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Conserve Water, or the Fish Will Die
www.good.is ^ | September 13, 2010 | Patrick James

Posted on 09/15/2010 11:27:29 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Whenever you use Yan Lu's "Poor Little Fishbowl Sink," water in the above fishbowl drains, resulting in a life-threatening situation for its resident goldfish. That's a clever way of reminding us that our wasteful practices can directly affect other creatures (and that, for much of the world, water issues are matters of life or death).

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To: a fool in paradise

“Where does the water go when it goes down the drain?”

To the GULF OF MEXICO.

An entire lake goes down the drain, to the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI&NR=1


21 posted on 09/15/2010 11:58:52 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

There is another side to that equation as well.

High in the atmosphere, water molecules are broken down into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen.

The hydrogen, which is lighter and faster, has more of a tendency to escape into space, leaving the monatomic oxygen atoms behind.


22 posted on 09/15/2010 11:59:58 AM PDT by djf (It is ISLAM or "We, the People..." Take your pick. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND!!!)
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To: w1andsodidwe
The fact that they are reusing the fish water to wash their hands

See post #11

23 posted on 09/15/2010 12:00:39 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Typical liberals. They actually will devise things that will kill an animal to in their small minds make a bigger point - the end justifies the means.

They are the ones who make the stupid bowl, they are the ones that put an actual fish in there, and they are the ones that would make someone use the sink - but they’d blame you if the fish died.

I think it’s time they stopped putting everyone else’s (and everything else’s) lives at risk to make a ‘clever’ point. I think they ought to risk their own lives. Put one of them in an airtight chamber and have an air hose from that to a gas dryer or gas stove and make people feel bad for wanting dry clothes or cooked food. See if they will stop before enough air is gone that they pass out.

(Hint they would anyway because CO2 would build up. Even if nobody used the gas appliance, they’d kill themself off. Actually this would be a pretty good metaphor.)


24 posted on 09/15/2010 12:03:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

LOL! It took more water to manufacture that fish bowl sink than that sink will ever use. Ecoterrorists are idiots.


25 posted on 09/15/2010 12:07:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How about, instead of a fish, we put a colony of E.coli bacteria in the bowl, and instead of water, it fills up with Purel? The longer you wash your hands, the more the bowl fills up, keeping the dangerous bacteria under control.

THAT’S the lesson I want my kids to learn.


26 posted on 09/15/2010 12:10:53 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (To be determined...)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
I have no idea what the point of this project is, so here is Hyperbubble singing "Mom Dad Unit".


27 posted on 09/15/2010 12:19:40 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Where does it go when it goes out?

Depends on whether it's a male or female light,or.... gay.

28 posted on 09/15/2010 12:37:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: unkus

Wash your hands, then prepare gold-fish sushi!


29 posted on 09/15/2010 12:38:36 PM PDT by Loyal Sedition
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To: Slings and Arrows
Technology is a wonderful thing, but probably not.


30 posted on 09/15/2010 12:38:46 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: djf

True. It is a very complex thing, and most importantly, it is DESIGNED to be self-balancing. We only seem to accumulate as much ‘water’ as is needed. The ‘excess’ hydrogen is vented to space, and the oxygen is turned into ozone by the energy from the Sun. Nothing is wasted, everything has a purpose.


31 posted on 09/15/2010 12:46:18 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Still stupid ... but at least it makes a bit more sense.

That’s what I get for looking at the picture instead of reading the blasted story.

SnakeDoc


32 posted on 09/15/2010 12:46:56 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

I guess it would be wrong to use this device to amuse myself by torturing a goldfish.

What is the opposite of waterboarding?

SnakeDoc


33 posted on 09/15/2010 12:48:30 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne)
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To: Slings and Arrows; LongElegantLegs

Yet another touchy-feely bright idea from the bleeding hearts and kool-ade drinkers that will do much more harm than good.

And I love LongElegantLegs’s idea about the Purel, although the e-coli might be a bit icky before the Purel gets it.


34 posted on 09/15/2010 1:02:07 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Loyal Sedition

Sounds good. LOL
Some of the wackos probably do that.


35 posted on 09/15/2010 1:09:16 PM PDT by unkus
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To: paulycy
Aw, I like 'em! They remind me of the early B-52's, but even more tongue-in-cheek.

To REALLY see what technology can do, click here.

36 posted on 09/15/2010 1:21:48 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TheOldLady

What’s a little cellulitis among friends?


37 posted on 09/15/2010 1:23:53 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Gee whiz. I had to look that up. Ew.


38 posted on 09/15/2010 1:27:54 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Aw, I like 'em! They remind me of the early B-52's, but even more tongue-in-cheek. To REALLY see what technology can do, click here.

Both videos made me smile. And you even got me to listen to 4min 10sec of "GA GA OOH LA LA!" But these are sounds I used to make in my father's electronics lab and not something I want to fill my listening hours with.

(I'm kind of a music snob, although I don't like that word 'cause I don't really look down on other music, and I try to hear as many types of music as possible, I just don't feel entertained by most pop stuff. Except rap. Rap sucks. I reject rap entirely.)

39 posted on 09/15/2010 1:38:34 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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