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Finns are doing fine then?:confused: Yes, I definitely agree! Strawberry Swing is cool, blissful joy. :) The high-pitched guitar sounds (from Johnny) leads with pull the heart-strings, with reverberation, and I agree, it's cool!:cool: I think the change was refreshing, and they were overdue for some uplifting of their spirits!! Enjoy the concert!!;);)

It's about Violet and her hill. That, and more.

Welcome Larissa to the Coldplaying Jungle!:jester::joker::sombrero::wacky::hat::rolleyes2::drummer::daisy::fireman::guitarist::sunny::biker:

Maya, that's just not right - they should have stuck to the contest rules, and you might have come out on top! You were competing against studio recordings w/ videos, and it was supposed to be a live talent contest show?? That's definitely unfair! Hmph!:thinking: So, what you're saying is that the radio stations are the go-betweens, and they get to whittle down the entries to a manageable level then? And they were untrue to their own rules. I wish I could make it right - that's no way to treat contestants who were living up to the rules they wrote! I wish Coldplay would put their collective foots down, and straiten out the stations!! If it's any consolation, I know Coldplay had lost a talent competition to another band early on, and the loss spurred them on to prove themselves worthy of listening to..:ears::happy: Maybe they would take a listen??

You have an excellent taste in music!:rolleyes: On behalf of Briggins:cool4:, who is long gone to some encampment:vanish::vanish::vanish:, you are hereby awarded a shiny golden star!:sunny:

Glad you could join in the fun!!;)

Good Going, Ian!! :) Keep whipping that Devil of a company!!:devilish::whip:;)

Hello ;-} I am very pleased to hear their new style of music, and very much enjoy their new song set! It's a more positive approach, and has some qualities of the strong positive emotions, plus the drive to overcome obstacles that shines through.. How do you feel about their new music's direction?

Yes! Hydrolysis of water (you can try this experiment - just hook a DC power supply (solar panels work well) to two metal plates suspended in a solution of slightly acidic water, and voila' - hydrogen at one end, oxygen at the other! The same thing happens when batteries are overcharged.. hence, the risk of explosion when a flame is put near a charging auto battery. Obviously, the most efficient processes use electrodes of very thinly plated noble metals (rhodium, indium, platinum, gold, etc.), but I would think one could simply use a sintered carbon electrode, akin to the kind found in most flashlight batteries. Use a trap to collect the H2. Dry the hydrogen by passing the gas through a dessicant (dry Calcium Chloride pellets, for example), send the hydrogen stream through the zeolite or porous glass bead matrix, and there you go - hydrogen in a box! To get it out, apply mild heat, and simply tap it off!! Run into engine, and drive car. Well, like anything, there are a few kinks along the way, but basically, it does work! Of course, which is the best? Carbon-nanotube "batteries", light element cells, hydrogen storage, biodiesel, alcohol, etc.. They're all viable options in my opinion, if each of them is made in the most efficient manner, and used in the most efficient manner. Even alcohol, which has rightly taken a beating for lacking efficiency in production, has great potential as an energy carrier; we might discover better ways of converting biomass wastes into alcohol, and reducing the subsequent separation costs with water.. Anyhow, there's the very near future!

Cool:cool:

Because.. Variety is the spice of Life!:)

It's nuts, I agree! There are better ways for humanity, and we need a more cohesive understanding of the whole, and to make the change take shape. - thanks for posting the picture! I use wood for heat in winter, BTW. Trees keep on growing, and I'm using less and less (by adding insulation, ventilation, better seals around doors,etc..) Solar panel I've gotta just go and fix it, and get that baby up on the roof! "can't you see this is the land of confusion, and not much love to go round'.." - Phil Collins. In the future, and a future we need to get to soon, coal will be unnecessary, and common elements from less harmful sources will fill most of our needs; efficiency and recycling making much of the mining obsolete, and the remainder being done less destructively for those small extras we will need. =================== Silicon for solar cells Aluminum for wires Nanotech & light element batteries & capacitors. Earth-friendly energy from renewables natural building materials natural fabrics, foams, and fibers eco-plastics for plumbing efficiency and recycling to reduce overall needs = a Green economy:elf::bandana:$

Hello Hungary! I've gotta check it out!! My favorite is Strawberry Swing right now.:)

:shocked2::rolleyes::laugh3: Um... well, why not just go busking on the street corner or subway for loose change? Or, there's a million leaky faucets in the city, and each one has a story to tell..:cool:

Happy Birthday Sarah !!:)!!

