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Originally posted by Pleiadian Recon
Aids was not very successful.
The perfect Pandemic works like this:
1) It must be airborne (pass readily from Human to Human)
2) Those infected must not show symptoms during the contageous incubation period (to enable many more to become infected by the carrier)
3) The period from contracting the disease to death must be fairly rapid for maximum effect (14 days would be ideal)
4) The kill ratio must be in the realms of 90% of those infected
Enjoy today!
Originally posted by nephyx
I like what Pianka has to say. Of course Pianka doesnt have the right to go through with such a plan but can you blame the guy? Some people are actually concerned more with the world than the right of mankind.
Why are people calling this man a satanist? I consider him a conservationist. This is a horrile topic, granted, but it cant be ignored and a solution needs to be made.
Wether bird flu, Aids, Eboli are manmade or not, the simple fact remains that we need death in order to ensure future life? what do you people not understand? People should be praising pianka for facing this problem and proposing possible solutions.
Originally posted by nephyx
I like what Pianka has to say. Of course Pianka doesnt have the right to go through with such a plan but can you blame the guy? Some people are actually concerned more with the world than the right of mankind.
Why are people calling this man a satanist? I consider him a conservationist. This is a horrile topic, granted, but it cant be ignored and a solution needs to be made.
Wether bird flu, Aids, Eboli are manmade or not, the simple fact remains that we need death in order to ensure future life? what do you people not understand? People should be praising pianka for facing this problem and proposing possible solutions.
Originally posted by Odium
Why?
If human being can't work as one unit, to do what is best for the World what right do we have to destroy it for every other creature on Earth? For a long time, I was against people like this Dr but now with the way the World is maybe we no longer have these rights?
Originally posted by Odium
All we seem to do is fight, argue, make war and destroy and as time goes on I agree more with the statement in the Matrix, where we are compaired to a virus. What happens once we've used up most of the land on food? Dryed it out - allow even more poor people to starve like we do already?
Originally posted by nephyx
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Wether bird flu, Aids, Eboli are manmade or not, the simple fact remains that we need death in order to ensure future life? what do you people not understand? People should be praising pianka for facing this problem and proposing possible solutions.
Originally posted by Muaddib
[ Many people are blaming human activity for global warming but how can human activity be affecting all the planets in the solar system who are going through the same dramatic changes as Earth?....]
HUH? I keep up on science matters fairly well and I have never heard a claim like this? More right wing bullhooey muaddib?
Originally posted by Pleiadian Recon
The next level will be quarantines which would involve entire towns being cordoned off and nobody allowed out. This could even extend to quarantining sectors of towns......just sit and ponder the implications of that for a moment.
Then consider how you would be stopped from leaving your area.
Say a little prayer each night that it does not escape from a laboratory.
I have heard of this. Years ago I had a friend who was a biology major at Earlham College in Richmond,In. He and some other students took a tour of a bio hazard lab in Indianapolis. When describing the protocols for the lab,he told me as an aside that if the lab ever had a breach, there were contingency plans to cordon off Indianapolis, and to let no one out no matter how deadly the pathogen. This applies to all of the workers at these types of facilities. I imagine that this is SOP for these types of labs. Anyway- it is absolutely true that there are too many of us now,much less what the population will be 100 or 1,000 years from now. Our situation is barely sustainable. I think it is correct that part of this lies in our distribution systems of resources. Part of this is religious dogma that prohibits contraception. Part of this is our collective inability to realize that we shouldn't keep overpoulating just because we can. I think homosexuality may be an evolutionary answer to this question. ( Not the only answer, just an option that Ma Nature keeps up her sleeve.) As a sentient,self-aware species, we don't have a great record for self control, or for doing the right thing for the greater good of the Big Picture! HOWEVER- killing millions of people is inhumane,and this notion reflects the very worst side of human nature.It is devoid of any spiritual considerations or implications. There is no compassion involved this concept. We should figure out for ourselves how to find more balance with our environment.We may have already started the process of thinning our numbers with global warming. I think if it gets too out of hand, Ma Nature will have a remedy. ( Or an astroid, or an alien colonization, or a Gamma ray burst... ).
