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originally posted by: underwerks
What’s hilarious is people thinking that paper stock from Asia has to be made from bamboo. As if they wouldn’t have the same paper stock as the rest of the world.
have increasingly turned to the plant for toilet paper and paper towels.
As a widely distributed and fast growing graminaceous plant, bamboo has emerged as an important raw material for pulping and papermaking to mitigate the shortage of wood resources, at least in the East Asia region.
More industry observers in China are now hopeful of a growing role that bamboo pulp will play in the future of the industry, seeing the length of bamboo fiber in-between that of hardwood and softwood. Also, bamboo resources are ample, especially in southern and southwest China. In addition to successful stories in tissue paper production, exploration to diversify bamboo pulp application is now underway on other grades of paper and board. Under more uncertainties in recovered paper supply at home and abroad, tapping the potentials of bamboo becomes a cost effective option for the industry, experts say.
originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: JBurns
In case you havent noticed communists are among the lowest forms of life in terms of intelligence
Still intelligent enough to put the first man into space.
They also took extreme risks that got cosmonauts killed, and ignored safety concerns and many other short cuts, at the expense of human life
originally posted by: More1ThanAny1
a reply to: alldaylong
You could have saved yourself from embarrassment if you just did a little more research.
bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu...
As a widely distributed and fast growing graminaceous plant, bamboo has emerged as an important raw material for pulping and papermaking to mitigate the shortage of wood resources, at least in the East Asia region.
en.chinapaperonline.com...
More industry observers in China are now hopeful of a growing role that bamboo pulp will play in the future of the industry, seeing the length of bamboo fiber in-between that of hardwood and softwood. Also, bamboo resources are ample, especially in southern and southwest China. In addition to successful stories in tissue paper production, exploration to diversify bamboo pulp application is now underway on other grades of paper and board. Under more uncertainties in recovered paper supply at home and abroad, tapping the potentials of bamboo becomes a cost effective option for the industry, experts say.
They are using more bamboo for all paper products. My last article just so happened to mention they are increasingly using it for toilet paper and paper towels. It doesn't deny they are using it for other paper products.
Next time, try not to be so disingenuous. What you did is what we call drive-by debunking. You mindlessly tried to find the first petty conflict in what I said with a very narrow range of information (only using the article I posted), and didn't bother to check if your response could be rebutted by doing more research. You should be ashamed of yourself.
originally posted by: CrazyFox
Nice try, again, but now lose another turn for making a very inaccurate assumption again.
originally posted by: CrazyFox
Umm pretty sure Russia got the half of Nazi scientists we did not since both space programs (commie and ours) were started after WW2 and the ones in charge were former Nazi's let's call it what it is Nazi technology put humans in "space." Sorry to nitpick.
a reply to: alldaylong
originally posted by: spite
What is this, amateur hour? Why would a foreign government forge ballots from a different material than is used in the US? That would practically be like hand signing every ballot with "THIS ONE IS FAKE!"
a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: CrazyFox
Look, I get you're sad about the outcome of the election
Operation Paperclip
In a covert affair originally dubbed Operation Overcast but later renamed Operation Paperclip, roughly 1,600 of these German scientists (along with their families) were brought to the United States to work on America’s behalf during the Cold War. The program was run by the newly-formed Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), whose goal was to harness German intellectual resources to help develop America’s arsenal of rockets and other biological and chemical weapons, and to ensure such coveted information did not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union.
One of the most well-known recruits was Wernher von Braun, the technical director at the Peenemunde Army Research Center in Germany who was instrumental in developing the lethal V-2 rocket that devastated England during the war. Von Braun and other rocket scientists were brought to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees” to assist the U.S. Army with rocket experimentation. Von Braun later became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, which eventually propelled two dozen American astronauts to the Moon.