Saturday, July 12, 2014

Noah and the Faeces Problem




Tonight I was able to painlessly make it almost through halfway of this year's flick Noah before shuddering and turning it off, watching instead of it the wicked thriller Shutter. 

Though my attention span and love of movies died in the duration spent watching Noah, one thing remained alive, and that was my inquisitiveness. Throughout the sailing in the crazy tides, and the rescuing of the many pairs of animals in all of the world, I wondered just one thing about the ark itself which had nothing to do surprisingly with the wondering of the lack of room for all of the species nor their strange and sudden newfound abilities to be able to cope with one another seeing as they are on each others' food chains: was there no plumbing system in the ark? 

Chaos would indeed ensue had there been the presence of both the king of the jungle and a young juicy deer in the proximity of one another however a more disastrous chaos would ensue had the king of the jungle dumped a large load of digested juicy deer all around the young juicy deer in its vicinity. If the young juicy deer would not die of being eaten by the suddenly friendly lion in this situation, it would definitely die of suffocation by a pile of mighty lion poop. 

Onlooking dung beetles would be excessively content with this sight but as would the onlooking pythons who have grown sick of consuming the rats and mice on deck. The foxes would then be irritated because they would have nothing to eat so they would turn to try to eat alligators, but the alligators would consume the foxes easily because they are no match for them and the onlooking sharks will be laying there dead next to the dead fish and the dead sting rays among the dead jellyfish and dead clown fish underneath the two giant dead whales because nobody considered building a water tank inside of the ark. Chaos all around. 

It is a nice story though. I quite enjoy the prospect of rescuing animals instead of mankind even if mankind will later on grow into a large population which demands the slaughter and consumption of these animals. I am happy that somewhere in history the animals were liberated from human maltreatment, that they acquired a free ride through a heavy storm and that they a got along inside a large wooden ark in the meanwhile, forming secret alliances that would later on work in their favour when they take over the Earth. 

As for the plumbing problem, I am surprised it did not sink. Either the elephants and other heavy animals held their faeces until they would land or they drilled a hole in the middle of the ark and deemed it the waste hole, otherwise it would have sunken faster than the Titanic  if it had hit a giant angry porcupine. 

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