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606353 No.8260   [Reply]

http://pastebin.com/d408b29f7

PROTIP: edit it for lulz, and help spread your own variant of it


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22615 No.8231   [Reply]

"BAN LOMTUAN, Thailand - Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies.

These days, all he sees are the fluorescent lights of hotels, restaurants and highway overpasses. He says he'd have to row a good two miles to see trees lit up with the magical creatures of his younger days.

"The firefly populations have dropped 70 percent, in the past three years," said Preecha, 58, a former teacher who started providing dozens of row boats to compete with polluting motor boats. "It's sad. They were a symbol of our city.""

"No single factor is blamed, but researchers in the United States and Europe mostly cite urban sprawl and industrial pollution that destroy insect habitat. The spread of artificial lights also could be a culprit, disrupting the intricate mating behavior that depends on a male winning over a female with its flashing backside."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080830/ap_on_re_as/fading_fireflies

>> No.8237  

i honestly would be willing to trade civilisation for fireflies.

>> No.8238  

>>8237
So, Fireflies is all you want? This can be arranged.

>> No.8256  
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72376

This thread makes Hotaru angry.


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25612 No.8249   [Reply]

"MUNICH: Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/31/healthscience/fishoil31.php


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25670 No.8213   [Reply]

"Alcohol-related causes such as liver disease and car crashes account for nearly 12 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native deaths, 3-1/2 times the figure for the overall population, officials said on Thursday.

Excessive drinking has long been a problem in these often-impoverished populations, as reflected in what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the first national report tracking such alcohol-related deaths."

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2832388520080828

>> No.8247  

It's a good thing we let them live on reserves and give them money for beer...

Liberal and PC mismanagement is the cause of all our problems.


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26105 No.8211   [Reply]

"NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.

The e-mail obtained by The Orlando Sentinel describes NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's order for a study to determine if the shuttle could fly until 2015, when NASA's next-generation space platform is expected to be completed.

"We want to focus on helping bridge the gap of U.S. vehicles traveling to the ISS (International Space Station) as efficiently as possible," wrote John Coggeshall, manager of manifest and schedules at Johnson Space Center in Houston, in the e-mail sent Wednesday.

NASA officials confirmed the e-mail's authenticity, but said it was too soon to say what the study's reach would be."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080830/ap_on_re_us/space_shuttle_future

>> No.8220  

Wow, That's something I haven't thought of, With the whole Georgia stuff we may loose the ability to launch mission payloads and crews up to the ISS for a while. I know the Europeans and Japanese are working on unmanned resupply boats but they're not human rated and you can't bring back people with them.

>> No.8246  

the space shuttle is a pile of dogshit.

The Saturn V was far more capable and far cheaper and far safer.


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42312 No.8233   [Reply]

"Living on a farm during pregnancy may help reduce the chance of the child developing asthma, eczema and even hayfever, say scientists.

The New Zealand researchers suggest that exposure to animals and the bacteria they carry may affect the foetus's immune system.

Writing in the European Respiratory Journal, they said exposure before and after birth halved the risk.

But experts warn some animals carry infections which may harm the baby."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7586328.stm

>> No.8234  

Who would've thought! People have only been saying it for decades.

>> No.8236  

Because up to now it was anecdotes and hearsay. Much like "living under a powerline gives you cancer" used to be anecdotes and hearsay, but now known not to be true.

>> No.8244  

It's not the powerlines, it's the hermetically sealed life of the city where people disinfect everything and live in air conditioned houses with doors and windows shut.

Without being stimulated to defended against bacteria, your immune system goes apeshit on harmless stuff like dust and pollen. That's why you have bad allergies.

>> No.8245  

>>8244
this is why fags that "OH MY LORD WASH YOUR HANDS EVERY FIVE SECONDS"
SOAP ON THIS SOAP ON THAT, OH THAT DOOR HANDLE IS COVERED IN GERMS DONT TOUCH IT. GERMS GERMS GERMS

piss me off. God forbid you expose yourself to germs. It's not going to make you sick.

People are TOO clean nowadays.


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24857 No.8196   [Reply]

McCain you pimp.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7588435.stm

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>> No.8225  

>>8223
Well, experience isn't everything.

>> No.8226  

"Hot. Inexperienced. President of the United States of America."

President Palin would be the poster child for a whole new breed of porn ... well, for what would have been new had it not been for the fact that we've already had an American porn actress run for the office of governor of California in 2003.

>> No.8227  

>>8225

>>Well, experience isn't everything.

Hah hah.

Hah hah hah.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!.

Seriously. Oh. My. That was just fantastic.

I guess you think that Obama is a perfectly capable leader, right? Change and hope, right?

Your right to vote should be stripped from you, in public, along with your clothes. You should then be marched through town, and be pelted with tomatoes while wearing a sign around your neck that reads; 'DONT MIND ME IM STUPID' with improper punctuation, and all.

>> No.8228  

>>8227
Your flame burned so furiously that it extinguished itself. If you'd scaled it back to just

>I guess you think that Obama is a perfectly capable leader, right? Change and hope, right?

, then you might have had a successful burn.

>> No.8229  

>>8227
All of the choices seem to be shitty, and I'm not voting.

America doesn't need a politician in office. Politicians have proven themselves unfit to lead.

>> No.8241  

Why can't we just vote "NO" on all of them and get new candidates if we don't like the ones we have now?

>> No.8243  

Just vote third party if you don't like the 2 major paries. America despreately needs a third party anyway.

