nwcoralfarm

I think you're missing my point. You said:

 

 

 

So you are saying that the spill in the Gulf won't really matter because the ocean is a big place. So given your line of thinking if we take Portland (big place relative to your house) and dump 1000 gallons of oil in your yard (small place) if really doesn't matter now does it?

 

You might also want to do a little research on what a lack of dissolved oxygen does to the wildlife. Hint - it's called a dead zone for a reason.

 

 

On a related note - this morning on NPR they had an engineering professor form Purdue on who has been analyzing the video footage of the leaks and his numbers are scary - like 10X the current estimate scary. It's just one more data point that shows the oil industry is out of control and takes far too many risks. Time for the Feds to bring some thunder down off the mountain on these turds. Fossil fuels are a dead end - we need to turn the page and get new technologies developed now - not when we are sopping up the last bit of petroleum with a paper towel.

 

Scientist: BP's Oil Spill Estimates Improbable

 

and here's a link to some of those seepage and other numbers. Please note that the natural seepage is ~10% of the total - the rest is man made:

 

Oil Polution

+1, but the screwed up part is that we DONT need to "develop" new technologies. We have most the technologies we need. The problem is that when it comes to someone coming out with say a new electric only vehicle, which was done (in big numbers) about 5-6 years ago, the fat cats step in and say "we're losing too much money" and the fact that they have the power to turn it all off as far as our major production of these types of vehicles states exactly where the problem is.

It absolutely kills me to know that we are doing this for only a small handful to get rich.

I think we over look how well this planet can take care of its self. The well will be capped or plugged and things may be a little messy for a year. Yes some fish will die and some birds will drowned but thats the way this world works. No one screams bloody murder when the a Volcano goes off and kills all the wildlife for miles around. It always comes back after some time.

 

If we would let the forest fires burn like they always use to, the world might not be heating up like they say and all the carbon in the air would be filtering stuff out like the world always has done. OK I might be going a little far there, but I think we look at things in to short of a time frame.

First off when you are talking about potentially wiping out certain species or killing off reefs that have taken 1000's of years to form in "a days work" then I think it is pretty hard to say that we are looking at things on too short of a time frame. Secondly you are comparing a natural disaster to a man made oil spill....what? third, I am pretty certain people do scream bloody murder when a volcano erupts. Not to mention, sitting back and saying well, it's OK, we can do whatever we want cause theoretically the world should "right it" in around 5000 years is crazy. I live here now.

I may be interested in the first frag tank. Can you send me some pics please. bratz.david@gmail.com

Hey guys

Perry has once again lured me in with some of those amazing corals. I am wondering if there is anyone even remotely close to me that is planning on heading to his shop in the near future. I only won a couple ricordeas so I thought I could save a few bucks in gas and offer a frag for someone if they could pick up mine as well. Just checking, Thanks!

You can usually get it from Lowe's or Home Depot but if Patrick at SFS has it in black then that is what I would do. The black will help prevent algae growth.

pfff, I grow more coral then that in my Nano. No but that is a really sweet setup, and I'll bet his electricity bill isn't anything compared to his light changing bill.

Can we get some updated pics, please.

OH the crying alarm clock. I can never seem to get mine set for the right time, it just goes off every 3 hours or so no matter what.

Hey Jason

Can we get an update. I may be interested in a few and would love to see pics. Just not sure what all is still available.

I PM'd you....

Are you sure, I didn't get anything.

I may be interested in a copy of 7 for my system and that office 2010. Let me know what that would run me Eric/Rick/anybody.

I know you guys are right, but I figured that there are probably plenty of people with old systems kicking around, plus it's always good to reuse old electronic instead of sending them to the dump. Besides it will only be a matter of time before one of her "genius" friends come by to work on it for her, despite my constant warnings and having to repeatedly fix their mistakes.

I actually own one. And for travel or a student on the go these are great. But as an owner of one I wouldnt reccomend it for daily use. Very small and compact. JMHO

Yeah but do you carry it in your purse?(laugh)

I also have an older tower and monitor. It is an HP. Will trade for some cool frags.

Hey Bob

Can you let me know the specs of the system. Thanks.

Do you know what her old one needs?

Well she has a few friends that think they are doing her favors by upgrading her system with pirated versions of operating systems that her computer is too outdated for. So first and foremost she needs an OS, secondly her system is outdated, REALLY outdated and there are a few signs that her hard drive or motherboard are beginning to fault.

my dear ol mums computer crashed and back in the day I was the guy with all the parts to fix it but I have since moved on from that.

I would like to find her a decent older computer, she mainly just gets on the internet and plays card games so it doesn't have to be fancy. The inly thing required is that it works.

Please let me know if you have one you want to get rid of, I have nice corals for trade or can pay cash. Let me know what it has in it and how much you want. Thanks for reading.

Well it's not the local area cause I haven't had any problems at all.

I was really embarrassed for that guy watching that.

Woohoo, you're older!!!!! hope you enjoy it.

That is pretty awesome, I would love to see some macro shots of those polyps!

Wow those are nice, great job to both of you.

I'll take one too!

I still have a few complete series. Any one remember fright flicks cards. I have a full set of those too.

I would have to say that the pump is at least a few years old with steady use. I did clean it often so I don't believe there were any problems with the impeller or interior parts. Hope this helps.

I believe I have a mag 18