it will go a long way to reducing the amount of organized crime in this and other countries that make their profits off the back of illegal drug sales
These crime gangs will just look for some other large profit activity. If drugs were legalised, do you think they'd all re-train as accountants?
Sorry, the accountant cartel has that one already sewn up.
But seriously, much of all of this goes back to good old ethanol. When the puritans decided we couldn't have it it just opened up the floodgates for funding criminal based business, as people aren't going to stop getting their buzz on, and those who will provide can make a lot of money for their risk.
Other high water marks for OC were the Harrison act in 1914 and the Marijuana Tax act in 1937.
But when old Dick Nixon declared "War on Drugs" in 1971. The money really started pouring in for the bad guys, and the military tactics we used got them into military tactics of their own.
There will always be bad guys. There will always be vice. What you do, is remove the profit from it. When there is no profit, you are probably as close to controlling it as you can ever get.
One thing is for certain - The staunchest anti-drug strong law crusaders are on the same page with the most ruthless drug cartels in wanting strict anti-drug laws.
After 60 years, we've turned around and decided discredited Russian biologist Trofim Lysenko was actually right??
I hope you are joking.
Lysenkoism It was a politically based movement - one that reminds me of denialists, that believed that things like wheat and barley could spontaneously transmute to each other, and many other odd beliefs. It's right up there with the idea that if your hand was cut off, your children will be born without one of their hands.
It seems like stress can have an impact on our genetic system that can be passed down to the offspring. Seems like an evolution not just based on natural selection but also based on the parent gene's experience as well. This is just a long shot, I am not an expert on this by any means!
Not likely Natural selection is natural selection. Ignoring th efact that Darwin didn't even know about genes, teh question isn't relevant to him. More likely (though I do nopt know at this time) the stress has an effect on the genetic makeup of the father's sperm.
Another similar thing is a "maybe" link between obesity issues, possibly caused by exposure to estrogen mimic plastics, that may be pased to future generations.
Now scientists may indeed tie the two together. Too much estrognen mimic substances causeing male birth defects and obesity, being passed down to offspring by way of damaged genes.
These damaged genes might be (un) natural selection in reverse. Not so good.
Human meaning humanity, meaning empathy and compassion. Something you seem to lack since you jumped at the dictionary definition instead of being human.
What are you babbling about? The full national project, at 580MW, is almost half of what a minimal nuclear power plant puts out. The Moroccans are demonstrating that dedicating massive resources to not only a major national project, but one of the biggest in the world using cutting edge solar technology, can almost equal half the value of a single 1970's era nuke plant. Nothing like being underwhelmed...
There is nothing cutting edge about this project. Regardless, I was being sarcastic.
I don't have much against nuc plants, although I don't trust the bean counters and top management, who are primarily interested in minimal costs, deadlines, and safety is well down on the list despite what we're told. But if they want to build a mirror plant, they can have at it. At least they don't have to worry about fuel disposal.
Because generalization leads to it's own inefficiencies. The EPA is good on pollution. Fish & Wildlife knows how to manage wildlife stuff.
That being said, you are correct in wondering why they aren't subdivisions of the FBI.
Absolutely. During the run up to fishing season, The PA F&W cops go around with the stocking trucks, because sometimes kookier fishermen who don't understand that you aren't supposed to fish while the fish are tumbling out of the nets can interfere with the stocking process. These are real LEO's only they tend to be a lot friendlier because 99.9 percent of us just enjoy watching and chatting with the stockers and F&W cops.
I'm trying to imagine the response of the outrage set if State Police or FBI or Border guards accompanied the stocking. Fox News and Republican presidential candidates would have a shitfit. Wasting our money on fish when we could be protecting our jobs and keeping those Mexican rapists away from our White women.
Well yeah, the summary should be automatically filled in by the data from the SDR, it should have meta data included automatically. Hell, they shouldn't even have to do that (next). Next they'll not even want to click the button to sign anything but have it all done automatically - just ship the meta data off in XML and you have something autonomous do the scoring based on meta data collected from the Google Maps API.
There are a few contests that use live updating on teh web. Turns out to be a hassle for any contest that uses Mobiles, Portables or Rovers. But Hams are kind of like Slashdot users, som on the edge, and some worried about teenagers on their lawns. So we get a lot of different lod formats.