Our options? Intelligent, collective self-control tempered with good science and technology that will help us learn to live in space and on other planets. Of course in about 3 billion years the sun will expand and then collapse...so we'd better get busy! I've been a vegetarian for 21 years to help keep my impact on the environment as small as I can keep it. The remaining question is, what will WE do NOW to help keep these problems in check? The solutions start with US.
[edit on 8/7/06 by cosmo dag]
Originally posted by grover
HUH? I keep up on science matters fairly well and I have never heard a claim like this? More right wing bullhooey muaddib?
Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find
October 9, 2002
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a three-fold increase in the planet's atmospheric pressure during the past 14 years, a team of astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Williams College, the University of Hawaii, Lowell Observatory and Cornell University announced in a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences in Birmingham, AL.
The team, led by James Elliot, professor of planetary astronomy at MIT and director of MIT's Wallace Observatory, made this finding by watching the dimming of a star when Pluto passed in front of it Aug. 20. The team carried out observations using eight telescopes at Mauna Kea Observatory, Haleakala, Lick Observatory, Lowell Observatory and Palomar Observatory. Data were successfully recorded at all sites.
Hubble space telescope helps find evidence that Neptune's largest moon is warming up
RELEASE: 98-110
Observations obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager spacecraft visited it in 1989.
"Since 1989, at least, Triton has been undergoing a period of global warming -- percentage-wise, it's a very large increase," said James L. Elliot, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. The warming trend is causing part of Triton's frozen nitrogen surface to turn into gas, thus making its thin atmosphere denser. Dr. Elliot and his colleagues from MIT, Lowell Observatory, and Williams College published their findings in the June 25 issue of the journal Nature.
Mars Ski Report: Snow is Hard, Dense and Disappearing
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 02:00 pm ET
06 December 2001
Mars would make a lousy host for the Winter Olympics. Yes, there's the lack of air to consider. But more important, Martian snow turns out to be rock hard. Worse, it is melting away at an alarming rate.
In fact, Mars may be in the midst of a period of profound climate change, according to a new study that shows dramatic year-to-year losses of snow at the south pole.
It is not yet clear, though, if the evidence of a single year's change represents a trend. But the study provides a surprising new view of the nature of the southern ice cap, said Michael Caplinger of Malin Space Science Systems.
Study craft on warming nears Venus
By Warren E. Leary
New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — After getting little attention for more than a decade, Venus is about to receive a visiting spacecraft from Earth designed to investigate its dense, hot atmosphere for clues about runaway global warming that may shed light on potential changes here.
Venus Express, the first mission by the European Space Agency to Earth's nearest neighbor, is set to go into orbit around the second planet from the sun early on Tuesday.
Saturn Ring changes - Are they connected to Solar Global Warming?
(06.09.2005)
Observations carried out by the Cassini spacecraft have discovered considerable changes in the last 25 years to Saturn's Rings.
Readings were compared with those from the Voyager spacecraft flyby in 1981 and the current discoveries from Cassini. It was found that Saturn's innermost ring (the D ring) has dimmed in the last 25 years and a part of it has moved closer to the planet.
Scientists believe that these changes may reveal something about the age and lifetime of planetary rings, but are baffled as to why Saturn's D ring should change in such a short time, the most dramatic change recorded in hundreds of years!
Originally posted by Muaddib
I have made several threads about this in the past and I have shown more links which proves global warming is happening in the entire solar system, but of course that destroys the agenda that some people have on trying to blame global warming on certain people....
Originally posted by grover
OK mister know it all I bow to your infinate knowledge...
Originally posted by grover
I guess the majority of the worlds environmental scientists knowledgeable in this matter are leftists and you, oh great one know the answer to everything.
Originally posted by grover
You are really full of yourself Muaddib, its a wonder anyone takes you seriously.
Originally posted by grover
Oh yes I forget you bully them into submission.
Originally posted by grover
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I mister lefty here and yes I am left handed too have said for years that global warming was a convergence of sorts of a variety of different factors including the possiblity that we are coming out of a very thin cloud of interstellar dust (its happened before) or that as the earths magnetic field prepares to flip, the resulting weakening of the van allen belt lets more radiation in.
Originally posted by grover
But to dismiss human involvement in global warming, and to use any uncertianity as to cause as an excuse to not do whatever we can about it is the height of foolishness and short sightedness.
