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2010-10-14 International-UN-NGOs

Mankind will need two planets to support life by 2030, say scientists

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Posted by tipper 2010-10-14 13:38|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 How about one planet for these crypto-socialist know-it-alls to turn into a starving, arid waste.

Another planet for the rest of us...

Posted by Free Radical 2010-10-14 14:02|| 2010-10-14 14:02|| Front Page Top

#2 How about we send all the green-socialist-weenies to Venus? I hear it is lovely this time of year.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-14 14:17|| 2010-10-14 14:17|| Front Page Top

#3 We could help save the planet by exterminating all attendees at the meeting.

Posted by mojo 2010-10-14 14:43|| 2010-10-14 14:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I Use "Crest" when I feel rich.
I use "Aim" when I feel poor.

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Anyone else notice how the selection pf toothpaste is quite bewildering. IN th old day sit was Cogate or Pepsodent, period. Then the great "Crest" with ADA Recommendation revolutionized toothpaste. Now in 2010 the toothpaste isle is a veritable beastiary of labels and formulas,
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Why did Toothpowder die away? Mebbe we will all go back to backing soda one day...and clear another aisle for year-round Halloween Candy?

Posted by borgboy 2010-10-14 15:09|| 2010-10-14 15:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Back on topic: I say make Pluto the most important site in Islam - and the subjects will hence move muy rapido. Bonus - its so dark they can do away with the burgua thing...

Posted by borgboy 2010-10-14 15:12|| 2010-10-14 15:12|| Front Page Top

#6 WWF you say?

This is the same organization which is claiming that Polar Bears are becoming extinct (reality: The Polar Bear population is at a all-time high).

And if we need another planet, well there is always Pandora right?

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-10-14 15:43|| 2010-10-14 15:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps if all those inefficient Third World countries became efficient First World countries, the problem would solve itself. High rise apartment buildings free up a lot of land for farming, parks, and wilderness.

Toothpaste (something I actually know about):

1. There isn't much toothpowder about because it's a horrid way to clean your teeth -- highly abrasive, to the point of wearing away the hard enamel surface, leaving only the soft, cavity-prone dentin layer beneath... and not good at delivering fluoride, which needs to be dissolved in order for the ions to bind to the enamel where the calcium ions had fled. And given that a tube of toothpaste is good for three years unless stored on a sunny window sill, even the storage benefit of tooth powder is moot.

2. There are so many options because the market has been mature for several decades, which means a new flavour/benefit/brand can only acquire customers by cannibalizing from existing toothpaste users. Only significant add-ons can stand separately, like whitening strips, but I imagine they've lost some customers to the new whitening varieties of toothpaste, which work pretty well at destaining. Periodically the manufacturers try to reduce their SKUs (the various sizes/flavours/benefits that get a separate row on the store shelves), but then they come up a new flavour or benefit, and away we go again.

3. Baking soda upsets the pH in the mouth, which can lead to all sorts of problems if used long term; it's a very soft abrasive, so it isn't effective at removing bacteria and surface stains from teeth, ie "cleaning"; and, it doesn't contain fluoride so it doesn't repair the minor decay that eventually leads to cavities. I'd rather use a plain toothbrush, given a choice.

If you stock up on Crest at Walmart when it's on sale and you have a coupon, you won't ever have to buy Aim. At minimum I'd get the anti-tartar stuff, although I can personally vouch for Crest's sensitive teeth formula, should you have a need for such things.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-14 15:58|| 2010-10-14 15:58|| Front Page Top

#8 trailng wife: I truly thank you for your bountiful information. I'll also take up your suggestions re coupons, Walmart, and Crest. Thanks again, I learned a lot, and as an historian I doubly appreciate the info.

Posted by borgboy 2010-10-14 16:28|| 2010-10-14 16:28|| Front Page Top

#9 borgboy, you're very welcome. I did a stint many years ago as a product development lab technician for a toothpaste manufacturer, and read up on the history of the field that was so briefly my own. I miss Gleem but, like cars, what we've got now is so much better.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-14 17:04|| 2010-10-14 17:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Ipana.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-10-14 19:45|| 2010-10-14 19:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Toms of Maine. Yeah, I'm probably a snob, but I like it, I really, really like it!

Posted by Sgt.Mom 2010-10-14 20:14|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-10-14 20:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Sounds like an arguement for genetically modified crops if you ask me. Not for a "green economy".

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-10-14 22:29|| 2010-10-14 22:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Two planets ... or one decent sized volcano or just your run of the mill epic famine.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-10-14 23:14|| 2010-10-14 23:14|| Front Page Top

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