Winnipeg winter a shocker for stars

FlyingRat wrote:global warming is not the only environmental concern out there...

This is true...I've actually had a big environmental concern since I was a teenager.

We were learning about the invention of aqueducts and plumbing, and it occurred to me.

Think of all the buildings around the world. All the plumbing in each building...the millions of sections of plumbing, all "storing" water. This is water that is NOT in our lakes, rivers, oceans. This is water NOT evaporating. This is water which is removed from "nature". And we are constantly adding more and more plumbing systems. Seems like a water "shortage" is eminent, because it's not like the earth actually makes MORE water. We don't get a supply from space. What we have is what we're always going to have. In various forms (ice, liquid, gaseous), but the more we put in the plumbing...the less options and volume available.

Add to that...since the Earth doesn't make MORE water...then the water on the Earth is the same (or technically less since we've sent some to outerspace) as has always been on Earth. The water you're drinking now...could've been drunk (and expelled) by some mongol in China...or an Egyptian in a pyramid. The idea that there's "clean" water doesn't make sense...as it's conceivable that every drop of water on the planet has been "used" by some creature, somewhere.

jimj! your back!

"We don't get a supply from space."

yeah um we actually do.

"Add to that...since the Earth doesn't make MORE water.."

umm yeah actually it does. Hydrogen and Oxygen are quite often combined to create more water.

Deank wrote:"We don't get a supply from space."

yeah um we actually do.

"Add to that...since the Earth doesn't make MORE water.."

umm yeah actually it does. Hydrogen and Oxygen are quite often combined to create more water.

Ok...we'll break it down that far then.

There's not new Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms being made...to combine to make new water.

Ultimately...what we have is what we've got. It's a vast amount granted...and there's plenty to go around...but it still seems limited.

And I'm not sure that the earth is actually "making" more water...I think it's just the cycle of water being formed from existing molecules. Those molecules become more and more limited...the more we confined the water.

Remember though...I developed this hypothesis when I was 16 . And nothing I took in Chemistry or Biology seemed to challenge it.

We are actually losing water towards space, and we are also absorbing space dust.

Electrician wrote:We are actually losing water towards space, and we are also absorbing space dust.

ssshhhh.. they dont need to know that the amount from space is less then the amount we lose to space.

besides all we need is on huge kick ass comet or meteor to hit earth and the water balance will be restored.

Electrician wrote:We are actually losing water towards space, and we are also absorbing space dust.

Sounds like a Goverment conspiracy to make work in Newfoundland , telling us why this is happening .

What is this hang up over the weather?

Lots of posts regarding the weather- Are we really the largest City with the lousiest weather? Or are we the largest city with the most vaied weather?
Did you know that Winnipeg is the largest City in the world, over 500,000 population that gets the most sunlight?
Is it a dry sunlight?

that sunlight is why winter is so cold yet so injoyable

are you joking??????

what?