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originally posted by: BGTM90
originally posted by: theworldisnotenough
originally posted by: BGTM90
originally posted by: theworldisnotenough
Here's an excerpt from the answer to the ehow question, "What do phytoplankton eat?"
"Along with sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, phytoplankton require a variety of other nutrients from the water including nitrogen, phosphorous and iron. The most important are nitrogen and phosphorous which are essential to survival and reproduction."
So, it seems that phytoplankton, like all plant life, need fertilizer.
From where does it get this fertilizer?
I'd venture a guess that aquatic fertilizer comes from other aquatic life, probably like cow dung from cow whales and urea from bull piss from bull whales, and a whole lot of waste from other sea creatures.
If those other sea creatures are exterminated by radiation sickness, then so will go phytoplankton as an indirect consequence of Fukushima.
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
a reply to: theworldisnotenough
We will run out of silly misleading scaremongering youtube videos many thousands of years before we run out of oxygen!
Hmmmm, maybe I should give up reading the Sunday Newark Star-Ledger.
You know, very recently, in a different Sunday newspaper, there was a major article on the subject of the problem of plastic microbeads in the sea.
You would be better concerned about us running out of helium
WHAAAAATTT??? No gelato AND no party balloons?
P.M.
Your logic is flawed how do you think theses plankton and other microbes survived before there was complex life? You know the earth started out with very little free oxygen and microbes converted C02 to oxygen long before there was complex life. And Heilium is used for much more than party balloons. But those are the main reason we are starting to run out.
CALLING ALL BIG SHOT EXPERTS:
Which came first: the chicken, the egg, or the bull crap... the bull whale crap, that is?
P.M.
I'm sorry I don't understand nonsensical babble. Maybe you can rephrase that with sentences and explain how it relates to my previous post.
originally posted by: theworldisnotenough
Why in the world should I waste my time and energy trying to explain anything to someone who doesn't even understand the meaning of a self-explanatory, self-defining, onomatopoetic word like "squoosh?"
"Squoosh," for sooth, is a very real word, the definition of which is formally included in world-renowned dictionaries.
You had the absolute nerve to admonish me for not doing simple searches to check reference materials before posting when you fail to do the very same thing.
Why didn't you look up the word, "squoosh," in your Funk and Wagnalls before attempting to embarrass me over the use of the word?
Henceforth, before you choose to bother me and attempt to wear me down to a frazzle, I strongly suggest that you...
Go Google it, yourself.
Go Bing it, yourself.
Go Funketh yourself.
P.M.
originally posted by: BGTM90
originally posted by: theworldisnotenough
Why in the world should I waste my time and energy trying to explain anything to someone who doesn't even understand the meaning of a self-explanatory, self-defining, onomatopoetic word like "squoosh?"
"Squoosh," for sooth, is a very real word, the definition of which is formally included in world-renowned dictionaries.
You had the absolute nerve to admonish me for not doing simple searches to check reference materials before posting when you fail to do the very same thing.
Why didn't you look up the word, "squoosh," in your Funk and Wagnalls before attempting to embarrass me over the use of the word?
Henceforth, before you choose to bother me and attempt to wear me down to a frazzle, I strongly suggest that you...
Go Google it, yourself.
Go Bing it, yourself.
Go Funketh yourself.
P.M.
I know what the word squoosh means my point was that it was an informal word and has no place in an explanation of a scientific process such as hydrodynamics.
originally posted by: theworldisnotenough
Well, I never claimed to be an expert.
Nevertheless, at least *I* know the difference between a postulate and a theory.