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2008-01-10 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I demand washington delegates read this and take appropriate action as soon as possible. DC needs to be good for something, if not, level it.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-01-10 01:18|| 2008-01-10 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Nuclear will solve the whole problem. One way or another.

Posted by gorb 2008-01-10 03:44|| 2008-01-10 03:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Nuclear will solve the whole problem

Word

Posted by Ahmadinajad 2008-01-10 04:33|| 2008-01-10 04:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Oil will survive in our lifetime, but in fact it has gone the way of whale oil. The 20th Century has come and gone. We are in the 21st now. Fuel cells, magnetic, and nuclear are the here and now.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-10 05:55|| 2008-01-10 05:55|| Front Page Top

#5 (1) the West...

No - THE LEFT, there fixed it for you.
Before they were green they were red.
Who shut down nuclear growth after Three Mile Island with choruses of 'fear' [though fewer people died at the site than in a car driven by the loud bombastic Senator from Massachusetts - take that and put it in your windfarm].
Who has obstructed and denied access to domestic resources which would have greatly lessened the need for imports?
Who's in the lead of nearly every NIMBY movement, local and national?
It sure as the hell ain't been business.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-10 08:06|| 2008-01-10 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 item (2) is especially important. Until the West is comfortable rebranding this thing as the War on Islam (instead of the WOT) -- we are strolling towards defeat.

Posted by Captain Lewis 2008-01-10 08:22|| 2008-01-10 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Zubrin also wroe this: "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must".

Posted by Penguin 2008-01-10 09:19|| 2008-01-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Penguin:

Your point being what?

Posted by Mark Z 2008-01-10 09:35|| 2008-01-10 09:35|| Front Page Top

#9 porcopius said "Who has obstructed and denied access to domestic resources which would have greatly lessened the need for imports? "

Question of the day for all insiders........news flash

Oil is not a fossil fuel, it is the byproduct of meteor impacts. want to see it made in real time? go see the shoemaker levy photos after impact with jupiter.......

our physics are as broke as much of our educational establishments.

PS in the coldness of space, there are many moons in our solar system full of hydrocarbons, and as a footnote to this new idea.....them moons, had no dinosaurs...

Posted by Spiny Gl 2511 2008-01-10 09:54|| 2008-01-10 09:54|| Front Page Top

#10 I listened to the podcast on my trip in this morning, and the guy makes a very persuasive case.

Posted by Mike 2008-01-10 10:11|| 2008-01-10 10:11|| Front Page Top

#11 I put abiogenic oil hypotheses on the same level as Lamarckian evolution and Lurian psychology; two other Soviet fads adopted so as to disagree with the West rather than do, for example, science.

I would be delighted to be wrong. A ready supply of rocket fuel in the asteroid belt could come in real handy...

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-10 10:37|| 2008-01-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#12 I've had the opportunity to read three or four reviews of the Zurbin book to date. I've yet to read an entirely negative review of the ideas put forth by Zurbin. Except by some of the good folk here at RB who I suspect havn't yet had the chance to read Zurbin's book. Keep an open mind until you read the book.

Posted by Mark Z 2008-01-10 10:48|| 2008-01-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Ex...dont forget Lysenko!

Science is convenient to system maintenace....IMHO.

take it too the bank what i've said.

Posted by Spiny Gl 2511 2008-01-10 11:29|| 2008-01-10 11:29|| Front Page Top

#14 One of my crazy thoughts for the day; how about someone patent a fuel from human fecal matter. Lord knows there's enough of that on the planet -figuratively and litteraly. John Edwards and Al Gore would prolly both be worth 400 lbs a piece for all the crap they produce.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-01-10 14:02|| 2008-01-10 14:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Ah, so anyone who criticizes Zubrin is closed-minded?

hmm.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-01-10 14:46|| 2008-01-10 14:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Ah, but there is a small Lamarckian component to evolution. The average height of adults has increased several inches since revolutionary times. Some recent work in mice has shown that fur color in infants can be influenced by the mother's diet and we know that we can't make any mammal fetus grow past a few cell divisions without a living womb. So there must be hormonal interactions between mother and fetus that affect the fetus' growth and ultimate phenotype. But how far does that Lamarckian component swing the composite vector away from the Darwinian axis? My guess is not much.

Posted by Crackpot Physics 2008-01-10 19:02|| 2008-01-10 19:02|| Front Page Top

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