The Smell of Mammoth Dung Permeates the Air

The first Featured un-responded to thread I have seen.

Oh, I meant to respond. Still thinking about it. Wondering if that is postentially a new, er, energy source. Probably not, rather too big a load.

Too big a load... Funny, Osso!

So, the microbes that have been frozen all this time will re-activate and create methane. Are there microbes that are going to do more than that? Is there the potential for microbes we've never dealt with before that would be damaging outside of the methane such as causing illness, damaging crops, etc?

The warming / climate change is bad enough. I had just never thought about pre-historic microbes coming back to life.

I missed this the first time around. I wonder how?

Is there really that much day-old-dung out there?

so they are 'suggesting' that there is more of this dung, then in modern day dairy farms? Which.. have one of the highest 'fart ratings' (methane)


amazing.


And who is going to hover around said **** and measure its gas pressure ?

Other research is showing large releases of methane in lakes in the Arctic.
NPR did a story last week on it.

Right, Parados, as the lake thaw/warm, the water releases the gases.

I'm guessing it's not so much the dung as they other unfermented fermentable material, like dead nutrient-rich plant material (which is all herbivore dung really is) ------ like it's all a big slushy compost just waiting to happen.

That's a good point.

Somewhere back about 4000 - 6000 years ago there was an age called hypsothermal or the late holocene climate optimum which was MUCH hotter than the present age and which roughly corresponds to the "golden ages" of classical literature and mythology. They called it a golden age instead of the age when everybody drowned because this was before the flood and there simply was not as much water oh the planet at the time. Clearly human kind had nothing to do with the age since humans had no such capacity then.

If such an age were to recur today the beachfront could be in WV or Kentucky somewhere; worst possible case, we may need to figure a way to get some of the water off the planet. That should become possible within the next few decades.

That sounds plausible. Perhaps we could freeze it first and send it up in chunks.

It would require control over gravity, which is coming.

We could create a slurry of mammoth guano and water, ship it to Mars, and voila! Instant terraforming.

Related story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/lf_nm/arctic_russia_mammoths_dc&printer=1;_ylt=Alg2TQMG4nQeG_NbzXEIJyxKTb8F

Damn!