semi-failed attempts to reconstruct one Travis Hallenbeck posted that is now tastefully blurred out thanks to the geniuses who developed Firefox 3 and included a mandatory "zoom" feature that resamples or anti-aliases all html-enlarged content. Internet Explorer is now the go-to way to view such GIFs accurately.
the ones above were screen-captured, making the rotation rate erratic; in the bottom one the "pixels" are divided.
All art made for the Internet is doomed.
datamosh version - the "keyframe" is removed and the export function forgot to make it yellow
Clear, detailed, sobering chart from New Scientist shows how many years' supply is left of various minerals (zinc, copper, germanium, etc) if:
--the world consumes these materials at the current rate and
--if the world consumes them at half the current US consumption rate.
Also considered is how much each metal is currently recycled.
It's fair to say several will be mined out in our lifetimes. Any science fiction writer worth his or her sodium chloride can imagine that our future economy will be based on the barter value of various used-up metals, and the rise of feudal systems based not on land but hoarded recyclables in the hands of technologically endowed elites.
