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Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics
TheViffer writes "ABC News is reporting that scientists say they've identified an ocean sponge, living in the darkness of the deep sea, that grows thin glass fibers capable of transmitting light better than industrial fiber optic cables used for telecommunication. 'You can actually tie a knot in these natural biological fibers and they will not break - it's really quite amazing,' said Joanna Aizenberg, who led the research at Bell Laboratories."
You think nature is so smart. Bah! Nature can't destroy, pollute, and decimate the planet as fast as we can, so there. What took 500+ million years to develop, we can eradicate and wipe out in decades. Barring an outside influence such as a nearby supernova or a 30 km asteroid impact, let's see mother nature match that!
We got mother nature by the balls...er...titties!
What was okay a long time when there were fewer people does not make the same action valid today.
It adds up very fast now when you factor in a 6,000,000,000+ multiplier.
These researchers did not need to put a delicate deep sea ecosystem into danger. As I'm sure yoo have read, almost all (97%) of the fiber in the USA is NOT EVEN BEING USED. It was overbuilt. So rather than USE WHAT WE HAVE, it is better to go and plunder the sea and kill more sea life.
Finding new justifications to plunder nature is not moral, it's not even intelligent. We are putting the very ecosystem that sustains human life at risk because science has gone crazy and thinks they are masters of the universe. With global warming, pollution and the many other woes that face humanity due to industrialization, it is difficult not to think that science has been arrogant and foolhardy in their quest for knowledge.
There are now dietary consumption warnings for many large oceanfish due to the levels of mercury that they contain. Each too much tuna or swordfish and you will die.
China has poisoned a giant bay of nearly all sea life in their mad rush to industrialize, due to their dumping untreated waste into the bay.
As you know, many parts of the world have clothing requirements to go out into the sun due to lack of ozone.
You are fooling yourself if you think the environment is not in danger and that human beings are not dependent on the environment.
America is the largest polluter on the planet. And the recently backed out of the Kyoto agreement. Isn't it time America realized what they are doing to the planet? And took responsibility for it?