We were about to embark at Dover, when d () came up
to me and whispered:

I'm sure its a mixture of a whole load of nasty things. Point
is - its a long way from being clean.

Have you seen a diesel train or bus recently?

--
Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

---- If it's below this line, I didn't write it ----

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:42 +0100 (BST)
lid (Paul Cummins) wrote:
We were about to embark at Dover, when d () came up
to me and whispered:

I'm sure its a mixture of a whole load of nasty things. Point
is - its a long way from being clean.

Have you seen a diesel train or bus recently?

Yes. And? What have diesel engines got to do with whether old jet engines
were dirty?

B2003

In message , at 09:46:38 on Mon, 17 Oct
2011, d remarked:

What have diesel engines got to do with whether old jet engines
were dirty?

They continue to pollute, but Concorde doesn't.
--
Roland Perry

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:49:47AM +0100, Bruce wrote:

On Venus? Can't I read up on it here? Do Ryanair fly there?

They claim to, but you'll actually land in a small field in the middle
of the Scottish Highlands with "Venus" hurriedly daubed onto a rotten
board by the gate.

--
David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

If you can't imagine how I do something, it's
because I have a better imagination than you

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:18:52PM +0100, Guy Gorton wrote:

Not a comment on the original post but just a little contribution to
the overall thread on global warming/pollution/whatever.
I don't think a word has been said about the contribution of volcanoes
to all the nasties in the atmosphere - as I understand it, man's
pollution is but a fraction of what the world's volcanoes spew out.
Or have I been misinformed?

Let us assume for the moment that you have been correctly informed.

If anthropogenic pollution is just a small proportion, it could still be
sufficient to disturb a finely balanced equilibrium. A new equilibrium
will, of course, eventually be found, but that doesn't mean that it
would be a nice equilibrium. It could be one where many of our major
cities are uninhabitable; or where our most productive farmland becomes
unusable; or in which our best and most important crops, which have been
engineered for hundreds of years to suit particular conditions, fail.

I'm not saying that that is what undoubtedly will happen. Merely that
it's worth at least caring about the little things.

--
David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to
compete with children from privileged homes like ... Tony Benn
-- Margaret Thatcher

In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
18:58:57 on Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
You do know what contrails are, right?

What they really are, or just what the government wants us to think
they are?

They are actually a vast clandestine surveillance device listening to
all our emai.... No carrier.

http://xkcd.com/966/

Sam

In article
,
77002 wrote:

... I am with Tony Polson on this one.
Green is the new Red. I do want to breathe cleaner air in our
cities. That can be achieved with electric transit. But, the whole
"Hockey Stick" theory is based on false data. Climategate brought
that out into the open. Just look into who supports "climate change",
the "liberal" elite and their useful idiots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15373071

Sam