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If you want to talk about dangerous places that cause more wide spread health issues, that are actually silent killers... factories.
I've been in quite a few. There are some really nice, in fact super places, but there are an awful lot that should not even be operating. I just don't know how they get away with it.
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Ewest I am no expert but have see how much the wild life has come back since the ban here in Canada of DDT. My Dad told me about how there was all kinds of bald eagles, red tail hawks, sparrow hawks, barn owls, screech owls, and snow owls. All my life I have no memory many of these at all.
This last deer hunt with my dad and three boys I pointed out three bald eagles, one sparrow hawk how just about landed on us. A barn owl is just about every block. One snow owl on a fence post. Didn't see any screech owls.
Dad said that it is great to see them coming back. Back from what? Where did they go? What was the greatest change?
Don't get me going on this neonicotinoids
Cheers Don. I'm in your boat Don. I can't imagine the thin egg shell thing was a fabrication.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Mark,
There is a difference here. Captain Sullivan's decision to land on the water was the hard part.
The fact that the water was very calm made it easier to land on. Further since it was daytime, that also reduced the problems faced. The bridges and boats also had to be calculated, but most pilots can land on a smooth surface.
Again, it was the decision to do so right away which was hard.
Ten out of ten can make the landing, but before he did it, I would say that only 3 or 4 out of ten would have tried that first. Most would have thought about a landable surface like an airport before looking at a water landing. That time spent could have been the difference. As I recall he was an avid glider pilot and he credited that experience of always looking for a place to land and calculating the time left to do so helped him in the decision he made.
John
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Interesting Brian. He did make the decision very quickly. I was surprised the plane didn't sink faster. It was an amazing feat to save all those people's lives, of course it could have went the other way too. snrub...that's interesting too.
Fishing has never been about the fish....
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I am no expert either, but my dad is a retired chemist and said that ways of making DDT derivatives that didn't last in the environment more than a few weeks and/or months were in development before they got squashed by the ruling. Now THOSE would have been useful as they would have hit the intended target, and that's it. Theoretically it would not make it very far in the food chain.
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Not worried about Nuclear power. Think MI has 4.
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