Swarms of Scottish Robots Will Find and Heal Damaged Coral
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[QUOTE=TestECull;37439036]We can't put city on every single square inch of land. We need farmland if we want to stay alive.
Then why aren't we all moving en-masse to the areas I listed?
A few hardy individuals being able to tough it out does not mean the land is suitable for mass habitation. Sure, humans [i]can[/i] live in the Sahara and on Antarctica. But that doesn't mean those places are suitable for the general population to live.[/QUOTE]
because it's easier to expand existing cities than found new ones. people didn't move en masse to the american west because there were perfectly fine settlements in the east.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37439036]We can't put city on every single square inch of land. We need farmland if we want to stay alive.
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Not really saying we should destroy farm land altogether, but some pretty neat developments may make building based agriculture and rooftop farms a useful alternative to growing things outside. Things aren't destroyed so easily by bugs and frost then, and we have more control over the elements. Plus, we're not wasting all the free space on top of buildings.
Just imagine if they actually grew produce on the free space atop of each large grocery store with hydroponics. I don't think you could get much fresher than that.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37439036]We can't put city on every single square inch of land. We need farmland if we want to stay alive.
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[url=http://www.verticalfarm.com/]Actually, we [I]don't[/I] need farmland to survive and we [I]can[/I] put city on every single square inch if we wanted.[/url]
[QUOTE=Vasili;37434257]O AYE LADDY THATS A WEE BIT OF A SCRATCH YA GOT THERE PUT SOME WHISKEY ON THAT BE GOOD AS NEW
[editline]28th August 2012[/editline]
KILTS AND DEEP FRIED SHORT BREAD[/QUOTE]
You've clearly never been to scotland. God, I hate people with their stereotypes.
I really do.
If you were to be decent and actually come to scotland, you'd realise we would actually say this:
"WIT THAE FUCK ARE YE DOIN YE FUCKIN TWAT MAN THEY FUCK UP EH AND STOP WI' YER CORAL PISH"
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;37441607]You've clearly never been to scotland. God, I hate people with their stereotypes.
I really do.
If you were to be decent and actually come to scotland, you'd realise we would actually say this:
"WIT THAE FUCK ARE YE DOIN YE FUCKIN TWAT MAN THEY FUCK UP EH AND STOP WI' YER CORAL PISH"[/QUOTE]
STOAP YER FUCKIN WHINGIN' YA WEE POOFY CUNT, STICK A PLASTER OAN IT.
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;37441607]You've clearly never been to scotland. God, I hate people with their stereotypes.
I really do.
If you were to be decent and actually come to scotland, you'd realise we would actually say this:
"WIT THAE FUCK ARE YE DOIN YE FUCKIN TWAT MAN THEY FUCK UP EH AND STOP WI' YER CORAL PISH"[/QUOTE]
GINGERS BRAVEHEART FREEDOM FUCKING ENGLAND DONNER KEBAB NEDS LOW LIFE EXPECTANCY
Your stereotypes hurt.
I hope you trip up and fall down the stairs. :downs:
[QUOTE=kebab52;37442204]STOAP YER FUCKIN WHINGIN' YA WEE POOFY CUNT, STICK A PLASTER OAN IT.[/QUOTE]
"GIMME SOME ECKIES OR I'LL MALKY YOUR FACE"
Humanity needs to be careful. There is a natural cycle of extinction and evolution on planet earth, it is that cycle that in turn creates some of our natural resources (gas, coal) over millions of years.
Currently we are disrupting this cycle with the amount of greenhouse gases we are releasing and by doing so we are increasing global warming (We're not the cause, we're simply accelerating it.)
The environment is simply struggling to adapt to such dramatic changes. The seas are becoming more acidic, global temperatures are generally rising, weather is temperamental and much more unpredictable.
hoots mon
Herriot-Watt actually doing something useful? That's gotta be a first.
[QUOTE=a-cookie;37442915]"GIMME SOME ECKIES OR I'LL MALKY YOUR FACE"[/QUOTE]
You wantin' swedgers neebur?
[QUOTE=TestECull;37439036]Then why aren't we all moving en-masse to the areas I listed?[/QUOTE]
Because we [b]don't need to[/b]. We have more than enough hospitable land as it is.
[QUOTE=Vasili;37434257]O AYE LADDY THATS A WEE BIT OF A SCRATCH YA GOT THERE PUT SOME WHISKEY ON THAT BE GOOD AS NEW
[editline]28th August 2012[/editline]
KILTS AND DEEP FRIED SHORT BREAD[/QUOTE]
Our blind women are all illustrated and have disproportional chins.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37439036]We can't put city on every single square inch of land. We need farmland if we want to stay alive.
Then why aren't we all moving en-masse to the areas I listed?
A few hardy individuals being able to tough it out does not mean the land is suitable for mass habitation. Sure, humans [i]can[/i] live in the Sahara and on Antarctica. But that doesn't mean those places are suitable for the general population to live.[/QUOTE]
Fuck farmland, we can make far more effective use of farmland than we are using right now, which segues nicely to my previous point about shitty resource management.
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We build up the way and a lot of problems get solved, besides we are already over producing food anyway in the western world so we'll yet again be doing okay with less farmland than we have now if we actually made more effective use of what we are already producing.
[QUOTE=Craigewan;37443280]Herriot-Watt actually doing something useful? That's gotta be a first.[/QUOTE]
Herriot-Watt isn't that bad, i'm planning on going there next year anyway.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37434685]Not really. Look at the empty land we have now.
Sahara Desert.
Gobi Desert.
Mojave Desert.
Antarctica
The Arctic
What do they all have in common?
There's nothing there. The first three are endless seas of barren land so inhospitable animals have a tough time living there. The other two are endless seas of barren ice. All five are inhospitable wastelands not suitable for human habitation on any useable scale, and they comprise 90-odd percent of the land we're not using.
The only other places it's reasonable for us to move into that we haven't already moved into are the rain forests that we sort of need to keep the atmosphere's O2 levels up. So we can't really bulldoze those either.
We don't have anywhere else to go except up. Space is our future. If we as a species do not move into space we will just stagnate and kill ourselves off warring for what little remains on the then-barren Earth.[/QUOTE]
I imagine it is much easier to make those places habitable than make an entirely different planet habitable.
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