Things the world is running out of...

[HunterNurturer]

[Hrusai]

time.

[Melissa15]

I read something about helium a little while ago, it's used in MRI scanners (I think) and it's the only thing that can be used for it, nothing could be used in it's place when we run out. I don't know why helium is allowed to be bought for balloons and other useless things when it's limited and used in much more important things.

[Hrusai]

I read something about helium a little while ago, it's used in MRI scanners (I think) and it's the only thing that can be used for it, nothing could be used in it's place when we run out. I don't know why helium is allowed to be bought for balloons and other useless things when it's limited and used in much more important things.

one of the most poignant things i read about helium is the fact that thanks to shortages as a sideeffect from balloons, a 30k a day laser for medical research had to be shut down for 3 days, costing them 90k

one of the doctors said that helium balloons should cost £75 each to reflect the true value and finiteness of reserves.

its odd to think that helium is the second most abundant element in the universe xD just sod all on earth

[bigpaul]

i think there is (possibly) a lot of stuff we can do without, the world has become technology mad and people/sheeple dont want a job anymore, they want a career, or to be a celebrity, you notice nobody wants to get their hands dirty, you try getting hold off a chippie, plumber or handyman these days..its impossible, the ones you do find are booked up for the next 6 months.

[Carnebwen]

Tolerance to the intolerable.

[NorthernRaider]

We appear to be running out of space, freedom and liberty the fastest. The UK for example is over populated by between 7 and 10 million, that not figures from the BNP by the wat , that from ologists and experts who say if we like many other island nations are to have a sustainable population with everyone having a decent place to live, grow, learn, work etc and to NOT cause irrepairable damage to our nations natural environment the population needs to be tween 47 and 55 million people. and more than that and everyone suffers. Currently we are at about 63 million.

[bigpaul]

[Timelord]

More like 60 million will starve as TSHTF..

Anyway in relation to an earlier post:- the price of copper will not become too expensive to manufacture cable, as then the producers & suppliers would be out of business. It is like oil in marketry.. Another thing - resouces like copper etc are more available than you would think. A hell of a lot of these resorces is still around to be recycled. At the moment it is a capatalist culture of fast money by aquiring new produced resources and turning them into an oversupply of consumer goods. If the new mined source becomes more scarce/costly, then recycling will become even bigger business. Society will have to look at ways of reclaiming a wider spectrum of materials from a wider spectrum of obselete goods. Obviously the price will go up and the oversupply model will be squeezed, but we will not run out of resources like copper, we will just have to use the massive amount already artificially deposited in the environment to a cleverer more efficient degree.

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Spelling mistak x2- "resources". Typing too fast and craply.lol

[NorthernRaider]

The massive increase in the use of Fibre optics and microwave telecomes in time will seriously cripple the greedy copper companies.