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Who wants to go and move to Mars?

Humans could 'absolutely' live on Mars, NASA scientist says - and it could happen in this lifetime The first person to travel to Mars is likely already living on Earth, the chief NASA scientist said. 'Building blocks of life' were discovered on the planet, making it possible to live on. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5832391/Humans-absolutely-live-Mars-NASA-scientist-says-happen-lifetime.html?ito=email_share_article-top 

NO WAY

LOL   I like my home comforts Plan P.  Will leave the exploration to the youngsters.

Celia, they will try and go to other planets and stuff them like they have stuffed this one -- it is the Errol Flynn effect everything he touched he f-------

Thought this unusual have not seen ice this blue before.

Mesmerising moment blue iceberg breaks in half next to tourist boat in ocean near Patagonia

This is the stunning moment an iceberg breaks in half causing a stunning wave beside a tour boat in Patagonia in Argentina. The beautiful scene was captured on a tourist's phone.

Yes, that is very blue Celia and bluest ice form when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed and becomes part of the glacier air bubbles are squeezed out and ice crystals enlarge, making the ice appear really blue.

It is also true that blue sea is not as fertile as green sea

 

Thanks Plan B.    I have seen glaciers in Norway but they did look dirty not blue like this.

 

Icebergs

 

Icebergs are made of fresh water and float around in sea water, small ones weigh hundreds of tonnes, typical ones weigh 100,000+ tonnes and the biggest ones billions of tonnes. They can be very beautiful and very dangerous.

                   

November 2007 the tourist cruise ship M/V Explorer was holed and subsequently sank by an iceberg in the Bransfield Strait Antarctica, the time taken From incurring the damage to sinking was about 15 hours, the ship sank in around 1,500m (4,920 feet) of water. Fortunately, by luck rather than design, there was no loss of life and all passengers and crew were rescued.

 

https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/antarctica%20environment/icebergs.php

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Arnhem Land beaches reaching crisis point as Indonesian waste floats ashore.

Rubbish 'from the water to the tideline’. The bags of rubbish are filled with domestic waste — toothbrushes, coat hangers and hard plastics.

One of the front-lines of this global problem is much further out of the spotlight, on remote Australian beaches so pristine and well protected that some require a permit before you can set foot on them. In reality, ranger groups spend hours each week cleaning up beaches untouched by humans but covered in their rubbish — and it's still not enough.

While the rubbish was historically waste from fisheries, these days it is increasingly domestic: hairbrushes, shampoo bottles and coat hangers have all been collected in recent months.

Full ABC story.

:( So disheartening.

I really do not know where this plastic problem is going to end -- as no places like coffee shops etc and places that use straws are doing a darn thing about it and continue to use them

Deep-sea sponges may stem the antibiotic-resistance crisis: Bacteria in the marine life fight off the deadly MRSA superbug

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University found that out of 50 sponges, more than half contain so-called 'good bacteria' that fight off life-threatening infections such as C.difficile.

Yes Celia -- almost EVERYTHING we have has been got or copied from Nature or what nature did -- so much has also been from the rain forests as well,  seems everything has been put there for us and our good and man is stuffing it -- the Aboriginals know a hell of a lot about medicines that they have used for many many thousands of years -- shame we never learnt from them ay?

Hi Plan B.  I think the Western World is too busy being busy!     The powers that be are not stopping to smell the roses and to listen to their own bodies.   What a mess the world is in, thanks mainly to our generation don't you feel?

MAybe a bit of ours Celia but more of the Baby boomers I think

 

 

I don't know much about South America, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw these photos of a very pretty area of Colombia.

Cano Cristales River.

 

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Looks great

 

https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/colombia/articles/cano-cristales-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-liquid-rainbow/

 

Beautiful. Thanks Celia.

Their water looks so clean!    No wonder plants love to grow there.

 

Interesting topic! 

Polar bears

https://animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/polar-bear/ 

 

https://discover.ponant.com/5-differences-between-arctic-and-antarctica-ob?utm_source=Display&utm_medium=Digital-Advertising-Outbrain-0518&utm_campaign=Digital-Advertising-Outbrain-0518-Outbrain-native-advertising-B2C-OZ-05_18&ectrans=1 

 

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/polar-bears-starve-melting-sea-ice-global-warming-study-beaufort-sea-environment/#/88968.jpg   

Almost 20,000 kilometres separate the Arctic from Antarctica, two "ends of the world" lying at extreme opposites of the planet. Though these regions of the North and South Poles resemble each other, they present very different and unique natural spectacles to visitors.
So if your heart can't decide between the Arctic and the Antarctic, follow our guide! 

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Was interested to read because of the increased rate of ice melting in Antarctica, the land mass is rising quicker that ever before. As the huge weight of the ice reduces, the earth expands, rather like a mattress springing back into shape after you get up.

Yes RnR I agree, it is fascinating and frightening. 

Watching the rivers of lava is amazing to see, but what keeps me thinking is if this is coming out of the earths crust and below, what is filling in the void?

Inside the Kilauea eruption: New thermal map reveals the vast network of lava flows and fissures continuing to devastate Hawaii The USGS also said at the volcano summit a massive collapse occurred at 04:49 a.m. Causing a massive energy release equivalent to a magnitude 5.3 earthquake 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5901713/Thermal-maps-reveal-vast-network-lava-flows-causing-Kilauea-eruption.html? o=email_share_article-top  

This eruption is changing the face of this side of the island each day, it is massive. The latest state of the eruption: USGS reports say the eruption is continuing to devastate the island. At the volcano summit a massive collapse occurred at 04:49 a.m. producing an ash-poor steam plume that rose about 1,000 ft above the ground surface (~5,000 ft above sea level) before drifting to the SW, the USGS said. The energy released by the event was equivalent to a magnitude 5.3 earthquake.

Have watched some videos of the lava flows. Quite incredible as the lava is flowing so fast.

 

Critics continue to slam plastic bag ban after it's revealed 90 per cent of global plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers in Asia and Africa

A study has revealed that the Amur, Ganges, Hai, Indus, Mekong, Pearl, Yangtze and Yellow Delta in Asia, as well as the Niger and Nile in Africa, carry the most plastic waste into the ocean.

One good idea I had was to throw all the waste collected into the volcanoes and poof, no more waste.

 

 

I want to go and vomit.

 

People like this make me sick to the core of my being.

Fury at female hunter who posted sickening photos of herself standing over the corpse of a rare black giraffe she killed in a 'once in a lifetime dream hunt'

Kentucky hunter kills black giraffe in South Africa

A female American hunter has caused outrage after photos emerged of her posing alongside the corpse of a rare black giraffe she killed in what she described as a 'once in a lifetime dream hunt'. Tess Thompson Talley, who lives in Kentucky, posted the photos of herself with the dead giraffe on Facebook after a hunting trip to South Africa a year ago. The controversial photos seemingly went unnoticed until news outlet Africa Digest shared them last week. It prompted immediate outrage on social media with the hashtag #TessThompsonTalley quickly going viral.

"People like this make me sick to the core of my being."

Totally agree. Can't stand trophy hunting. Wish it was banned enitrely and globally.

It happened a year ago, I hope a Black Mamba has got her by now.

I hate to say it but the only thing that will make her stop to think what she is doing is if someone did the same thing to her poor little dog.

What a waste of space on this planet this girl is.

https://twitter.com/IanGoodenoughMP/status/1002483209265819648

 

Even politicians are on the band wagon of free shopping bags now.

 

Cancer Council Australia has issued a warning over a popular household product amid fears that it is linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after a dying man won a $400 million lawsuit

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6250651/Cancer-Council-issues-warning-Roundup-amid-fears-linked-terminal-cancer-case.html?ito=email_share_article-image-share 

Cancer Council Australia has issued a warning over a popular household product amid fears that it is linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after a dying man won a $400 million lawsuit

Hi Celia.

I  use a well known household product containing glyphosate to kill weeds on my stone pathways etc.

I need to use it only occasionally. I'll make sure I  keep it's use only occasionally.

 

Hi Tedwalker.

In summer if weeds grow in a path and it has been dry and hot, I pour boiling water on the little pests.

Seems to do the trick.

Or as someone suggested on the forum a little while ago, you can try Slasher organic herbicide … no glyphosate.

Details.

Available at Bunnings. See here.

One of my friends from this Group has recently sent me this, she suggested I post it on this Thread for people to read.

 

In a move that has sparked outrage from local residents and dire health warnings from environmentalists, the Japanese government is reportedly planning to release 1.09 million tons of water from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean despite evidence that it contains "radioactive material well above legally permitted levels."

While both the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco)—the company that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant—have claimed that radioactive material in the water has been reduced to indetectable amounts and that only "safe levels of tritium" remain, documents obtained by the London-based Telegraph suggest that the cleaning system being used to decontaminate the water "has consistently failed to eliminate a cocktail of other radioactive elements, including iodine, ruthenium, rhodium, antimony, tellurium, cobalt, and strontium."

