2006-07-09 12:07:49 · 28 answers · asked by rattatattat 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Tsunami!
Oh, and icebergs might melt a little more, causing a rise in the sea level, prompting Al Gore to write another book, resulting in it being made into another feature length film documentary.
Call it: An Inconvenient Flush
2006-07-09 12:09:37 · answer #1 · answered by roccothegrey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume you're trying to delicately ask wouldn't the overabundance of fecal matter plug-up the whole system, or wouldn't the pressure of that big a flush blow-up the whole system. Short answer, albeit a theoretical one, yes. If EVERYBODY on a given sewer line flushed at the SAME time AND it was insufficiently over-speced, then yes, you could run into problems. BUT...it is unlikely that EVERYBODY on the line would flush at the EXACT SAME time AND that the line would NOT be speced to handle a "worst-case" scenario. And in the event of rare, once-in-a-lifetime events (like SuperBowl half-time), I'm sure there are programmes in place or which can be put in place to handle the eventuality. If not, then I guess their poor planning gets what it deserves.
2006-07-10 12:37:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably nothing, but hey! You wanna start a movement? We can talk everyone into doing it at one time, then find out if anything happens. Are you old enough to remember "Hands Across America", where everyone got in a line and held hands that spanned the nation? We could have "Flush Across America". The press could have a lot of fun with it.
2006-07-09 19:31:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suspect some sewer systems wouldnt be able to handle it and there may be some stinky flooding.
Also right after the flush, alot of water supply would be drawn down in the following minutes as everyones toilet tank re-filled. Maybe some wouldnt fill right away because of low pressure caused by great demand.
2006-07-09 19:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by Pepe LePeu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nationwide power cuts. Those surges in electricity demand after world cup penalty shoot-outs are not really caused by kettles so much as by sewage pumps starting under a deluge of dilute, beer infused urine, and water pumps starting upstream to make up for the flush water.
This is planned for and grid operators watch the telly avidly to see whether or not they're going to be beaten by the electricity consumers. They never have yet in the UK but it's been close. Today was a little bit tricky for them (but not hugely hairy). But if we ALL did it at the same time, they wouldn't cope.
2006-07-09 19:12:21 · answer #5 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the water wouldn't drain much, because there is suddenly a lot of water in the sewars. Since the water doesn't drain, the bowl will start to overflow, because the tank empties whether the bowl has drained or not. With all of the tanks filling at the same time, it would take a long time to refill the tanks.
2006-07-10 15:57:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends are the toilets full or empty... If full might be clogges somewhere and a whole lotta crap may overflow underneath the streets and we would be darting all the turds... If empty we would have a very big tidy bowl world.
2006-07-09 19:13:36 · answer #7 · answered by tweeterbird73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a really useless question because there is no way that we could convince everyone in the world to do that so there will probably never be a answer to this ridiculous question.
2006-07-09 19:12:02 · answer #8 · answered by Naraku's Shadow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your toilet would overflow like old faithful geyser, cause you would be waiting for the answer to this question to appear in Wikipedia.
2006-07-10 03:17:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...radioactive Oompa Loompas(sp?)..:)
2006-07-12 19:07:05 · answer #10 · answered by myra m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