[Kylon]

We humans are destroying everything. We are making the world a mess, and I'm afraid that soon enough we will extinguish life from this planet. Especially sentient, intelligent life.

Here's an idea on how to stop that from happening.

I was thinking that infrared radiation can be absorbed by infrared photo-diodes. So why not simply genetically modify phytoplankton to absorb infrared radiation and then we could grow them inside caves?

If we did this we could grow a large number of phytoplankton just off of the heat energy floating around in the caves, meanwhile we'd be protected from the extreme heat/cold.

We could also apply these principles to chorophyl, then add them to any plant we so desired too.

The perfect underground oxygen/food/life generator.

They would also provide their own water, as they would cool down the environment, and that would cause water to condensate on them.

We could then plant tons of these plants underground, where they could grow, and grow and grow.

Once we did that, and if we combined this with lets say, a non-poisonous Ivy, we could start adding different lifeforms to the underground and form underground protected forest.

Thus, as life became unbearable on the surface, our little furry friends could live in the dark, slightly cold caves, and eat their hearts out.

The plants would have an unlimited food/energy supply, so they could grow as much as they wanted. They would have an unlimited water supply due to condensation, so that wouldn't hinder their growth.

Then, after maybe a thousand years or so of human extinction, the life could creep up out of those caves, and slowly encompass the entire Earth.

The animals who lived there could begin to repopulate the planet, and speciate according to their new environment.

And the world could be healed.

Also, if we want to wanted to make another sentinent group of animals like ourselves, we could genetically modify Monkeys to allow them to talk, and give them the basic neural instruments to do so. Add a few human genes here, add a few human genes there, and Monkeys could talk.

Once monkeys could talk, they would find it advantageous to have larger brains, due to the fact that more and more information can be communicated to them, therefore the ability to use that information and make sense of it, becomes more and more vital, and more and more advantageous.

Within a few hundred thousand years (maybe a few million) we'de have another group of sentient beings capable of building houses, and inventing machines and the like.

This time though, they wouldn't have any fossil fuels to burn.


What do you think?

[dissimulo]

Dude - go for a hike. Get outside away from a city for a while. There is plenty of life out there. Nature is doing OK. Sure, we are making a mess of some things and making life less pleasant for ourselves in the process, but mother nature is still going to be out there, red in tooth and claw, and ready to see us to our end.

Soon it will be the golden age of scavengers and microorganisms.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Why not bioengineer humans to produce chlorophyll? Think about it: we could all just lie around at the beach and turn sunlight into food!

[PrairieMule]

Well then we would all evolve into Morlocks!

[PenultimateManStanding]

Nope, Morlocks hate sunlight. Sure it would be a little weird when everybody is green, but we wouldn't have to kill things and eat them anymore. Humanity could be real nice for a change! A Theosophist dream come true. We could all gain the insight and wisdom of plants and learn to be still.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hy not bioengineer humans to produce chlorophyll? Think about it: we could all just lie around at the beach and turn sunlight into food!

[dissimulo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'T')hink about it: we could all just lie around at the beach and turn sunlight into food!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissimulo', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'T')hink about it: we could all just lie around at the beach and turn sunlight into food!

[TITAN]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hy not bioengineer humans to produce chlorophyll? Think about it: we could all just lie around at the beach and turn sunlight into food!

[nwildmand]

i had to nominate this for the most nutter post.

sorry to break this to you dude, but your a freak.