Important scientific questions

Sometimes – when I’ve got some free time to daydream, I think of important scientific questions that researchers should really consider. One question, which I have posed to others but was not taken seriously – is what would happen if you flushed all the toilets in the world at once? Would the world turn inside out from the suction? Would the water levels of the world decrease all at once? If so, it might be a good solution to flooding. When water levels are cresting dykes, perhaps the flushing should begin to prevent damage to neighboring property. It might be dangerous though because of the loud noise. Lately I am reading that people are losing their hearing from listening to loud music on their portable music players (such a new phenomenon of course!). The sound of so many toilets flushing might just be too loud to handle. We don’t want to all end up with hearing loss – how would the music industry survive! I wonder what groups of researchers would be willing to take on this work?