ESA sees stardust storms heading for Solar System
PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, August 18, 2003
Source: Artemis Society
Until ten years ago, most astronomers did not believe stardust could enter our Solar System. Then ESA's Ulysses spaceprobe discovered minute stardust particles leaking through the Sun's magnetic shield, into the realm of Earth and the other planets. Now, the same spaceprobe has shown that a flood of dusty particles is heading our way.
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What is surprising in this new Ulysses discovery is that the amount of stardust has continued to increase even after the solar activity calmed down and the magnetic field resumed its ordered shape in 2001.
Scientists believe that this is due to the way in which the polarity changed during solar maximum. Instead of reversing completely, flipping north to south, the Sun's magnetic poles have only rotated at halfway and are now more or less lying sideways along the Sun's equator. This weaker configuration of the magnetic shield is letting in two to three times more stardust than at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, this influx could increase by as much as ten times until the end of the current solar cycle in 2012.
Title:
Is the solar system entering a nearby interstellar cloud
Authors:
Vidal-Madjar, A.; Laurent, C.; Bruston, P.; Audouze, J.
Affiliation:
AA(CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Stellaire et Planetaire, Verrieres-le-Buisson, Essonne, France), AB(CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Stellaire et Planetaire, Verrieres-le-Buisson, Essonne, France), AC(CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Stellaire et Planetaire, Verrieres-le-Buisson, Essonne, France), AD(Meudon Observatoire, Hauts-de-Seine; Paris XI, Universite, Orsay, Essonne, France)
Publication:
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 223, July 15, 1978, p. 589-600. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
07/1978
Category:
Astrophysics
Origin:
STI
NASA/STI Keywords:
ASTRONOMICAL MODELS, DEUTERIUM, HYDROGEN ATOMS, INTERSTELLAR GAS, SOLAR SYSTEM, ABUNDANCE, EARLY STARS, GAS DENSITY, INTERSTELLAR EXTINCTION
DOI:
10.1086/156294
Bibliographic Code:
1978ApJ...223..589V
Abstract
Observations indicating a hydrogen density gradient in the vicinity of the solar system are reviewed, particularly observations of an anisotropy in the far-UV flux around 950 A from the brightest and closest O and B stars as well as a variation in the local D/H ratio along the lines of sight to Alpha Cen and Alpha Aur. Possible mechanisms that may strongly affect the observed D/H ratio on a very small scale are considered, selected radiation pressure is proposed as the most likely mechanism for deuterium separation, and it is shown that this mechanism would be effective only if the density gradient of the nearby interstellar medium has remained stable for at least about 10 million years. This time scale is taken to imply the existence of a nearby (less than 2 pc distant) interstellar cloud. Observational arguments in favor of such a cloud are presented, and implications of the presence of a nearby cloud are discussed, including possible changes in terrestrial climate. It is suggested that the postulated interstellar cloud should encounter the solar system at some unspecified time in the 'near' future and might have a drastic influence on terrestrial climate in the next 10,000 years.
Ulysses sees Galactic Dust on the rise
01 Aug 2003
Since early 1992 Ulysses has been monitoring the stream of stardust flowing through our Solar System. The stardust is embedded in the local galactic cloud through which the Sun is moving at a speed of 26 kilometres every second. As a result of this relative motion, a single dust grain takes twenty years to traverse the Solar System. Observations by the DUST experiment on board Ulysses have shown that the stream of stardust is highly affected by the Sun's magnetic field.
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Unlike Earth, however, the Sun reverses its magnetic polarity every 11 years. The reversal always occurs during solar maximum. That's when the magnetic field is highly disordered, allowing more interstellar dust to enter the Solar System. It is interesting to note that in the reversed configuration after the recent solar maximum (North negative, South positive), the interstellar dust is even channelled more efficiently towards the inner Solar System. So we can expect even more interstellar dust from 2005 onwards, once the changes become fully effective.
Originally posted by grover
"But to dismiss human involvement in global warming, and to use any uncertianity as to cause as an excuse to not do whatever we can about it is the height of foolishness and short sightedness."
And what about that statement Muaddib?
Originally posted by grover
Whether the whole solar system is experining global warming (a stretch if you ask me and a cute ploy to avoid discussing the real issue) or not doesn't change the fact that we do contribute to it on this planet and to keep putting off doing something about it is absurd.
Originally posted by grover
You can't answer that because you know its true.
Originally posted by grover
No you never claim you know it all, you just act like you do.