Comments on: Sordid History of the Salton Sea

By: ValiantDefender

ValiantDefender — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:42:13 +0000

[quote]JoseOleMexico said: “:) I am 100% sure that it was Adam’s choice, and 110% sure that God deserves to be praised for eternity!”[/quote]

Um silly stories that don’t even come close to the true events don’t really illustrate anything.

Its really sad that we can create an destroy something so quickly. Just to put it in perspective, it was created just before my grandmother was born, and was too toxic to use a decade before i was born. What a waste.

By: Clondyke

Clondyke — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:41:57 +0000

[quote]glocke380 said: “One thing not mentioned in the article is that across the border in Mexico there is a huge industrial area that dumps all of it’s waste in a creek that flows straight into the Salton Sea, You can see it a with Google earth, it comes out of Mexicali Mexico.”[/quote]

It was not mentioned because it does not matter – that is what the officials of the Salton Sea say temselves…look here:

http://www.saltonsea.ca.gov/ss101.htm

Short quote from that page:
“Myth 1: Pollution from Mexico enters the Salton Sea

That the New River polluting the Salton Sea is something that you have probably heard. Actually, the water carried by the New River doesn’t appear to be a major factor for the Sea’s difficulties. Yes, the New River is polluted. Yes, biological and industrial waste flows into it in Mexico. Yet only 30 percent of the water in the New River comes from Mexicali, and most of that is agricultural discharge. By the time the water crosses the border and travels the 67 miles to the Salton Sea its quality is similar to that of the Alamo River. Waste from Mexico is treated naturally in the river and is diluted by agricultural drain water from Imperial Valley.”

So blaming Mexico for the Salton Sea desaster does not work, sorry… ;-)

By: Gemfyre

Gemfyre — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:18:32 +0000

alipardiwala said: "Why is it a wildlife preserve if its dangerous to human and animalkind?"

Because human's don't want to deal with of course. Let nature have all the ruined places, we humans want the lovely, virgin arable land so we can screw that up too.

By: sexysalt

sexysalt — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:29:22 +0000

Depending on your interest, I made a documentary film, “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea” (narrated by John Waters), which documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beach, Niland, and Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea. http://www.saltonseadoc.com

By: alipardiwala

alipardiwala — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:47:15 +0000

Adam and the ruddy apple have nothing to do with the salton sea.
JoseOleMexico… You have too much free time.

By: JoseOleMexico

JoseOleMexico — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:34:02 +0000

Once upon a time there was a guy named Joe. One day, after numerous days of sitting around doing absolutely nothing at all, he decided he was bored and just a little bit lonely. So he decided to make a buddy that could please him and worship him and tell him how great he was. After he made his buddy, he realized that his new buddy might need someone to hang out with. So Joe made his buddy a buddy. Joe’s two buddies didn’t know much. They didn’t grow up and make mistakes and learn from them. They just came into existance with a full-grown adult body containing the mind of a newborn. The groundwork for their code of conduct came from Joe himself, and consisted of only a few easy rules – you are here for the purpose of pleasing Joe, and also don’t eat any of that fruit from the center tree which looks a lot like all the other fruit. They had no working knowledge of the concepts of right or wrong. Joe enjoyed spending time with his buddies, and most of the time he did so. Sometimes he got bored with this game and opted to just observe his buddies from a nearby hiding spot. One day he noticed his old best friend Luke walking through the garden where his two buddies happened to be sunbathing. (Luke used to be Joe’s closest and most trusted friend, but a while ago there was a falling out, and they were no longer friends. Of minor significance in the dispute was that Luke stopped being nice and actually became a real jerk. He started lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, etc, etc…..and did so quite frequently and effectively.) So when Joe sees Luke strolling towards his new best two buddies what does he do? Does he hang around for another game of hide and seek with his two best buds? Nope! He decides to go play the “hide behind the tall grass and watch my buddies game”. So Luke comes up to the two young toddler-minded, ever-trusting-because-they-have-no-reason-to-think otherwise teenagers. He quickly earns their friendship and begins to have a wonderful time with them. After a while they are all hungry, and being that Luke is the most clever person in history, he manages to talk the two most naive kids in history into having a bite of the biggest, juiciest, most fragrant apple in the orchard.

Joe observes all of this, and decides he’s had enough. He jumps out from behind the grass, and in a beligerent attack, he verbally abuses all three unsuspecting targets. He curses all three for eternity, but piles the majority of the blame on the shoulders of not the slick salesman, but the two mindless kids.

:) I am 100% sure that it was Adam’s choice, and 110% sure that God deserves to be praised for eternity!

By: glocke380

glocke380 — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:52:27 +0000

One thing not mentioned in the article is that across the border in Mexico there is a huge industrial area that dumps all of it’s waste in a creek that flows straight into the Salton Sea, You can see it a with Google earth, it comes out of Mexicali Mexico.

By: JustAnotherName

JustAnotherName — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:13:31 +0000

MaddMan said: "Wasn't man perfect until Adam supposedly ate the wrong piece of fruit?"

Yes. He was perfect until he disobeyed God. You see, the thing about Gods human creation is he gave us free will. Humans could make their own choices. Adam chose to disobey. He was not tricked.

Sorry, the off topic thing was for Crispy. : )

By: JustAnotherName

JustAnotherName — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:09:18 +0000

MaddMan said: "Yeah, sucks that Adam ate that apple."

Ahem. Just an FYI. It was a piece of fruit. What type is unknown. Don't worry about the Off Topic thing.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:22:11 +0000

But if Adam was able to be tricked into eating the fruit, then logically he couldn't be perfect, could he?

Heh, my first post on this website is off-topic... that's not a good start. :-)