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105 comments on Simple mathematics - The Saudi reserves, GOSPs and water injection

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memmel on April 9, 2007 - 11:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Its like claiming the reproductive capacity of humans is millions of children per man because they produce millions of sperm. Technically true but you left out some important parts of the equation.

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expat on April 9, 2007 - 11:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Or the idea that you can reduce the lead time of a baby's birth to one month by having nine women pregnant at the same time.

And yet, that projects don't work this way seems hard for many to grasp.

'We will find a solution when we need it' - we recognized a need for solution by 1980, and it seems as if the general response has been to increase the number of problems so as to increase the number of solutions which will be found when we need them.

I think that the quote about reaping what you sow is not meant to support what seems to be a now commonplace idea in America - the idea that sowing problems provides the chance for a thousand soutions to bloom.

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undeadFiz on April 9, 2007 - 1:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"One year's weed - seven years' seed," as the old gardening saying goes. I hope it won't come to that, because we've been sowing problems for alot more than one year.

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