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mahogany 137
make wood from illegal logging sites toxic and detectable | |
Many of the world's irreplaceable rain forests are being
decimated by illegal logging, much of the resulting wood
ending up as boardroom tables and church pews made from
mahogany and other hard woods.
The idea is to crop spray protected areas of tropical forest
with a radioactive compound
such as cesium-137, in a
sufficiently potent amount that it is absorbed and taken up by
the root systems and into the fabric of the trees, but does
less damage to the environment, than human interventions
such as logging. (See environmental impact studies to the
environment surrounding Chernobyl in link.)
Trees which contained cesium-137 could be easily detected,
and there would be no effective way of removing it, or
disguising it.
Bad science ? perhaps - I'm sure you will soon tell me.
Chernobyl impact study
http://environmenta...les/chernobyl2.html
Could it be that human invasion has a greater impact on the environment than the most catastrophic nuclear accident in the 20th century? [xenzag, Apr 22 2006]
[link]
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I like it, as long as we don't get any problems from Sparrow-137, Parrot-137 or Gigantic City Crushing Mutant Ant-137. |
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Rad man.
Would this effect dinsidious and contaminiferous trees the same? |
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Why does Gigantic City Crushing Mutant Ant-137 always get the bad press, plenty of cities I could live without.... |
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It's because the airforce always trash the place while killing it, then blame the ant for the effects of misplaced stores. And by then, the ant's usually unable to put its side of the story. |
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(cue rimshot sound effect) + |
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What ? All we hear is the sound of the wind ... oh look, tumbleweeds .... |
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.........@.............@ .............@............@ |
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It's all very well and good to whinge about the over-
exploitation of mahogany but, if they wanted them
to be left in the rainforest, why did they make them
out of such valuable timber? |
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Also, the demise of the mahogany trade would also
mark the demise of the phrase "mahogany logger",
which would be a great loss to euphony. |
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