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@JFrazer1 Yeah, I had to teach some 3rd graders about our solar system a couple of years back for a class, and one of them was arguing with me that the Sun was the biggest planet in the solar system. The sad thing? His children's learning toy (I think it was a leap pad or something) had taught him that.

So that's where the boo balls in second life came from!

@ everybody who thinks biofuels are OK: As of right now, THEY AREN'T. I have 2 very strong facts to back my opinion. 1. In rural farming areas, immediately after biofuels became popular, the price of wheat and corn went from $2/ bushel to $20-$40/ bushel. This raise was almost identical to the flow chart in biofuel popularity. 2. It takes more greenhouse gases to produce than the amount it saves. Now, I'm not saying that within a year they will have enough cellulosic ethanol (using the chaff and stalk of the wheat, corn, and soybeans) plants to cancel these things out, but right now, Biofuel is doing more harm than help, and they need to stop producing until they make more cellulosic ethanol plants. On the other oil "problems": Yes, the government sucks right now. They are too stupid to realize that we have a lot of oil that isn't being drilled for. Not only that, but oil is constantly regenerating! Not as renewable as the sun and wind, but there is and always will be decomposing organic material being compressed and converting into fuel. Oil is very much a renewable fuel source, and we need to stop listening to green peace commies telling us that oil drilling is killing polar bears and fireworks "startle birds". If we want to become the global superpower again, we NEED to drill for oil. Venezuela does that, and guess how much gasoline costs for them? 12 cents a gallon. We need to use what we have if we are to become independent again. Yes, biofuels are the future of cheap diesel. And until tech improves, they need to stay the future.

Okay, I was kind of mean in the previous article. But, however blunt it was, it was still true. Here's some facts: -Global warming is very much false. The global temperature raise in the past century? Oh, only about 1 degree Celsius. -The man you people love and the father of the current global warming scare (and contributor to the one in the 70s and 80s) isn't exactly one to talk about any of these things. He upgrades his electronics (computers, phones, you know, everything) every time his "Green" buddy Steve makes a new product (yeah, Apple makes a good computer, but they just aren't exactly green like they are praised to be when they make 120 new products a year). His favored mode of transportation? One of his 2 learjets (1/4 the efficiency per person as a normal commercial airliner), of course. -That horrible, man-made mankind obliterating ozone hole? Not only is it saving our butts (Infrared Radiation can get in the ozone layer just fine, but can't get out except for the ozone hole), It wasn't man made. Matter of fact, they are starting to think that it's been there for hundreds of millenia! -Back to Mr. Al "carboneutral" Gore. His house uses, on average, as much energy a month as the average family uses in a year. His pool house (yes, his pool has its own heated building) uses $500 a month! How many carbon offsets will that take to balance out? -Speaking of carbon offsets, guess how many celebrities and former vice presidents/Nobel peace prize winners buy a year? Less than the poor schmoes brainwashed into buying them by the same people do in a month.* I'm going to quit before a mob comes to my house with recycled wood pitchforks, biodegradable torches, and ethanol Molotov cocktails. Again, popsci, consider making a website exactly like this one minus the eco-garbage (like gizmodo's non-apple blog) or a new magazine dedicated to environmentalism. Just solve your problem, and soon, or you may very well lose readers. *Yes, I did make the carbon offset one up. However, Al Gore does not buy any carbon offsets with his own money.