Would be cool if the scoring was done the moment the contest ended.
I'm only partially joking but, if nothing changes, then perhaps the writing is on the wall. With a few hours, I was able to pass every single test on the ARRL (I think that was the URL) site - the prep exams, knowing only some of the material from long-since-past EE classes in the late 1980s. I simply noted the errors and the answers and memorized it. What work needs to be done, really?
Yes, the practice exams are more like a beginning, a low bar to entry, than being very difficult.
I decided to not get my license, I'd end up hurting myself.
Reminds me - one of the issues I have with the testing is that the Entery level - the Technician, is allowed to play with High power amplifiers. Legal limit can be 1500 KW, depending on the band. And the tube amps ( surprisingly, hollow state high power amps are still relevant) can pack a wallop of a shock if one isn't careful. An RF burn is nothing to sneeze at. I took a shock from 50 watts when I first got my General license, and it was seriously painful, and burnt a small hole in my finger. Freakin' smoke rose from my fingertip.
Instant RF respect.
Another friend has a 180' tower, all in pieces, to sell to me.
Whoa - that's a serious tower.
I figure it may do some good some day.
In Maine, it will probably come in handy at some point. I've always said the reason that Amateur radio works so well in emergencies is that we don't have much structure. Just geeks who understand Propagation and how to hook the things up, so whoever survives can be a big help. Just like the first casualty of war is the battle plan, all of the communication organization of emergency agencies goes away as soon as the emergency ensues.
I have some fun with modern SDR rigs. I have a FlexRadio 6300, and it is the sort of Radio a computer geek would use. Digital modem use is also fun. I gotta stop talking about it, cuz next thing you know, I'll be taking about the awesomeness of direct conversion and low phase noise and all that stuff. Dunno if your friends do any Digital work, but we send forms and files over HF and VHF. As well as just type a lot to each other. The ideal marriage between computer and radio.
But it is already headed that way. Look up Wink, Smartthings, IRIS, and the others, all of the current systems are like he describes.
As soon as it catches on, are you saying the big boys won't get involved, and turn it into data? I can see Google getting involved, and selling at a discounted rate, and now things start opening up.
I mean, if the IoT is going to be secure and internalized as you guys figure, it will be really bucking the trend. Why on earth wouldn't it be turned into data? I can see my rfid on foodstuffs for the IoT refrigerator starting off as simple scanning of barcodes - who wouldn't want that info? People have shown a remarkable willingness to share their lives online so I have no doubt this will happen, and the secured private systems will end up an anachronism.
My door sensor does not need 128 bits of encryption. it needs to talk to a hub inside my home unencrypted, and then the link out from there needs to be secure. The problem is all these "experts" dont have a clue at all about all of this and are clamoring that we need heavy security on everything! ZOMG!!!
You are right - but it won't happen that way. Manufacturers will want to be able to push updates, Google will want to know what is being bought and used, (I suspect eventually, little rfid chips in all foodstuffs so an inventory can be done and reported back so you'll be able to get a suggested grocery list complete with ads on some app on your smartphone),food manufacturers will want Google's data, the electric company will want access for power control, ADT will want access for their security services, police will want access for evidence collection and more effective swatting if need be, maybe even making certain that people on parole or under restrictions don't have beer in the house - remember those rfid chips I was talking about?
An Internet of Things is of much less utility if they can't monetize and collect as much data as possible.
Soon the infants masquerading as adults will require robots to wipe their backsides for them and spoon feed them mush for dinner (chew solids? Too much effort).
For as much as your post seems like "keep off my lawn" vitriol.....
It's absolute truth
I run a amateur radio competition. Essentially make as many contacts with as many locations as possible over a certain time.
Once upon a time, we required mailed in summary sheets (a way to get the logging started, plus some other info we need that isn't in the contact logs.)
But in the age of email, some people would spend hours telling me to go die in a fire because it was too much effort to fill out the pdf and print and mail it.
Kinda makes sense even if they are willing to waste more time arguing than doing, so I eliminated the mailing requirement.
Then it was too much effort to fill out the PDF and email it.
Now, you can right click on most logging program's menus in the scoring section and create a perfectly good summary and email it.
And I'm now getting some complaints of how much trouble that is.
