Sue Doe: Science: The Dangers of Breathing
Hi, I'm Sue. Trev has kindly allowed me to place the first of a number of scientific columns on his blog (that number being 1 or higher). There is so much to learn about the world, and I hope that these columns will be of some educational merit.
So, breathing. Or respiration, to give it the name that us scientists like to use. I will try not to blind you with science, but sometimes knowing the proper words will help if you wish to use any of this material to help with a Masters' Thesis, for example.
We all learn quite young that respiration is basically about using the lungs (lungs) to suck in air (inhale) and then blow it out again (exhale). Now, other than to help keep the wind blowing, this doesn't seem of much use in the grand order of things. And, indeed, unless something happened with the air while it was inside, this would be true. What happens is that oxygen is taken out of the air and replaced with carbon dioxide. This conversion happens all over the body and the blood is used to transport the stuff back and forth between the lungs and the body's cells.
Now, we're going to get a little technical here, but stick with it. The chemical symbol for oxygen is O2 which means that there are two oxygen atoms in a molecule, and the symbol for carbon dioxide is CO2, meaning two oxygen atoms and a carbon atom. So, the only difference between the two molecules is that a carbon atom has been bolted on to the oxygen to make the carbon dioxide.
Fans of Star Trek may already know that we are 'carbon based lifeforms'. In other words, the basic building material of our bodies is carbon. And this is the material that our cells are merrily bolting onto the oxygen, little realising that it's then on the way to the lungs to be chucked away. Every time you breathe out, a little bit more of your basic matter is going with it. In other words, you are dissolving into the air! And getting nothing back from the air in return!
Shocked? I bet you are. This information is obviously kept very hush-hush by so-called respectable scientists, probably as a result of government back-handers. But I am not afraid to let you know the truth, and, in any case, they haven't offered me one of these large payouts. Well, they'll be sorry now.
But "Why?" you ask, "Why would the government participate in keeping the big breathing scam going?" Well. oxygen isn't the only thing in the air. It also contains pollutants. Pollutants that contribute to such hazards as global warming. Pollutants that would be very expensive to mechanically remove. But why bother, when you have a vast population going just about everywhere there is to go and sucking those pollutants out of the air for free. I mean, would you bother sweeping the fallen leaves off your drive if you knew that your neighbour would do it accidentally and unawares anyway?
So, not only are you dissolving the useful parts of your body, but you are steadily filling up with poisons too. And eating! A large part of the food you eat is used to replace the wanton waste of carbon that your lungs cause. I am convinced that, if you were to stop breathing, you wouldn't need to eat either and so you would cut out another way for poisons to enter your body.
Obviously, I will need some experimental evidence before publishing this in the scientific journals, to try to make it impossible to supress. So anyone who takes the logical course by giving up breathing, and then confirms that they don't need to eat either, please contact me and let me know the results. It's for the good of humanity.
Thank you.
Trev on 06.17.05 @ 10:50 PM GMT [link] [175 Comments]