Well, there's always handy work! It keeps the wolf away from the door, and is always in demand, if you don't mind a challenge dealing with plumbing, electrical, roofs, etc. (The worst is dealing with things screwed up by others; some of the things I've seen in this area would make you truly believe Laurel and Hardy were local tradesmen!)

I hope to balance the good with the bad and come out even.;) (even though I'm a bit odd..:laugh3:) MC^2, you are into physics, I gather?? At the tone, the time will be 8 minutes, o hours, universal coordinated standard time.. Beep. SW & I'm munching on whole wheat bread crust, a luxury these days!:P

There was a recent Scientific American article on this - what the article suggests is that we are overlapping a warming trend, induced by greenhouse gas emissions, over the cooling trend that would have been expected based on natural variations alone.. So, "they" would have been correct, had humanity not altered the climate so rapidly (or, at least that's what the article suggested).

Get hip; open your eyes. Cars will be, and some today already are, fueled with hydrogen, clean battery technologies, supercapacitors, and biodiesel, just to name a few. (seen Iceland, anyone?) But the elephant in the room is efficiency. Current technology can easily improve mileage (be that miles per gallon, or miles per kilowatt) by 4 or 5X, without sacrificing the quality of the ride, comfort, acceleration, etc.

:rolleyes:..and I know what a scramble that can be!! The Time is 9:47PM Central, and I am contemplating a chocolate, whole-wheat cake.. (Ying & Yang):)

Time is a strange thing.. we discuss the Beatles, Wings, etc., and they were the latest thing once, just as U2 was, and the music as timeless, but yet we grow, and time marches on.. I look in a catalog from 1895, and there I see pictures of the latest bicycles, cameras, fishing gear.. it looks as new as the latest in many ways, yet it's 113 years old! And here's Coldplay, making timeless music at the present, but with new twists and yet old rhythms.. It all seems so relative to one's perspective! Anyhow, I'm almost 42, and it gets a little confusing! But really, the pattern has been there since the sand dances of the 1840's, and the rhythms of humans and life itself..

Privacy and intimacy are natural rights of we humans - if they want to keep their lives private, I have no trouble with that! Besides, wear the shoes they wear - would any of us want our lives exposed, and our kids subjected to all that scrutiny?? I'm glad Chris sticks up for their privacy; in a way, he's upholding the rights of all people to have private and intimate lives, unencumbered by the outside world's prying and criticizing ways..

Did anyone else see the last installment of 60-Minutes? There's a big debate about ending the penny here in the US; it's costing nearly 2-cents to make each penny, adding up to 10-billion dollars. I thought about the global impact on the environment - copper and zinc usually occur together (our pennies are zinc-core, copper plated coins); it would be better to use no pennies, or to replace the penny with a common crustal element (iron or aluminum alloys), so as to minimize the use of elements which are rare and very risky to retrieve. A green economy is an economy which is healthy in all senses of the word.

a better path.. Coal isn't the answer - it's a mess to get, ruins beautiful mountains, water gets polluted, the jobs won't last, and the idea of cooling, compressing, and pumping CO2 into old gas wells is just putting off the inevitable (besides taking a ton of energy).. The answer is high efficiency and renewable energy sources. I agree, the current battery technologies are bad for several reasons. The materials they use are risky, rare, heavy, and have very limited lifespans before needing to be recycled. Better to use common Earth elements, in the form of carbon-nanotube supercapacitors, light-element cells, engineered synthetic zeolite hydrogen storage cells, and super-efficient engines/motors. Aerodynamics can double auto and truck efficiency as well. Getting the drive in a fine auto you want, and using a quarter or a fifth of the energy to do so is a good starting point. Then, with demand lowered, looking at sources that are green becomes much more viable. Rooftop solar and wind, geothermal and limited biomass makes sense. After all, besides mineral collection specimens, we really don't want or need coal or oil, and the mining they entail. We want the service the energy offers.. (Hot Pizza and Cold Beer).;)