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Hope for returning the Sahara desert to being an oxygen producing, carbon reducing environment.
TAP has designed a continental fresh-water pipeline to cross the Sahel area of Africa, beginning in the west in Mauritania, and culminating in the east at the Red Sea. TAP's pipeline is the first and only permanent solution to perennial drought throughout the Sahel and will mitigate the encroachment of the desert. Currently, thousands of hectares of land are lost to desertification every year across the Sahel countries of Africa.
Conceived and launched in Toronto, Canada, the Trans Africa Pipeline Inc. is a not-for-profit organization working in collaboration with the 11-country Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) agency. TAP is also working with individual Sahel countries and with our U.S. charitable organization, the TAP Foundation U.S.
The Trans Africa Pipeline (TAP) project involves constructing an 8,000 km. fresh water pipeline (1.2 m to 1.5 m diameter) crossing 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. TAP's mission is to provide a sustainable supply of clean water for people and agriculture and support the goal of the Pan African Great Green Wall agency that involves the planting of millions of trees across a land corridor established by the 11 member countries.
https://transafricapipeline.org/inside.php?page=about
Of course this solution could be applied elsewhere. Man has the potential to make beneficial change.
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4 hours ago, French Patriot said:
Your point being?
What if death is not an end, but a transformation. What if death is not the most horrible end, but just a homecoming.
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2 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
But its all for our own good, so that we stay... safe
I'd feel safer if they weren't writing cheques on our joint bank account.
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A great idea to stop the advancement of the Sahara, provide water for drought ravaged countries, and help lessen greenhouse gases, but will itt ever happen?
TAP has designed a continental fresh-water pipeline to cross the Sahel area of Africa, beginning in the west in Mauritania, and culminating in the east at the Red Sea. TAP's pipeline is the first and only permanent solution to perennial drought throughout the Sahel and will mitigate the encroachment of the desert. Currently, thousands of hectares of land are lost to desertification every year across the Sahel countries of Africa.
Conceived and launched in Toronto, Canada, the Trans Africa Pipeline Inc. is a not-for-profit organization working in collaboration with the 11-country Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) agency. TAP is also working with individual Sahel countries and with our U.S. charitable organization, the TAP Foundation U.S.
The Trans Africa Pipeline (TAP) project involves constructing an 8,000 km. fresh water pipeline (1.2 m to 1.5 m diameter) crossing 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. TAP's mission is to provide a sustainable supply of clean water for people and agriculture and support the goal of the Pan African Great Green Wall agency that involves the planting of millions of trees across a land corridor established by the 11 member countries.
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Water can be heated to 700 degrees fahrenheit , if a very small amount of super heated water was injected into the center of a cancerous tumor, it would burn the cells it came into contact with, and the burn would spread. A small amount of water could kill a much greater amount of tumor. There would be no incision, and inoperable tumors could be treated. Also water is nontoxic.
Superheated water is liquid water under pressure at temperatures between the usual boiling point, 100 °C (212 °F) and the critical temperature, 374 °C (705 °F). It is also known as "subcritical water" or "pressurized hot water."
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33 minutes ago, Boges said:
I don't disagree. Just not sure how that looks in practice. Can they be made as widely available as pregnancy tests?
This article was posted 7 weeks ago.
Where are Canada’s rapid at-home coronavirus tests?
Infectious disease experts have been asking themselves — and public health officials — this for months.
“If every Canadian had that in their medicine cabinet, we might be able to test our way out of this,” said Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7469571/coronavirus-canada-rapid-at-home-tests/
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On 11/9/2020 at 12:59 PM, French Patriot said:
The Bible contains many instances that show Yahweh doing things that no moral human would do. Not even the most right-wing Christian theist.
You are willing to judge God, I am not. I have more questions than answers, you have more answers than questions, who is more likely to find the truth?
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1 hour ago, Boges said:
I think that's already the reality. You're supposed to self-isolate if you have a positive diagnosis or if you've been exposed to someone that's been positive.
I say that we are missing some infections because we aren't doing enough testing. Some people have no symptoms, so won't necessarily be tested. Knowledge of a problem is one of the best tools in resolving it, we need more knowledge of where the virus is.
1 hour ago, Boges said:The US is, by and large, an unhealthy country. Lots of obesity, heart disease etc.
Lock downs will not make for less obesity, or less heart disease.
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5 hours ago, Boges said:
You're the one that says "isolate the vulnerable". Yet you really haven't put a whole lot of thought into who that may be.
I don't say isolate the vulnerable. When you choose to speak for others, you should be more accurate. I say test as many as you can, and isolate those who are likely to infect others.
4 hours ago, Boges said:
The reason the Death toll in the US is so high is that a lot of Americans are vulnerable. isn't that partly because of the lock downs?
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Henry Ford said 'Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.' Lets hope that we can find some people who think we can, people who will do the best they can with the people and resources we have. I have faith in the people who are looking for solutions, not cowering from the difficulties they face.
Here is something to consider about lock downs though. Our governments pay for the cost of providing their services in part through income tax. They effectively use part of your earnings for the benefit of all. When a government runs a deficit they borrow money to address the shortfall. In order to borrow money you need to have collateral. The government's collateral is their ability to tax your future income. Every month that they run a deficit is another month that they are selling more of your (and your children's) future earnings to their lenders.
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1 hour ago, Boges said:
You're talking about people from outside coming to Toronto for care. That's where the big hospitals are. That makes sense.
