Carbonicide

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Carbonicide
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Problem

• What is todays greatest problem? Wars? Natural
  Disasters? No, todays most current threat that
  poses the most possibility for disaster, is
  global warming and climate change. The source of
  the threat is in the trapped CO2 in the
  atmosphere. This is the source of our problem,
  eliminate the source, eliminate the problem.

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Ah, Im Melting, ha ha
Im so foonay
Antartica
Greenland
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Basics Photosynthesis

• What is photosynthesis? Its the basic process
  all plants use to create energy and food. They
  absorb CO2 and release oxygen, photosynthesis
  also involves sunlight, water.

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Complications

• What are complications with being in the
  atmosphere? Extreme exposure to light, dryness,
  lack of oxygen, we would need a plant with an
  incredible drive for survival to be able to last
  in this environment. Firstly extreme exposure to
  light, this is naturally advantageous to plants,
  but too much of a good thing is bad. Lack of
  oxygen, plants do not need oxygen to survive
  therefore it is irrelevant that oxygen is
  present. For dryness they would get their water
  from clouds that pass by every so often.

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Fishies

• Your probably thinking, what the heck does a
  fish have to do with a carbon eating plant. But
  you have to think about the complications about
  living in the atmosphere and lack of water. One
  fish capable of doing this is the lungfish. The
  lungfish is a fish that in the dry season encases
  itself into a sac of mucus. This mucus sack
  allows it to live for months on end without water.

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Gene-splicing

• The genes we need are very specific and we will
  need the best of the biomedical, and genetic
  engineering scientists there to help us along the
  way. What we need is the gene which gives the
  African Lungfish the instinct to create the mucus
  sac in the dry season, create a small spore-like
  plant, and your Carbonicide is complete.

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Gene synthesis

• The finished product will resemble something
  like a Pikmin. As you can see in this picture

Carbon
Carbonicide
Me Andy
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Process

• The process of this idea to eliminate
  pollution is quite difficult. Our first step is
  to isolate the cells that are used in
  photosynthesis and a Lungfish's mucus to create a
  tiny plant that will be injected into the
  atmosphere and eats away all the pollution. The
  mucus is for days with no clouds and it will
  retain moisture until the humidity goes up to a
  sufficient level. We will get it into the
  atmosphere with a jet to spread it over evenly.
  We will send samples of the plant to other
  science facilities and they will be able to breed
  the plant-fishes (Carbonocide) and they will use
  their own military jets and do the same.

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How Will it Help?

• The usefulness of this project is unrivaled
  for obvious reasons. This will clean up the
  atmosphere and help people with asthma and
  allergies, so say bye-bye to allergy medicines.
  This will also put a halt to global warming and
  limit natural disasters.

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The Jet

• We will get Carbonocide into the
  stratosphere with a SR-71 Blackbird military
  recon plane. We will reengineer the Sr-17 to
  have two canisters on each wing and will spray
  out our little minions into the air. The reason
  we are using this jet is because it can fly
  quickly enough to get Carbonocide evenly spread
  and also because it is one of the few jets to be
  able to fly that high.

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Ending

• O.K, now that all the pollution is gone,
  what now? Well, I can tell you the world is going
  to be a lot happier because the air will be much
  cleaner. I expect the economy to take a minor
  drop due to the fact that medical companies such
  as Glaxo Smith Kline and Astra-Zeneca will not
  sell as many products.

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Carbonicide, wtf?

• What the heck does Carbonicide mean? It is a
  neologism created by . . . Cough . . . Us.
  (Joseph) Its a combination of the word carbon,
  with the suffix icide which means to get rid of.
  So were getting rid of carbon.

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Ze End!
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Bibliography

Pikmin - http//image.com.com/gamespot/images/scre
enshots/gamecube/pkmin/pikmin_screen001.jpg Sneezi
ng dude PowerPoint Clipart Greenland and
Antarctica melting stats - http//www.net.org/warm
ing/stills.html SR-71 - http//www.encyclopedie-en
ligne.com/Images/3/300px-sr-71blackbird.jpg Lungfi
sh-http//www.nisuma.com/petera/images/lungfish.jp
g DNA strand-http//www1.esc.edu/personalfac/irabi
no/art/dna-home.jpg Pikmin Image -
http//www.sonoma.edu/users/a/acevesm/graphics/pik
min.jpg Freakish looking pikmin -
http//blog.spiderjump.info/dotclear/images/dossie
r20image20choops/Divers20pics20Home/pikmin2_re
d1.jpg