I don't know what Utopia you live in Grammy Olsec and I've seen your otherwise brilliant posts over the years but I'm just not seeing what you're seeing. It's the same damned thing - everywhere. Err... It's turtles, all the way down. And, by enlarge, so long as you present yourself as being willing to be considerate of their culture - they tend to be pretty nice in return.
Of which yeah, I do tend to respect the culture, or at least don't say anything about it when in person. I think when people have problems, it's because they don't. respect the culture. My snarky comments are of course taking the stereotypes and amping them up a bit. The part that can be an issue is when people get hung up on racial characteristics, it's difficult to step outside those.
Once upon a time many of the sciences where too. Back around the second world war, my grandfather who was around 14-15 started an apprentiship with the local national science organization (Cant remember if it was the CSIRO back then) as an industrial chemist..
Not enough money to do that any more - the accountants needed to hire someone to account for the pencils we use.
Sounds sarcastic, but its true. When accounting became the main product of US corporations rather than the things corporations produced, overhead went through the roof, and they had to cut out any semblance of long term planning. It's also why people retire, then the company freaks because there isn't any replacement.
>People make up the culture. And people is people. No matter where you go. They're inherently nice (and stupid).
I do great in places with stereotype white racist culture. Of course, my lily-white ass helps, and my ability to interface with people on their own level. And watch what I say.
Of course, a lot of these folks don't take a right shinin to "Joos", them "Nigras", and that "mooslim in the white house". Or "leeburuls", or "atheists", or"Catholicks" or Yankees or sassy wimmin, like that hillary or people that don't hanker to them flying the confederate flag,
Other than that, they are completely identical to everyone else.
Don't you get it? The kooks already have guns. The ones that don't have knives.
How does one tell? The odd looking fellow toting his AR15 around Lowe's or Denny's doesn't look a whole lot different than the guy who's planning on popping us, then escaping justice by eating his gun barrel.
No I don't "get it". You might consider moving to Afghanistan, where even the children are packing.
The necessity of carrying a gun everywhere is a show of fear. I have guns, I use guns, but I don't have the fear inherent in gun nuts and soccer moms, so I carry when I have a good reason to, and that isn't everywhere.
Did you read the summary? Its entire focus is that the recent earthquake swarm is caused by fracking (unlike the many similar earthquake swarms that area has had in the past, apparently).
I RTFA, and there might be some serious issues with it. It has some severe inconsistencies with the report it cites:
tl;dr version The report notes that increased fracking and the wastewater injection, if disposed in that manner, might be a problem. But the injection wells are the cause of the problem, not the nature of hydraulic fracking. Those injection wells have been there long before modern day fracking was around.
Here's an abstract from Geologyhttp://geology.gsapubs.org/con...
The takeaway is that the culprit here is injection wells for wastewater, which by the way, is not only loaded with brine water, and toxic chemicals, but lubricating agents. It was proobably never a good idea, even when these injection wells were utilized well before modern day fracking - like the culprit wells in Oklahoma.
As noted before, we need to make the fracking fluid more environmentally benign. It won't ever be completely so, as brine is picked up in drilling. But simply pumping it back underground will just expose local fault lines over the years, and endangers a whole lot of folks and real estate.
This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade.
This isn't true. Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.
Pumping the used fracking water into wells might not be. When they do the drilling and fracking, they put chemicals in the water - some to make it slippery to aid in the fracking. There's no reason to believe they don't retain the same properties. Lubricate a fault line, don't be too surprised if it moves.
Fracking is almost certainly pretty safe. What I mentioned above might pose a problem. We've been doing fracking for a long time, and I think the big push now will be to research more environmentally safe or easily recyclable fracking fluid. Injection wells are just accidents waiting to happen.
Side note: After WW2, there was a lot of napalm left over, and they used it as a lubrication agent in fracking solutions for some time. I suspect a blowout could be pretty exciting.
Slashdot Mirror
it will go a long way to reducing the amount of organized crime in this and other countries that make their profits off the back of illegal drug sales
These crime gangs will just look for some other large profit activity. If drugs were legalised, do you think they'd all re-train as accountants?
Sorry, the accountant cartel has that one already sewn up. But seriously, much of all of this goes back to good old ethanol. When the puritans decided we couldn't have it it just opened up the floodgates for funding criminal based business, as people aren't going to stop getting their buzz on, and those who will provide can make a lot of money for their risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Other high water marks for OC were the Harrison act in 1914 and the Marijuana Tax act in 1937.
But when old Dick Nixon declared "War on Drugs" in 1971. The money really started pouring in for the bad guys, and the military tactics we used got them into military tactics of their own.
There will always be bad guys. There will always be vice. What you do, is remove the profit from it. When there is no profit, you are probably as close to controlling it as you can ever get.
One thing is for certain - The staunchest anti-drug strong law crusaders are on the same page with the most ruthless drug cartels in wanting strict anti-drug laws.
After 60 years, we've turned around and decided discredited Russian biologist Trofim Lysenko was actually right??
I hope you are joking.
Lysenkoism It was a politically based movement - one that reminds me of denialists, that believed that things like wheat and barley could spontaneously transmute to each other, and many other odd beliefs. It's right up there with the idea that if your hand was cut off, your children will be born without one of their hands.
It seems like stress can have an impact on our genetic system that can be passed down to the offspring. Seems like an evolution not just based on natural selection but also based on the parent gene's experience as well. This is just a long shot, I am not an expert on this by any means!
Not likely Natural selection is natural selection. Ignoring th efact that Darwin didn't even know about genes, teh question isn't relevant to him. More likely (though I do nopt know at this time) the stress has an effect on the genetic makeup of the father's sperm.
Another similar thing is a "maybe" link between obesity issues, possibly caused by exposure to estrogen mimic plastics, that may be pased to future generations.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Now DES is a mimic that has been already linked to birth defects.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
And bispnenol-A was yanked for being a mimic. That was in a lot of childrens drinking bottles.
A long, but good paper on xenoestrogens and the problems they cause.. Xenoestrogens's links to obesity
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm... But here is where it gets even more interesting. http://www.technology.org/2013...
Now scientists may indeed tie the two together. Too much estrognen mimic substances causeing male birth defects and obesity, being passed down to offspring by way of damaged genes. These damaged genes might be (un) natural selection in reverse. Not so good.
Human meaning humanity, meaning empathy and compassion. Something you seem to lack since you jumped at the dictionary definition instead of being human.
Humane, like the cake, is a lie.
What are you babbling about? The full national project, at 580MW, is almost half of what a minimal nuclear power plant puts out. The Moroccans are demonstrating that dedicating massive resources to not only a major national project, but one of the biggest in the world using cutting edge solar technology, can almost equal half the value of a single 1970's era nuke plant. Nothing like being underwhelmed...
There is nothing cutting edge about this project. Regardless, I was being sarcastic.
I don't have much against nuc plants, although I don't trust the bean counters and top management, who are primarily interested in minimal costs, deadlines, and safety is well down on the list despite what we're told. But if they want to build a mirror plant, they can have at it. At least they don't have to worry about fuel disposal.
It's Morocco, not UK. They ideally situated for solar plants like that.
Oh heck, I was being sarcastic. I'm really a nuc or solar/wind guy at heart. Coal? It's a killer.
Because generalization leads to it's own inefficiencies. The EPA is good on pollution. Fish & Wildlife knows how to manage wildlife stuff.
That being said, you are correct in wondering why they aren't subdivisions of the FBI.
Absolutely. During the run up to fishing season, The PA F&W cops go around with the stocking trucks, because sometimes kookier fishermen who don't understand that you aren't supposed to fish while the fish are tumbling out of the nets can interfere with the stocking process. These are real LEO's only they tend to be a lot friendlier because 99.9 percent of us just enjoy watching and chatting with the stockers and F&W cops.
I'm trying to imagine the response of the outrage set if State Police or FBI or Border guards accompanied the stocking. Fox News and Republican presidential candidates would have a shitfit. Wasting our money on fish when we could be protecting our jobs and keeping those Mexican rapists away from our White women.
You do realize that's from 2013, right?
Every once in a while Fox News burps, and another gem re-escapes from the Bubble of time.
Coal or nuclear, or GTFO!
Well yeah, the summary should be automatically filled in by the data from the SDR, it should have meta data included automatically. Hell, they shouldn't even have to do that (next). Next they'll not even want to click the button to sign anything but have it all done automatically - just ship the meta data off in XML and you have something autonomous do the scoring based on meta data collected from the Google Maps API.
There are a few contests that use live updating on teh web. Turns out to be a hassle for any contest that uses Mobiles, Portables or Rovers. But Hams are kind of like Slashdot users, som on the edge, and some worried about teenagers on their lawns. So we get a lot of different lod formats.
