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Transparent Aluminium
Lynx writes "As the german magazine Spiegel reports, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies have developed a transparent tile made from aluminium oxide pellets baked at 1200C. The material is very hard, and could be used as bulletproof windows." Use the fish.
even billions if the practice really takes off in the overpopulated 3rd world
Why is it that the 3rd world is always thought of as "overpopulated"?
FYI the population density of San Mateo County or Manhattan is greater than that of Bangladesh.
How come we never hear of the overpopulation of those places? Is the problem really too many brown people?
The "overpopulation problem" is simply a way for "liberals" to indulge in guiltless racism.
The concept of hiding the body comes from the moral ineptness of some idiotic religious nuts during the dark ages
Genesis 4:6-7
"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves and made themselves aprons"
You don't have to accept this account as history to realize that at the very least, semitic societies had some sort of concept of hiding the body thousands of years back. Copies of Genesis predate the idiotic religious nuts of the dark ages by at least 2 millenia. There have probably been societies that felt it was good to hide the body from view for as long.
Not to mention covering the body for purposes other than warmth OR morality: protection from sun or sand or other dangerous substances, check against physical blows, adornment and status, disguise. Or for that matter, enticement -- if nakedness were the ultimate turn-on, Victoria's Secret wouldn't do such good business. I'm sure Victoria wasn't the first one to catch on.
Anyway, I'm overesponding, but the point is, there are lots of reasons for cloths, and most all of them are probably older than western society.
Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.