Convert aircraft to run on electricity.
cow plugs
December 18th: World "Hold your breath all day" day
Convert excess debutantes into mulch and fertilizer.
Install giant windmills facing Washington, DC, to collect the energy of all that hot air ...
Paint the whole world silver to increase albedo
Re-construct all roads so they run downhill to allow people to drive with their engines off.
Built cooling towers high enough to release heat to outer space
develop cars that run on Photosynthesis
Riding ostriches instead of cars/motorbikes/etc.
or using ostriches to pull cars. Lets do this in stages!
train monkeys to pull rickshaws
Train Rick Shaw to pull monkeys.
;D
L :D L!!!
Generate electricity from the static caused by negative campaign ads.
Invent a vessel that can circumnavigate the world using only windpower. Arrrrr...
Building code amendment: all newly constructed homes shall be grown, not built, from living plants.
Since it will likely take several decades to grow a detached single family home, treehouses shall be allowed as an interim measure until 2031.
mass suicide??
Connect plugholes in the UK and Australia and harness the energy where the reverse spiral force changes direction.
Attach all 2 year-olds to a spring-wound leash. As the child runs out to the end of the leash, the spring is wound. This would charge a battery-pack. When the pack is fully charged (typically about 10 minutes for an average child), it can be removed and plugged in to power the home. An additional pack may be then connected to the leash.
It is estimated that most cities have enough surplus 2 year old energy to meet most of the electrical needs. Larger cities will likely have surplus, that can be sent to the rural areas via existing power grid
Utilize the natural gas produced by feeding the family lots of beans. Also, teenagers with oily skin and hair can be vac-extracted for fuel oil.
turn on more air conditioning to stop global warming
Drop huge icecubes into the ocean to cool it down (Futurama tested method)
leave the fridge door open
Send a rocket crew out to the rings of Saturn. Attach rocket motors to one of the larger chunks of ice (several miles around, at least).
Bring ice-chunk back to low Earth orbit. In LOE, the upper atmosphere will graze the ice-chunk, melting the water, which Earth's gravity will pull down.
Keep adding giant ice-cubes into orbit, until the Earth is cooled off enough.
(variation of methods used in two different SciFi stories: The Martian Way, by Isaac Asimov, and Mother Of Storms, by John Barnes)
Nuclear winter.
Send the US Government to its room with no supper and NO Gameboy, computer or TV until they clean up their mess.
Give penguins the vote.
Get everyone to take a siesta in the afternoon, just after lunch
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 20, 2006, 05:02:39 AM
Utilize the natural gas produced by feeding the family lots of beans. Also, teenagers with oily skin and hair can be vac-extracted for fuel oil.
I'd make a lovely source for both; not a teenager though.
Put elastic bands round all volcanos, twist and release on collision course with the sun.
Require that soda water is produced with atmospheric CO2and make consumption of a gallon per day mandatory.
Give lashes per mile driven in a car according to the following formula:
# of lashes = 40/MPG
For example, someone driving a 10 mpg SUV would get 4 lashes per mile driven.
Quote from: anon1mat0 on October 22, 2006, 10:08:38 PM
Give lashes per mile driven in a car according to the following formula:
# of lashes = 40/MPG
For example, someone driving a 10 mpg SUV would get 4 lashes per mile driven.
What would be the lash-rate for passengers of limos? I'd say, that if you're a politician, it's a lash-per-mile, regardless of fuel-milage. But, then, that's just me - aaah
hates that rabbit-err-politician!
But limos are in the 10 to 20 mpg range, 2 to 4 lashes per mile.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Extra lashes for pretensiousness, please, especially those disgusting Hummer and Excursion limos.
5 lashes per mile penalty, to be divided among passengers, except for funerals, proms and Nobel Prize Ceremonies (Nobel limits of 10 miles per winner). For politicans and awards ceremoines/grand openings for movies and musicians, double lashes if they whine. :mrgreen:
convert standby swicthes to standoff
rainforests are warm and must add to global warming. get rid of rainforests!
Legislate that all warm-blooded animals must become cold-blooded within five years.
every house to have at least one crocodile as these absorb excess heat
Issue an electric guitar and amp to every person on Earth... then we'll be the coolest planet ever.
;D
always cook in the oven with the door closed. this stops heat escaping into the environment
Eat only fruit, berries and nuts!
