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RAHfanboy
11/15/08

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That's a beautiful map.
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Anekanta - Space Hippy!
11/14/08

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It's funny, we could go to all the trouble of desalinating massive amounts of sea water, or we could just stop hacking down all the forests and paving over wetlands that clean the water we already have for free.
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ceilingFANBOY
11/14/08

@Anekanta: Fuck the forests and wetlands; we don't need them. Let's channelize all of our rivers, rip out the riparian buffer zones, and cover the prairies with impervious parking lots. How are we ever going to realize our dreams of living on Coruscant if we don't do so? Don't you know, "glass towers bring prosperity?"
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Insomnia Bob
11/14/08

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Note to self, get this tattooed on some little girl's back ASAP, so Kevin Costner can find it in the future and lead us all to dry land.

...well, all of us except Dennis Hopper. Fuck that guy.
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Gann
11/14/08

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It would be interesting to see this with a population density overlay and/or farming output overlay.
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Meirelle
11/14/08

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We should just desalinate the ocean instead. :P
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RAHfanboy
11/15/08

@meirelle, Commander Closet Commie: We'll have to stock it with fresh water fish, but that shouldn't be a problem.
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twDarkflame
11/14/08

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Making better use of water, and converting sea-water to drinkable is piss-easy compared to most world problems.

Its *reasonably* affordable too, allthough naturaly requires upfront investment.

I think the bigger piss-take is how in the west we ship bottle water half way around the world when most of us have incredibly good quality stuff coming from our taps.

We are a stupidly wastefull socieity and its really going to come back to bite us in a few generations.
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Grey_Area
11/14/08

@twDarkflame: Desalination would be simpler but I think having to drink recycled pee would be a powerful lesson for the wasteful.
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ceilingFANBOY
11/14/08

@twDarkflame: If only it were that easy. Those land locked countries may find it difficult to desalinize the ocean in order to supply their people with water. The impending water issue is bigger than most people think. Making ocean water safe to drink may be relatively cheap and easy to do, but making sure that it is fairly distributed throughout the world, not so easy. The thing that is even more difficult and expensive is treating the water once we have used it to make it suitable for being put back into the waterways. Besides, you can only put up so many desalinization plants. Considering the amount of blood that is shed over oil (even if you don't think that Americans are going to war for oil, there are plenty of countries where people are going to war over oil), how bad do you think things are going to get when the war is over something that people absolutely can not live without rather than a commodity?
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RAHfanboy
11/15/08

@ceilingFANBOY: What countries are at war for oil?
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ceilingFANBOY
11/15/08

@RAHfanboy for one, welcomes his Marxist overlords.: I didn't say that countries are at war over oil right now. I was saying that it has happened several times in the past and will happen again in the future.
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Grey_Area
11/14/08

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This week the International Space Station recieved some amenities to make life easier for the crew which will jump from 3 to 6 peoplem on board at all times. A new water reclamaiton system will recycle water from condensation and urine. One of the astronauts admitted this sounded pretty disgusting but that we may have to resort to similar solution groundside in the near future.
Cheers, everybody. Bottoms up!
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