25 Replies to “If This Is True, Why Do We Need NASA?”

  1. I used cloth diapers exclusively with out daughter. I found they were softer after about 5 or 6 times in the wash. and we went thru about 10 a day to avoid diaper rash on the little one.
    I still have one as a memento. try that with a friggin cloth diaper.

  2. I used cloth diapers exclusively with our daughter. I found they were softer after about 5 or 6 times in the wash. and we went thru about 10 a day to avoid diaper rash on the little one.
    I still have one as a memento. try that with a friggin cloth diaper.

  3. You used more energy and water than if you had used disposables, and you exposed your children to inadequately sterilized diapers.

  7. Disposable is the way to go. it helps the environment by making me less pissed off, the baby’s ass less chaped and Jack’s moustache twirlier.(methane and such)
    Syncro

  8. The United States of America has a land area of 9,631,420,000,000 m², so if we divide by 18,000,000,000 disposable diapers per year, we get one such disposable diaper per year per 535 m², or, taking the square root, for every 75 foot by 75 foot chunk of land.
    Well, I’m sure we can find space, but that does seem a rather high figure, at least to the extent that it would probably be a good idea to try to ensure that said disposed diapers degrade well. I mean, if a disposable diaper rots away cleanly in three years, then all we’ve got to stash away net net at any given time is three disposable diapers per 535 m². Under ideal conditions, that’s called fertilizer.
    Personally, I’m perfectly happy with re-usable cotton flannel underwear, but then, I don’t shit my pants any more. The most important thing is that we don’t go back to wool. Wool underwear sucks. That’s where the Luddites have it all wrong.
    By the way, did you know that Milton Friedman is dead. Last week, he wasn’t dead, this week, he’s dead. Life’s like that. Milton Friedman was one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. Did you know that? Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. On government, that’s it. When was the last time before them? Mister, do you know anything? Adam Smith, 1776, John Stuart Mill, 1859, is this so hard for you?
    What, you don’t believe me? Then get out. No, I kid you, do I look like a shmuck? Well, what can I say? Why don’t you listen to Mr. Friedman’s own words, on government, and hear what I mean. Where? Oy, do I have to tell you everything? Here:
    youtube.com/watch?v=Se_TJzB9-z0

  9. Speaking of economists, John Maynard Keynes had what I think is (quite literally) the last word on all our clever plans and scheming:
    “In the long run, we’re all dead.”

  12. take all “climatologist”s (new occupation invented for the 21st century) lay them end to end in a long row , leave them there.

  13. “[T]ake all ‘climatologist’s’ (new occupation invented for the 21st century) lay them end to end in a long row , leave them there.”
    That comment just begs for a great old Dorothy Parker line as a sequel:
    “If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”

  15. Funny one Kate,
    Long live the PAMPERS SPACE PROGRAM.
    Interesting, Disposable rockets again?
    When will they start adding up the Depends?
    Posted by: Some Poor Schmuck at November 18, 2006 03:32 AM
    That’s for when we want to go to Mars!

  16. About the only advantage that cloth diapers have over disposables is that a cloth diaper, washed three times or so, is the perfect thing for polishing shoes. Ask any Marine.

  17. According to the US census, there are just over 4 million berths per year in the US.
    18,000,000,000/4,000,000 = 4500
    4500/365 = 12.3
    That’s 3 diapers per child per day, for 4 years, with .3 left over. I don’t know much about kids…is it normal for them to wear diapers for 4 years???

  19. Poor me, my kids were all born before disposables were invented. But, diaper liners were available after the 4th arrived. Poor me, I had to haul water, heat it, use a washboard and wring out everything by hand. (anyone know what that is). Kids all survived, no diaper rash, lots of dusting rags. At least I didn’t have to make my own soap. Anyone priced out a dozen cloth diapers lately, especially designer diapers. Just think how many would be in the pile if it wasn’t for abortion.

  20. You used more energy and water than if you had used disposables, and you exposed your children to inadequately sterilized diapers.
    Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at November 18, 2006 01:46 AM ”
    this is the laughable leftist logic bar none:
    how much energy does it take to MANUFACTURE thousands of disposables as opposed to dunking the soiled cotton type in the toidy to get the majority of the ‘contents’ into the waste treatment system WHERE IT BELONGS, plus, no diaper is sterilized so that isnt an issue; cleanliness was maintained by far more frequent changes of the vastly cheaper cotton nappy.
    p.s. to Alex: the disposables prevent the ‘icky’ feeling of soiled cotton, so the disposable kid doesnt learn faster the thing about toilet training, so it is conceivable choice for disposables drags that change out longer. thus increasing sales…. egad !!! a conspiracy !!!

  21. mary T , you must be old , my sister who is 43 was occasionally diapered in disposables for travel. Me mudder had done the washboard ting for me wit the boiled water byjeezus,and da wringing ting. but den Id be more den 50 I wood.
    our own spawn had cotton except for travel as well.

  22. cal2: I have you beat in years by a couple of decades. As an aside, my grandmother, who died at age 97 in 1982 said she had lived thru a lot of things, from the telephone to a man on the moon, but in her opinion, the best invention was indoor plumbing and the hot water tank.

  23. My wife tried to start a cotton diaper and accessory business about 15 years ago. It went bust rather quickly.
    Cotton may be better for the kids and the environtment but nobody wants to scrape the crap out of them and then wash ’em. We could use a tax on baby turds. Where’s Jack and Dalton when you need them?

  24. My husband bought me a cappacino machine with which I made some soy lates. Absolutely the worst gas I (and my husband) ever experienced. And the soy curldles plugged up the cappacino maker. I’m sure all that gas burned a hole in the ozone layer, somewhere. The point I’m making is that all these environmentalists types are saying we have to go vegetarian, stop drinking milk, and stop doing this and stop from doing that if we’re going to save this planet. Well, I tell them that they’re contributing to global warming, too, after they drink one of those soy lates that they seem to enjoy so much. I say screw them.
    …Oh, and furthermore to this global warming thing, 10000 years ago when the ice was starting to recede, Indians burning fires at the base of the glaciers must have thought that the ice was melting because of the heat generated by the camp fires. Makes as much sense as it does Al Gore proposing a tax on polluting volcanoes. Don’t laugh…it could happen.

  25. I laugh at those who think that disposables are the spawn of the devil…generally the crowd of people that encourage the purity of non-epidural childbirth and yearn to attend summer solstice hand holding ceremonies under halos of blue smoke.
    Disposables work for us, no apologies offered. Our daughter’s now just past two and nearly potty trained (sorry Cal2, our excuse is a late start). There’s no question that we save time, mess and work by using disposables. But that just gives us more time and energy to continue the project of spoiling our child rotten with parental love. There’s no much free time in our daily grind so we’ll use products that help us keep more time for family. That may give the impression of laziness, but we are constantly working on our girl’s toilet skills…just exercising our freedom of choice not to use cloth.
    If someone wants to make diapers out of biodegradable palm leaves and dried grass, I’m happy they have the energy, time and initiative. We don’t. But we will try to do the important thing right: raise strong independent moral individuals having desires to increase the good in their worlds by practical means.

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