8 medals - not bad for a tiny little country!

[JJ Irani]

Hi guys,

2 Gold

1 Silver

5 Bronze


Go, NZ....go!! Great stuff for a country this small!!

[jdc]

eight the same as Kazakhstan, come on Borat

[Goodwatch]

Go Kiwiland

How about an even tinier country?

4 gold
5 silver
4 bronze

[toph]

how about a one guy from an even smaller country with three golds all to himself!!

also the commonwealth 2014 cycling stadium is being named after him- Chris Hoy

[jdc]

Netherlands population 16.5 million, New Zealand 4.3 million, now if you were counting sheep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population

[jdc]

Originally Posted by toph

how about a one guy from an even smaller country with three golds all to himself!!

also the commonwealth 2014 cycling stadium is being named after him- Chris Hoy

and a gold at the Olympics in Athens

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by jdc

Netherlands population 16.5 million, New Zealand 4.3 million, now if you were counting sheep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population

He didn't specify HOW the size is ascertained. Area or population. Australia has 21 million inhabitants but would you call that a small country?

[jdc]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

He didn't specify HOW the size is ascertained. Area or population. Australia has 21 million inhabitants but would you call that a small country?

I just thought the size of the population was interesting compared to the countries area size. I was very surprised at how large the populations of Japan and Vietnam were.

[mfer]

How about 8 medals for one guy......

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by jdc

I just thought the size of the population was interesting compared to the countries area size. I was very surprised at how large the populations of Japan and Vietnam were.

Did you see China????? One out of five people on this earth are Chinese! I'm going to learn Mandarin very quick

OK, this is about medals, sorry Jay Jay

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by mfer

How about 8 medals for one guy......

Indeed incredible! He dethroned the equally great Mark Spitz! Truly phenomenal. But not from a small country so it doesn't count

[PennsyBill]

I understand one winner was disqualified when they found his mistress in his dorm room.

[2careless]

Isn't NZ just another state of Australia?

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by 2careless

Isn't NZ just another state of Australia?

No, a province of The Netherlands!

[jdc]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

Did you see China????? One out of five people on this earth are Chinese! I'm going to learn Mandarin very quick

OK, this is about medals, sorry Jay Jay

good job they have population control Will be interesting to see how quickly they grow as an economic power in the next few years

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by jdc

good job they have population control Will be interesting to see how quickly they grow as an economic power in the next few years

Ni hao!

[toph]

Originally Posted by jdc

good job they have population control Will be interesting to see how quickly they grow as an economic power in the next few years

i am not sure how quickly (but they will be the worlds strongest one day) as they still use coal for almost everything- they build coal powerstations every day

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by toph

i am not sure how quickly (but they will be the worlds strongest one day) as they still use coal for almost everything- they build coal powerstations every day

CO2 We are (almost literally) paying ourselves poor over CO2 tax over here My utility bill consists of over 48% of environmental tax and fines. For what? I replaced every lamp in my house with energy savers (at high expenses) and do everything I can to preserve energy. For what?

[jdc]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

Ni hao!

Hoi !

Cheers to another Dutch colony Doei

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by jdc

Hoi !

Cheers to another Dutch colony Doei

We could have ruled the world They would speak Dutch instead of Yanklish

[toph]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

CO2 We are (almost literally) paying ourselves poor over CO2 tax over here My utility bill consists of over 48% of environmental tax and fines. For what? I replaced every lamp in my house with energy savers (at high expenses) and do everything I can to preserve energy. For what?

FACT- if the UK stopped CARBON (CO2) emissions today -in 18 months China would have made up what we in the UK had saved!

what are we paying all this money for- it is a con by the EU to get more funding- i hate the EU how can 27 countries who speak over 25 different languages who practice different religions, have different wage levels, different safety standards, different core economic business/produce all be governed by so many incompetents in Brussels/Luxembourg! who still maintain that we are all the same.

you got me angry thinking about this Frans
sorry

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by toph

FACT- if the UK stopped CARBON (CO2) emissions today -in 18 months China would have made up what we in the UK had saved!

what are we paying all this money for- it is a con by the EU to get more funding- i hate the EU how can 27 countries who speak over 25 different languages who practice different religions, have different wage levels, different safety standards, different core economic business/produce all be governed by so many incompetents in Brussels/Luxembourg! who still maintain that we are all the same.

you got me angry thinking about this Frans
sorry

Don't speak about Brussels, please If we both are cooled down a bit I'll tell you about a documentary I saw about 'Brussels' once. How those bone idle Euro parliamentarians are lining their pockets at our expense By doing absolutely nothing (Not all of them, I'm sure...).

[2careless]

There is no way we can stop burning carbon (be it black/brown coal, oil or gas) in the forseeable future. The company I work for is a major player in the energy sector and just last 6 months we got orders to build like 8 gas turbine plants in Australia (gas burning is much "cleaner" than coal burning) - usually we get maybe 1-2 orders a year. The CO2 storage experiment (i.e. burn coal and store the emitted CO2 gas in underground storage) one of our customers is doing here will be watched very carefully all around the world.

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by 2careless

There is no way we can stop burning carbon (be it black/brown coal, oil or gas) in the foreseeable future. The company I work for is a major player in the energy sector and just last 6 months we got orders to build like 8 gas turbine plants in Australia (gas burning is much "cleaner" than coal burning) - usually we get maybe 1-2 orders a year. The CO2 storage experiment (i.e. burn coal and store the emitted CO2 gas in underground storage) one of our customers is doing here will be watched very carefully all around the world.

There is, albeit with a major drawback: atomic energy. I don't understand why there still is no major breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Or are those major players (my wife's niece works for Shell Solar Research) do everything to halt this?

[toph]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

Don't speak about Brussels, please If we both are cooled down a bit I'll tell you about a documentary I saw about 'Brussels' once. How those bone idle Euro parliamentarians are lining their pockets at our expense By doing absolutely nothing (Not all of them, I'm sure...).

i would be interested to hear about it
i studied it for 1 year as part of my politics degree- the more i learnt the more angry i became

[2careless]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

There is, albeit with a major drawback: atomic energy. I don't understand why there still is no major breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Or are those major players (my wife's niece works for Shell Solar Research) do everything to halt this?

Nuclear can be made very safe, but at a price! I think the best bet would be on solar and wind power.

[arttay10]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

There is, albeit with a major drawback: atomic energy. I don't understand why there still is no major breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Or are those major players (my wife's niece works for Shell Solar Research) do everything to halt this?

I think the problem is there Frans - you are thinking Nuclear fusion for the good of mankind....... instead of a power symbol of arms.

[arttay10]

Originally Posted by 2careless

Nuclear can be made very safe, but at a price! I think the best bet would be on solar and wind power.

I agree - Solar and Wind are the way to go in my mind......... particularly Solar.

[toph]

Originally Posted by arttay10

I agree - Solar and Wind are the way to go in my mind......... particularly Solar.

i do agree in theory but there has been a recent catasrophe with the building of windfarms here in the UK. They don't work properly, they produce nowhere near enough sustainable energy and they ruin the countryside
if they can refine wind and solar energy to make it a viable option i would be 100% behind it.

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by arttay10

I agree - Solar and Wind are the way to go in my mind......... particularly Solar.

Ahh, yes. Wind. I live in a country that sits square in a region with constant wind. Perfect, you might think. No Wind turbines are:

a. Killing a few birds so the tree-huggers have formed a major lobby to stop them.
b. Spoiling the view.
c. Make too much noise.
d. Are ugly.
e. NIMBY

Scrap this one.