Economy 53,136 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140314-the-worlds-scarcest-material Rare Earth metals and resources such as idium are becoming very scarse. We need to either find more, or find substitutes to these resources Rare Earth Metals for whatever reason have not gotten as much attention as Oil for example but the truth is that its in far smaler supply Rare Earth Metals and compounds are essential for many if our technologies such as Cellphones, Tablets, Digital Cameras and even some hybrid/electric battery technology Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeka 12,372 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I wanna move to mars. Earth is too close to a bad ending. We have to restart or move. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 79,307 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 and that was 2 years ago lmao probably 10x worse now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adakam 2 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I blame that on people that have this crazy necesity to upgrade their cellphones and stuff the day they come out just because they have like 10 more pixels on screen -_- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Bromance 5,809 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Perhaps this could be avoided if more people recycled their smartphones and other technological equipment. Municipalities in the U.S. make it very difficult for people to recycle technological equipment that no longer works, is damaged or simply obsolete. I mean, you really shouldn't have to drive for miles to a recycling center. Frankly, all municipalities should collect such items for recycling. I don't care what you think about unless it is about me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsuki Bakugo 9,788 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 8 minutes ago, Bad Bromance said: Perhaps this could be avoided if more people recycled their smartphones and other technological equipment. Municipalities in the U.S. make it very difficult for people to recycle technological equipment that no longer works, is damaged or simply obsolete. I mean, you really shouldn't have to drive for miles to a recycling center. Frankly, all municipalities should collect such items for recycling. I was about to post something like this, but Smart Daddy already did. Recycle people! If All You Ever Do Is Look Down On People, You Won't Be Able To Recognize Your Own Weaknesses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ARTPOPSlays Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Oh gosh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ARTPOPSlays Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 16 minutes ago, Bad Bromance said: Perhaps this could be avoided if more people recycled their smartphones and other technological equipment. Municipalities in the U.S. make it very difficult for people to recycle technological equipment that no longer works, is damaged or simply obsolete. I mean, you really shouldn't have to drive for miles to a recycling center. Frankly, all municipalities should collect such items for recycling. I agree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AddMeOnMYSPACE 2,097 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 45 minutes ago, Seeka said: I wanna move to mars. Earth is too close to a bad ending. We have to restart or move. If we do, in about 100 years we'll be in the same place maybe they should like build a clone machine and clone all the metal idk I'm out of ideas. At this point we're doom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eighteen 5,430 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 might be interesting to people who want to know more on this matter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeka 12,372 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 2 minutes ago, AddMeOnMYSPACE said: If we do, in about 100 years we'll be in the same place maybe they should like build a clone machine and clone all the metal idk I'm out of ideas. At this point we're doom. It isn't living. I'm not sure why we aren't doing it. We can clone things, but it must be incredibly expensive to clone something, even if it is something. I need to research cloning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey Monster 1,561 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 IK technology is great and all but it's also so damn distracting to the world. This was bound to happen cuz the whole world is in demand of it Mikey McCampbell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeka 12,372 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 9 minutes ago, AddMeOnMYSPACE said: If we do, in about 100 years we'll be in the same place maybe they should like build a clone machine and clone all the metal idk I'm out of ideas. At this point we're doom. According to my limited research, we can copy (cloning is limited to living organisms) metals, but it is difficult (but possible) to get a close enough clone. But it is theoretically impossible to make an exact exact clone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AddMeOnMYSPACE 2,097 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 15 minutes ago, Seeka said: According to my limited research, we can copy (cloning is limited to living organisms) metals, but it is difficult (but possible) to get a close enough clone. But it is theoretically impossible to make an exact exact clone. we need to invest into science and technology more! I feel like if we do, we'll discover a lot more things that might be useful. At least to get us by before we actually run out of resources Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JevyDuty 2,961 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 China must be very happy; they practically have a monopoly on these metals. The laws of supply and demand dictates that technology will only get more expensive unless something is done about this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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