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Last login: 2 hours agoAbo-3adel: Ahmed is a 27 year old guy from Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.; Likes 650 pages, 35 videos, 43 photos • 99 fans • Received 15 reviews; Member since Nov 10, 2007

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The Newsy: Gaza power plant shuts down: 12:32pm 3 reviews news
http://thenewsy.blogspot.com/2008/05/gaza-power-plant-shuts-down.html; Our prayers are with all our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

From the page: "Large parts of the Gaza Strip, particularly Gaza City, were in darkness after the main power station shut down its generators on Saturday."

Vincent&Bugliosi - Vanguard Press: 8:56am 19 reviews politics
http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/; Can't wait for this book...thanks Sphinx77494 :D

Thumb Up for Trees: May 10, 12:40pm 530 reviews environment
http://www.stumbleupon.com/earthday/; Thanks girlo0o :)

StumbleUpon - girlo0os web site reviews and blog: May 10, 12:02pm 31 reviews stumblers
http://girlo0o.stumbleupon.com/; girlo0o sent me this friendship rose..:) she is such a sweet stumbler..

1985IAUS..112..497K Page 497: May 10, 11:21am 1 review astronomy, energy, civilization, kardashev
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1985IAUS..112.....; The paper in which Kardashev talked about his scale for civilizations..

Title: On the inevitability and the possible structures of supercivilizations
Authors: Kardashev, N. S.
Journal: IN: The search for extraterrestrial life: Recent developments; Proceedings of the Symposium, Boston, MA, June 18-21, 1984 (A86-38126 17-88). Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1985, p. 497-504.
Bibliographic Code: 1985IAUS..112..497K

Kardashev scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 10, 11:15am 4 reviews astronomy, economics, energy-industry, civilization, kardashev-scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale; From the page: "The Kardashev scale is a general method of classifying how technologically advanced a civilization is. It was first proposed in 1964 by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II and III. These are based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal, and the degree of space colonization. In general terms, a Type I civilization has achieved mastery of the resources of its home planet, Type II of its solar system, and Type III of its galaxy"

This must be one of the craziest ideas I've ever come across!! It's only as crazy as it is ingenious! Does how the amount of energy a civilization can consume really give a scale for how advanced it is?!

And guess what!..We don't even qualify for Type I yet! in 2010 we will be at 0.72! and it will take us two more decades to get to 0.73! Check out the graph bellow..

I'll be waiting for 2010 to come and we will see what happens ;)

Here's Kardashev's original paper if you care to read it..
articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query [articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query]

GULF Research Center GRC Analysis: May 10, 8:35am 1 review economics, economic-integration, gcc-common-market, gulf-cooperation-council
http://www.grc.ae/index.php?frm_action=view_newsletter_web&sec_code=grcanalys...; Article: "Common Market More Important than Common Currency"
by Dr. Eckart Woertz, Economics Program Manager at the Gulf Research Center.
11 December, 2007.

Although it's rather old, it gives a very good summery about the important issues facing future GCC economic integration.

StumbleUpon - bhanumatis web site reviews and blog: May 10, 7:56am 208 reviews stumblers
http://bhanumati.stumbleupon.com/; One of the most welcoming, kindest, and friendliest souls I've met in SU..:)

StumbleUpon - mobilemastees profile - StumbleUpon: May 10, 2:26am 108 reviews stumblers
http://mobilemastee.stumbleupon.com/; I like your politics...and allow me to post this photo on my blog ;)

StumbleUpon - BilalCanbazs web site reviews and blog: May 10, 2:21am 2 reviews stumblers
http://bilalcanbaz.stumbleupon.com/; Loved the cat photo :D...nice selections too

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