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Posted by Hugh MacKay on August 12, 2005 at 21:08:42 from (209.226.106.118):
In Reply to: Re: GAS PRICES posted by P Backus on August 12, 2005 at 20:12:33:
Paul: Two major concerns I have with this liberal use of gas and oil. It is not an endless supply, and will run out someday. Secondly, man has reduced the oxygen content of the earths atmosphere from 40% at the beginning of the industrial revolution to now below 20% in 2005. The public cry immissions, man has adapted very well to harmful substances. I wonder if he will adapt as well to little or no oxygen. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the stumbling block in space. Man has the technology to get there, he just can't survive once there, without his own oxygen supply. I think we best wake up and smell the roses. Yes we have old farts that smoked all their lives running around with these inhalers so they can breath. They are told it is their bad habit. What about the kids under 12 never smoked in their lives. School teachers will tell you a large percentage kids have the inhalers. When it comes to sucking in oxygen, man is no match for a 500 hp internal combustion engine.
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