the shit hitting the fan (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 06:00:13 +0100 From: Anonymous Subject: the shit hitting the fan

At 02:48 PM 12/4/98 -0600, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:

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Even flushing toilets is not necessary as anyone can shit outside.

I am speaking out of personal experiences, living with water outages while we were in the Russian countryside. It was no big deal, period.

Moron. At a low population density you can do anything, burn wood, leaded gas, etc., no problem.

LA has 1e7 people who shit about a kilo per day. Compute the volume of that after a week.

It's not the raw volume that's critical but rather the percentage of the average personal space per inhabitant versus how much to store a weeks worth. For the average person storing a weeks worth of solid waste in a platic bag with bleach, lye, or similar material is reasonable. I've gone on long duration camping trips of about a weeks length and the storing and portage costs are not excessive (having a boat or horse helps move it around). ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------