why is there air?

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srsly u guyz?

― the kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

why i do breathed air?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:40 (twenty years ago)

is it something to do with love, or rainbows?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

i'm asking the questions, not providing the answers.

― the kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Differences in inflation density during the first miliseconds following the Big Bang. Duh!

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000062TI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

"bank of england interest rate rise is due to big bang" - financial times

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, I wonder if my friend wrote that one.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Cosby's answer: "To blow up basketballs."

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Baketballs would be better if blown up with helium.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Sorry for derail, but do insects breathe? Look at the size of a midgie, surely it can't fit lungs in there! What about microscopic bedbug sized things like, um, bedbugs? Do they breathe?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

you can't derail this thread, it's bollocks anyway.

― the kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

You are supposed to allow plenty of air to circulate around bollocks.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Sorry for derail, but do insects breathe? Look at the size of a midgie, surely it can't fit lungs in there! What about microscopic bedbug sized things like, um, bedbugs? Do they breathe?
-- Onimo (gerry.wat...), March 14th, 2006. (later)

They don't breathe per se seeing as they don't have lungs. This is assuming that your definition of breathing involves the inflation of lungs, that is. What actually happens is that they have openings into their bodies that become networks of tubes. This allows oxygen to diffuse directly into their blood and tissues.

This btw is why the idea of giant insects is bollocks - the fact that oxygen has to diffuse into their tissues puts a physics-based-limit on their size - or more technically, their volume. (the 3 foot wingspan dragonlies of prehistory lived in a denser atmosphere).

Spiders and other arachnids do have a form of lung but it doesn't work in quite the same way as the vertebrate lung, which also puts a limit on their size (so no giant Eight Legged Freaks, I'm afraid)

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

as if they couldn't mutate lungs

― mr. knowledge eh?, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

it's all cool as long as they also mutate breasts.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

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― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

that's it i'm registering spidermam.com!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Insects cannot grow breasts, they are not mammals! They would have to bear their young live (as opposed to in eggs) and suckle them, which is totally non insectoid.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone ever actually seen air?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Yes. They were quite good.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Damned by faint praise.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah but some fishes have lungs! when they supposed to have gills.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

http://cysphoto.netfortify.net/lung_ber_horn/lungfish/images/0025.jpg

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

man Will Oldham's really let himself go.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

hence the grimace on the guitarist's face?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

There is air because its constituent elements positioned themselves in relation to each other. Through this medium called "air," combination and separation are possible. The question is not so much 'why is there air' as 'how could there not be air?' or 'where does air come from?' The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.

― New Spork, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

from France, i think

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Insects cannot grow breasts, they are not mammals!

But they could evolve protuberances that mimic the appearance of breasts, as a sort of a joke on predators, assuming predators were put off by the sight of tiny breasts.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

predators prefer large boobies

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

It's all down to plants.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

nineteen years pass...

so where i live gets some of the worst air quality in the world due to temperature inversions in the wintertime plus mostly car pollution. it's also a high growth rate place so it gets worse every year in spite of electric cars or whatever. because "greener" population growth definitely doesn't affect natural resource quality and availability. anyway. i made the mistake of looking at a comment thread on facebook. i was legitimately shocked by how many people actually believe in coo coo braindead stuff like chemtrails and cloud seeding!. like every fifth comment was someone like that. fifteen or so people total out of 60-70! almost as breathtaking as the poisoned air.

― map, Monday, 12 January 2026 23:23 (four months ago)

air classic or dud

― Bertolt Blecch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:11 (four months ago)

because apple needs to sell laptops and ipads that are price competitive, despite their worst instincts

― trm (tombotomod), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 23:44 (four months ago)

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