Revoke 2nd law of thermodynamics and put job ads for Maxwell Demons into all major papers. (OK, that was nerdy)
use up all the oil and gas reserves
Goat Starer wrote:
"use up all the oil and gas reserves"
I thought we had!!!
not quite and the quickerr we finish the job the quicker we can stop carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. It is much the same argument as the one that says that a nuclear war is the best way to achieve disarmament!
Yeah but I like my arms!!!!
What about dismembering all humans (i.e. deleting their membership on this planet because of inappropriate behaviour)?
But no burial by cremation!!!
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 25, 2006, 02:55:54 PM
What about dismembering all humans (i.e. deleting their membership on this planet because of inappropriate behaviour)?
But no burial by cremation!!!
Unless you bury them in a deep fault-line, natural decay is the same as cremation, only slower ...
I say the solution is to make it illegal to
print multiple copies, and bring back carbon-paper.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 27, 2006, 07:21:17 PM
I say the solution is to make it illegal to print multiple copies, and bring back carbon-paper.
... but make 'em extract the carbon from atmospheric CO
2!
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on October 27, 2006, 07:53:27 PM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 27, 2006, 07:21:17 PM
I say the solution is to make it illegal to print multiple copies, and bring back carbon-paper.
... but make 'em extract the carbon from atmospheric CO2!
'ZACT-ly!
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on October 27, 2006, 07:53:27 PM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 27, 2006, 07:21:17 PM
I say the solution is to make it illegal to print multiple copies, and bring back carbon-paper.
... but make 'em extract the carbon from atmospheric CO2!
And replace log-burning hearths with carbon-paper burning hearths for when they are all used up so nothing copies any more.
Or, you could mandate that all shopping bags be made of used carbon-paper. This keeps the carbon in the "loop" a bit longer.
I think that all the people using dark hair dye should just use the left-over carbon paper on their heads, THEN recycle it into shopping bags.
I would also support the recycling of burned out, used up politicians into either cordwood or rat poison, depending on how rotten they are.
Black hair dye is itself critical. It decreases the world's albedo.
Therefore all black-haired people should dye their hair blond.
[no racism intended]
Maybe we should make tinfoil hats mandatory for the same reason.
Tinfoil hats as solar power collectors SHOULD be mandatory.
A good tinfoil hat, a couple of Peltier junctions and the proper reversible collectors/applications, and every person could provide their own energy, heating, cooling, refrigeration and cooking capacity.
With no fossil fuels used for electricity except for lighting, there would be a net savings on crud dumped into the air!!
(believe it or not, the following was a semi-serious proposial at a University)
Since one of the Greenhouse gasses is methane.
And, since it has been shown that cows emit methane as a normal part of their digestive process - especially domestic cows (they seem to emit more per cow than their wild cousins).
We should roof-over ALL cattle ranches. Large suction fans, mounted in these enclosures would circulate the air, and the methane would be chemically trapped, and later burned as fuel.
Moreover all those vast roofs could be a nice location for solar collector cells.
....
Now, if you could only do something about the smell ... *holding nose*
Ronnie Reagan's legacy lives on...
To effectively solve climate change, we need to collect the pollutants and problems, gather them together and put them into a spacecraft on a trajectory toward the Sun. It's hot enough there that a little Global Warming won't hurt.
Let's start with about 75% of Congress, 90% of the administration and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. That would be enough hot air to power the vehicle into space.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 29, 2006, 09:48:45 PM
Ronnie Reagan's legacy lives on...
To effectively solve climate change, we need to collect the pollutants and problems, gather them together and put them into a spacecraft on a trajectory toward the Sun. It's hot enough there that a little Global Warming won't hurt.
Let's start with about 75% of Congress, 90% of the administration and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. That would be enough hot air to power the vehicle into space.
Not to mention the congress-critter flatulance could be used to power the internal systems. I imagine the gas from Rush alone, would be enough for most of the 6 month trip.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 29, 2006, 09:42:05 PM
We should roof-over ALL cattle ranches. Large suction fans, mounted in these enclosures would circulate the air, and the methane would be chemically trapped, and later burned as fuel.
Moreover all those vast roofs could be a nice location for solar collector cells.
....
