Ecological Effect Of Tea on the Sea?

[kylejack]

What would happen if a bunch of tea was dumped into the ocean? Is it relatively harmless, or would it have a significantly negative effect on the eco-system? I'm just pondering some promotional ideas.

[winston_blade]

What would happen if a bunch of tea was dumped into the ocean?

A revolution.

[WillInMiami]

What would happen if a bunch of tea was dumped into the ocean? Is it relatively harmless, or would it have a significantly negative effect on the eco-system? I'm just pondering some promotional ideas.

You've got to be friggin' kidding me! Get your head our of your posterior, go out and find a vet, shake his/her hand, and say "THANK YOU!".

[xerxesdarius]

I'm from San Diego and worked on a recent study by Scripps Institute of Oceanography that studied this very problem. Unfortunately, even small tea levels tended to dramatically reduce tax levels. Our funding dried up and we couldn't finish the study...:)

[kylejack]

You've got to be friggin' kidding me! Get your head our of your posterior, go out and find a vet, shake his/her hand, and say "THANK YOU!".
Please stay on topic!

[JosephTheLibertarian]

uhh.... the same effect of fresh water...only worse. I don't think it's healthy for fish to swim in tea, do you? ;) tea leaves.. or tea?

[kylejack]

uhh.... the same effect of fresh water...only worse. I don't think it's healthy for fish to swim in tea, do you? ;)

Sorry, could you explain? Why the same effect of fresh water? No water would be involved, just tea leaves.

[JMann]

Take a glass of water, place a tea bag in it and do a little research experiment of your own. Now take the same tea back and place it in your local city lake and see what effect it has on the lake. Now you can imagine what just might happen if a lot of tea was dumped into the world's oceans.

[kylejack]

Take a glass of water, place a tea bag in it and do a little research experiment of your own. Now take the same tea back and place it in your local city lake and see what effect it has on the lake. Now you can imagine what just might happen if a lot of tea was dumped into the world's oceans.

Right, it clouds the water. But since its a plant, its not toxic, right? Does it reduce available oxygen in the water?

[DrRich]

uhh.... the same effect of fresh water...only worse. I don't think it's healthy for fish to swim in tea, do you? ;) tea leaves.. or tea?

i cant see how a bit of tea can be worse than other stuff people dump in the sea.
like sewage and industrial waste.

[WillInMiami]

Please stay on topic!

"Stay on topic"?!? If I'm not mistaken, the topic of the day is VETERANS! Not this silly shit about dumping some tea into water!

Do me a favor - if you have no respect for our vets, jump into the water with the fucking tea!

[rich34]

Tea has alot of tannins in it so I would say that it would turn the water brown just like the blackwater rivers we have all over the country. Well, we have one blackwater river here in WV and it's because of the tannins in the water from some of the trees that grow up there.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

i cant see how a bit of tea can be worse than other stuff people dump in the sea.
like sewage and industrial waste.

well, it can't be any good. Want fish to swim in cold salty iced tea? ;) I just think it's a waste of tea....

[kylejack]

"Stay on topic"?!? If I'm not mistaken, the topic of the day is VETERANS! Not this silly shit about dumping some tea into water!

Do me a favor - if you have no respect for our vets, jump into the water with the fucking tea!
You know, there's dozens of topics in this forum, and many of them aren't about Veteran's Day, so you've got your work cut out for you. Make sure to post this de-rail in every one of those topics.

If you can't stay on topic, post in other threads.

[trispear]

Teas is just the dried, crushed leaves of a plant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea

It is not some man-processsed chemical.

There are lots and lots of plants native to the ocean and their entire carcasses biodegrade in it as a cycle of life.

Tea leaves will have a neglible effect.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

how will they affect fish?

[Salamando]

Why not dump corn if you're going to dump anything?

[kylejack]

Why not dump corn if you're going to dump anything?

Symbolism, of course.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I just don't see a point to this

[damijin]

Fish might get a little caffeinated, increasing their reproduction rates at .0000000000000002%.

Of course a few million years down the line this impact will be huge, and you will be solely to blame.

[DrRich]

Why not dump corn if you're going to dump anything?

wouldnt that defeat the whole purpose of having a "tea party" theme?

[fj45lvr]

Sun fish love it.


Millions of tons of leaves get washed to the sea every year.

Nothing happens.

