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China Invents Solid Water
Drew N. Taylor writes: "The 'solid water', which is packed in degradable paper, is not pollutive and can be placed deep in the earth together with the root of plant. With the help of microbe, the 'solid water' is gradually dissolved to irrigate the root of plant."
The Chinese didn't "invent" anything new. They ripped off this idea from here
Now the ovious Joke...
So they invented ice in china?
or is there a significant anti-china attitude in the american (general slashdot? i hope not) populace?
it is really sad... given that China is the next world superpower... and we can only bask in our ignorance, self-indulgence, arrogance, and naievete for so long....
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The article says this product could be used in afforestation efforts/ desert growing. I say, "Screw that!" I want to use this product because I am a really lazy gardener.
Imagine, I can plant a tree without worrying about any kind of watering scheme. By the time the water gel-pack wears out, the tree has set up a self-sustaining root system.
"I like to wear big boy pants."
Now seeing as how China pirates enough of our stuff to be awarded their own DVD zone, do we get to work around their patent? Or would that be against the good for the communist people? (Tounge in cheek...)
"The Chinese often have a very cold-hearted way of relating to each other. "
are you kidding? if anyone has a cold-hearted way of relating to eachother it's americans. we cut eachother off on the highway. we hold gossip supreme. we are totally self-absorbed.
i'm not saying a lot of chinese aren't like that. but they are more friendly on the whole. i remember when i lived there (white american, but grew up in china) i used to be able to walk up and down my apartment stairwell and say hey to all my co apartment habitants on my way up because they left their doors open.
they would invite me to meals. that was a big deal, meals. lunch break is long in china so the lunch can be festivious.
and people fight over who can pay. for a long time to.. and sincerely. i don't see that happen (much) in america.
china's all about loving your family and friends.
i will admit though, one of china's social problems is that they look out for their family a little too much. and unless their family is doing REALLY well... they don't go out and help at community centers or anything. (to americans credit, they do... though some may want to go home and help there some more)
"However, they have big, big problems. " agreed.
"maybe 800,000,000 are uneducated peasants. " that's one of them.
"They are not close to being as influential in world thinking as developed countries"
but remember. 1,300,000,000 - 800,000,000 = 500,000,000... more educated people than america has... so they are on their way up. you don't need 1.3 billion people to be on top. look at us. maybe (being generous) 25% of our population controls alot of the world's future and wealth (for now)
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
let's just make sure it doesn't come anywhere near any of our normal water!
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I invented solid water too! It's in my freezer! It comes in little cubes!
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It also makes it irritating to get straight back to the front page, no single click way of doing it that I can see.
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Although this is a great start for speeding the reforesting of desert ecosystems, I see one major problem. Plants generally need a moderately reliable source of water, and this doesn't create an infrastructure solution that would be necessary to start a new ecosystem within an existing one.
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Al Gore was here?
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I find it fascinating how a discussion about water dissolved (yeah...I know) into a discussion of China's politics. While yes, there is the opportunity for a patent lawsuit, this development has nothing to do with china's politics. Now that I related this to the discussion, lemme go (sort of) off topic.
China's government is split. There is the 'old guard' the socialists that lead the behemoth of a beauracracy. Then there are the capitalist/government socialist corporations that the economy, or at least the export economy , is built on. China will soon change drastically, IMHO, but it will be good for the country.
China is developing a lot of 'new' technology. While the polymer based slow-release water might be a patent infringment, they are jumping ahead in many ways. They are trying to reach the moon 10 years from now. Give them a little credit for taking a bloated government, no 'yro' section in the media, and excess poverty, and making the best of it.
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Huh? Slashdot always remembers my login cookie. What difference does the URL make? Sheesh. I'd say your browser/proxy configuration is messed up.
If you want a quick way of getting back to the main page, just click that huge "slashdot" logo at the top of every page (or just use the "back" function of your browser).
This is water susspended in "a kind of macromolecular polymer extracted from animals and plants". Sounds like the Chinese just invented Jello...
Not that it muh matters because I distincly remember seeing a tv show showcasing this kind of thing 10 years ago, at least.
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When someone from China discovers something that sounds truly useful in a desert environment (And no, it isn't jello, since Jello would dissolve within a day at most, and they specifically mention a macrobe to dissolve the polymer) and this topic turns into an accusation of China's political policies. I would like to make the following notes:
1.People in countries increasingly threatened with desertification, like much of North Africa or Australia, could make very very good use of this, and I very much doubt that they will care where this comes from.
2.China is *not* heaven and is *not* a democracy and *is* communist and has been threatening Taiwan for decades and did invade Vietnam twice. However people live there and some seem to be quite proud of their country, irrespective of or because of what it does.
3.The USA is *not* heaven and *is* a democracy and has been threatening Cuba for decades, invaded Vietnam once amongst others. However people live there and some seem to be quite proud of their country, irrespective of or because of what it does.
4.I don't think all that many Americans know what Communism is apart from what they have gathered on supposedly "free" media such as CNN, etc. Economic factors in the media can force quite a lot to be changed in order to support certain views, or do you think CNN supports all news items equaly and fairly (/. vs. Microsoft for example)?
5.I also think that many Chinese have no idea what the so called free world is like. Their news isn't free either. But perhaps they accuse some US scientist of being a fascist (eg. Oppenheimer) although he did have a human side as well, even if one were pressed to see it.
It depends on where you're looking from.
I'm still trying to figure out how the chinese are taking credit for what magicians did a long time ago... I mean, who here hasn't thrown that white powder into a toilet to turn all the water in it into a solid gel?
It's worth it to see the look on your roommates face when his poop is floating on top of the "water."
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Yes, but the point is that this is something I shouldn't have to do because it's getting round a feature which isn't any use anyway and isn't something newbies will think of.
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Your problem is non-existent for me. I just tried both IE 6 and Mozilla RC3 under Win2k and both remembered my login settings just fine under all sections (and all I did was log into the main Slashdot page once).
Once again, I think it's a configuration problem on your end. If most people were having this problem, I'm sure it'd show up in the comments with more frequency.
But seriously- I wonder, assuming they ever put up that moonbase, what the possibilities are for this stuff up there?
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