Comments on: Squids and octopods beware: Contaminants now in your world http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:16:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Franko http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3742 Franko Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:47:19 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3742 "No form of life is perfect, including us" We certainly are perfect. The ideal is the imperfection. The ideal is a dead remnant of the past, imperfect then and now. "No form of life is perfect, including us"

We certainly are perfect. The ideal is the imperfection.
The ideal is a dead remnant of the past, imperfect then and now.

]]> By: Gee Mo http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3513 Gee Mo Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:35:23 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3513 I know this comments list is already clogged with arguments going both ways, but here's a simple thought: We're not perfect. As humans, we strive to make the world better. We curb diseases and extend the shelf life of our food with technology. Chemicals like DDT were developed to make life better, when we figured out that it was doing a lot of harm, we stopped using it. So, yes, as many of those posting have stated, we are human. No form of life is perfect, including us. Do the best you can not to destroy your part of the world, and chances are that the human species will continue to thrive. I know this comments list is already clogged with arguments going both ways, but here's a simple thought:

We're not perfect.

As humans, we strive to make the world better. We curb diseases and extend the shelf life of our food with technology. Chemicals like DDT were developed to make life better, when we figured out that it was doing a lot of harm, we stopped using it.

So, yes, as many of those posting have stated, we are human. No form of life is perfect, including us. Do the best you can not to destroy your part of the world, and chances are that the human species will continue to thrive.

]]> By: Franko http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3501 Franko Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:42:42 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3501 To die as Sushi, or to live as a pollution waste dump. That is the question. Mosquitoes eat DDT; Also, Octopi are versatile in their tolerance. Oceans have all kinds of pollutants and poisons. Black Smokers do not kill them. Monster of the Deep is tougher than you think. To die as Sushi, or to live as a pollution waste dump.
That is the question.

Mosquitoes eat DDT; Also, Octopi are versatile in their tolerance.
Oceans have all kinds of pollutants and poisons.
Black Smokers do not kill them.
Monster of the Deep is tougher than you think.

]]> By: Scott http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3495 Scott Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:55 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3495 So sad. We are the smartest animal on the planet and yet we don't see the signs that what we do on a daily basis for our own survival will eventually wipe out all other species. No matter what your politics, our existence here is finite. So much for intelligence, we should be talking about ignorance! So sad. We are the smartest animal on the planet and yet we don't see the signs that what we do on a daily basis for our own survival will eventually wipe out all other species. No matter what your politics, our existence here is finite. So much for intelligence, we should be talking about ignorance!

]]> By: Franko http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3492 Franko Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:56:22 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3492 "disapprove a scientists findings especially when climate is their specific area of research your extremly ignorant" The climate modelling priesthood has been barking up the wrong equations. Curve fitting and extrapolating with secret fudge factors, to advance an agenda, and ensure funding. When frost free days are one month late, and snowfree local mountain latest in 30 years, you have to have very deep faith that you are warming. IPCC says have faith and blow yourself up to get the 72 virgins. Low CO2 and plants die. No plants, no Oxygen, and we die. I will be paying $700+ CO2 tax, thanks to the IPCC IPCC Zombies are the real danger. "disapprove a scientists findings especially when climate is their specific area of research your extremly ignorant"

The climate modelling priesthood has been barking up the wrong equations. Curve fitting and extrapolating with secret fudge factors, to advance an agenda, and ensure funding.

When frost free days are one month late, and snowfree local mountain latest in 30 years, you have to have very deep faith that you are warming. IPCC says have faith and blow yourself up to get the 72 virgins.

Low CO2 and plants die. No plants, no Oxygen, and we die.

I will be paying $700+ CO2 tax, thanks to the IPCC
IPCC Zombies are the real danger.

