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Comment: Re:Seattle wanted one...But still gets a win (Score 1) 195

by proslack (#35799140) Attached to: NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet
How do you know this? They are just as likely to plexiglass a trainer as a real shuttle. You can touch a piece of lunar rock (or at least the grime and grease of millions of fingers coating it) in Houston and Florida, I imagine they'll let people "touch a tile" or something like that. Alternately, you could just just buy yourself a chunk of meteorite for less than the cost of a family pass to KSC http://compare.ebay.com/like/230209530807?var=binlv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&rvr_id=224679782523&crlp=1_263602_324952&UA=WXF%3F&GUID=49f3655312f0a026824779e7ff56401d&itemid=230209530807&ff4=263602_324952 . Besides, every astronaut has also bought gas at the Hess station just south of KSC, but they aren't putting the gas pumps in a museum. (Most) people want the real thing, not a "trainer".

Comment: Re:how about using the plants we have efficiently? (Score 1) 156

by proslack (#35792784) Attached to: Scientists Aim To Improve Photosynthesis
Tell that to the people that live around Florida's phosphate mines (you know, the ones that provide the fertilizer for "modern farming methods"). Consequences include radioactive pilings (radon and uranium), toxic processing water, ruined watersheds, depleted groundwater, sinkholes, and a ravaged landscape. The Earth as a system is far more complex and interdependent that you seem to imagine.

Comment: Re:What will they eat... (Score 2) 221

by proslack (#34514378) Attached to: Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic
Iron is a limiting nutrient. If you add iron to seawater, all other things being equal (e.g. phosphate), you will probably enable more "stuff" to live in that region, cf. "Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean HJW De Baar, JTM de Jong, DCE Bakker - 1995 - nature.com"

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