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- ThinkBox, on 03/05/2008, -7/+51Yeah, I just hope nobody is spawn camping...
- Salmonc, on 03/05/2008, -7/+42So... Who else thought the thumbnail was Steve Jobs?
- ZeroSumDivide, on 03/05/2008, -13/+31But what of the horrors of dihydrogen oxide?!
- elscorcho717, on 03/05/2008, -4/+17Anyone else actually realize that they're talking about fart gas? The main chemical that makes rotten eggs and flatulence smell the way they do is hydrogen sulfide. So essentially they'd be shooting your heart full of eau de fart in order to keep you alive...
- MasterJediDan, on 03/06/2008, -1/+14dihydrogen monoxide!! because someone was being wrong, and i can't let them keep being wrong... http://xkcd.com/386/
- Shiftyeyedgoat, on 03/05/2008, -10/+22"Hydrogen sulfide in the oceans & atmosphere turned the sky green and choked off oxygen for plants..."
6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
Plants consume CO2, not oxygen.
Learn2/photosynthesis. - Buddhist, on 03/06/2008, -1/+9Just for that, I'm digging you up.
- Jo9100, on 03/06/2008, -1/+8Don't plants respirate too? Like at night?
- darlyn, on 03/06/2008, -1/+8***** misleading title, I thought we finally had zombies. Still dugg for TED, though.
- ironyCurtain, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7Right, it's the toxic Hydrogen Sulfide that kills plants.That's what they are investigating with the atmospheric chambers. I got a chance to hear this an in-depth lecture on this by Ward recently at UW. Quite fascinating stuff.
- Buddhist, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7If believing in evolution is naive, what is the adjective for one who believes in Creationism?
- ICSU, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7Can global warming and evolution deniers ever make a point without quote mining?
Full context:
"This really is a long way off. This is something that's going to take thousands of years. The oceans take a long time to change from oxygenated to a place where there is no oxygen on the bottom. But once it starts, you can't stop it.
I think sea-level rise is a more imminent danger. The thing that we have to do is, we have to save the ice caps, because if the ice caps go, (the hydrogen sulfide scenario) is the inevitable next step. One thousand ppm (of CO2) is all it would take to get rid of all the ice caps on the planet. We'll be at 1,000 in 200 years or less. Which means good-bye ice caps on planet Earth, which means 240 feet of sea level, which means good-bye San Francisco, Seattle, New York and on and on.
But if losing the ice caps makes us uncomfortable [because of rising water], the hydrogen sulfide is going to make us extinct. In 500 years, I can see a world where everyone will be wearing gas masks. Those that [have] them will live; those that don't will die. We humans are here for the long haul, and if we do not stop heating our atmosphere, we will suffer a very nasty fate." - fluxion, on 03/06/2008, -0/+7200 years or less. pfft, ***** those people. it's all about me me me right now!
- ICSU, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6It makes 75% of my body so watch out!
- sega01, on 03/06/2008, -11/+17Wow, no comments above a +2 digg rating. Somehow I feel this comment will be below that number as well.
- kalisam, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6***** retarded
- thebellmaster1x, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6God, did you even read the DESCRIPTION? "Millions of years before the dinosaurs were apparently killed"
This has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Dinosaurs didn't come into being until the Triassic. This is about the Permian era. - capiCrimm, on 03/05/2008, -3/+8It makes hair grow on your palms I hear, nasty stuff. But it's already banned in most countries, I believe, so no worries.
- tattertech, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5Damn, way to link to it before me!
- smurfsahoy, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4If you're being sarcastic it's a pretty flat joke. If not, you're just very wrong. Plants DO breathe oxygen (less than the amount of CO2 it takes to make the sugars for using that oxygen) and ocean currents absolutely oxygenate the ocean. 7th grade science classes would indeed tell him he is wrong. College biology classes would not. Guess you fit into the first category.
- Buddhist, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4You won't be saying that with the plastic bag over your head.
- masterm1nd, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4You're right, ban water.
- CranberryMuffin, on 03/06/2008, -0/+4It is pretty amazing.
However, they aren't bringing people back from the dead for treatment. The H2S effectively kills them (though the heart is beating about once a minute, as mentioned). And THEN they bring them back for treatment.
