mushe863
10-12-2011, 02:50 AM
By the starting of the 15th century, native Hawaiian islanders were engaging in sustainable practices to maintain their reefs ushering in 400 annuals of retrieval.
The research, promulgated Monday in the journal PLoS One, shows namely sustainable practices go behind a long course and namely coral reefs may be better proficient to regenerate than formerly thought.
Coral reefs are some of the world's richest ecosystems, supporting a diverse array of marine life, including reef fish and mollusks. But they're extremely susceptible to modern-day menaces such as changing water temperatures, pollution and provocative fishing practices.
An worldwide group of researchers led by social scientist John Kittinger of Stanford University looked into the islands' history to see how distant back human impacts on the reefs could be traced.
The team saw at 17 archaeological sites around the islands to see what had been darted over the centuries into community middens, or dumps. They also reviewed ecological studies of the reefs, fisheries data and historical accounts of cultural practices.
When seafaring Polynesians first arrived on the chief islands nigh 1250, they fast took advantage of the islands' natural sailor kindness and it showed, Kittinger said. Fish bones in the middens progressively grew smaller a sign of overfishing, since the largest beings would have been harvested premier.
But along the 1400s, the natural populations had begun relying extra above raising pigs and dogs and less above fishing. They dug reservoirs near the sea in which to raise fish prefer than harvest the reefs.
Laws and traditions likewise arose to control fishing. Only community members could fish around the regional reef, and sharks thought to be animal fashions of forefathers were off limits. Only male centrals could dine turtle meat.
Communities even had land managers, called konohiki[/i], responsible because overseeing natural resources.
Over the next 4 centuries, fish, priest seals, sea turtles and additional mobile creatures recovered by 20%, and reef ecosystems as a whole recovered 10%, the study estimated.
"Primarily, humans are bad for the surroundings," Kittinger said. "All we do is muck entities up. But in this circumstance, we found that people do have the capacity to administer these ecosystems sustainably to use coral reefs yet not overuse them."
The thoughtful stewardship fell apart soon later European contact. Fishponds were forsook, sediment fraught reefs, and dynamite fishing was introduced. The Hawaiian island reefs have largely been in decline by far.
An exception is the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, or Leeward Islands, which have been reviving since the 1950s, largely because there is little human movement in those remote regions, Kittinger said.

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 03:05 AM
http://www.spam.com/ASSETS/0EE75B480E5B450F807117E06219CDA6/spamReg.png

Shibbidah
10-12-2011, 03:09 AM
not entirely sure I can call this one spam...absurdly off-topic, yes...but not sure if spam...

mattroks101
10-12-2011, 03:12 AM
I don't see any links >_>

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 03:12 AM
not entirely sure I can call this one spam...absurdly off-topic, yes...but not sure if spam...

Sure seems like Spam, here we have a user who never posted before on this forum, bizarre user name (bots and spammers typically have those, a name with a bunch of numerals) and it seems like one of those "save the planet" sort of chains that have been going around lately...
It's either absurdly off topic or Spam. 50/50.

Also, if this was an essay he would site his notes and where he got his info from :P

SplitReality
10-12-2011, 04:15 AM
tl;dr

MADEVIL
10-12-2011, 05:07 AM
and this is here why????

Guthix
10-12-2011, 08:34 AM
to make us lift our fat asses and save some living water stones

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 09:03 AM
to make us lift our fat asses and save some living water stones

Will it make us lift our fat asses and save some living water stones? :B

XelaisPWN
10-12-2011, 04:42 PM
http://is.gd/VnWfLs

Seems to me Doomi has been slacking :P

SleeplessPanda
10-12-2011, 04:56 PM
Hippy spam. >=(

hatz300
10-12-2011, 07:06 PM
there are living water stones?!?!?!? i must find them immediately!!!!!

XelaisPWN
10-12-2011, 07:37 PM
Dunno if they're living, but they sure as hell evolve Eevee into Vaporeon

jinzo64
10-12-2011, 07:38 PM
http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/1968691.jpg
yet another thread soifon does not approve of.

