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1:52, I could not resist reading it aloud as "the bones of the hero and the horse he rode in on".But that's just the sort of person I am. What in my family is called a "wooga wooga".
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Well, that explains why my breath smells like poop!
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alimentary my dear Baud Bits. Well researched as always.
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Ah, i can always turn to B2B when I need a little cheering up.
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Very awesome, always interesting to be reminded that the past didn't have the luxury of advancements and had other ways of getting the job done.
I mean, now we have the Haber process and bacterial methods but I don't think I'll forget now,
Peru once had an economy based on Poo. -
Fascinating.
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3:40 humboldt bay wooo hoo!
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7:20 I thought The Irish Potato famine was caused by potato blight, ( The fact that virtually the only variety of potato grown there "The Lumper" was so susceptible to that disease didn't help ). Oddly enough during the 20th century, while western farmers were spraying the living daylights out of potatoes to control this horrendous disease, and chemical manufacturers were spending a fortune trying to develop fungicides to control blight (Pests being pests, they do have a nasty habit of developing resistant strains, no matter what you do to try and control them ) In Eastern Europe scientists developed potatoes that were resistant to blight altogether.
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Haber process for the win
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Oh shit.
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Ah! We're running out of poop! We're DOOOOOOMED!!!
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Errr, my bad, I was still laughing from the dinosaur bit when you mentioned it was actually seabird poop. I always thought guano referred exclusively to bat poop, learned something new.
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"...which was where Noah buried all the ancient dinosaurs." Made me LOL. On a similar note, was continually referring to guano as "bird poop" a knock on creationists, who seem to think bats are birds, or just a slip of the tongue?
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holy shit!
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Waste not want not!
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Far out
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not to mention the oort cloud and 2 enormous resource fields we call Jupiter and Saturn.
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Excellent.
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True. Tho I try to keep in mind the ethic that I need to pass on a world as good (or better, if I can) to those coming after me, as a basic human courtesy, I also try to keep in mind that past a point, worry for all of humankind (natural resources, global warming, et al.) is really just the first step on the path to madness, if taken too far. Long before the sun runs out of H & He, the moon will drift far away, and we lose the cosy 23º axis of rotation we have. Things are probably done then.
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Never has poop been more interesting