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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 January | 126 comments (126 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Well, instead of wasting space planting people in the ground (which could be growing plants which would also be taking CO2 out of the air) why don't we "recycle" bodies in some environmentally friendly manner, reclaiming the bone of course?

Or,

if you will give me solar electrolysis, how about extraction of calcium metal out of sea water? Should be downhill from there.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 08:51:06 AM EST
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Re: calling all chemists (none / 0)

But the bone is already carbonate.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 08:55:24 AM EST
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Re: calling all chemists (none / 1)

Calcium Phosphate. We're not made of limestone. At least I'm not.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 08:56:49 AM EST
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Re: calling all chemists (none / 0)

Okay, phosphorus oxides are solids. Human bone would work.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 16th, 2010 at 08:58:56 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 January | 126 comments (126 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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