How do they even know there's a hole in the ozone layer?

Heineken Helen

Isn't the ozone layer invisible?

Science drives me nuts!

iluvcats

Heineken Helen wrote:

Isn't the ozone layer invisible?

Science drives me nuts!

I googled ozone layer
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ozone_resource_page.html

Pauk

Detectors and shiz.

Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

Detectors and shiz.

you fell for that shit too eh?

Iluvcats, excellent research there but it's invisible... how do they even know it's there? :eek:

Dissidentman

Farts are invisible...

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

how do they even know it's there? :eek:

People getting sunburnt in Chile!

Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

People getting sunburnt in Chile!

I got sunburnt in DEVON a few weeks ago... only sat out for 15 minutes.

Heineken Helen

dissidentman wrote:

Farts are invisible...

yeh but you can hear them and smell them... can you smell the ozone layer? Does it make a noise? Has anyone visited it? do we just study those things up there from down here? We could just make anything up and people would have to believe it.

Drew263

Heineken Helen wrote:

I got sunburnt in DEVON a few weeks ago... only sat out for 15 minutes.

I got burned at the beach this weekend! I immediately bought some carbon credits from Al Gore's company! Then I bought some aloe.

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

I got sunburnt in DEVON a few weeks ago... only sat out for 15 minutes.

haha Seriously though, there was a hole above Chile a few years back (think it's moved now) and people couldn't leave their house without getting sunburnt because of all the UVs.



Googling it I found an even more interesting question

Are sheep going blind in Chile?
Yes

Heineken Helen

Drew263 wrote:

I got burned at the beach this weekend! I immediately bought some carbon credits from Al Gore's company! Then I bought some aloe.

what? You can buy carbon credits?

Dissidentman

Heineken Helen wrote:

yeh but you can hear them and smell them... can you smell the ozone layer? Does it make a noise? Has anyone visited it? do we just study those things up there from down here? We could just make anything up and people would have to believe it.

I apologize for my kindergarten approach to science. But for all I know, the ozone layer just might smell...

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

what? You can buy carbon credits?

Yeah, they probably kill 1 baby for every carbon credit. So that way we can spend the next generation's carbon allowance guilt free

Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

haha Seriously though, there was a hole above Chile a few years back (think it's moved now) and people couldn't leave their house without getting sunburnt because of all the UVs.



Googling it I found an even more interesting question

Are sheep going blind in Chile?
Yes

when I was in south africa, they told me I got burnt quickly there cos that's where the hole is. my sisters husband was brought up in Australia... he recently told me THAT'S where the hole is... now it's in Chile? I just read in a website that it's actually shrinking... See nobody fucking knows where it is cos we can't see it.

Heineken Helen

dissidentman wrote:

I apologize for my kindergarten approach to science. But for all I know, the ozone layer just might smell...

I will not deny that that thought entered my head when I typed it. Well if they TELL us it smells... does that really mean it DOES smell? I probably shouldn't talk about this stuff online :eek:

Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

Yeah, they probably kill 1 baby for every carbon credit. So that way we can spend the next generation's carbon allowance guilt free

we're shipping waste to Germany... what the fuck are THEY gonna do with it and why do they want our waste? Do they EAT waste in Germany?

Dissidentman

I think the decline in Aqua Net use is allowing the hole to shrink.

Heineken Helen

dissidentman wrote:

I think the decline in Aqua Net use is allowing the hole to shrink.

what's Aqua Net? What fool thought a net could catch water?

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

I will not deny that that thought entered my head when I typed it. Well if they TELL us it smells... does that really mean it DOES smell? I probably shouldn't talk about this stuff online :eek:

Some visitor presentation freaky weird guy with a moustache visited my high school like 7 years ago (eek 7 years since high school?! I feel old!) and he let us smell his O3 gas. I can't remember what it smelled of, but it smelled of something.

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

when I was in south africa, they told me I got burnt quickly there cos that's where the hole is. my sisters husband was brought up in Australia... he recently told me THAT'S where the hole is... now it's in Chile? I just read in a website that it's actually shrinking... See nobody fucking knows where it is cos we can't see it.

The hole was above Chile in 2003... I saw it on Newsround and everything (I'm not old enough to watch the adult news yet!)

Dissidentman

Heineken Helen wrote:

what's Aqua Net? What fool thought a net could catch water?

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Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

Some visitor presentation freaky weird guy with a moustache visited my high school like 7 years ago (eek 7 years since high school?! I feel old!) and he let us smell his O3 gas. I can't remember what it smelled of, but it smelled of something.

:eek: that's one of the weirdest statements I've ever read

but so what, he TOLD you it's O3 gas? It coulda been anything! Maybe he was gassing you into believing him.

so what did the ozone layer look like on newsround?

Heineken Helen

dissidentman wrote:

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Ah HA! Hair spray

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

:eek: that's one of the weirdest statements I've ever read

but so what, he TOLD you it's O3 gas? It coulda been anything! Maybe he was gassing you into believing him.

so what did the ozone layer look like on newsround?

He said it was O3.... it was blue... I had no reason not to believe him, his moustache was very trustworthy.

Well it didn't show the Ozone on Newsround... but I did see a pack mule and alot of sweltering children than a photo of the world with a lot of red and blue scribbled over it. So it must be true!

Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

He said it was O3.... it was blue... I had no reason not to believe him, his moustache was very trustworthy.

Well it didn't show the Ozone on Newsround... but I did see a pack mule and alot of sweltering children than a photo of the world with a lot of red and blue scribbled over it. So it must be true!

good point! I believe you!

But it's weird... these scientists, who refute God may I say cos he cannot be proved, expect us to believe in something we cannot see, touch, hear, smell or taste?

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

But it's weird... these scientists, who refute God may I say cos he cannot be proved, expect us to believe in something we cannot see, touch, hear, smell or taste?

Yeah, but most science involves proof that would be boring to explain on a news show, especially since most people wouldn't understand it. I'm a microbiology student and I get REALLY pissed off (gggggrrrrrrrr) when a story about MRSA and C. difficile comes up because everyone is so fucking ignorant! And the news stories out there aren't helping.

I'm sure there's a good 10-20 years worth of journal articles about holes in the O Zone layer. Science doesn't usually pop out of thin air, there's always one thing leading onto another leading onto another.



(WAHEY! I've been serious for once!)

tachepiranha

Heineken Helen wrote:

we're shipping waste to Germany... what the fuck are THEY gonna do with it and why do they want our waste? Do they EAT waste in Germany?

HAHAHA nope, as far as i know and as long as i've been here they don't eat waste...but i wonder why döner kebab tastes weird sometimes

Heineken Helen

tachepiranha wrote:

HAHAHA nope, as far as i know and as long as i've been here they don't eat waste...but i wonder why döner kebab tastes weird sometimes

stay away from the kebabs :eek:

fowls I'm ignoring you on purpose

Pauk

Heineken Helen wrote:

fowls I'm ignoring you on purpose

My life story :(

tachepiranha

Heineken Helen wrote:

what? You can buy carbon credits?

yep, G8 is trying to reduce emissions of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), but all these nations won't be able to do as established on the Kyoto Protocol in which is accepted that no matter where, emissions have to be lowered, and that's how nations can sell "CO2 Credits".

It's a new variable in world economy, quite interesting...at least i discovered all that shit studying my master right now

Heineken Helen

fowls wrote:

My life story :(

:( I didn't mean it like that... but you seem to believe that I should believe something that (in your own words) 'would be boring to explain on a news show' :eek: