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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Canada has the world's largest supplies of Uranium. One nuclear fuel pellet (of Uranium) about two centimetres long produces the same amount of electricity as one and a half tonnes of coal and no Co2. |
Coal-fired electricity plants etc etc.... |
What a plonker.  |
Not a siiiiiiinggggle new plant ordered in North America since the 1970s. Enough said. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Strangely enough, there is some kind of weird psychological thing that goes on with people who get interested in nuclear energy...like some kind of cult, or religion. They seem to get ''hooked" on it somehow...become convinced it can solve all the world's problems...major cognitive dissonance when it comes to radioactivity and cost issues.
If nuclear energy made economic sense, there'd be reactors everywhere.
Sad. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Ben Johnson.
The worst Canadian in terms of representing the country: brought about one of the biggest moments of shame in Canadian history. I cannot think of a more disappointing figure. |
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gmat
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| Haha... Love the look on Carl Lewis's face. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
Strangely enough, there is some kind of weird psychological thing that goes on with people who get interested in nuclear energy...like some kind of cult, or religion. They seem to get ''hooked" on it somehow...become convinced it can solve all the world's problems...major cognitive dissonance when it comes to radioactivity and cost issues.
If nuclear energy made economic sense, there'd be reactors everywhere.
Sad. |
What is your position on Tehran's interest in nuclear power and weapons? on Chile and others' interest in exploring nuclear energy in Latin America and the Caribbean? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| If nuclear energy made economic sense, there'd be reactors everywhere. Sad. |
This statement makes the unwarrented assumption that the only forces guiding nuclear reactor development is economic. Irrational fears certainly play a large part in what hampers reactor development. If you're building them ham fisted like the poor soviets, they're pretty dangerous. One should note the 70s era safety mechanism of three mile island worked. Accidents are not impossible but consider hundreds of people die every year working in gas, oil, and coal. How many people die a year from the toxic byproducts of gas, oil, and coal?
And nuclear reactors are everywhere, in France and Japan. France gets about 70% of its electricity from nuclear. When you strip away the NIMBY and the anti-nuke lobby, they do make economic sense. And they're going to have to in North America. We get our energy from gas, oil, coal, hydro, and nuclear.
Hydro is built out. We can't dam many more rivers. Gas and oil... not in huge supply these days. Coal is vast but comes at a great environmental impact. The only option left on the table is nuclear.
What's the logical choice? |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Manner of Speaking but not much thinking wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
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| Canada has the world's largest supplies of Uranium. One nuclear fuel pellet (of Uranium) about two centimetres long produces the same amount of electricity as one and a half tonnes of coal and no Co2. |
Coal-fired electricity plants etc etc.... |
What a plonker. |
Not a siiiiiiinggggle new plant ordered in North America since the 1970s. Enough said. |
let's take this to the appropriate thread. I regret my uranium comments, as this thread deals with Canadian idiots we should hate. Celine Dion? Forget it. Go to Itaewon and take your pick from the thousands of sweaty, molsen-swilling, hockey-watching muppets. Spoilt for choice.
(MM2 and Gopher - thanks for those comments, but let's take it to the nuke thread) |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I played football against Carl Lewis back in High School...he was fast back then , too. But, we won as Irving fryer was our wide receiver, he could catch back then, too. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Mike Lake, MP. Or at least he's the biggest moron among the Canucks. Wonder how many taxpayer dollars this would cost? [Note: not to be confused with Big Bird]
Bigfoot risks extinction
May 2, 2007
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Bigfoot, the legendary hairy man-like beast said to roam the wildernesses of North America, is not shy, merely so rare it risks extinction and should be protected as an endangered species.
So says Canadian MP Mike Lake who has called for Bigfoot to be protected under Canada's species at risk act, alongside Whooping Cranes, Blue Whales, and Red Mulberry trees.
"The debate over their (Bigfoot's) existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing," reads a petition presented by Lake to parliament in March and due to be discussed next week.
"Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish immediate, comprehensive legislation to affect immediate protection of Bigfoot," says the petition signed by almost 500 of Lake's constituents in Edmonton, Alberta.
A similar appeal has been made to the US Congress.
Down through history, there have been numerous, if unsubstantiated sightings of Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch in North American folklore.
The beast is said to inhabit remote forests, mainly in the US Pacific northwest and western Canada, and many believe it could be related to the equally mythical Yeti said to have found its home in Tibet and Nepal.
While sometimes described as large, hairy bipedal hominoids, Bigfoot are considered by most experts to be a combination of folklore and hoaxes.
But the legend remains strong, and Bigfoot researcher Todd Standing, who was behind the petition, claims to have proof of its existence, and says he fears for its safety.
"When I get species protection for them nationwide, I will make my findings public and I will take this out of the realm of mythology. Bigfoot is real," Standing told Global National television news.
He said he has 12 seconds of video footage of Bigfoot roaming Canada's western Rocky Mountains included in a 30-minute documentary, but his detractors say it was staged with actors.
His supporters hail from Canada's westernmost provinces, but Bigfoot sightings have been reported across the country, which is 90 percent uninhabited.
There are currently 516 plant and animal species at risk in Canada, according to Environment Canada. Another 13 species are already extinct. |
Watch for PETA to get involved and Darryl Hannah to link arms in North American solidarity to save the big ape. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: |
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The Prince Edward Islanders who have been persecuting former teacher Rick Morin (born and raised five doors down the street from Jack Kerouac's house on French Hill in Lowell, Massachusetts) since 1988 get my vote. Frank MacDonald and Rufus Reid stand out in particular in that case as does the late Primier Joseph Ghiz who did nothing to assist the embattled Morin.
One of them - MacDonald perhaps -eventually became Mayor of Charlottetown.
Morin's American background was used against him in court and he was physically attacked by school officials.
I suppose the Butter Box Babies scandal in Halifax, the Hells Angels (especially in Montreal), and the anti-Americans in the same city who attacked a group of twelve year olds from Brockton, Massachusetts for the crime of being citizens of the U.S. and the refs who allowed the Ontario team to insult the said kids and their nation a day or two later during their match also stand out in my opinion as vile Canadians.
The Canadian politicians who told the Canadian press that they hate Americans are also evil.
Canadians who boo the U.S. National Anthem whenever it is played in a Canadian arena or ball park are also bad Canucks.
Clifford Olsen may be the worst. Anyway, there are so many in contention for the title that it's hard to choose one, eh. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| Canadians who boo the U.S. National Anthem whenever it is played in a Canadian arena or ball park are also bad Canucks. |
Funny you should use the term "Canucks" instead of the alternative "Canadians" because it was indeed Canucks fans in Vancouver who have boo-ed the U.S. anthem more than once, and loudly, at NHL home games.
Us B.C.ers have a very healthy sense of distance and animosity even toward our neighbours to the south. Albertans and Easterners would join the United States well before B.C. would, that's for sure.
Boo-ing is impolite, a sense of bad manners, but in no way a detriment to the sense of nationalism, in fact, quite the opposite. It is a sense of fundamental difference taken too far, to the point of lack of civility. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Ben Johnson.
The worst Canadian in terms of representing the country: brought about one of the biggest moments of shame in Canadian history. I cannot think of a more disappointing figure. |
Ben was just a real happy go lucky guy. I've met him several times and he just doesn't have the smarts to be the "real" bad guy......
This guy should have our scorn. And he is still out and about preaching his miracles on "running" after having led so many down the needle strewn path.........
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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VanIslander:
Your points are well-taken, however, when did civility and NHL become compatible terms?
The NHL is in a bad way and has been for a long time. College hockey, with its stringent rules on goonish behavior and its preference for skating over checking is far better.
Even high school hockey championships in St. Paul are better. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: |
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Avril Lavigne. Annoying and looks like a demented deer.
Take her back, please. |
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