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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: 230RN on May 24, 2019, 10:49:07 PM
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I was checking the TV listings for tonight and saw this for Hawaii Five-0:
Hawaii Five-0 A'ohe Kio Pohaku Nalo I Ke Alo Pali
Jerry accompanies Junior as he escorts a fallen soldier home to Oahu. Also, McGarrett and Danny discover a dead body when they delve into the illegal and highly profitable black market for sand.
Say, whut?
Apparently we're using up sand faster than the planet can make it, and there's a black market for it.
Who'da thunk it?
Deeper information:
https://youtu.be/E0jfn61FTGQ (7:42)
Terry, 230RN
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Well yeah, so many women have such sandy clams these days over all sorts of things that they're exhausting the supply.
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Well yeah, so many women and "men" have such sandy clams these days over all sorts of things that they're exhausting the supply.
FIFY
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The world's population is increasing, and there are only so many resources (and so much space). We're kidding ourselves if we think humans are somehow immune to Nature's obvious answer to this problem. We might be able to push it back a bit, or soften the blow by going to other planets, but the Thanos effect is coming.
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The world's population is increasing, and there are only so many resources (and so much space). We're kidding ourselves if we think humans are somehow immune to Nature's obvious answer to this problem. We might be able to push it back a bit, or soften the blow by going to other planets, but the Thanos effect is coming.
A meteor carrying a plague is just the ticket.
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We've got a short term shortage of sand locally. All the sand mining operations are underwater.
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First world wealth = ecocide
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A meteor carrying a plague is just the ticket.
A supervolcano would work as well, but it's much more likely to be resource wars slaughtering poor people. Folks in the West are all about equality of outcome and sharing the wealth right now. That sort of thing falls by the wayside real quick when there's not enough food and water, and we have all the guns.
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We've got a short term shortage of sand locally. All the sand mining operations are underwater.
I guess the Sahara desert is not a good business climate.
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I guess the Sahara desert is not a good business climate.
That was the first question I had, but apparently dune sand has rounded corners (from being wind-driven) and is not suitable for concrete. Which requires sharp-cornered sand. This was all brought out in the video.
My next question was how deep does this "round-cornered" sand go before hitting (if any) sharp-cornered sand. This was not touched upon in the video.
Suitable substitute is broken glass.
Watch the video and you'll know as much about the sand shortage as I do.
Sure was a surprise to me.
Terry
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Well yeah, so many women have such sandy clams these days over all sorts of things that they're exhausting the supply.
Absolutely unacceptable comment in keeping with the standard of APS
This is a warning
Knock this garbage off