But it's the Toronto area hospitals that are filling up.
My point is, dividing the number of hospitals by the number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients isn't exactly an accurate way of gauging how full certain hospitals are becoming.
Do the staff go to these other hospitals as well?
Are you saying that we shouldn't do what we can, because it might be too hard? Just let the people die we can't help you.
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I'm okay with our elected officials traveling abroad, I just wish they wouldn't keep coming back.
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25 minutes ago, bcsapper said:
I could handle a few weeks in purgatory. Get some reading done.
Cheers
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1 hour ago, French Patriot said:
I agree.
To cure is moral and good while to kill is immoral and evil.
Dogma says that Yahweh kills when he could just as easily cure.
That makes Yahweh evil, but somehow not to Christians.
Regards
DL
When a caterpillar goes into a cocoon, that is the end of the caterpillar, but there is still the butterfly.
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1 hour ago, bcsapper said:
Excellent. I'm going to Heaven anyway then.
I never imagined!
Might not be a direct flight. You might not like the layover.
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1 hour ago, Boges said:
Like if you reach a certain BMI you're asked to not go outdoors because the government can't afford to handle it if you get COVID-19.
You seem to have a firm grip on the obscure and absurd. Don't let trying to see the big picture take that away from you.
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2 hours ago, Boges said:
So you'd force people in "at-risk" groups to isolate then? Many are. If you're older or have a co-morbidity you're probably already taking COVID-19 very serious. But many don't have the economic freedom to "isolate".
Laws are actually made to force people to avoid harming others.
2 hours ago, Boges said:But many don't have the economic freedom to "isolate".
The government could find accommodation for those unable to unable to manage it on their own.
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9 minutes ago, Boges said:
Field Hospitals are certainly not a long term solution.
If we did more testing and isolating the appropriate people, maybe we wouldn't need a long term solution. Big picture we need a healthy economy to provide a healthy health care system.
12 minutes ago, Boges said:And if you're forced to open field hospitals you're conceding that every other element of the Emergency Healthcare system is suffering.
Now is not the time to save face, now is the time to save lives.
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49 minutes ago, Boges said:
Facts
Simply dividing the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations by the number Hospitals in the province isn't a relevant fact.
If a person getting sick in Toronto has to go to Dryden to get ICU care, that's not exactly a good thing.
If you lock down, and close the hospitals, no one gets treated. If you leave the hospitals open, and have a need for space, you could move emergency patients to space in community centers or temporary shelters, move post op to the emergency rooms, and use the beds made available for ICU. If you want to reduce hospitalizations, do more testing, and isolate the appropriate people. Of course hospital professionals would know better how to make appropriate space available if they were not too busy running around crying "the sky is falling."
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27 minutes ago, Army Guy said:
Those that live in glass house should not throw rocks, i think your numbers are way off, or your math is really bad as well.
Of course you are correct. The math is actually correct if you add three zeroes to the infections number. I was not intentionally misleading, just not much of a typist.
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3 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
It's like trying to use boiling water to cure cancer. Sure you can kill the tumour cells but the problem is you would also cook the shit out of everything else.
Somewhat off topic, but water can be heated to 700 degrees Fahrenheit and is non toxic. A very little amount of water could destroy a lot of tumor. If it was that easy someone smarter than me would have thought of it a long time ago, right?
Superheated water is liquid water under pressure at temperatures between the usual boiling point, 100 °C (212 °F) and the critical temperature, 374 °C (705 °F). It is also known as "subcritical water" or "pressurized hot water."
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4 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Fun with math: 2.5 % of "officially diagnosed cases" in Canada have been fatal.
That's worse than the U.S.
Oh my !
Makes testing seem all the more important.
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1 hour ago, Argus said:
1% of America has now died of Covid.
Doesn't sound true to me.
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1 hour ago, Argus said:
There are now well over 100,000 Americans in hospital with covid. 1% of America has now died of Covid.
I don't know why I believe anything you say. 351, 000 Americans out of a population of 382,000,000 have died from covid19. That is just under one tenth of one percent. I don't know if you are incapable of doing math, or incapable of telling the truth.
It is becoming apparent why you neglect to provide sources for the imaginary concoctions you post.
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Do You Believe in Man-Made Climate Change?
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New hope for man made environmental change that will help the Sahara produce more oxygen, and deplete more carbon.
TAP has designed a continental fresh-water pipeline to cross the Sahel area of Africa, beginning in the west in Mauritania, and culminating in the east at the Red Sea. TAP's pipeline is the first and only permanent solution to perennial drought throughout the Sahel and will mitigate the encroachment of the desert. Currently, thousands of hectares of land are lost to desertification every year across the Sahel countries of Africa.
Conceived and launched in Toronto, Canada, the Trans Africa Pipeline Inc. is a not-for-profit organization working in collaboration with the 11-country Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) agency. TAP is also working with individual Sahel countries and with our U.S. charitable organization, the TAP Foundation U.S.
The Trans Africa Pipeline (TAP) project involves constructing an 8,000 km. fresh water pipeline (1.2 m to 1.5 m diameter) crossing 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. TAP's mission is to provide a sustainable supply of clean water for people and agriculture and support the goal of the Pan African Great Green Wall agency that involves the planting of millions of trees across a land corridor established by the 11 member countries.
https://transafricapipeline.org/inside.php?page=about