Atmospheres

Suicide Junkie · #1 February 16th, 2003, 05:48 PM

Wouldn't CO2 breathers be very similar to our plants?

Phoenix-D · #2 February 16th, 2003, 08:16 PM

Argon being a non-reactive gas would be kind of unlikely..heh.

CO2 breathers might be similar to plants, but then maybe not. There are bacteria and such around that die in the presance of O2, which plants don't obviously..CO2 breathers might be more similar to the bacteria. Or they might breath CO2, with their equivlent of plants using O2- can't see how though.

Phoenix-D

orev_saara · #3 February 16th, 2003, 09:42 PM

Ultimately, our understanding of science is limited to our experience, and more, to the experience we feel is relevant. So while the science we understand may rule out chlorine breathers, et al, all we can say with certainty, and even then not with 100% certainty, is that they're not possible here. In different regions of the galaxy, different conditions may prevail.

While we're talking about this, doesn't the air we breathe contain more N2 than O2? So why is it an oxygen atmosphere in the game and not a nitrogen one? I guess it's partly because the real nature of atmosphere is much more cmoplex than the one-gas model in the game. I also would like to see more gradation in atmospheres in the future of SE.

One Last comment on scientific knowledge, how exactly DID Tesla light his laboratory?

Baron Munchausen · #4 February 16th, 2003, 10:55 PM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Wouldn't CO2 breathers be very similar to our plants?

Actually, plants use oxygen too! They generate oxygen during the day when they are photosynthesizing (sp?), but their metabolism is like ours in being driven by oxygen and carbohydrates. How else would be be able to eat them and get anything useful?

Baron Munchausen · #5 February 16th, 2003, 10:56 PM

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Originally posted by orev_saara:
One Last comment on scientific knowledge, how exactly DID Tesla light his laboratory?

Gas light, like everyone else in that era.

orev_saara · #6 February 18th, 2003, 08:28 PM

Actually, there are reliable reports that Tesla didn't use any recognizable lighting elements in his lab. Witnesses all claim that he simply flipped a switch and the room lit up, but no bulbs or anything similar were in evidence. He demonstrated the effect at an exhibition in Paris as well by placing some kind of generators on either side of a stage, firing them up, and VOILA! the stage got light, without any noticable illumination coming from the generatirs themselves. As far as I know, this trick has never been duplicated.

Suicide Junkie · #7 February 19th, 2003, 03:21 AM

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Actually, plants use oxygen too! They generate oxygen during the day when they are photosynthesizing (sp?), but their metabolism is like ours in being driven by oxygen and carbohydrates. How else would be be able to eat them and get anything useful?

I know how plants work, but my point is that they would thrive in carbon dioxide rich atmospheres. Isn't that basically the definition of a CO2 race for SE4?