Still damn amazing, but it can't really do anything for you once you're actually dead. - noseeme, on 03/06/2008, -2/+6You are wrong. Yes, plants use CO_2_ in photosynthesis, but their cells also use O_2_ for respiration. However, the output of carbon dioxide is less than the output of oxygen.
- encrypteduser, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Who knew water was so dangerous?
- alpharaptor, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3i guess sarcasm is a lost art form /sarcasm
- tehmark, on 03/05/2008, -3/+6OH NOES
- norman619, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3No no no. Bush is just a puppet for THEM. They are into everything.
- Buddhist, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3No noobs on the server
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -1/+4In 4 mutha ***** days!
- fluxion, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2no, it's us...faster than the volcanoes did it. read the article kthx
- Enasni1212, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Plants do respirate, and there's also something called photorespiration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorespiration [which is actually a flaw in the photosynthesis process]) but they still have a net output of O2. In other words, if all the O2 in the atmosphere suddenly disappeared, plants wouldn't have anything _immediate_ to worry about.
- jburka, on 03/08/2008, -0/+2H2S is now know to be a natural gaseous mediator in the body, involved in both health and disease. A Digg story a few weeks ago also provided a scientific study showing that the beneficial effects of garlic are due to H2S. Amazing what we have learned and still have to learn!
- offspring06, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Oh well at least it will bring us back to life.
- nirav72, on 03/05/2008, -5/+7Who farted?
- ironyCurtain, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Lakes have oxygen because they overturn every winter when cold temperatures create a convection cell in the lake. Lakes in places near the equator that have little temperature changes throughout the year don't have this overturning and often have very low levels of oxygen.
Waves are pretty insignificant compared to thermohaline ocean currents which are global and transport huge amounts of water from the surface to the bottom of the ocean in a complicated worldwide pattern that brings oxygen to the ocean depths. Ocean currents caused by wind only affect the top 400m or so of water, whereas some of the most significant mixing of the ocean is driven by density differences. Without polar ice caps this overturning can't happen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulat ...
Try reading something before you spout of accusations of "scamming", especially a well-respected paleontologist like Ward. - ioral, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Afaik, It's both. CH4 makes fart burn. H2S makes fart stink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
- ironyCurtain, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2I hadn't thought of that, but it's a good point. It's an essential process for plants. Good call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_respiration - unpluggedboy, on 03/06/2008, -1/+3Best comment I've seen this month
- Enasni1212, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2If you're basing that on the article, you didn't read the whole thing.
- ironyCurtain, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2That should have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulat ...
- jp12380, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Fake!
No digger has a girlfriend let alone a wife which would be required to have a mother in law! - TurboBeard, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2How has no one screamed "ZOMBIES!!!11!!" yet?
Slowing down the metabolism? Clinical induced death? Not knowing how it might effect one's brain and memory???
ZOMBIES!1!1!!! - gradivus, on 03/06/2008, -1/+2At my current rate of growth (5'11'' in 27 years) I will be 109' feet tall. Its a good thing current trends have variables and can change. Also unless a giant continent forming volcano erupts this wont happen.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1I got the joke. FYI stink bombs contain ammonium sulfate which hydrolyzes with moisture in the air and releases hydrogen sulfide (...and ammonia). Anyways, the point is that hydrogen sulfide smells bad, and it's one of many gases released during flatulence. Eh?
- smurfsahoy, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Plants do not use an insigificant amount of oxygen. Plants on the whole probably respirate about as much or more than the animal kingdom (much more plant mass, but plants operate at lower temperatures, more slowly, etc.). Certainly not insignificant in any case...
- rachiecakes7, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Yes, I did understand that. As I said in a response to another comment, it is a way to buy some time. The same they can bring someone back from clinical death after a heart attack or drowning, this new procedure would allow the medic to create a window of time in which the patient could be suspended with the induced death. Then, when the treatment is available, they are brought back life to receive treatment for whatever may have caused permanent death before.
It is temporary induced death to allow treatment to avoid permanent death. - smackafiyah, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Bravo
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1The extinction was probably caused by a super-volcano which produces much more gas than super-burritos.
- inactive, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1If you are farting hydrogen sulfide, then I'm scared of you.
Hydrogen sulfite is usually produced by volcanoes so you are farting mass destruction. -
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