Would be cool if the scoring was done the moment the contest ended.
I'm only partially joking but, if nothing changes, then perhaps the writing is on the wall. With a few hours, I was able to pass every single test on the ARRL (I think that was the URL) site - the prep exams, knowing only some of the material from long-since-past EE classes in the late 1980s. I simply noted the errors and the answers and memorized it. What work needs to be done, really?
Yes, the practice exams are more like a beginning, a low bar to entry, than being very difficult.
I decided to not get my license, I'd end up hurting myself.
Reminds me - one of the issues I have with the testing is that the Entery level - the Technician, is allowed to play with High power amplifiers. Legal limit can be 1500 KW, depending on the band. And the tube amps ( surprisingly, hollow state high power amps are still relevant) can pack a wallop of a shock if one isn't careful. An RF burn is nothing to sneeze at. I took a shock from 50 watts when I first got my General license, and it was seriously painful, and burnt a small hole in my finger. Freakin' smoke rose from my fingertip.
Instant RF respect.
Another friend has a 180' tower, all in pieces, to sell to me.
Whoa - that's a serious tower.
I figure it may do some good some day.
In Maine, it will probably come in handy at some point. I've always said the reason that Amateur radio works so well in emergencies is that we don't have much structure. Just geeks who understand Propagation and how to hook the things up, so whoever survives can be a big help. Just like the first casualty of war is the battle plan, all of the communication organization of emergency agencies goes away as soon as the emergency ensues.
I have some fun with modern SDR rigs. I have a FlexRadio 6300, and it is the sort of Radio a computer geek would use. Digital modem use is also fun. I gotta stop talking about it, cuz next thing you know, I'll be taking about the awesomeness of direct conversion and low phase noise and all that stuff. Dunno if your friends do any Digital work, but we send forms and files over HF and VHF. As well as just type a lot to each other. The ideal marriage between computer and radio.
But it is already headed that way. Look up Wink, Smartthings, IRIS, and the others, all of the current systems are like he describes.
As soon as it catches on, are you saying the big boys won't get involved, and turn it into data? I can see Google getting involved, and selling at a discounted rate, and now things start opening up.
I mean, if the IoT is going to be secure and internalized as you guys figure, it will be really bucking the trend. Why on earth wouldn't it be turned into data? I can see my rfid on foodstuffs for the IoT refrigerator starting off as simple scanning of barcodes - who wouldn't want that info? People have shown a remarkable willingness to share their lives online so I have no doubt this will happen, and the secured private systems will end up an anachronism.
My door sensor does not need 128 bits of encryption. it needs to talk to a hub inside my home unencrypted, and then the link out from there needs to be secure. The problem is all these "experts" dont have a clue at all about all of this and are clamoring that we need heavy security on everything! ZOMG!!!
You are right - but it won't happen that way. Manufacturers will want to be able to push updates, Google will want to know what is being bought and used, (I suspect eventually, little rfid chips in all foodstuffs so an inventory can be done and reported back so you'll be able to get a suggested grocery list complete with ads on some app on your smartphone),food manufacturers will want Google's data, the electric company will want access for power control, ADT will want access for their security services, police will want access for evidence collection and more effective swatting if need be, maybe even making certain that people on parole or under restrictions don't have beer in the house - remember those rfid chips I was talking about?
An Internet of Things is of much less utility if they can't monetize and collect as much data as possible.
Soon the infants masquerading as adults will require robots to wipe their backsides for them and spoon feed them mush for dinner (chew solids? Too much effort).
For as much as your post seems like "keep off my lawn" vitriol.....
It's absolute truth
I run a amateur radio competition. Essentially make as many contacts with as many locations as possible over a certain time.
Once upon a time, we required mailed in summary sheets (a way to get the logging started, plus some other info we need that isn't in the contact logs.)
But in the age of email, some people would spend hours telling me to go die in a fire because it was too much effort to fill out the pdf and print and mail it.
Kinda makes sense even if they are willing to waste more time arguing than doing, so I eliminated the mailing requirement.
Then it was too much effort to fill out the PDF and email it.
Now, you can right click on most logging program's menus in the scoring section and create a perfectly good summary and email it.
And I'm now getting some complaints of how much trouble that is.
