I AM SO HAPPY

Post by **thibodeaux** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:32 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news....ad.html

I've been refusing to recycle for years. Hahahahaa.

Post by **Leisher** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:20 pm

Hilarious!

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:45 pm

Last month Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons backed the Daily Mail's Banish the Bags campaign, which calls on companies and politicians to reduce the number of plastic bags blighting our countryside and rivers.

In between his legal musings on gay marriage and war against plastic, one wonders how he finds time to act anymore.

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Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:02 am

If they will pay you for it, like with aluminum cans and scrap metal, then it is worth recycling. If you have to be compelled, like making laws saying you MUST recycle plastic, then it costs more to recycle than to just make it from scratch.

It literally is not rocket science. Figuratively, either.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:14 am

EXACTLY. If nobody is willing to pay you for it...it's garbage.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:35 am

Ya, but if you don't recycle it (even at a cost) the whole earth will become covered in garbage. Like, the whole earth.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:20 am

If you took all the trash that the United States would generate in 100 years and piled it up in the shape of the Great Pyramid, it would be about 32 times bigger.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:25 am

32 times in all dimensions? 32 times the volume? 32 times the surface area?

That's a very vague analogy, and those interpretations are vastly different. I'm curious which one is correct.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:41 am

Bt = 32 * Bp

Where Bt is the bigness of the trash, and Bp is the bigness of the pyramids.

Duh.

But I think that's only valid in metric units.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:59 am

TPRJones wrote:32 times in all dimensions? 32 times the volume? 32 times the surface area?

That's a very vague analogy, and those interpretations are vastly different. I'm curious which one is correct.

Yeah, the person meant in each dimension, which is wrong.

*re-googled*

Here's another way to think about it. The Great Pyramid in Egypt is 756 feet by 756 feet at the base and is 481 feet tall, and anyone who has seen it in real life knows that it's a huge thing -- one of the biggest things ever built by man. If you took all the trash that the United States would generate in 100 years and piled it up in the shape of the Great Pyramid, it would be about 32 times bigger. So the base of this trash pyramid would be about 4.5 miles by 4.5 miles, and the pyramid would rise almost 3 miles high.

Thinking in 3 dimensions is hard.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:09 pm

Thinking in 3 dimensions is hard.

Fuck three dimensions, it's hard enough trying to explain conversions between square inches and square centimeters.

Me: 1 inch is about 2.54 centimeters.
Someone I know still going to college taking the same chemistry classes I took in high school: So, 1 square inch is 2.54 square centimeters?
Me: Uh, no.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:14 pm

Just introduce him to google.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:20 pm

TheCatt wrote:Just introduce him to google.

Knows about that already. Does little good during exams apparently.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:55 pm

TheCatt wrote:anyone who has seen it in real life knows that it's a huge thing -- one of the biggest things ever

Said your mom