Re: Be SAFE

On Feb 16, 7:32 pm, "Old Man" <nom...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Freon, (C)(F2)(Cl2), 4 times heavier than O2, it flows down
hill. Seven times heavier than H2O, it sinks in water. Non
poisonous, non flammable, it's practically inert. All that's
ever been produced is most likely layering the bottom of the
oceans.

Freon, so rare in the atmosphere that one can use it artificially
in conjunction with a mass spectrometer to locate minute
leaks in vacuum systems. That's at ground level. Reduced
exponentially with altitude and again with temperature, there's
naught to be detected in the ionosphere.

The ozone layer being continuously generated by sunlight, it
decays naturally, from the bottom up, at night. Unable to
overcome the rapid rate of ozone production during the
day, unnatural causes supposedly increase the decay rate at
night.

So naturally, in order to maximize sensitivity, and even
though no one is in need of a protecting layer at night,
the areal density of the ozone layer is reported annually,
the measurement being taken at midnight on the occasion
of the winter solstice. The location ? Appropriately, the
political capital of the world, Washington DC.

Then there's that worrisome "hole in the ozone layer",
whereat the sun's angle is maximally oblique, and doesn't
shine at all for six months of the year, minimizing ozone
production, not to speak of that same location also being
one of only two worldly magnetic sinks for the flux of
ionizing solar wind particles.

Then, of course, Freon is a CHEMICAL, and ultraviolet
light is RADIATION, two words that strike fear into the
hearts of men.

Even though most eyeglasses are plastic and absorb ultra
violet RADIATION, and even though shrouded vision
increases the likelihood of fatal accidents, we are urged
(vote for me, I care about your SAFTY) to wear dark
glasses.

Finally, one is not to worry over the public health benefits
of cheap refrigeration. After all, the growth of bacteria
in food is a perfectly natural process, and therefore, must
necessarily be SAFE.

[Old Man]


Don't toss your pearls before swine, Old Man. Find out where H.L.
Mencken would be welcome to publish today.

Hmm... maybe the WSJ.

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