Thursday, February 02, 2006

Injurious to health

Point to note is that these banks should hand out these wads of hundred rupee notes with a warning that reads "lack of change is injurious to health."

Speaking of which, here is a true story.
A long time ago, much before God or Natural Selection found it fit to populate this planet with human beings (if you ask me, this only Natural Selection can be stupid enough to get THIS idea) God or Natural Selection had populated the planet with primordial plant-like life forms, who had no issues whatsoever with nonvegiterianism, animal cruelty or sexuality, like we humans do.
Pretty peaceful existence really, nothing much to bitch about until the evolutionary curve got a little kinky. New, relatively hyperactive plants came into the picture and flooded the atmosphere with a substance so toxic that it eradicated an entire eco system. The first mass extinction, and there have been many on this planet. This toxic new substance can kill a person within seconds in its concentrated state, helps release a lot of energy, and fire cannot exist without it.
Oxygen. The most essential thing in life is also the most undesirable and harmful. Probably like every other essential thing in life... the oxygen cylinders do not contain pure oxygen - the lungs would actually burn if this were to be the case. In fact, breathing oxygen under high pressures can lead to convolutions and cardiac arrests. Excess mechanical ventilation (CPR, masks etc) can thus be dangerous.

Deep breathing exercises like Yoga may actually be bad for you. There has to be a breathing technique out there, yet to be perfected, which burns up the optimum amount of oxygen in each breath so that your lungs last the longest. Go, figure.

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