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Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting
articles. I bookmarked that one. - - Rex Burkheimer WM Automotive Fort Worth TX wayne mak wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200601...sraisesconcern This kinda off topic but is realy OT |
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Rex B wrote:
Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting articles. I bookmarked that one. What we really need is a device, perhaps nanobots or a miniature black-hole (or a combination of the two), which is fed garbage and it spits out elemental matter. Then there'd be no resource shortage ever... only an energy shortage. |
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Mark Jones wrote:
Rex B wrote: Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting articles. I bookmarked that one. What we really need is a device, perhaps nanobots or a miniature black-hole (or a combination of the two), which is fed garbage and it spits out elemental matter. Then there'd be no resource shortage ever... only an energy shortage. Might as well wish for a Good fairy with a magic wand |
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:31:49 -0500, "wayne mak"
wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200601...sraisesconcern This kinda off topic but is realy OT Thars Gold in them thar Asteroids! H. |
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The earth might covet Harold's supply, or at least his methodology.
"wayne mak" wrote in message ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200601...sraisesconcern This kinda off topic but is realy OT |
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Where's all that stuff going- somebody shooting it out into space?
"wayne mak" wrote in message ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200601...upplyofmetalsr aisesconcern This kinda off topic but is realy OT |
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"Tom Gardner" wrote: The earth might covet Harold's supply, or at least his methodology. "wayne mak" wrote in message ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200601...upplyofmetalsr aisesconcern This kinda off topic but is realy OT I wish to report that the earth's core is made of almost pure nickel-iron alloy, so the supply of iron from which to make our iron toys is assured. All we have to do is to dig a thousand miles straight down. Joe Gwinn |
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:57:26 -0500, the renowned Joseph Gwinn
wrote: In article , "Tom Gardner" wrote: The earth might covet Harold's supply, or at least his methodology. "wayne mak" wrote in message ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200601...upplyofmetalsr aisesconcern This kinda off topic but is realy OT I wish to report that the earth's core is made of almost pure nickel-iron alloy, so the supply of iron from which to make our iron toys is assured. All we have to do is to dig a thousand miles straight down. Joe Gwinn If Tom Swift Jr. could do it with his "Atomic Earth Blaster", so can we (eventually). Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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"Joseph Gwinn" wrote in message ... I wish to report that the earth's core is made of almost pure nickel-iron alloy, so the supply of iron from which to make our iron toys is assured. All we have to do is to dig a thousand miles straight down. Joe Gwinn "new" theory there's a natural atomic reactor at the center of the nickel-iron core. http://nuclearplanet.com/ http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GPIA17BL45.DTL |
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"William Wixon" wrote: "Joseph Gwinn" wrote in message ... I wish to report that the earth's core is made of almost pure nickel-iron alloy, so the supply of iron from which to make our iron toys is assured. All we have to do is to dig a thousand miles straight down. "new" theory there's a natural atomic reactor at the center of the nickel-iron core. http://nuclearplanet.com/ http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GPIA17BL45.DTL It's an interesting theory. I haven't seen it in Science or Nature yet. I don't doubt that it's controversial - almost everything significant in Earth Science starts out that way. It will probably take at least ten years to confirm or refute, Joe Gwinn |
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Rex B wrote:
Mark Jones wrote: Rex B wrote: Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting articles. I bookmarked that one. What we really need is a device, perhaps nanobots or a miniature black-hole (or a combination of the two), which is fed garbage and it spits out elemental matter. Then there'd be no resource shortage ever... only an energy shortage. Might as well wish for a Good fairy with a magic wand Or a reboot of the entire universe. |
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Jim Insolo wrote:
Where's all that stuff going- somebody shooting it out into space? No, it's rusting in the form of steel cars, metal structures, bridges, etc. It's burning in the form of sodium-vapor streetlamps, solid rocket fuel, refinery operations, etc. One of the primary laws of physics is that matter cannot be created or destroyed... so the metals aren't going anywhere, only being converted into stuff which is unusable. |
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I believe this theory. How else could the core stay so hot after millions of