[nlke182]

Don't dump tea its wasteful and destructive. No good press will come from polluting the water and besides it would be considered littering. Have the rallies and speeches but don't put crap into the ocean unless you want to piss off a lot of people.

[kylejack]

Don't dump tea its wasteful and destructive. No good press will come from polluting the water and besides it would be considered littering. Have the rallies and speeches but don't put crap into the ocean unless you want to piss off a lot of people.

Throwing leaves is littering?

[LibertyEagle]

Don't dump tea its wasteful and destructive. No good press will come from polluting the water and besides it would be considered littering. Have the rallies and speeches but don't put crap into the ocean unless you want to piss off a lot of people.

qft

[spiteface]

I thought we were dumping dollars into the campaign this for this tea party ???

[kylejack]

I thought we were dumping dollars into the campaign this for this tea party ???

Yes, but it could be kicked off with a tea dump. Indeed, the company that lost the tea at the Boston Tea Party still sells tea! This time, it would be paid for, of course.

[LibertyEagle]

Yes, but it could be kicked off with a tea dump. Indeed, the company that lost the tea at the Boston Tea Party still sells tea! This time, it would be paid for, of course.

Kyle, think about it. We would have the environmentalists all over us and likely, huge amounts of negative press that would far outweigh the good press that we would get from record-breaking donations.

I understand why you want to do this and it would be really neat, but the downside is just too large.

[PatriotG]

Fish would be on a massive caffein high!

http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Animals/Fish/Big_eyed.gif

[DrRich]

dont they do a re enactment every year? Kyle, why dont you get in touch with the people who does the re enactment and maybe become a co sponsor or something? just a thought.

[spiteface]

My guess is, it would be a violation of multiple ordinances and laws in MA and Boston.

[kylejack]

dont they do a re enactment every year? Kyle, why dont you get in touch with the people who does the re enactment and maybe become a co sponsor or something? just a thought.

That's another idea. The videos I've seen seem to indicate they dress in colonial clothing. Is that a politically correct thing, or are they just not informed about the Boston Tea Party? Odd.

[bootstrap]

Hey, if you just throw handfuls of powdered (very fine) tea leaves into the bay, the quantity is too small to do anything sigificant to the environment. Furthermore, if anyone complains, just point out you are making a SYMBOLIC point by throwing 0.000000001% as much leaves into the bay as normally blow into the bay in the fall season (when the leaves turn color, fall off, and blow away).

If you do it this way, you're safe. If you dump dozens of crates into the water, you better do more research to understand the likely constraints.

[alien]

Right, it clouds the water. But since its a plant, its not toxic, right? Does it reduce available oxygen in the water?

His point was that it would be so diluted it would not affect anything.

[Corydoras]

Don't do it... bad press, littering, wasteful, expenditure of money that could go to the campaign... Bad for fish, too. Tea changes the pH of the water, and as anyone who has kept fish knows, sudden pH changes harm fish. These are not wild tree leaves that will give up their tannins and other chemicals at a slow natural rate, these are domesticated leaves bred and treated specifically to disperse chemicals into water quickly (i.e. make tea).

[tfelice]

Take a glass of water, place a tea bag in it and do a little research experiment of your own. Now take the same tea back and place it in your local city lake and see what effect it has on the lake. Now you can imagine what just might happen if a lot of tea was dumped into the world's oceans.

A better experiment would be to take one tea leaf, snip of a milimeter of it and drop it in an Olympic size pool. That's about the effect a container load of tea would have on the oceans.

[SeanEdwards]

Fish love tea. I put several teabags in my fish tank every day. It's like a giant iced tea, with fish in it. Don't forget the sugar too.

[Thomas Paine]

The fish in the harbour would get a little jumpy after swimming through some tea.

[fluoridatedbrainsoup]

I'm from San Diego and worked on a recent study by Scripps Institute of Oceanography that studied this very problem. Unfortunately, even small tea levels tended to dramatically reduce tax levels. Our funding dried up and we couldn't finish the study...:)
lmfao

[constituent]

"Stay on topic"?!? If I'm not mistaken, the topic of the day is VETERANS! Not this silly shit about dumping some tea into water!

Do me a favor - if you have no respect for our vets, jump into the water with the fucking tea!

I'm sorry, what was ^ that?

[constituent]

Symbolism, of course.

corn tea?

[Corydoras]

Please don't dump organic matter close to shore where it takes a long time to clear out.

[MozoVote]

Arrrg. Somebody move this stupid thread to hot topics. :rolleyes: