Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:09:13 +0100 MMu wrote:

I have also heard of micro organisms that can be found in the upper
atmosphere..*

(although those things are really tough *******s if you think of it.. uv
light from the sun, quite cold, not much to harvest..)

The idea that global warming could cause those to duplicate faster isn't all
to unrealistic actually.. although I doubt that they would actually multiply
in such a fashion that they could significantly block out sunlight.

*) I found the article on pubmed:

Microorganisms of the upper layer of the atmosphere and the protective role
of their cell pigments.
Imshenetsky AA, Lysenko SV, Lach SP.

Journal: Life Sci Space Res. 1979;17:105-10.
Institute of Microbiology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR.

Of the six species of microorganisms isolated from the mesosphere, five
contained pigments and were more resistant to UV radiation compared with
their pigment-free mutants. The black pigment isolated from the conidia of
Aspergillus niger considerably increased the UV resistance of the
unpigmented mutant conidia of Penicillium notatum, the spore Circinella
muscae and the vegetative cells of Micrococcus albus. From the data it is
possible to conclude that in the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere the
predominant proportion of pigmented microorganisms is the consequence of
natural selection by UV radiation.

Yes, well thanks. Your report is much different from mine. I am drawing from
FEMS Letters of 18 December 2002 by Dr. Wainwright and others. They isolated 3
species in the upper atmosphere similar to Bacillus simplex, Staphylococcus
pasteuri, and a fungus Engyodontium album.

Of course the stratosphere has low pressure, low temperature and alot of UV
radiation.

But consider that the most prized possession of any plant like organism which a
fungus is -- the highest ground. And you do not get any higher than the upper
atmosphere.

So the huge danger here is that if a organism flourishes in the stratosphere
could be a huge danger signal to humanity for it may very well entail that
humanity must get up there to scrub clean so to speak periodically the upper
atmosphere or else these microbes will grow to such an extent as to place a
film over the Earth and block too much sunlight.

Perhaps I have found my Coolant for Earth Air Conditioner. Perhaps one of these
microbes will not only live up there but reproduce and flourish and call it its
home. Perhaps existing global warming is causing microbes to make the
stratosphere its home due to the increase in carbon compounds from global
warming. Perhaps before 1950, the amount of carbon reaching the stratosphere
was not enough to have a permanent colony of microbes there but with the
increasing global warming of its carbon molecules a threshold of amount of
molecules allows those fungus and bacteria species to make it their permanent
home and they will dutifully increase in population size.

Perhaps before 1950 those microbes only visited the stratosphere carried there
by violent winds on Earth surface, and those microbes never reproduced up there
but were waiting to fall back down to Earth as the report says that about a ton
of which falls to surface per day. Perhaps after 1950 with increasing global
warming that those microbes now want to live up there and establish it as their
home. So not only are they self transported by violent storms such as
hurricanes, tornadoes and even the occasional human travel vessel, but now
those microbes are multiplying themselves up there and are wishing to anchor
down on the stratosphere.

Perhaps some of the molecules provide just the right sort of anchor of the CFC
molecules or even the carbon dioxide molecules providing an anchor.

Perhaps what limited the microbes from making the stratosphere their home was
lack of anchors. But now with Global Warming increasing that the anchoring
molecules are present in abundance.

So maybe I am wasting my time in looking for a physical reflector for a Earth
AirConditioner Coolant. And maybe I am wasting my time in looking for a
CFC-variant molecule that will absorb sunlight and cool Earth to the
temperature we desire. Perhaps the microbes will self indulge and self
transport via violent storms and will make the stratosphere their home. This
will naturally cool Earth because if they flourish up there, we run the very
danger that they thrive too much and block too much sunlight from reaching
Earth's surface. If this pans out then humanity runs the risk of extinction or
else shuttle up to the stratosphere to scrub and clean away those pesky fungus
from blocking out too much sunlight.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies