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carl mciver
 
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Default Earth's Limited Supply of Metals Raises Concern

"Mark Jones" wrote in message
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| Jim Insolo wrote:
| Go to the store and buy a pumpkin- paint it in the form of the earth-
blue
| for oceans, green for continents. Find a needle and pry out a piece-
that's
| the amount of natural resources used in all of human history- now wipe
the
| piece in the blue part- thats all the pollution .
|
|
| Interesting. Can I ask where those facts are from? Not that I fear we're
| running out of metal any time soon, (the media is saying we're all gonna
die
| from bird flu...) but it's good to know the facts. Look at Mars for
instance...
| that would have made an epic planet to mine iron from, except it all
rusted!

Well, I know for sure the iron is still there, it just has to be
extracted a little differently!