Any advice is appreciated.
Move to India?
I don't know what Utopia you live in Grammy Olsec and I've seen your otherwise brilliant posts over the years but I'm just not seeing what you're seeing. It's the same damned thing - everywhere. Err... It's turtles, all the way down. And, by enlarge, so long as you present yourself as being willing to be considerate of their culture - they tend to be pretty nice in return.
Of which yeah, I do tend to respect the culture, or at least don't say anything about it when in person. I think when people have problems, it's because they don't. respect the culture. My snarky comments are of course taking the stereotypes and amping them up a bit. The part that can be an issue is when people get hung up on racial characteristics, it's difficult to step outside those.
Once upon a time many of the sciences where too. Back around the second world war, my grandfather who was around 14-15 started an apprentiship with the local national science organization (Cant remember if it was the CSIRO back then) as an industrial chemist..
Not enough money to do that any more - the accountants needed to hire someone to account for the pencils we use.
Sounds sarcastic, but its true. When accounting became the main product of US corporations rather than the things corporations produced, overhead went through the roof, and they had to cut out any semblance of long term planning. It's also why people retire, then the company freaks because there isn't any replacement.
>People make up the culture. And people is people. No matter where you go. They're inherently nice (and stupid).
I do great in places with stereotype white racist culture. Of course, my lily-white ass helps, and my ability to interface with people on their own level. And watch what I say.
Of course, a lot of these folks don't take a right shinin to "Joos", them "Nigras", and that "mooslim in the white house". Or "leeburuls", or "atheists", or"Catholicks" or Yankees or sassy wimmin, like that hillary or people that don't hanker to them flying the confederate flag,
Other than that, they are completely identical to everyone else.
We can't do things any more.
Don't you get it? The kooks already have guns. The ones that don't have knives.
How does one tell? The odd looking fellow toting his AR15 around Lowe's or Denny's doesn't look a whole lot different than the guy who's planning on popping us, then escaping justice by eating his gun barrel.
No I don't "get it". You might consider moving to Afghanistan, where even the children are packing.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tum...
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runew...
The necessity of carrying a gun everywhere is a show of fear. I have guns, I use guns, but I don't have the fear inherent in gun nuts and soccer moms, so I carry when I have a good reason to, and that isn't everywhere.
Did you read the summary? Its entire focus is that the recent earthquake swarm is caused by fracking (unlike the many similar earthquake swarms that area has had in the past, apparently).
I RTFA, and there might be some serious issues with it. It has some severe inconsistencies with the report it cites:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
tl;dr version The report notes that increased fracking and the wastewater injection, if disposed in that manner, might be a problem. But the injection wells are the cause of the problem, not the nature of hydraulic fracking. Those injection wells have been there long before modern day fracking was around. Here's an abstract from Geology http://geology.gsapubs.org/con...
The takeaway is that the culprit here is injection wells for wastewater, which by the way, is not only loaded with brine water, and toxic chemicals, but lubricating agents. It was proobably never a good idea, even when these injection wells were utilized well before modern day fracking - like the culprit wells in Oklahoma.
As noted before, we need to make the fracking fluid more environmentally benign. It won't ever be completely so, as brine is picked up in drilling. But simply pumping it back underground will just expose local fault lines over the years, and endangers a whole lot of folks and real estate.
undergoing withdrawal eh?
This isn't true. Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.
Well, as long as we get our freak on in a responsible manner.
This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade.
This isn't true. Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.
Pumping the used fracking water into wells might not be. When they do the drilling and fracking, they put chemicals in the water - some to make it slippery to aid in the fracking. There's no reason to believe they don't retain the same properties. Lubricate a fault line, don't be too surprised if it moves.
Fracking is almost certainly pretty safe. What I mentioned above might pose a problem. We've been doing fracking for a long time, and I think the big push now will be to research more environmentally safe or easily recyclable fracking fluid. Injection wells are just accidents waiting to happen.
Side note: After WW2, there was a lot of napalm left over, and they used it as a lubrication agent in fracking solutions for some time. I suspect a blowout could be pretty exciting.
is going to use this stuff to make a Halloween costume this year.
oohhhh, sexy black hole costume.....
When looking for a reference, I had no idea it was patented:
http://www.google.com/patents/...
I'd done this since the 70's, and Gillette patented it in 1986