]]> By: Steven http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3488 Steven Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:11:04 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3488 Its really foolish to think we can't possibly hinder our planets ability to sustain life when in all actuallity we can do just that. Our planet's ecosystems are extremly fragile and must be kept in a balanced state of being. When we loose even one species it opens oppertunity for others which may in fact be benificial or harmful to us. By releasing pollutants into the air, water, and land we destroy precious natural resources. To people who say if we pollute it won't have an affect on us or it dosn't matter if we release Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere, or if entire ecosystems of animal species collapse it won't effect us your absolutly wrong. We really only have one planet and the fact is we can destroy it, we are indeed that powerful. Many people also believe global warming is a myth or incorrect science because we can't possibly change the composition of the atmosphere its "too big" your wrong about that too. Theres already scientific evidence about it to the point that it should become fact. If the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change which has pretty much every climate scientist's approval/ attention says theres something going on with global weather patterns then we should listen to them. I'm sorry but if u don't have a degree in science and then try to disapprove a scientists findings especially when climate is their specific area of research your extremly ignorant. On top of that, just saying that if it snows in places like Iraq, Israel, and parts of China that aren't supposed to get heavy snow fall like they had earlier on in the year its obvious that weather patterns are screwed up. Plus global warmning has diffrerent affects on weather systems world wide so it actually could be a possibility that global warming caused these events. Its really foolish to think we can't possibly hinder our planets ability to sustain life when in all actuallity we can do just that. Our planet's ecosystems are extremly fragile and must be kept in a balanced state of being. When we loose even one species it opens oppertunity for others which may in fact be benificial or harmful to us. By releasing pollutants into the air, water, and land we destroy precious natural resources. To people who say if we pollute it won't have an affect on us or it dosn't matter if we release Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere, or if entire ecosystems of animal species collapse it won't effect us your absolutly wrong. We really only have one planet and the fact is we can destroy it, we are indeed that powerful. Many people also believe global warming is a myth or incorrect science because we can't possibly change the composition of the atmosphere its "too big" your wrong about that too. Theres already scientific evidence about it to the point that it should become fact. If the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change which has pretty much every climate scientist's approval/ attention says theres something going on with global weather patterns then we should listen to them. I'm sorry but if u don't have a degree in science and then try to disapprove a scientists findings especially when climate is their specific area of research your extremly ignorant. On top of that, just saying that if it snows in places like Iraq, Israel, and parts of China that aren't supposed to get heavy snow fall like they had earlier on in the year its obvious that weather patterns are screwed up. Plus global warmning has diffrerent affects on weather systems world wide so it actually could be a possibility that global warming caused these events.

]]> By: Franko http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3463 Franko Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:04:17 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3463          Pollution is a byproduct of comfort and progress. Sweep it under a rug, put it on top of a garbage mountain. Drive a car, fry a carrot, light a campfire, roast a wiener. We are born to pollute - pollute or die ! Decrease entropy around us, but increase entropy far away. As long as better for us, the Octipussies will have to adapt ! After all, they neither have backbones, nor are USA voters !         
Pollution is a byproduct of comfort and progress.
Sweep it under a rug, put it on top of a garbage mountain.
Drive a car, fry a carrot, light a campfire, roast a wiener.
We are born to pollute – pollute or die !

Decrease entropy around us, but increase entropy far away.

As long as better for us, the Octipussies will have to adapt !
After all, they neither have backbones, nor are USA voters !

]]> By: Faye http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3460 Faye Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:08:08 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3460 Some of you people need to grow up! Evidently there are a lot of 9 year old boys who post here. Adults should know better than to make jokes about something so devastatingly serious. This kind of pollution will affect you too!!! Will it be funny then? Some of you people need to grow up! Evidently there are a lot of 9 year old boys who post here. Adults should know better than to make jokes about something so devastatingly serious. This kind of pollution will affect you too!!! Will it be funny then?

]]> By: Fishy Fish http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3446 Fishy Fish Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:51:10 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3446 I think the cephalopod pictured is an incarnation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Note the resemblance. I think the cephalopod pictured is an incarnation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Note the resemblance.

]]> By: Franko http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/12/squids-and-octopods-beware-contaminants-now-in-your-world/#comment-3444 Franko Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:53:01 +0000 http://cnnscitech.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-3444 Poisonous frogs advertise; eat me and die. How soon before we see very colorful octopi ? Poisonous frogs advertise; eat me and die.
How soon before we see very colorful octopi ?

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