Now, if you could only do something about the smell ... *holding nose*
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on October 29, 2006, 09:48:45 PM
To effectively solve climate change, we need to collect the pollutants and problems, gather them together and put them into a spacecraft on a trajectory toward the Sun. It's hot enough there that a little Global Warming won't hurt.
Let's start with about 75% of Congress, 90% of the administration and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. That would be enough hot air to power the vehicle into space.
Actually, you two aren't that far off each other. It was similar thinking that led to the unique roof design of the Capitol dome; its success at capturing hot air and unpleasant emanations was the reason why was copied for many state legislatures.
The Canadian and British Parliament buildings used a different approach to the problem: instead of a large dome, they both have a system of ducts and tubes that feed a large combustion chamber, which then heats another set of ducts that heat the building (like an "indirect fired" heater or furnace, if you're up on your HVAC terminology). The system is completely unpowered; it relies on natural convection, hence the prominent tower on both buildings (the Peace Tower in the Canadian case, "Big Ben" in the British) to move air by an ingenious use of the pressure differentials caused by the stack effect (http://www.answers.com/topic/stack-effect); in both cases, the clock was added as decoration.
In the case of the US Capitol, the gases are fed through underground pipes* to the Washington Monument where they are burned as fuel for a giant boiler; this boiler feeds the heating system for the federal buildings around it. Interestingly, the Reflecting Pool is actually the reservoir for this system.
*Because of the distances involved, the American version can't use natural convection like the British and Canadian systems. Instead, the gases are propelled by a system of pumps and impellers; originally they were powered mechanically by a waterwheel on the Potomac (by means of shafts and cogs that ran the length from the river to the Capitol!)... in the 1840s this system was replaced by a coal-fired steam engine, and it was converted to electrical power twice: in 1905, the Edison Company installed a system to show the benefits of DC-current electricity; in 1908, the motors were replaced with AC units when it became apparent that Edison's widely-touted nation-wide DC distribution networks would not be forthcoming.
Another (serious idea) for the cattle methane is to feed them pills that reduce the methane production (anti-flatulence/burp).
There was also a proposal to tap the methane right at the source.
CH4 is about 20 times more potent than CO2 but burning CH4 produces only 1 molecule of CO2 (and 2 H2O) therefore burning methane is a net improvement.
For how to solve Climate Change - See my posting for Chuck Norris!
Cross-threading from Daylight Savings
Quote from: goat starer on October 31, 2006, 05:46:42 PM
Why can we not put a vast reflector in space and have sunlight all the time.
And a vast reflector on earth would tie daylight savings in nicely with global cooling.
Awake the great sun dragon that will put his black wings in front of the sun and stop its rays coming here. Hot air from radio/TV/congress/etc. will be sufficient to bring us through the ice age.
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 31, 2006, 12:54:31 PM
Another (serious idea) for the cattle methane is to feed them pills that reduce the methane production (anti-flatulence/burp).
There was also a proposal to tap the methane right at the source.
CH4 is about 20 times more potent than CO2 but burning CH4 produces only 1 molecule of CO2 (and 2 H2O) therefore burning methane is a net improvement.
I can see it now: cows wandering about, with a metal contraption affixed to their neither-ends, merrily spinning and popping with occasional puffs of steam. There would be an antenna-sort of thing, that would beam the power to nearby receivers, via microwaves....
(been reading too much of a comic entitled Girl Genius, which is a delightful mix of Victorian England, science fiction, mad science and Gothic horror. Link to Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/) )
The methane collector gear is probably only suitable for stable based cattle (that'd be just one more step of exploitation of animal misery).
Teaching the cows to poop and burp only into receivers installed on the pasture is unfortunately not an option. Bovines are simply too dense for that.
Have warmer winters so less heating is needed.
It'll be cozy until the Haline Conveyor stops. I love the fruit loops that say the currents are caused by the spin of the Earth.
MB
Build a giant laser to beam all that excess energy off into space.
Hollow the world out so that the excess water from the melting polar ice caps can drain into the centre of the earth.
That needs a diagram...I'll work on it.
Drat! Again my post was eaten.
Use some of those excess nukes to battle global warming with nukkular winter.
