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Can GLOBAL WARMING be solved completely?

 

Yes. A few nuclear devices in the right place and the Earth's orbit could certainly be altered enough to change global warming to global freezing. Or, of course, using enough nuclear devices'll simply solve all the world's problems terminally.

 

More practically, though, it's worth remembering that you can only "solve" global warming if you believe it to be a problem in the first place. Despite the fact that some species will come and some will go, the ecosystem overall will adapt to changes in temperature (as proved by the continuation of life through at least two ice ages). What's more concerning is whether mankind is one of the species that'll be able to adapt enough.

 

And for a question, how come national and cultural differences don't seem to affect politicians' affinity for corruption?

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u are clever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hardly :wink:

 

My ability to answer what was asked whilst avoiding giving the information being sought is a constant frustration for my whole family. My poor son, with his plaintive cries of, "Daaaad! That's not what I meant." :oops::oops:

 

I'll try a little better. Amending our practices to slow down or reverse the global warming effect will require levels of international cooperation and moral behaviour that have never been seen before. It's possible, but unlikely. Until, that is, we reach a point where the prevailing governments can no longer leave the problem as someone else's legacy. I expect things to get worse before they get better, and the getting better will happen when the biggest offenders see their ticket to being elected again won't come from ecological spin but only from actually acting responsibly.

 

You might have noticed I've little faith in the honour of those who seek to rule, so my previous question still stands.

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Time is all in the mind. Past time is just your memory and future time is just your imagination. Now, is what is real and if you are having fun it is very short but if you are bored it lasts for ever!

 

Staying with lengths - How long is a piece of string?

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The washing machine monster eats them :D

 

If the sun is just a nucleus with the planets running around it as particles, heres a question, ever cell in our body has a nucleus with particles flying around it, is every cell in our body a solar system?

 

Oooh a world within a world within another

A bit like the galaxy in "Men in Black"

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If the sun is just a nucleus with the planets running around it as particles, heres a question, ever cell in our body has a nucleus with particles flying around it, is every cell in our body a solar system?

 

No. A cell certainly has a nucleus, but nothing surrounding it is moving to any great degree, so couldn't be described as "orbiting". By contrast, each atom in our body does have a nucleus (a collection of protons and neutrons) orbited by particles (electrons), and looks much closer to the sun/planet model. However, electrons are being held in orbit by the force of an electric charge whereas planets are held in orbit by gravitational pull, and there's no nuclear fission or fusion going on in your average atom's nucleus.

 

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The UK has certainly taken part in plenty of conflicts since the Second World War, but not many extensive enough to warrant the description of "war", and none significantly threatening the British Isles. When do you think we'll next have to go to war, and over what pretext? And, as a bonus question, can you think of a reason that could morally justify another war?

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Without sounding like a complete looney (and living up to my name as Space Chick :lol: ) I think the next time we may need to go to war will be when we have alien visitors to our planet with dangerous intentions. That may be 10 years away, it may be a thousand years away who knows. But in the vastness of the universe, and Earth being a tiny tiny planet I think it would be naive of us to assume that we are the only intelligent life forms in the universe. Another reason I don't think that we will experience another world war as we currently understand it is that there is the nuclear threat constantly looming, and I feel any government would be reluctant to go to a full out war, as you'd be nuked in no time. Lets face it the only people we are fighting with now are those that are trying to get nuclear but aren't yet.

 

Wow, that turned into an essay, I'll shut up now :oops:

 

Do you ever think that electric cars will take off in a big way?

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