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Canadian scientist leads bovine gas gauge development (Cow Fart-o-meter Invented!)
edmontonjournal.com ^
| March 15, 2011
| Randy Boswell
Posted on 03/15/2011 4:19:17 PM PDT by PROCON
A Canadian government scientist has spearheaded the development of a new, high-tech measuring device combining laser beams, GPS locators and chemical detectors to more accurately gauge the amount of methane released by belching and flatulent cows -a significant source of the world's greenhouse gases.
A bi-national collaboration with Australian agronomists, the project was led by Sean McGinn, a senior scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's farm research centre in Lethbridge and is detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: canada; climatechange; globalwarming; laserbeams; laserbeans
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To quote many a FReeper, you just can't make this $h!t up...
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:19:20 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:20:00 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON
A Canadian government scientist has spearheaded the development of a new, high-tech measuring device combining laser beams, GPS locators and chemical detectors to more accurately gauge the amount of methane released by belching and flatulent cows -a significant source of the world's greenhouse gases. A Canadian government scientist has wasted a bunch of time and money.
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:22:34 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: PROCON; Para-Ord.45; Entrepreneur; tubebender; mmanager; Fiddlstix; Fractal Trader; FrPR; ...
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:25:38 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips)
To: PROCON
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:30:41 PM PDT
by
50cal Smokepole
(Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
To: PROCON
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:31:54 PM PDT
by
sheikdetailfeather
("Kick The Communists Out Of Your Govt. And Don't Accept Their Goodies"-Yuri Bezmenov-KGB Defector)
To: PROCON
Let me guess-he’s a “vegan”.
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:32:16 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: steelyourfaith
Well this is a hoot. Just sent it to our eco supportive kids..the link and the footnote that it is finally here...a fartometer is finally invented..grass mucnching cattle and sheep..just wait until the democrats require this to be installed in all newly built homes of people too.
To: PROCON
I’m sure Kalifornia is going regulate that all farms install these systems and a new public labor unionized committee will be put in charge of monitoring and policing anyone that goes above the state set limits of animal farts.
A animal fart cap and trade based trade floor will be established in San Francisco. Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, and select friends of Obama will be bankrolling all this.
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:34:02 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
To: PROCON
Damn, the Canucks beating us to another Nobel Prize!
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:34:27 PM PDT
by
Recon Dad
(I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure)
To: PROCON
The most amazing invention since Swiss Cheese.
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:35:05 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: PROCON
How should we pronounce “fartometer”? Is it “fart-o-meter”; or “far-tom-eter”?
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
However it is pronounced, keep that thing away from me.....
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:46:43 PM PDT
by
eartick
(Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
How should we pronounce “fartometer”? Is it “fart-o-meter”; or “far-tom-eter”? In recognition to our Canadian friends, it should be pronounced "fart-o-meter, eh?"..:=)
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:50:06 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON
Compared to the pollutants belched out by volcanoes, this is like being concerned about flea farts as measured to cow farts.
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:51:13 PM PDT
by
23 Everest
(A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
To: eartick
What a total waste of OPM (other people’s money) by this “researcher”. The “researcher” needs put out to pasture. I love science, but this stuff is total BS.
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:51:20 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
To: PROCON
Flashback to 5-year old Sean McGinn:
Father: "So, Sean, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
Little Sean:"I want to be the first man to measure cow farts, Daddy!"
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:54:56 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: hal ogen
but this stuff is total BSActually it's BF, Bovine Flatulence...:=)
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posted on
03/15/2011 4:55:08 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:06:41 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
The latter. Just think, if we corked them instead, we could have a sky full of bovine hot air balloons.
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