Ecology and the Rainforest - Preservation or Destruction?

Beth, thank you for being such a good friend to a2k. I'm sure Anita will be especially touched by the gift.

Chocolate, it just drips off the tongue as I start to drool at the very thought.

Clicked

aktbird57 -

You and your 282 friends have supported 1,622,942.6 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 49,227.0 square feet.
You have supported: (32,894.2)
Your 282 friends have supported: (16,332.8)

American Prairie habitat supported: 31,784.9 square feet.
You have supported: (9,082.7)
Your 282 friends have supported: (22,702.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,541,930.7 square feet.
You have supported: (157,749.7)
Your 282 friends have supported: (1,384,181.0)[/color][/size]

ROFLMAO!!!


We've clicked!

Diane...

Whenever you hear from Sumac, please let her know that we're all keeping her in our thoughts. I know that this can be an especially rough time of year for anyone who suffers from CD, and I hope that by knowing we all care for her as much as we do it gives her some of the strength she'll need to one day come back and play with us here.

Matrix,
I'm happy to be the object of your hilarity. <G>

All clicked........................

aktbird57 -

You and your 282 friends have supported 1,625,377.6 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 49,437.8 square feet.
You have supported: (32,941.1)
Your 282 friends have supported: (16,496.7)

American Prairie habitat supported: 31,784.9 square feet.
You have supported: (9,082.7)
Your 282 friends have supported: (22,702.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,544,155.0 square feet.
You have supported: (157,749.7)
Your 282 friends have supported: (1,386,405.2)[/size][/color]

danon...

You were the object of my hilarity in a good way...but, because I was joking around with someone here right before I read your post I was in a silly mood, and had envisioned your trenchcoat (the whole thing) flying over your face. There's been a flasher in a city near here and you made me think of that instead of a spy move when I read your post. Not that you would ever do that kind of thing, of course...(would you???)

ehBeth...

Thank you for posting the message from Stuart. It sounds like the chocolates were a hit! Thank you, again, for sending them on behalf of the Rainforesters.

Stuart sounds every bit as wonderful as Anita has always described him. I'm so glad that she has someone like him to be with her. But, then her having a son like him shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone who's come to know Anita over the years, now, should it...

All clicked..........

Matrix,
I didn't think of the trenchcoat in that way. No, I have no need mentally or otherwise to do that sort of thing. That's funny though that you would think of it. I suppose I could be talked into it - if asked???

ehBeth,
Thanks for the update on Anita. She has our good wishes and prayers.

aktbird57 -

You and your 282 friends have supported 1,625,728.8 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 49,625.1 square feet.


American Prairie habitat supported: 31,784.9 square feet.


Rainforest habitat supported: 1,544,318.8 square feet. [/color][/size]

click (clicked yesterday, too)

I'm just a wild-clicker. Because I don't log-in, I don't accumulate anything, but I'm glad that the total number of rainforest acres increases each week. It is so easy to wild-click though... it takes three key-strokes once I'm at care2.

<ahem>
I'm just a poor and lonely clicker,
A wild thing among the ether.
No acres to accumulate
Saving the forest from its fate.

Still I applaud all that *You* do
And am your fan, yes, through and through.
Vicarious in my regard
To me, it's all our own backyard.
<curtsey & exit stage left>

<applause for Piffka's poetry and admirable sentiments>

Diane - re yr question about maps of the ocean bottom: the good ones are either classified (anti-submarine warfare) or proprietary (oil drillers, telecom-cable- layers) etc. The ones available for public use are from satellite photographs mostly, see if you can magnify one that I posted online for bathymetry at estimated location of Atlantis (N35_E35 as per previous map, i.e. between island of Cyprus in eastern Med and Asiatic mainland).

More maps in the public domain to be found here:

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/gazette/html/subbottomprofiler/emed.html

Final thought along those lines: whatever you do avoid the website of nima.mil, it will cause all your programs to crash if you try to look up any maps.

Very nice poetry, Piffka. <cheering and applauding loudly>

Thanks for the maps and info, HofT! Again, you've posted something quite interesting!

danon...
Keep your coat on!


Have a good weekend, everyone!

We've clicked!

Matrix, thanks for your thoughts of Sumac; I'll copy and send them to her, although I haven't heard from her since I last called.

Helen, I wish we could look at maps over coffee so that you would have the time to explain the topography. Thanks for the warning about nima.mil--even though it makes me want to click it just to find out about the nefarious deeds they are stealthily pursuing: muah haha.

Dannon, just can't get a certain mental image out of my head. Was it a London Fog?

<comes back for 2nd curtain... realizes she's naked... runs off>

Diane -- I had a London Fog visualized, too.

Very interesting images Helen -- I wish they'd put the Santorini tsunami images back on.

~ click ~

Ok, ladies, yes - I do have a great London Fog raincoat like the one Sean Connery wears in his spy movies. Haven't worn it for many years because it's way too warm here in TX - Piffka, how bout a third curtain!!!!! <G>

Clicked.........

aktbird57 -

You and your 282 friends have supported 1,627,344.3 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 49,812.4 square feet.

American Prairie habitat supported: 31,784.9 square feet.

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,545,747.1 square feet.