XelaisPWN
10-12-2011, 07:40 PM
Soifon better GTFO, the coral reef is important and **** ಠ_ಠ

jinzo64
10-12-2011, 07:43 PM
she knows the coral reef is important but this thread on the other hand isn't and spam reminds her of omaeda

XelaisPWN
10-12-2011, 07:45 PM
This thread is the most important thing to me. I have never felt more attached to something in my entire life.

jinzo64
10-12-2011, 07:50 PM
sorry if i offended you.
i didn't think anyone was that interested in this thread i guess i was wrong

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 09:26 PM
BDSM Spam time
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/238/8/8/soi_fong__s_bondage_cleave_gag_by_reptileye-d47l6ao.jpg

Backmask
10-12-2011, 09:30 PM
I guess I'll dump...umm...stuff from Fate/ Apocrypha.
http://i.imgur.com/SWiaI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ocHZO.jpg

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 09:33 PM
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/184/992/582u.gif?1318404363

Backmask
10-12-2011, 09:34 PM
That ain't BDSM, Kaiju. Where the **** is the BDSM?
http://i.imgur.com/vTuqp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AiRMI.jpg

Backmask
10-12-2011, 09:36 PM
http://i.imgur.com/wzQpJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5d2dh.jpg

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 09:37 PM
Oh I posted the Nostalgia Critic by accident. :V
Here have a Rizel gif:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs20/f/2007/302/7/5/Rizel_gagged_by_PC98.gif

Backmask
10-12-2011, 09:41 PM
How does one get Nostalgia Critic and anime bondage porn mixed up?
http://i.imgur.com/MSfpf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cFOau.jpg

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 09:43 PM
Quite simple actually. I forgot which link I had copy-pasta'd currently. :/
That and the Critic is a beast of a man.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/267/4/f/4ff96456e6e555899d8c44ece2a8d085-d4atekx.png

Backmask
10-12-2011, 09:47 PM
I'm not much of a fan. He always come off as some sort of Angry Video Game Nerd wanna-be.
http://i.imgur.com/bcG4Y.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tl6ci.jpg

Kaiju
10-12-2011, 09:50 PM
Aren't most internet reviewers AVGN wannabes? :P
Besides, I like both as they target two distinct fields and have their own spin on their "rages". (That and Ask that Guy is ****ing hilarious)
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/178/0/f/inkpic___jill_valentine_by_zeo_nell-d3k6xyn.jpg

Backmask
10-12-2011, 09:55 PM
Now that you mention it, Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation does sound somewhat like AVGN. Well, except Yahtzee just blindly insults the games he reviews, but I guess that's why I love 'em.
http://i.imgur.com/qGdFY.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lDVzm.jpg

abyssion1337
10-12-2011, 09:58 PM
Jinzo, what's up with you and Soi Fon, is she your Waifu?

Backmask
10-12-2011, 10:03 PM
Jinzo has many waifus, Abyss. Every girl from K-On, every girl from Soul Eater, every girl from Lucky Star, every girl from Bleach...The list just goes on and on.
http://i.imgur.com/gZedG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/IhkLk.jpg

Neomalysys
10-13-2011, 03:07 AM
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/150/f/2010/094/2/d/ME__Asari_Dancer_by_Asarea.jpg

jinzo64
10-13-2011, 12:51 PM
soifon my fav anime character and waifu

Guthix
10-13-2011, 03:25 PM
y u not let this thread die?

jinzo64
10-13-2011, 03:28 PM
i was just telling the people that soifon is my favourite anime character and favourite waifu

simpleton216
10-13-2011, 06:10 PM
If this is a spam thread, then I will post the video of my mid-term for engineering here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPipL9_Tppw

Backmask
10-13-2011, 06:21 PM
So what was the point of the project? To make the machine follow the path and hit the two spheres?
http://i.imgur.com/PzxNp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/e7LwJ.jpg

Kaiju
10-13-2011, 09:04 PM
i was just telling the people that soifon is my favourite anime character and favourite waifu

Yoruichi would like to counter you thar, SoiFon is HER Waifu :3
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/237/a/4/soi_fong__s_training_comic_by_reptileye-d47rzzy.png

jinzo64
10-14-2011, 02:36 AM
poor soifon yuroichi should be nicer to her biggest fan.

Kaiju
10-14-2011, 02:46 AM
poor soifon yuroichi should be nicer to her biggest fan.

Oh, this instance is actually revenge:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/028/a/8/yoruichi_soifon_training_2_by_reptileye-d38889z.jpg

bloodlover1987
10-14-2011, 04:17 AM
http://8.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/5349/02-038.5/compressed/hmini_002.jpg

Backmask
10-14-2011, 04:22 AM
I don't want to know what Blood would do if he had his very own Mini-Ika.
http://i.imgur.com/HCiE8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/YSCv1.jpg

bloodlover1987
10-14-2011, 04:23 AM
i would take very good care of her

http://0.p.s.mfcdn.net/store/manga/5349/02-038.5/compressed/hmini_003.jpg