Pitfalls from speeding

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  1. tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    you need to change your settings because I'm showing 11 pages
     
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  3. scythe08

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    I'm showing 22
     
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  4. scottied67

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    Humanity has become a disease to this planet like fleas on a dog. We are sucking too many resources out of the very planet which gives us life. When we were hunter/gatherers, we pretty much lived in harmony with nature. As we started to invent tools and graduate from stones to bronze to iron to high tech we have stripped and stripped from the planet more than we put back.

    We are scheduled to increase our human population footprint by half again in the next 100 years. We are setting ourselves up for a grand die-off from lack of growing our own food which will make nuclear war look like a joke. Thousands of acres of rainforest are cleared every month to make way for food growing which only last a couple years before the ground is no good for farming any more. We suck oil out of the ground like it is a deepless supply. We dig down mountains to get the iron ore like there is an endless supply, which there is not for either. We cut down old growth trees and marvel at the close nit tight wood rings for their beauty and strength and plant two trees for each one we cut down to feel better about ourselves, but in 30 years we harvest those trees which will have very wide growth rings and be weak and ugly for our much needed wood products. Each one of us 7 billion people on the planet produces an unprecedented amount of trash on the daily, most of which will take 500-800 years to break down into the environment. We have to make trash dumps with concrete and rubber seals to prevent the toxic sludge from leeching into streams, rivers and waterways.

    I mean I could go on and on but the bottom line is we are not living in harmony with our planet any more, we are living in harmony with the profit minded MAN because we have NO choice.

    I'm showing 3 pages but I have it set for the max posts per page.
     
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  5. x1Heavy

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    Im only showing three.

    It takes less time to go through so few pages. =)

    Take a look at your TTR account settings. You will find that having very large pages is easier instead of having to constantly click a bunch of relatively tiny pages. You get more read faster in less time.
     
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    Huh, I haven't looked at those since I made the account ,years ago! Learn something new every day!
     
  7. gokiddogo

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    Is that the trick to getting through your 50,000 word essays
     
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  8. x1Heavy

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    It is not good to grow crappy trees with wide rings after only 20 years.

    Ive cut down many trees on my land where the rings were 50+ years and pretty tight. It will take at least that long to grow decent replacement trees. Maybe the next two generations can enjoy it when the time comes.

    Your post is a very nice one. I am not a tree hugger or a eviornhead. However, this Planet is all we have for now until we have the ability to go into space and mine what we need. One of those big diamond asteriords brought here will give everyone 15 trillion in a big pile of diamonds more common than table salt. (And crash our financial systems globally)

    I have studied nuclear war all my life and it would be horrible. For those who are not killed off in a instant during the initial attack. By the same token a Country that allows us to be defenseless and naked under a few thousand missiles coming from space launched a world away, I would want to be in Israel. At least they have a fighting chance with the Iron Dome, David's Sling, Arrow systems that they have been deploying these last 10 years and continue to evolve. Many of which have a good part of American Rayethon etc inside of them.

    The USA is already lost in a nuclear war properly delivered by our enemies. Because we have no defenses other than throwing surviving nuclear warheads in MAD (Mutual assured destruction.) Soviet Russia since the USSR days have worked hard to provide defenses. I think during 2015 they ran a civilian exercise in which about 40 million in Moscow area has the potential to at least be underground, maybe deep enough to escape the immediate effects of a attack. You do not want to be in the Washington DC metro system if that city should be nuked. Your death will be a horrific and interesting one. More drawn out than necessary.

    Maybe I am the damaged one. The cold war years growing up were a interesting time when you had heaven or hell delivered by Missile in 30 minutes or less Guaranteed.
     
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    And a thousand others as well. 5 words at a time lol.

    Try it, it really does work.
     
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    I would not be surprised if one of the top super secret plans in case of inbound nukes is to do nothing and let it happen so that humanity on the other side of the planet has a chance for survival.

    If you set if for 100 posts per page it is really so much easier. Then when a new post comes into the thread you will see it on your Alerts up top and can click it, it will take you directly to the new message and you will not have to hit Next 22 times to see all the new posts below it.
     
  11. tucker

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    What a debate we have going

    The one side is claiming that since there will be a devastating asteroid strike or possible nuclear war sometime then there is no reason to care about our planet

    The other side thinks that since we're here let's take care of our Planet.
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    I wonder which side is more likely to dump their pee jug out the window where they and other drivers have to walk?
     
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