A Serious Business Riddle.

[Dark_Armed_Zombie]

Ethonal isn't even NEAR the solution, yeesh, even if every single Corn field in America were changed into Ethonal production, it wouldn't even fulfill 10% of the demand, if I remember correctly. The only way to "fix" the problem is to lessen the usage of oil, infact, what I don't understand is the fact that we import a ton of our oil and export all of it in Alaska... why?

 

Anyways, we are already working on things to replace oil and if that is done withen the next 20-40 years, then we can use the rest of the oil soley for things of which only it can provide for (i.e. plastic) though we should stop it's usage all together, but that's a start.

[Lemniscate]

Okay, a few statistics:

- Nuclear: Uranium is a limited commodity, just like oil.

- Solar: In order to power the whole united states, you would have to fill 10,000 square miles with solar cells.

- Water: There aren't enough rivers and lakes to power the nation.

- Ethanol: It is expensive, acts only as an additive, and uses gasoline to create in the first place.

- Hydrogen: Has the tendency to explode.

- Wind: Changes weather conditions on the ground.

 

On the subject on ANWR, I really think we should be drilling there for the following reasons:

- It is in an area where people never go, as it is too far out the way for most Americans to afford to visit.

- Currently, there are oil rigs off the coasts of beaches in California, and in parking lots.

- It allows for lower priced oil, as prices aren't raised due to export and import tariffs.

[Mehmani]

Supposing you have single bacteria in a bottle' date=' and every minute this bacteria splits in half - essentially doubling itself. Now suppose it takes an hour for the bottle to be completely full of this bacteria. At 11am there is 1 bacteria and at 12 noon the bottle is completely full.

 

At what time is the bottle half full?

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This is from Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

[Womi]

Supposing you have single bacteria in a bottle' date=' and every minute this bacteria splits in half - essentially doubling itself. Now suppose it takes an hour for the bottle to be completely full of this bacteria. At 11am there is 1 bacteria and at 12 noon the bottle is completely full.

 

At what time is the bottle half full?

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This is from Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

Hey! I wanted to post this! =D

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Okay' date=' a few statistics:

- Nuclear: Uranium is a limited commodity, just like oil.

- Solar: In order to power the whole united states, you would have to fill 10,000 square miles with solar cells.

- Water: There aren't enough rivers and lakes to power the nation.

- Ethanol: It is expensive, acts only as an additive, and uses gasoline to create in the first place.

- Hydrogen: Has the tendency to explode.

- Wind: Changes weather conditions on the ground.

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I'd go for all of the unlimited sources like Solar, Water Wind in combinations along with shrinking the overall population. Because are our current population count we don't really have any long time solution.

[Dark Mousy]

We have the technology to send solar satellites into space, which are equipped with solar cells, and beam energy back down with microwaves. Such technology exists, but like it has been said, humans aren't going to realize it until the last minute.

 

But I like the current system, it's self correcting.

[Dark]

exponential population growth

 

Simple solution: stop finding cures.

 

Look at a chart for population from 1900 to a projected 2050.

 

Look at a chart for the same times, but for amount of cures "made".

 

See a relation?

[Lemniscate]

We have the technology to send solar satellites into space' date=' which are equipped with solar cells, and beam energy back down with microwaves. Such technology exists, but like it has been said, humans aren't going to realize it until the last minute.

 

But I like the current system, it's self correcting.

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1 - Source?

2 - Once the substances in the solar cell run out, it's just a useless hunk of junk floating in space.

 

exponential population growth

 

Simple solution: stop finding cures.

 

Look at a chart for population from 1900 to a projected 2050.

 

Look at a chart for the same times' date=' but for amount of cures "made".

 

See a relation?

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Yes, let's stop finding cures for deadly diseases, that's not immoral at all.

[Dark]

Fine then, we'll just find a cure to almost every disease out there. Surely our population will become more stable like that.

[Dark Mousy]

Here is the source : http://inventorspot.com/articles/spacebased_solar_cells_could_bea_7507

 

Leave the current system as it is. It is self correcting. Of course, we can't overtax the system. But we haven't even got "close" to overtaxing the system.

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Fine then' date=' we'll just find a cure to almost every disease out there. Surely our population will become more stable like that.

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Controlling birth is a better idea.

[Dark]

Or how about every 5 years, a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

[Mindscatter]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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WTF??? No, really, WTF??

