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Boltlady

Boltlady

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For some time I've complained that so many of the fine minds in our country are wasted because their time is spent creating means to kill more people. Our biggest industry being war these days.

Well, some of those folks broke loose long enough to come up with something really useful for humanity. Something that will seriously be needed for us to continue on. I think this is great.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-desalination-idUSL1N0C0DG520130313
 
Boltlady said:
For some time I've complained that so many of the fine minds in our country are wasted because their time is spent creating means to kill more people. Our biggest industry being war these days.

Well, some of those folks broke loose long enough to come up with something really useful for humanity. Something that will seriously be needed for us to continue on. I think this is great.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-desalination-idUSL1N0C0DG520130313
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Yes. This is good news. My latest issue of New Scientist magazine suggested that this could become known as the Age of Graphene. We are going to find a myriad of uses for graphene.
 
This is very similar to some work already being done with storm water run-off filters. I know a company that makes filters similar and they can run a tank of absolutely filthy water through the filter - and it comes out crystal clear. Some of that technology is really amazing.
 
botlady - you're completely wrong . . .

our biggest industry isn't "war" . . . it's teaching. more people work in public schools, parochial schools, day care, boarding schools, public universities, private colleges, technical schools, etc than the NEXT 2 largest jobs combined (which happen to be law enforcement and fire/ambulance services - not the army).

and with all this emphasis on education, we still fail miserably at it. 30% of our nation's kids fail to complete high school. 50% if they're unlucky enough to attend an "urban school district". teachers in DC earn an average of $80,000 a year, yet the dropout rate there is 60%. it costs more to send a kid through one year of DC public school than to harvard - $50,000 a year, according to public records.
 
as seen on tv said:
botlady - you're completely wrong . . .

our biggest industry isn't "war" . . . it's teaching. more people work in public schools, parochial schools, day care, boarding schools, public universities, private colleges, technical schools, etc than the NEXT 2 largest jobs combined (which happen to be law enforcement and fire/ambulance services - not the army).

and with all this emphasis on education, we still fail miserably at it. 30% of our nation's kids fail to complete high school. 50% if they're unlucky enough to attend an "urban school district". teachers in DC earn an average of $80,000 a year, yet the dropout rate there is 60%. it costs more to send a kid through one year of DC public school than to harvard - $50,000 a year, according to public records.
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Sounds like they're really anxious to get that propaganda out there.

BTW, the 'war' industry isn't just the military itself. It includes all of the pertinent services. They're dealing with that here in VA right now because of the sequester thing.
 
Well....since WWII is supposedly the main thing that brought America out of the first "Great Depression".....perhaps you will learn to appreciate that industry once America fully sinks into the second (last?) even Greater Depression....

eh?

Good news on the new technology though.....since fresh water is one of earth's most precious resources...and we're for sure never going to run out of seawater.

Boltlady said:
Sounds like they're really anxious to get that propaganda out there.

BTW, the 'war' industry isn't just the military itself. It includes all of the pertinent services. They're dealing with that here in VA right now because of the sequester thing.
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