years without an internal reaction? Tony "William Wixon" wrote in message ... "Joseph Gwinn" wrote in message ... I wish to report that the earth's core is made of almost pure nickel-iron alloy, so the supply of iron from which to make our iron toys is assured. All we have to do is to dig a thousand miles straight down. Joe Gwinn "new" theory there's a natural atomic reactor at the center of the nickel-iron core. http://nuclearplanet.com/ http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GPIA17BL45.DTL |
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Tony wrote:
I believe this theory. How else could the core stay so hot after millions of years without an internal reaction? Tony "William Wixon" wrote in message ... "Joseph Gwinn" wrote in message ... I wish to report that the earth's core is made of almost pure nickel-iron alloy, so the supply of iron from which to make our iron toys is assured. All we have to do is to dig a thousand miles straight down. Joe Gwinn "new" theory there's a natural atomic reactor at the center of the nickel-iron core. http://nuclearplanet.com/ http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GPIA17BL45.DTL But we are not massive enought to rate a micro-dot black hole at the center of the atomic core. pity. |
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:34:12 -0500, Mark Jones
wrote: Rex B wrote: Mark Jones wrote: Rex B wrote: Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting articles. I bookmarked that one. What we really need is a device, perhaps nanobots or a miniature black-hole (or a combination of the two), which is fed garbage and it spits out elemental matter. Then there'd be no resource shortage ever... only an energy shortage. Might as well wish for a Good fairy with a magic wand Or a reboot of the entire universe. Be careful of what you wish for.... "Deep in her heart, every moslem woman yearns to show us her tits" John Griffin |
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Mark Jones wrote: Rex B wrote: Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting articles. I bookmarked that one. What we really need is a device, perhaps nanobots or a miniature black-hole (or a combination of the two), which is fed garbage and it spits out elemental matter. Then there'd be no resource shortage ever... only an energy shortage. This ultimate recycling machine has been proposed in physics research and may have been mentioned in sci.physics.research. It's a Large Mass Spectrometer, binning vaporized osmium, boron, carbon, copper, and all other elements into bins as the charged atoms (ions) fly past The Big Ass Magnet. Some designs operate out in space. Doug |
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"Tony" wrote: I believe this theory. How else could the core stay so hot after millions of years without an internal reaction? By the decay of radioactive elements in the core. All current theories are one form or another of this; no chain-reaction fission is involved. It turns out that one doesn't need much radioactive decay to account for the net power flow. This will be the big problem for the core-is-a-reactor theories, to prove (without peeking) that the power comes from fission versus decay. joe Gwinn Tony "William Wixon" wrote in message ... "new" theory there's a natural atomic reactor at the center of the nickel-iron core. http://nuclearplanet.com/ http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GPIA17BL45.DTL |
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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 . "Mark Jones" wrote in message ... Jim Insolo wrote: Where's all that stuff going- somebody shooting it out into space? No, it's rusting in the form of steel cars, metal structures, bridges, etc. It's burning in the form of sodium-vapor streetlamps, solid rocket fuel, refinery operations, etc. One of the primary laws of physics is that matter cannot be created or destroyed... so the metals aren't going anywhere, only being converted into stuff which is unusable. |
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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! |
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"Mark Jones" wrote in message
... | 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! |
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carl mciver wrote:
Well, I know for sure the iron is still there, it just has to be extracted a little differently! Right. I think iron is the second most abundant element on earth. I used to work for a crack metallurgist. He said except for a few metals, there was an abundence in the earth's crust, but in lower grade ores that would be less economical and take more processing, but as we need them we'll do it. Taconite is a good example. Here in the Iron Country of Northern Minnesota they used to mine very high grade hematite. When it began to peter out, they developed ways to process the low grade ore taconite. In developing taconite they developed pelletization, which is boon to industry. Pellets can be shipped in cold weather, stockpiled, and have limestone and other minerals added in during pelletization so that it doesn't have to be done at furnace. There is still lots of native copper (elemental copper, not oxide or other ore) in Michigan, in very deep mines. But processing is so cheap these days that much lower grade ore in shallower mines dominates copper supply, and Michigan's deep mines are dormant. |
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