Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 204704 times)

Trim · « **Reply #460 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:24:04 AM »

Today In History
June 1, 1943
Leslie Howard, the British film star and director, was shot down by enemy aircraft over the Bay of Biscay on a flight from Lisbon to Ireland. He had appeared in the films "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Gone with the Wind."

Senator · « **Reply #461 on:** June 01, 2008, 08:02:48 PM »

RifleMan80 · « **Reply #462 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:34:28 PM »

Did you know that the county I live in, its the only county in Ohio you can shoot fireworks off at?

Also, if you get caught carrying a pack of sparklers in your pocked on the 4th of July, you will get arrested for 24 hours?

CRAZY!!!!

Trim · « **Reply #463 on:** June 01, 2008, 09:53:12 PM »

The fireworks laws in Indiana are pretty much nonexistent, which is good I guess if thats what you're into. I lost interest in blowing shit up once kids came into the picture, figured they would try doing it if they were to see me practicing demolition. he he

Senator · « **Reply #464 on:** June 03, 2008, 12:37:24 AM »

Armondikov · « **Reply #465 on:** June 03, 2008, 06:59:16 AM »

Cool robo-snake but was the terrible dance mix of Poison neccesary?

blaXXer · « **Reply #466 on:** June 03, 2008, 07:22:59 AM »

I believe it was not.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #467 on:** June 05, 2008, 07:38:22 AM »

on June 8, 2005, the New York Times obtained internal White House documents showing that Philip Cooney, while serving on the White House Council on Environmental Quality, had edited the national climate change reports during 2002 and 2003 by deleting references to global warming...

prior to working for the Bush administration, Cooney was a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute... two days after he was forced to resign from his White House position, he was hired by Exxon Mobil...

Mustang · « **Reply #468 on:** June 05, 2008, 11:04:41 AM »

Cockatiels are, despite popular opinion, SMALLER than Cockatoos. I've got two of them running along the couch right now.

Senator · « **Reply #469 on:** June 05, 2008, 10:25:00 PM »

And more robots.

Senator · « **Reply #470 on:** June 06, 2008, 03:31:55 PM »

Ambassador · « **Reply #471 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:23:45 PM »

Quote from: The CBC

Ethanol is a scam.

Nebula · « **Reply #472 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:25:35 PM »

thats just plain wrong...

Ambassador · « **Reply #473 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:28:32 PM »

Not really.

It takes a lot of money, supplies, and pollution to make ethanol, with almost no benefit to the environment.

INPUT <> OUTPUT

Nebula · « **Reply #474 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:41:20 PM »

Quote from: Ambassador on June 06, 2008, 04:28:32 PM

Not really.

It takes a lot of money, supplies, and pollution to make ethanol, with almost no benefit to the environment.

INPUT <> OUTPUT

eh? tell that to Brazil... they made it work...

Ambassador · « **Reply #475 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:43:40 PM »

How about you talk to the EU? They are already planning to stop their ethanol plans.

Nebula · « **Reply #476 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:44:31 PM »

how about no...

CJLarkin · « **Reply #477 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:44:59 PM »

Well, actually there are two ways of making ethanol. There's the industrial method and the time old method of fermentation, which is renewable. The only downside to it is time.

Ambassador · « **Reply #478 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:47:00 PM »

Yeah. The point is that the Canadian govenment is wasting money on a scam.

MLeo · « **Reply #479 on:** June 07, 2008, 08:09:49 AM »

The problem, is that currently we are destroying either entire forests (such as the Amazon and on Borneo) for palm trees which are used for both the oil and for bioethanol.
The other source of current bioethanol is food. Which gives speculants the ability to drive up the cost of food.

News:

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