OT: Rebellion of plants, no more oxygen

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

How would you greenie treehuggers like it if the government of plants decided they'd reduce their oxygen emissions? We need it to breathe. They need CO2 to breathe.

[Andrew]

I think they have since the era of T-rex.

Oxygen levels were thought to be as high as 32% in those days.

Where did all the nitrogen come from ?.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Go troll your shit somewhere else Hucker.

[Andy Bennet]

BONUS - Just think - if you stop breathing there will be more for the rest of us.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

+1

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

If I saw you in need of CPR, I'd make sure I suffocated you.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I'll put him down as a Green Party loonie.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

It was a perfectly sensible comment.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

More CO2 aswell,and funnily enough the world didn't end.

It's inert, I don't care. Look it up if you want.

[Brian Gaff]

Well, what brought this on?

Funnily enough, one of the Nobel prise winners was talking about an enzyme to split Co2 down to carbon and Oxygen making energy in the form of carbon and oxygen. I guess you could cycle it around for ever, but surely some energy would be needed, just like a plant does. The perpetual motion machine does not exist, there are always inefficiencies that mean you end up using more energy than you create. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Minerals in the soil. I'm not going to go into biology, and what happens to nitrogen here. I think a lot of the answers lies inside stars when they create elements, at the moment the Japanese space probe looking at that asteroid might be able to throw up a lot of answers as they are looking at the left over from creation of the Planets. Why is there so much nitrogen in Neptune's Atmosphere,and for that matter how come the gas giants all have different gasses in them, proportionately?

I don't believe plants have a government, and the start of this thread was probably a troll, but like climbing mountains cos they are there, it seems a shame not to promote an off topic thread that at least at the moment is nothing to do with politics, immigration or religious discrimination or indeed colour of skin. Plants come in all shapes and sizes. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Do you realise there are more cells in your body which are not of human origin than those which are. Between the flora and fauna on your skin and the organisms in your gut that is.

So its not just plants that we need. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

If we are talking about moral things and all that, there is an old book called The Death of Metal, that I read as a kid which although very far fetched, did make me think. Brian

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Way too much bacteria around, we could do without that for a start.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I was no trolling, it was a fair point. CO2 is food for plants. Trying to cut down the emissions of it is pure insanity.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

The incessant whining of treehuggers brought it on. I think the last occurrence was "CO2 Neutral" written on a delivery to my house.

I assume the enzyme absorbs energy from sunlight, most biofuel creation devices do this.

[Andrew]

After watching the first day opening of Primark in Oxford St (*)and a Black Friday event at a UK Walmart, I think there will some fascinating youtube videos of peoples behaviour if a nice big asteroid ever heads our way.

(*) Entire door ripped off by the mad crowd.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Some people are beyond help. I do laugh when I hear of people being trampled while trying to escape from a fire. You'd never get ants doing that to each other.

A nice big catastrophe like an asteroid would seperate the wheat from the chaff.

[Bill Wright]

Quite rude I thought.

Bill