, by some hippy pissed off by rush limbaugh

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mblowers/def.html

note two things, the word "virgin" used in describing the forested areas, meaning the replants aren't counted

and the dates/locations of the deforestation patterns, meaning it occurred both before america underwent it's industrial revolution, and in areas that are sparsely populated at best, meaning the human influence is negligible
So you do a search on "deforestation US" and post the first link you find as evidence? Really, its THE FIRST link the show up... I'm not gonna have a google search war with you, if you really think your forests disappeared with "neglible human influence" its your problem. I wonder what natural causes all those trees died of...

PS.: Did you actually read the link you posted or looked at the pictures? It just completely prooved my point...

Last edited by EVieira (2006-12-22 10:37:37)

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;  the point is to discover them."
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