Life My public health warning to the world. - Page 3

**Rain Man** · 10-22-2015, 04:27 PM

I was thinking about this today.

I had a Coke, and as you know, the bottle is sealed. I finished my liquid poison and started to throw it away. As a neat person, I put the lid back on, and then gasped with alarm as I understood the implications.

I present to you the following facts:

1. Plastic soda and water bottles degrade very slowly over thousands of years.
2. The lids on these bottles seal tightly.
3. If you put the lid on before throwing it away, you essentially seal air into the bottle.
4. The earth is a closed system.

If you put all of these pieces together, the truth becomes evident. If you put the lid on your soda bottle before throwing it away, you seal away some air into a container that won't degrade for thousands of years. In essence, you're removing air from the environment.

If we keep doing this, we will all eventually die of suffocation as all of the atmosphere ends up in landfills inside sealed soda bottles and water bottles. It's just a matter of time.

So when you throw your bottle away, don't put the lid on it or we'll all die. Or I guess you could recycle it.

Psyko Tek · 10-22-2015, 07:27 PM

rainman ,
you are underthinking this

you are sending your germs, and carbon dioxide years in to the future
where all at once all the plastic bottles from the last 30 some years will explode
creating a wasteland Mad Max would live in fear of

that's what you should worry about

\

listopencil · 10-22-2015, 07:31 PM

I breathe extra air into my bottles before sealing. **** you all. All of you. We all gotta die someday.

splatbass · 10-22-2015, 07:47 PM

You are looking at this wrong. You are sealing in the air for future use. When we run out we just need to dig up bottles. It is like conservation.

Rasputin · 10-22-2015, 08:40 PM

You could capture a fart in that said coke bottle and seal it for 20-200-2,000 years for someone to open up and take a whiff.

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**Rain Man** · 10-22-2015, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

rainman ,
you are underthinking this

you are sending your germs, and carbon dioxide years in to the future
where all at once all the plastic bottles from the last 30 some years will explode
creating a wasteland Mad Max would live in fear of

that's what you should worry about

\

Frankly, the whole thing seems like a ticking time bomb. We need to go back to cans before our entire species disappears.

Squalor2 · 10-22-2015, 09:23 PM

i thought you were a root beer man, coke? what was your gateway soda? something by faygo i bet

Psyko Tek · 10-22-2015, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Frankly, the whole thing seems like a ticking time bomb. We need to go back to cans before our entire species disappears.

if we don't reseal them the future is safe from us,
at least in that aspect

**Rain Man** · 10-22-2015, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squalor2

i thought you were a root beer man, coke? what was your gateway soda? something by faygo i bet

A&W root beer is great, but I'm now a Pibb Extra and Dr. Pepper man. I started with A&W, though.

Squalor2 · 10-22-2015, 10:00 PM

a&w is the best. don't have pibb here any more, wish we did. an ice cold barq bottle is fine. got a relatives story about coke if you wanna hear it.

**Rain Man** · 10-22-2015, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squalor2

a&w is the best. don't have pibb here any more, wish we did. an ice cold barq bottle is fine. got a relatives story about coke if you wanna hear it.

As long as it doesn't involve removing oxygen from the atmosphere.

Squalor2 · 10-22-2015, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

As long as it doesn't involve removing oxygen from the atmosphere.

nah, its not about oxygen. its about co2.

ChiliConCarnage · 10-23-2015, 05:31 AM

Brilliant, Rainman! Now we need to hire people to go to landfills and de cap decades of bottles. Economy stimulated!

**Predarat** · 10-23-2015, 06:49 AM

Send them to the 3rd world. Hell we send our jobs there, why not our trash? Kill them off first, the jobs come back, and with the 3rd world vacated we essentially have a huge landfill.

**Dartgod** · 10-23-2015, 07:58 AM

I do my part by squeezing all of the air out of the bottle before capping it. I always do that so it takes up less space in the garbage can, but now I see I have been unwittingly saving the world.

Yay me.

Dayze · 10-23-2015, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dartgod

I do my part by squeezing all of the air out of the bottle before capping it. I always do that so it takes up less space in the garbage can, but now I see I have been unwittingly saving the world.

Yay me.

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View Poll Results: My reaction to this public health warning is...
Extreme alarm. Where can I send money to address the problem?	7	21.88%
Moderate alarm. I will change my behavior and better appreciate my air.	5	15.63%
Minor alarm. This is a problem, but we can probably export the effects to the Third World.	4	12.50%
No alarm. I'm a sealed-air bottle denier.	14	43.75%
Confusion. Is this a real issue? Why haven't I been informed?	2	6.25%
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10-22-2015, 04:27 PM
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-672449 VARSITY	My public health warning to the world. I was thinking about this today. I had a Coke, and as you know, the bottle is sealed. I finished my liquid poison and started to throw it away. As a neat person, I put the lid back on, and then gasped with alarm as I understood the implications. I present to you the following facts: 1. Plastic soda and water bottles degrade very slowly over thousands of years. 2. The lids on these bottles seal tightly. 3. If you put the lid on before throwing it away, you essentially seal air into the bottle. 4. The earth is a closed system. If you put all of these pieces together, the truth becomes evident. If you put the lid on your soda bottle before throwing it away, you seal away some air into a container that won't degrade for thousands of years. In essence, you're removing air from the environment. If we keep doing this, we will all eventually die of suffocation as all of the atmosphere ends up in landfills inside sealed soda bottles and water bottles. It's just a matter of time. So when you throw your bottle away, don't put the lid on it or we'll all die. Or I guess you could recycle it.
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10-22-2015, 10:00 PM	#39
Squalor2 Banned Join Date: Aug 2015 Casino cash: $10001425	a&w is the best. don't have pibb here any more, wish we did. an ice cold barq bottle is fine. got a relatives story about coke if you wanna hear it.
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10-23-2015, 06:49 AM	#43
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10-23-2015, 07:58 AM	#44
Dartgod Wasted away again... Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: in Margaritaville Casino cash: $3600000	I do my part by squeezing all of the air out of the bottle before capping it. I always do that so it takes up less space in the garbage can, but now I see I have been unwittingly saving the world. Yay me. __________________ If you shed a tear for me, please make it a tear of joy. -Joe Tracy (Nzoner) . .
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