 

Shouldn't it be simpler to limit number of kinds to 2 per woman in civilized territories? (in the other places life expectancy is under 60 so who cares?)

[Dark]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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WTF??? No, really, WTF??

 

Shouldn't it be simpler to limit number of kinds to 2 per woman in civilized territories? (in the other places life expectancy is under 60 so who cares?)

 

I like my idea better. Assuming your birthday is infinitely random, you are killing 1/365 of the world population every 5 years.

[Mindscatter]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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WTF??? No, really, WTF??

 

Shouldn't it be simpler to limit number of kinds to 2 per woman in civilized territories? (in the other places life expectancy is under 60 so who cares?)

 

I like my idea better. Assuming your birthday is infinitely random, you are killing 1/365 of the world population every 5 years.

 

Problem 1: that won't stop people fuc*ing

Problem 2: people would start rioting

Problem 3: most people are born during the winter, the least people are born during the spring. Population reduction would not ne uniform.

Problem 4: I won't let myself be killed.

[Lemniscate]

Here is the source : http://inventorspot.com/articles/spacebased_solar_cells_could_bea_7507

 

Leave the current system as it is. It is self correcting. Of course' date=' we can't overtax the system. But we haven't even got "close" to overtaxing the system.

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Wow, you really have no idea how a solar cell works...

The substances in the cell are bombarded with light waves, causing electrons to gain energy and detach from the atom, the electrons are then used to generate electricity, which is sent the through the conduit at the end of the cell to wherever it is supposed to go.

Now, once all the substances in the cell run out of available electrons, the solar cell is just a useless hunk of metal floating in space.

[Dark]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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WTF??? No, really, WTF??

 

Shouldn't it be simpler to limit number of kinds to 2 per woman in civilized territories? (in the other places life expectancy is under 60 so who cares?)

 

I like my idea better. Assuming your birthday is infinitely random, you are killing 1/365 of the world population every 5 years.

 

Problem 1: that won't stop people fuc*ing

Problem 2: people would start rioting

Problem 3: most people are born during the winter, the least people are born during the spring. Population reduction would not ne uniform.

Problem 4: I won't let myself be killed.

 

1.) Right, but they might stop having kids as they will be scared of having their kids die if born on the wrong day.

2.) Kill the rioters, stabalize the population even further.

3.) It can't be majorly offset. It's obviously not perfectly uniform, but it's not majority biased to one time of the year.

4.) They capture you, and they inject you with lethal poison. How do you plan on resisting?

[Mindscatter]

Ok, but you gave the idea, they should kill you first. BTW birth repartition throughout the year is EXTREMELY unbalanced. 1/9 of the world's population is born in February.

[Lemniscate]

I'm too lazy to debate the morality of eugenics, so I'll just say this.

You can kill two birds with one stone by killing off the weak and indigent, along with the sick and dying. Also, by killing off the lower class, who act only as a drain to society.

 

 

 

To be honest, I don't believe the above is moral, and should ever happen, but through the lens of practicality, it's the best way to do things.

[Mindscatter]

Actually, you said that just because you are NOT part of the lower class. Ethics-down...

 

 

We will soon have a resource crisis-...should we let the weak die? Of course! ...should we kill the weak? Hell no!

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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Or we use my idea because it's better. >_>

[Mindscatter]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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Or we use my idea because it's better. >_>

 

Or we use mine because it actually negates demographic raise.

[Lemniscate]

Actually' date=' you said that just because you are NOT part of the lower class. Ethics-down...

 

 

We will soon have a resource crisis-...should we let the weak die? Of course! ...should we kill the weak? Hell no!

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How do you know I'm not part of the lower class? Without any indication as to my class, that statement above is entirely fallacious.

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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Or we use my idea because it's better. >_>

 

Or we use mine because it actually negates demographic raise.

No, yours is as bad as Dark's.

[Mindscatter]

Ow sorry, I must admit it as a matter of your placement in society.

 

 

- If you are Lower class and you said that, you are a very good person, to my standards.

- If you are not Lower class and you said that, you are kinda bad, again, to my standards.

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Or how about every 5 years' date=' a random lottery is done and chooses one of the 365 days at random. Everyone born on that day must die. I like that idea.

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Or we use my idea because it's better. >_>

 

Or we use mine because it actually negates demographic raise.

No, yours is as bad as Dark's.

How could forcing people use a condom be bad? No...wait...it IS really limiting...