Mad scientist/politician alert: This is a real-world idea that Bush hopefully hasn't heard about yet or he will justify his nukes-on-Iran folly as a decisive act against both terrorism and climate change.
lets just not bother. it is currently december, nica and warm, we are having exciting tornados and everything is lovely! lets have more global warming.
PS. The british hospitality industry have taken the 'make warmer winters' suggestion above seriosly and are doing this by using patio heaters to 'heat the outside' which a) defeats the object as they run on gas and b) is a blinking stupid idea in the first place.
You can thank the smoking ban for that one. It made the outside heater people's year.
Randomly fire heatseeking missiles. People will be quite qick to reduce their thermal signature (and the solid exhaust of the missiles will create a nice cooling fog as an extra for free).
The solution is what in your mother told you:
"Close the darn door! You're letting all the heat out."
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 19, 2006, 12:10:55 PM
Drat! Again my post was eaten.
Use some of those excess nukes to battle global warming with nukkular winter.
Mad scientist/politician alert: This is a real-world idea that Bush hopefully hasn't heard about yet or he will justify his nukes-on-Iran folly as a decisive act against both terrorism and climate change.
How was your post eaten? Let me know cause I don't see errors in the error log. Well I guess I should look again.
Presumably it was Goat.
Must have been. No errors in the log.
Happened several times in the last few days that I posted but the post did not appear (and I did not just use preview and forgot to actually click POST)
You forgot to click post?
This has happened to me too on a few occasions recently. click post and it looks like it has gone through but does not appear.
I did not eat any posts although I wanted to!
Climate change solution:
Swap the "cold" months between the northern and southern hemispheres. i.e.:
| Old: | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| New - N: | Jul2 | Aug2 | Sep2 | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Apr2 | May2 | Jun2 |
| New - S: | Jan | Feb | Mar | Oct2 | Nov2 | Dec2 | Jan2 | Feb2 | Mar2 | Oct | Nov | Dec |
That'll solve everything! I mean, look at today: it's way too warm here for December, but it's actually
cold for June II! What global warming?! ;D
In the same vein: Change the temperature scale (from Celsius to Reaumur already saves 20%)
Take a cue from Winnie the Pooh and hire people to wander the streets saying, "tut, tut. Looks like snow."
Get the worst weather forecaster you can find and let him predict hot weather on a permanent base.
Its obvious that all that ice at the poles is in the wrong place - no need to cool the poles, is there? So break all the ice sheets up and tow them to the equator where they can be of some use!
And get some extra ice from the Saturn moons (nod to Futurama)
Encourage tailgating*
*There is some theoretical foundation for this. If you can fit in more cars per mile at a given speed, then this increases the capacity of the road in cars per hour as well. Since the auto volumes stay the same and the capacity increases, congestion would go do down, and vehicle emissions would decrease as well!
So... next time someone flips you the bird for riding their bumper, at the next stoplight politely explain that you're doing your part for the environment! ;D
Always exhale into a paper bag.
Change the moon orbit in a way that there is a daily eclipse. That will cool down the area. Moving the moon nearer to Earth (it's escaping!) would increase the effect.
I know at least one person that actually thinks we should prepare a change in the Earth orbit to avoid us being all grilled when the Sun goes red giant. I think we have problems a bit more time sensitive right now.
Let's hitch the Moon to a giant solar sail and have it slowly move the Earth back from the sun. ;D
Encourage more people to share their homes with furpersons, as they're excellent sources of warm on cold nights, thus cutting the need for heating fuels.
We're big on dogs and cats, but larger beings of furritude would be excellent companions as well!!
Invent a high-throughput photosynthetic membrane filter for the CO2
Quote from: Griffin NoName The Watson of Sherlock on November 01, 2006, 02:03:13 AM
Cross-threading from Daylight Savings
Quote from: goat starer on October 31, 2006, 05:46:42 PM
Why can we not put a vast reflector in space and have sunlight all the time.
And a vast reflector on earth would tie daylight savings in nicely with global cooling.
The
US IPCC (http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1999968,00.html) have clearly infiltrated the Monastery ::)
The idea about reflectors down here or in orbit are actually discussed (although often with military intent)
Tamper with fuel supplies (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405701.stm) so everyone's car engines get busted.
Follow the Australian method (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070306-warming-credits.html).
Develop either a cow emission catalyst or at least install an afterburner.
