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WHAT?!
Stolen directly from Slashdot:
tomhudson writes:
"While we bemoan the current oil crisis, I ran across an editorial that led me to research a more immediate threat. Ramped-up production of flat-panel displays means the material to make them will be 'extinct' by 2017. This goes for other electronics as well. Quoting: 'The element gallium is in very short supply and the world may well run out of it in just a few years. Indium is threatened too, says Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany's University of Augsburg. He estimates that our planet's stock of indium will last no more than another decade. All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and another twenty years will see the extinction of zinc. Even copper is an endangered item, since worldwide demand for it is likely to exceed available supplies by the end of the present century.' More links at the journal entry."
That's it! No more fancy copper work! Take your old screens out of storage! Stop... stockpiling gallium!
Or hurry up and develop a new, renewable way to make these things. o_O
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There's a huge, black fly in here that's trying to make me kill it. Shoo, fly. Don't you see I have banana chips I need to be eating?
Anybody have a cool three mil they'd like to lay on me? 'Cause I'll totally take it.
Also: I cannot stand this woman. Come ON, Robert Rodriguez!! Think think think!! Mistake mistake mistake!!
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69bonzo69: Lol, you could do with less milkshakes...
:'(
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Stolen directly from Slashdot:
tomhudson writes:
"While we bemoan the current oil crisis, I ran across an editorial that led me to research a more immediate threat. Ramped-up production of flat-panel displays means the material to make them will be 'extinct' by 2017. This goes for other electronics as well. Quoting: 'The element gallium is in very short supply and the world may well run out of it in just a few years. Indium is threatened too, says Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany's University of Augsburg. He estimates that our planet's stock of indium will last no more than another decade. All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and another twenty years will see the extinction of zinc. Even copper is an endangered item, since worldwide demand for it is likely to exceed available supplies by the end of the present century.' More links at the journal entry."
That's it! No more fancy copper work! Take your old screens out of storage! Stop... stockpiling gallium!
Or hurry up and develop a new, renewable way to make these things. o_O
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There's a huge, black fly in here that's trying to make me kill it. Shoo, fly. Don't you see I have banana chips I need to be eating?
Anybody have a cool three mil they'd like to lay on me? 'Cause I'll totally take it.
Also: I cannot stand this woman. Come ON, Robert Rodriguez!! Think think think!! Mistake mistake mistake!!
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Click to view69bonzo69: Lol, you could do with less milkshakes...
:'(
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