[ASLplease]

As to the original Headline for this thread "Billion Trees needed to restore Ontario" I just want to say that MONEY DOESN'T GROW ON TREES.

[DerbyX]

Sure it does. Money is made of paper and paper comes from pulp which comes from trees. Ergo money grows on trees.

[ASLplease]

I didn't know that rice trees existed

[PostFactum]

And it means that noone want to do anything fo free even if it is nature!

[DerbyX]

ASLplease ASLplease:

I didn't know that rice trees existed

Actually our banknotes are made from pure cotton which does grow on trees. The other adage was "you don't find money just lying around ya know" to which you can say that its made of metals which we find lying around in the ground.

[ASLplease]

my bad, I thought I had you on the rice paper.

another adage that I've heard is "money doesn't buy everything" I always get a good laugh when I say "....if you don't know where to shop"

[Lemmy]

Money is just a representation of wealth. The paper and metal and entries in electronic accounts aren't the money, themselves. They're just the means to move your wealth about the economy. The physical cash is just a representation; a mechanism.

Let's try an example. If I were to look at a pencil-drawn political cartoon of Steven Harper, I could say "Steven Harper is made of graphite." When you say "Money is made of paper", you're really making the same error. You're confusing the representation of something for the actual "something". Of course, we all know Steven Harper is not made of pencil-lead. He's really made of hot air.

[ASLplease]

likable hot air.

[Akhenaten]

DerbyX DerbyX:

Sure it does. Money is made of paper and paper comes from pulp which comes from trees. Ergo money grows on trees.

Ohhhh here we go....big argument time!

'Paper' money is cotton and hemp. A lighter version of blue jeans.

[ASLplease]

hemp? git a rope!

[raydan]

DerbyX DerbyX:

ASLplease ASLplease:

I didn't know that rice trees existed

Actually our banknotes are made from pure cotton which does grow on trees. The other adage was "you don't find money just lying around ya know" to which you can say that its made of metals which we find lying around in the ground.

Sorry Derby, cotton is not a tree...

Cotton - Tropical and subtropical herbaceous plant

[DerbyX]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

It's a balloon shot from a Royal Engineers hot-air balloon at 50,000 feet, circa 1861.
Officer Commanding the balloon was Major Ponsonby-Smythe RE, other crew were Colour Sergeant Peter Rickhead and Sapper Wrapper, with a Royal Naval observer, Seaman Staines. They were using a Gordon Tail-board camera.

The Sappers were equipped with a long pipe to suck in oxygen from 5000 feet. Staines was tragically lost giving his life to ensuring the balloon remained at altitude.

Obviously the original shot was touched up in a very early PS program called 'Photographic and Lithograph touche-uppe Shoppe'. I think they did a good job getting the colour in from the old sepia plates.

All this is available on wiki-pedia you know?

So then why dont you supply the link please.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/dawn-o ... /printable

If they were making hot air balloon flights in 1783 then you can easily see how this is plausible.

In fact: 1858 Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar) takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon.

[herbie]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Money is just a representation of wealth. The paper and metal and entries in electronic accounts aren't the money, themselves. They're just the means to move your wealth about the economy. The physical cash is just a representation; a mechanism.

Let's try an example. If I were to look at a pencil-drawn political cartoon of Steven Harper, I could say "Steven Harper is made of graphite." When you say "Money is made of paper", you're really making the same error. You're confusing the representation of something for the actual "something". Of course, we all know Steven Harper is not made of pencil-lead. He's really made of hot air.

Does he float? Then he'd be made out of wood and logically a witch! We could BURN him!

[Hyack]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

How could a map like the 1860 map have been made in 1860?

O please Lord tell me this member is not asking a serious question...please tell me it ain't true....