Running Out of Resources
If you don't know what Gallium is then you only have a few more years to find out according to the article "Reflection: The Death of Gallium" by Robert Silverberg. Gallium is an element that's used in electronics equipment. Other elements, obscure ones, but also Zinc and Copper are available only in short supply here on Earth. I wonder if it will get to the point that people will be melting down Rembrandt's remaining copper etching plates in order to make Ipods.
Here's the link to the article: http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0806/ref.shtml.
Is this why NASA is scurrying up to Mars so frantically? I mean, do you really give a shit if there's ice on Mars? What are they really doing? Mining in Space? (and bringing back all the new versions of AIDS and SARS to go with it).
Resources are Houses 2, 5, 8, 11. I assume that Mining is a 4th House thing. Neptune's in Aquarius and that's the only Outer Planetary contacts with Resource Signs or Planets we earthlings have for a while. Hmmm, the Cancer cusp (H4) is the empty leg of the Saturn-Uranus-Pluto t-square that's coming up? That could be good for going on a long mining excursion.
They're also going to make the Astronauts drink their own sewer water because bringing toilets up to the Space Station is just too damn much trouble. Heeheheee, that makes me laugh so fucking hard. I'm so glad I don't have a kid who wants to grow up to be an astronaut. I tell you, things are just getting so out of hand. teehehe.
(link from Kottke.org)
Labels: Fixed Signs
posted by Out The Comet's Ass @ 3:06 PM
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Someone emailed me this info. More to laugh about:
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) bacteria found in faeces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.
Thanks Analysa, more to throw up about. So I guess this explains why inventors don't mind converting sewage to drinking water. Our systems are at least used to the stuff.
Time to invest in water distilleries.
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