>> No.8253  

>>8216

Thatcher did more damage - industrial, commercial, financial & social - to the UK than Hitler's Luftwaffe ever did.

I fear for the USA, if McCain is elected. America will be plunged further into the new Dark Ages started by Bush.

>> No.8259  

>>8253
More damage? She actually breathed some life back into our dying economy; cut off the massive subsidies and tariffs to protect our inflated, and now parasitic coal industry. If people like Scargill had held as much power at the dawn of humanity as the workers unions did in the 80s, we'd never have even had the plow, as he would have been amongst those smashing them. You are probably misinformed by old Union and Labour propaganda. Thatcher wasn't some demon destroying a perfectly good industry. The strike was caused by Thatcher wishing to close mines that were operating at heavy losses, and bring in more modern machinery in those that didn't.
The trade unions acted disgracefully, enforcing strikes without a vote, laundered their money to prevent a pair of miners who sued them for their illegal action receiving compensation, and harassing those that actually wanted to work, and their families as well. Trade unionist thugs killed an innocent taxi driver in their crazed attempts to stop people working, and blockaded and harassed NACODS members who weren't even striking. Scargill was a power crazed madman; nothing more.

And if you want to know why coal mining was really inefficient, we were digging pits deep underground whereas in other areas of the world coal can run close to the surface, and can be quarried out in a far more efficient, and more environmentally friendly (yes, quarrying is a little better than pit mining. The only real enviromental complaints are it looks ugly, but it only affects a [relatively] small area, whereas pit mining leaves the entire surrounding area unsafe, and poisons a wide area.) method.

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>> No.8279  

>>8229

Look closer. I'm sure there's SOMETHING you want done for this country, that one of the candidates are aiming to do, right?


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14862 No.8168   [Reply]

"A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS).

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG.

The worm was first detected on earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.

Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled into space and it was investigating how the machines were infected."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7583805.stm

>> No.8171  

Wonder how the hell that happened.

>> No.8172  

Was someone playing MMO, in space? I need to know who first leveled up in space!

>> No.8175  

Whoever coded that virus must be feeling pretty good about him/herself right now.

>> No.8242  

Sounds like someone was playing Maple or Runescape on the job.


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19805 No.8159   [Reply]

"Burning incense may create a sweet scent, but regularly inhaling the smoke could put people at risk of cancers of the respiratory tract, researchers reported Monday.

In a study of more than 61,000 ethnic Chinese living in Singapore who were followed for up to 12 years, the investigators found a link between heavy incense use and various respiratory cancers."

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSPAT56944620080825

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>> No.8189  

I'll just stick to incense with the windows open.

>> No.8191  

>>8188

I've never taken drugs in my life, and I don't intend starting now. Unlike food & non-alcoholic liquids, drugs aren't necessary for my survival.

>> No.8197  

>>8191
Awww, the little anti-druuurrrrg crusader is being elitist. How cute.

>> No.8200  

>>8197's obviously butthurt, or possibly trollin'. Heh.

But anyways, durgs aren't really needed, it's just a lifestyle. People can get along just fine without what they are born without.

I'm pretty annoyed by pot-smokers who try and get everyone else to smoke pot, because they think it is in everyone's best interests. Sheeple tend to do that shit.

>> No.8206  

>>8188

>>neuroprotective antioxidant to boo
>>pot

Then tell me, why are so many regular pot-smokers complete retards?

>>8200

What's that about sheeple, weeaboo?

>> No.8217  

>>8206
They get lazy. In the brain. From sitting in front of a TV, or from playing the same game over and over.

Same thing happens to prison inmates. Insufficient stimulus.

>> No.8224  

>>8188
Sure, maybe THC can reduce tumor size in rats, however, THC=/=SMOKE

>> No.8235  

>>8224
Large doses of pot consumed orally can halt MS in its secondary progressive phase. If that isn't neuroprotection, given that MS is a demyelinating disease (i.e. fucks with the stuff that covers neurons), I don't know what the heck is.

... anyway if pot's net effect was to make people braindead boring stoners, how come there's people who smoke it every day yet aren't boring stoners? Clearly correlation rather than causation, you purist fucks you.

>> No.8239  

>>8235
Does it specify inhaled via pipe/bong/joint? or a THC pill?
It's also caused testicular atrophy and uterine and ovarian hypoplasia, as well as hyperactivity and convulsions immediately after administration when fed directly to rats.

>>On July 28, 2007, British medical journal The Lancet published a study that indicates that cannabis users have, on average, a 41% greater risk of developing psychosis than non-users.
>>A 2008 study by the University of Melbourne found that daily, long-term marijuana use may be linked to abnormalities in parts of the brain.
>>A 2008 study by the National Institutes of Health suggested that chronic heavy marijuana use might increase risk of heart attack or stroke, as these users showed elevated levels of apolipoprotein C-III, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Then again, it is wikipedia after all, they could be wrong.

>> No.8240  

>>8239
Also, as for my stance of its use:
I, personally, don't use it; tried it, didn't like it, just my personal experience with it. However I believe it should be legalized, taxed, and controlled just like tobacco, alcohol, and any other sort of drug.


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109820 No.8230   [Reply]

"Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months — the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees, officials said Saturday.

Some 8,147 square kilometers (3,088 square miles) of forest were destroyed between August 2007 and August 2008 — a 69 percent increase over the 4,820 square kilometers (1,861 square miles) felled in the previous 12 months, according to the National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, which monitors destruction of the Amazon."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080830/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_amazon_destruction


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