Quote from: Griffin NoName The Watson of Sherlock on March 15, 2007, 12:18:42 AM
Follow the Australian method (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070306-warming-credits.html).
I'd prefer to make my pets carbon-neutral by developing quartz-based lifeforms.
I just want to find an odor-eliminator for aging Schnauzers. I love Spencer dearly, but he got a bite of people food the other day, and I had to abandon my bed at 3AM to find an air spray.
Maybe a miniature unit of something designed for cows...
Replacing O2 with O3 would do that job but unfortunately have corrosive side-effects. ::)
Have you tried activated charcoal? I believe you can purchase doggy treat type things that have this in it and it they are supposed to help with the "gas problem".
Hi yall,Animals exhale less when hibernating.Everybody ..GET MORE SLEEP! :D
During the day plants consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen but during the night they use a different process consuming parts of the day output.
So we should find a method to keep the major forests in permanent daylight while keeping the cities in darkness (so people can take the extra sleep recommended above).
The only solution I see is a system of blends and mirrors around the Earth (and spray-painting the moon silver).
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 20, 2007, 02:04:01 PM
The only solution I see is a system of blends and mirrors around the Earth (and spray-painting the moon silver).
I vaguely remember a picture from a magazine when I was little showing a "vision of the future" of mobile cities on giant legs. Maybe that would work.
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 20, 2007, 02:04:01 PM
During the day plants consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen but during the night they use a different process consuming parts of the day output.
Sounds like they modelled themselves on the electric storage heater. ;D
Apologies for double post but I just thought of another way to solve climate change.
Have an International agreement that space exploration will only be done during the day so they wouldn't need to have any lights on in the space craft.
On a related but more serious note, I heard in the radio that some Nasa engineers proposed using high altitude planes leaving water vapor trails during the day (consistent with the findings of the post 9-11 plane grounding).
At least better than that (real world) idea of shooting sulphur into the upper atmosphere as a coolant.
Force everyone to watch Superstorm (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/wk16/feature_superstorm.shtml). Capture the combined rise in blood pressure and use it to divert climate change to another planet.
Lengthen all factory smokestacks so that all pollution is expelled directly into space.
That reminds me of the *idea* I had years ago regarding the ozone layer: If ozone is a pollutant at ground level why not expelling with very high smokestacks? Or move the plants to the south pole... ;)
I just transfered my video recording of Millenium Night to DVD and was thinking banning fireworks on Milleniums would help.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on May 25, 2007, 01:17:54 AM
That reminds me of the *idea* I had years ago regarding the ozone layer: If ozone is a pollutant at ground level why not expelling with very high smokestacks?
Or put all the laser printers up there and have the printout fall back.
Quote from: Griffin
I just transfered my video recording of Millenium Night to DVD and was thinking banning fireworks on Milleniums would help.
Nah, all the smoke helps with global dimming. That's why we need volcanoes and wars too.
I won't let off any fireworks next millenium if you don't. probably just time to get the legislation through if we start now.
The daffodils are out in Kew Gardens a whole MONTH early. Nuke daffs !!!!!
Eat Baked Mini Cheddars.
With each one eaten, hold breath while munching.
On swallowing, swallow breath as well.
Swallow as many as possible without compromising the outlet at the rear end of your body.
As quickly as possible, encase your body in non-permeative zipper suit.
Jump into pre-prepared lead lined box, preferably on a pre-exisiting landfill site. Close auto-locking lid.
And hope you don't die.
Set up giant, giant fans on every mountain range on the planet. Power it by putting all bankers, congressmen/Parliamentarians, bureaucratic officiasl, and all cabinet, staff, and governmental board of every nation, for three hours every in rotation, on a wheel. Like the ones you find in hamster cages. Also include rodent water bottles and pellets made of my grandmother's granola (you can trek across the planet with it, but it tastes like shite).
Move all human population to heights of 4000mts/12000ft or higher*. Less O2 breathed, less CO2 created. ;)
* as a side benefit malaria will be eradicated.
Organize a meeting of Sarah Palin with the comittee of Polar Bears on neutral ground (e.g. an ice floe in the Bering Strait). No firearms allowed.
Stop all the glaciologists, seismologists and cliamtologists from going to Greenland (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/01/sermilik-fjord-greenland-global-warming) and spreading their body heat.
