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OT: (but some metal content) Science in the Obama Administration

From a post on another NG:

John Holdren has been named Science Advisor to President Obama.

For those too young to remember, a dude named Paul Ehrlich wrote a book in 1968 titled the "Population Bomb," in which he postulated the earth was running out of resources to provide for an ever-increasing population. Mass starvation, privation, and disease was but a few years away. Ehrlich argued for mass sterilization, abandoning over-populated countries, and other incredible solutions.

"Nonsense," denier John Simon cried. Simon offered to bet Ehrlich any amount that any five natural resources would be more plentiful and cheaper in any time frame Ehrlich chose.

Ehrlich accepted the wager and turned to his cohort, the now-advisor Holdren, to come up with the list. Holdren chose five metals - chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten - and said they would be from scarce to non-existent in twenty years. Ehrlich and Holdren bet Simon $1,000 on the outcome.

Ehrlich and Holdren lost and had to pay up in 1990.

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RB
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I remember Ehrlich, and his wife Anne who was as daft as he was. And I remember the bet and the outcome made my day. Ehrlich hasn't backed down an inch on all the ill-informed drivel he spouted back in the 70's.

Garrett Fulton

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Garrett Fulton

RB wrote: (a bunch of off-topic, probably skewed, political crap)

Thank you for your illuminating post.

Now, I'm trying to turn some fins into a replacement cylinder for a Cox

  1. I basically made myself a narrow little cutoff tool, which started by chattering a little bit, then rapidly evolved to chattering a lot, then bound up, wrenching the cylinder blank out of the chuck and breaking the tool.

Since this is a _metalworking_ group, do you have any suggestions about how I may do thing _metalworking_ task?

Thanks.

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Tim Wescott

I'm looking forward to the fruition of the electric car. When supply and demand forces and carbon taxes make EV's more expensive than gasoline powered autos.

When the feed the hungry children types come up against the evironazi's that don't care what is costs to save the planet even if it wipes out discretionary income that charities depend on to feed the hungry.

When Joe the worker figures out that everything he is making is going to pay for social programs and carbon taxes that do not benefit him in the least.

We are entering the time where all debts are coming due. I suspect a tidal change in attitudes soon.

Wes

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Wes

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:23:40 -0500, the infamous Wes scrawled the following:

I look forward to the electric car but dread the prices. Had a hybrid pickup been available last year, I likely would have bought one.

Thanks to the environazis, that's -already- happening.

Ayup. Hold on to your arse. It's coming.

-- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. -- Albert Einstein

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Larry Jaques

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