"The government is running out of space to store contaminated water that has come into contact with fuel that escaped from three nuclear reactors after the plant was destroyed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan," the Telegraph reported. "Its plan to release the approximately 1.09 million tons of water currently stored in 900 tanks into the Pacific has triggered a fierce backlash from local residents and environmental organizations, as well as groups in South Korea and Taiwan fearful that radioactivity from the second-worst nuclear disaster in history might wash up on their shores."

One document the Telegraph obtained from the government body charged with responding to the 2011 Fukushima disaster reportedly indicates that the Japanese government is perfectly aware that the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) is failing to eliminate radioactive materials from the water stored at the Fukushima site, despite its claims to the contrary.

Last September, the Telegraph notes, "Tepco was forced to admit that around 80 percent of the water stored at the Fukushima site still contains radioactive substances above legal levels after the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry held public hearings in Tokyo and Fukushima at which local residents and fishermen protested against the plans."

Shaun Burnie, a nuclear specialist with Greenpeace, argued that even so-called "safe" levels of tritium are harmful to humans and marine life.

"Its beta particles inside the human body are more harmful than most X-rays and gamma rays," Burnie told the Telegraph, adding that there "are major uncertainties over the long-term effects posed by radioactive tritium that is absorbed by marine life and, through the food chain, humans."

The Japanese government's reported plans to release the water into the Pacific despite these warnings "cannot be considered an action without risk to the marine environment and human health," Burnie concluded.

 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/18/local-fury-and-health-concerns-japan-plans-dump-million-tons-radioactive-fukushima?amp&fbclid=IwAR0eIMGig1otrwQLZfpQj2S4HGTJzEYp6JcDexHt5_uH92bAu-1F-cZRFOM

And still politicians and others whitter on about Nuclear Power here!

Radiation is the most dangerous item we face on the planet today.

Europe is decommissing theirs - UK too I understand. But here its just hitting the air waves - lets build Nuclear Power Stns and shut down Coal.

It was shutting down Coal that left SA in a pickle and no power.

Renewables just cant supply the necessary base power and since we are evergrowing due to immigration - that is certain to repeat.

And the incidence of increasing cancer in humans as well as animals - like our dogs and cats even getting it is due entirely to radiation fall out from the various bomb tests in the Pacific as well as Chinobyl in Russia which spread radiation across Europe and it reached UK in 1986 which is why anyone who was there then cant give blood.

Scary stuff. 

Humans dogs and cats are living longer 

maybe the extra doses of radiation are killing off potential cancer cells before they do too much damage 

coal is good it’s cheap , nuclear is gooder and cheaper 

Renewables maybe in another 50 years . In the meantime it’s costing us a fortune 

households and businesses are paying the price of indulging the idiot greens and labor on this 

Olbaid,

Explain how “renewables are costing us a fortune”. I bet you can’t.

So you’re happy with the current prices you pay for your energy requirements then 

Yes. We have solar power so we don’t pay much. BTW, you didn’t explain how renewables are costing us a fortune. You can’t, can you? If you could, you would.

 

I just explained it 

can’t help if you lack the intellectual aptitude 

explains why you are a leftie 

Your solar is subsidized - paid for by those complaining how high their bills are 

 

Where did you explain it?

Our solar is not subsidised. Our electricity is cheaper because a percentage of it is supplied by the sun. More and more people are recognising that this is the smart way to go. 

Jesus H Christ 

your panels were subsidized 

and if you’re selling back to the grid you’re being paid a rate forced onthe provider by the labor government

the net difference in what you paid for your capital investment vs market price and your recurrent savings in consumption charges  is paid for by everyone else 

DUH !!!

Warrior,   Hip Hooray, thank you, -- at last someone that sees truth and reason and the hell Nuclear has brought to the planet and the reason for the amounts of cancer these days and decimation -- which is getting worse. we are also being lied to regarding this -- once again because of MONEY -- and can you imagine having the Olympics in Japan AND some swimming events in FUKUSHIMA!   I wonder who got a backhander for allowing that?

 

Olbaid,

We receive no subsidy. The subsidies were ended 2 or 3 years ago so you can’t blame them for the higher prices which have kept on climbing. Also, we receive very little money for any power sold back to the grid. The power companies pay little for it and sell it back to the public at a much higher price. It’s greed! They would be able to lower prices immediately if they sold that power back at what they pay or just a little more.

Tony Abbott told everyone that prices would drop when he got rid of the carbon tax. He lied didn’t he? Greed is driving the prices, nothing less!

 

That Japanese guy SHIMA must have done a lot of damage to the planet because everyone is saying FUKU  SHIMA.!

Hey sageman, that's a very cute way of putting it.  

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