All exhausts (including breathing) should be aimed at the sun*, so the recoil moves us slowly into an orbit farther from it (and therefore cooler).
*For maximum effectiveness it would be slightly off-center but that might be too complicated for most people. Other directions are not advisable because we don't want to meddle with the daily rotation period or the orbit shape.
...or by extension, remove all human population from the hemispheres during their respective winters.
Pour white paint (non-toxic preferable) on the ocean surface to increase the albedo
The US Republican party seems to be an inexhaustible source of energy- they waste enough of it complaining about absolutely everything. Do you think it could be harnessed and used as alternative fuel? We would never have to mine fossil fuel again.
Would that be Neothermal energy? :mrgreen: We need to start a company for that! Neoron?
More like Neaderthermal energy. ::)
(no disrespect to our heavy-browed relatives)
On a serious note, does anyone know where I can get a truck-mounted portable flash pyrolysis unit?
I Think the GOP mainly produces entropic heat that can't be used
We could boil them down for their oil and burn that...
I think we already had that. Too toxic.
Incredibly there isn't a viable way to extract energy from such loud repetitive behavior.
"Sticks and stones can break my bones but your words can't hurt me" might have worked in elementary school but it's amazing how much damage some words can do after repeating them thousands of times.
Given that the only way to extract energy from them would involve fusion of heavy elements, the whole discussion is, well, a waste of energy.
--
A veritable way to solve climate change would involve gags in some key mouths.
Leading US conservatives are colder than ice. Drop them in the Arctic and ask them to show empathy.
Have a financial recession.
Equip all cattle with an afterburner* to get rid of the methane.
in German the anus is known as the After btw :mrgreen:
They'll need a forward-burner too, they burp methane.
Yeah, I know but it does not sound as funny.
And how can they eat if the things is in front of their feeding hole. Maybe the catalysator has to be installed in their esophagus or first stomach.
Can we just feed them Beano?
Hey, no serious proposals in this thread! :o ;)
So, a tent made of a non-permeable material on top of said cows is a serious or non-serious proposal?
:P :mrgreen:
Wouldn't that float away after some time?
If properly made it would inflate a bit while it collects the methane and you put piping on top to pull it out to a generator. It's likely to be far from being cost effective but depending on the amount of methane burped proportional to the air on top of the 'tent' it may be workable.
Can't we just put plumbing in them to collect the gas?
Cyborg cows?
Cows with colostomy bags?
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on September 23, 2009, 02:08:41 AM
Can't we just put plumbing in them to collect the gas?
We discussed that already. Putting a tube into the anus is (relatively) easy and putting a storage tank on the cow's back too (direct connection to the stables is impractical or the tubes of the whole herd would intertwine during the day). But how to get to the burping methane without blocking the mouth and/or esophagus? A one-way valve would get stuck soon by the solids going down (and it has to go up again for rumination anyway).
Was it serious? :mrgreen:
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on September 23, 2009, 10:55:14 AM
Was it serious? :mrgreen:
There were indeed serious plans for anti-burping pills for cows in order to reduce methane emissions.
What about human flatulence? What do we do for that?
I think the main problem there is not the methane but the sulphur compounds.
Some interesting info can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence) and of course in the Historia naturalis vaporum (http://www.amazon.de/Historia-Naturalis-Vaporum-Naturgeschichte-F%C3%BCrze/dp/3936611017)
Spread rumors that higher temperatures and CO2 levels turn kids gay and increase the probability of conversions to Islam. (for Islamists drop the latter and add "increases the brain power of females")
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 14, 2009, 11:09:39 AM
... and increase the probability of conversions to Islam.
Islam arose and set it's foot hold in desertic areas, so it's plausible that if more desertification happens more 'sense' the nomad Bedouin ethos will make. ;)
But Judaism also came from the desert (and Jesus did a diet there too)
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 23, 2009, 02:42:13 PM
I think the main problem there is not the methane but the sulphur compounds.
Some interesting info can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence) and of course in the Historia naturalis vaporum (http://www.amazon.de/Historia-Naturalis-Vaporum-Naturgeschichte-F%C3%BCrze/dp/3936611017)
Well, there's 10 minutes I won't get back.... on the other hand, my knowledge of exceedingly trivial biology has been enhanced.
:mrgreen: :ROFL: