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Incredible!!! Seeing those photos and then looking out my window really makes me appreciate how lucky we are.
 
New world leaders, indeed. These are the people that are going to "replace" the US, eh?
 
I love Chinese made products. They are 80-90% cheaper than Australian made products and generally last just as long. Keep it up China because I'm sick to death of paying top dollar to the perpetual self-entitled so and so's of OZ!!
 
GumbyLearner said:
I love Chinese made products. They are 80-90% cheaper than Australian made products and generally last just as long. Keep it up China because I'm sick to death of paying top dollar to the perpetual self-entitled so and so's of OZ!!
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Yep and its people like you who are compounding the problems of the less fortunate over there. Keep it up chum.
 
Oh boy... I have so many things to say about this, I may have to boil it down to point form to avoid timing out on the upload...

1. There is no doubt China is one of the most polluted places in the world.

2. On a per capita basis, China is one of the lowest polluters in the world.

3. Pollution is a socialised cost paid by a group other than those who enjoy the benefits. I.E. You might pay $1 for a widget, but the Chinese are each paying $10 for your widget in terms of health problems and lowered quality of life. The real cost of your widget is $11, but the Chinese are heavily subsidising it for you.

4. I could go around Sydney (well, NSW, including Newcastle and Wollongong), and take photos almost identical to those in the article linked. We don't know how selective the photographer was.

5. I think it was Greenpeace (may they choke in pollution for giving a good cause a bad name) who said "It wasn't the captain's driving that caused the Exxon Valdez spill. It was yours". Enjoy your cheap Chinese goods, while sitting on your high horse. Just remember you're being a hypocrite, because essentially it's like throwing your garbage into your neighbours yard, then complaining to the council that your neighbour is a slob.
 
Value Collector said:
No different to pretty much every satellite we have put up there, they all run out of fuel and end up losing altitude until they crash to earth.

Even Hubble is now unserviced and is losing altitude every day.
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Remember SkyLab ?

May have been before you were born.
 
SirRumpole said:
Remember SkyLab ?

May have been before you were born.
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Yep, "what goes up must come down". Skylab was before my time, but I remember the Russian mir space station.

All satellites sink lower and lower until the earth atmosphere is thick enough to cause them to start burning up and falling rapidly crashing back to earth, the only thing that keeps them high enough to continue orbiting is regularly burning booster rockets to push them higher.

The International space station loses 90 metres of altitude a day (about 6 metres on each orbit), without regular fuel deliveries it would eventually sink into the atmosphere and burn up.

All satellites will face this ending, the larger satellites have fuel to keep boosting them selves higher, but this runs out eventually and then the process of orbital decay can't be stopped. the space stations receive refuelling but eventually the life of the equipment ends and it will be abandoned, Hubble is now abandoned no more service missions are planned.

 
Tisme said:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155644054753983
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Here's something else I found the Chinese was first to invent: oil derricks.

Oil was just a by-product of them drilling for salt. But it was this 1400 year old design that inspired Bissell to figured out how to get enough oil to produce kerosene in the US.

The methods commonly used before in the US was to either scoop it from the water, soak a cloth or dig.

https://csegrecorder.com/articles/view/ancient-chinese-drilling

 
Do not buy Chinese made products.
I especially avoid food products made in China.
 
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