Accccciiiiiiiddddd :)

[StephenSails]

You have heard of acid rain, now we got acid seas!


The seas are turning to acid...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3136266.stm

Will we need antifoul in a few years? Will steel boats be the only boats?

Acccciiiiiiiiiidddddd

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[Aeolus_IV]

No, now all those steel boats will need to ask themselves "Am I fizzing because of electrolisis, or simply that the boat is disolving?" /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

Jeff.

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[summerwind]

I see the source for your worries is the BBC. In that case, don't worry about it any more. The story is either a pack of lies or so distorted that it is so close to lies that makes no difference.

Blame Tony Blair did they? Alistair Campbell? Geoff Hoon?

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[jhr]

I'm no physicist but I can't help feeling that there is a chance for some Classic British Innovation here. If the sea is going to become full of acid, couldn't we turn the sea and the boat into some kind of enormous lead/acid accumulator arrangement and change over to electric power, thus reducing carbon dioxide emissions?

Just a thought.

PS. Putting aside the BBC's credibility, I have grave doubts about the veracity of what you are saying if you can't even spell things right. It's "Acccciiiiiiieeeeeeddd! as any fule kno.

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[StephenSails]

I agree with your sentiments but I am more inclined to trust the BBC than the current incumbents at No 10.

Didnt the BBC journalists sort of hint that the WMD claim made by the MOD/Secret Bunch/Blairs Office was a load of old toss? coz I aint seen any evidence of WMD's yet!

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[summerwind]

Using the same logic - They haven't yet found Sadam Husein. Does that mean he didn't exist either?

I agree that the government has taken spin to the extreme but everyone with any sense knows that politicians are liars. No one should be surprised that they manipulated the facts to their advantage.

The BBC is totally different. They are an independant, publicly funded broadcaster that used to have a very high reputation. They took on an anti-government (Blair), anti war stance. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of going to war, their reporting was constantly skewed to the negative. Even undeniable British success was reported as being close to disaster. They public who pay for the BBC deserve to be told the truth in an unbiased way.

I have been a long term listener to the Radio 4 "Today" Program and heard Gilligan's reporting on a regular basis. He started with an anti-government bias and steadily increased it. There is no doubt in my mind that he lied about what he had been told by Kelly - not only on the radio, but also in his newpaper article. Even his own boss admitted that he had a habit of "Embellishing" his reporting on a regular basis.

The great sin as far as I am concerned is that he and his bosses used the credibility of the BBC to prosecute their own political ends. In doing so they have destroyed that credibility. No amount of outraged indignation and smoke screen blowing on the air or in court is going to resurect it. As far as I at least am concerned, nothing the BBC now says can be believed. They are now just as bad as the politicians - a bunch of liars and self-serving hypocrits.

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[bob_tyler]

"They took on an anti-government (Blair), anti war stance"

What a load of C--p!!!.

This government has exceeded all others in the process of outright lying and would be totally incapable of running a p--s up in a brewery.

Blair should change his name to Bliar.

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