Funniest Digg Comment Ever
Comment 8749602 accompanying A real picture of what NY City Street used to be like before cars is probably the most insightful and funny digg comment I’ve ever seen:
Please, trade in your car for a horse. Do you realize the environmental impact of the entire nation or world owning horses. They shit 9 tons of manure each year, that’s about 50 pounds a day. You also have to stockpile their shit and you can’t have it close to any water sources, so anyone living in rural areas with a well wouldn’t have a place for that, if the water source comes near the stockpile, all local water sources will be contaminated. Then you have to worry about feeding your shitting horse, which requires approximately 25-30 pounds of dry food per day and we have to clear out significantly more land for farms to accomodate for our 300 million new horses (there are approximately 5.5 million horses in the United States) which in turn will destroy the environment and ecosystem as it is. Not only that, but your dumbass shitting horse can only go about 9 mph for 25 miles before having to break, it would take me over 3 hours to get to work which is 30 miles away from where I live instead of the 30 minutes it takes right now. So instead of an hour of driving every day, I’d have 6 hours of riding and 2 hours of shit stockpiling and 2 hours of feeding my shit factory. Not only this but I have to build an accomodation so it can shit all day, and buy a ridiculous amount of feed and have more land… but I guess I wouldn’t care about money at this point since I spend 10 hours of my non-working day taking care of my crappy horse.
We have technology for a reason and the environmental impact of 300 million horses, and 300 million horse pens and 2.7 billion tons of horse shit every year would be absurd…
It makes an excellent point about the environmental scalability of automobiles versus horses. And just wait until we have electric, nuclear, hydrogen, wind, or solar powered vehicles and homes, in which case emissions will fall to what, zero?
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on August 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I don’t know what to say
He really shut the mouth of many.