RP Trees was Re: [OT] Sea Leopard

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:04:24 -0700 "Brian Bilderback"
> <bbilderback@hotmail.com> writes:
<snip>
> Let's see. My blanket statement was that MOST terrain in the pacific

Given the number of trees cut down to make chop sticks for Japanese since WW2
it surprising that there are *Any* trees in the Philippines...

Yes, I changed the subject...

Gracias,

> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:04:24 -0700 "Brian Bilderback"

Here I go again.......

There were actually more places suited for tank combat in the Pacific than you
might think. True, places like Guadalcanal and the interior of the
Philippines were ill-suited for tank use, but tanks saw plenty of use
(and to a greater or lesser extent, success) on islands such as Iwo Jima
(great place for flame tanks), Saipan, Pelileu, and Okinawa. IIRC, even Tarawa
(Betio) saw limited use of tanks. They were necessarily used in a great battle
of maneuver and speed as they were in Europe, but were ideally suited for
blasting Japanese bunkers and strongpoints that couldn't be knocked out with
aerial bombs or the arcing fire the battlewagons and cruisers.

Quoting Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com>:

> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:04:24 -0700 "Brian Bilderback"

Trees, right, we should be using MORE of, not less.

All this stuff made of plastic... I was in a restaurant the other day and
they've started putting toothpicks on the tables. I'm looking at this trying
to remember if I'd got on a plane that morning without noticing, but no, I am
still in the heart of England and there are toothpicks on the table.
Toothpicks! On the tables!! FFS. But it gets WORSE. They're made of
**PLASTIC**

We're taking a non-renewable, carbon-positive resource and turning it
into disposable toothpicks!!!!

Wooden ones, although having them on the table would upset me no less, at
least
are made from a bio-degradeable carbon-neutral - chop trees, make
toothpicks, mulch up toothpicks, plant trees in mulch.. The trick is to plant
trees as fast as you chop 'em down. Which is the bit that everyone misses out.

But, oh my god, using PLASTIC for something like that?

Brr. I tell you, between the environmentalist tree-hugging nutters and
the
world-destroying psychopath corporations there is a happy medium, and we
are Not At It.

I stand corrected. Sorry to all, especially Mr.Gill.

3B^2

> From: Mark Reindl <mreindl@pacbell.net>

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