Okay, so what if, say, in 20 years, the ozone hole isn’t any smaller? There would no man-made CFC’s in the lower atmosphere and little remaining in the upper atmosphere.
What then? Just asking the leaders of tomorrow…
im no scientist, but i think its ridiculous that we live with a hole in the ozone layer. how is it that there is no way to fix it?
my first guess why it is so hard to fix:
way too large, too far away
thats absurd, we have men, we have rockets, and we have seran wrap
absurd would be to try and fill something made out of the missing binding between molecules that covers an area as big as a continent in several several several km height …… by shooting seran wrap into it? ;)
Janus, it is a huge hole (continental size fits well), and it’s not like we have some posts up there where we could stick something to. It’s not even that something material is missing up there (we have all the oxygen atoms we need, they just have the wrong molecular form).
We can wait though for those chemicals which split the ozone into 02 and 0 radicals to diffuse and lose their reactivity. Then the ozone concentration will recover, and it will be able to absorb the UV light and split itself by that and not by the chemicals.
@F_alk:
absurd would be to try and fill something made out of the missing binding between molecules that covers an area as big as a continent in several several several km height …… by shooting seran wrap into it? ;)
Janus, it is a huge hole (continental size fits well), and it’s not like we have some posts up there where we could stick something to. It’s not even that something material is missing up there (we have all the oxygen atoms we need, they just have the wrong molecular form).
We can wait though for those chemicals which split the ozone into 02 and 0 radicals to diffuse and lose their reactivity. Then the ozone concentration will recover, and it will be able to absorb the UV light and split itself by that and not by the chemicals.
what about some looseleaf papar and crazy glue? Maybe some fly paper as well? just something to keep the sun out until the hole fills in itself. Some really long ladders might help as well.
(less sarcastically - it would likely take an entire power plant to generate the power needed to produce enough O3 in order to plug something like that up. If it were mobile, however, that might be handy . . . ;))
just in case I was being completely sarcastic by suggesting seran wrap.
although……
just in case I was being completely sarcastic by suggesting seran wrap.
although……
i got that
just antagonizing F_alk.
well im onboard with that
just keep picking on ESLs for not noticing finer nuances that are not otherwisely marked …
F_alk
@Anonymous:
just keep picking on ESLs for not noticing finer nuances that are not otherwisely marked …
F_alk
Oh come on F_alk.
i mean really. Did you really think that people with access to a computer would consider it possible to physically plug up the gap in the earth’s ozone with saran wrap?
This is not an ESL thing - this is a “my goodness these USies must be really that stupid” thing.
(which is fair, i guess :P )
see, you as Canadian didn’t notice the humorous note in my above post :)….
just because there was no smiley whatseover …
and you might be right with the second :D
Everyone knows seran wrap wouldn’t work, what we need is duct tape. We need more Duct Tape!
ah duct tape, is there anything it doesnt fix?
At the risk of deviating from my deviant behavior of going off-topic, I’m going to veer on topic and say that I thought it wasn’t a hole per se, just an area, big though it may be, where the ozone is thinner.
That having been said:
My idea? Build a lightning cannon, shoot a few bolts up there, and presto! brand new ozone! :P
Did you really think that people with access to a computer would consider it possible to physically plug up the gap in the earth’s ozone with saran wrap?
Access to a computer don’t mean diddly squat. :roll:
Everyone knows seran wrap wouldn’t work, what we need is duct tape. We need more Duct Tape!
Yeah!
@F_alk:
see, you as Canadian didn’t notice the humorous note in my above post :)….
yeah right. We’re not THAT naive . . . ;)
just because there was no smiley whatseover ….
and you might be right with the second :D
:)
Of course i am. i’ve figured THAT out.
I started to say that Canadians are just humorless but then I remembered Bob and Doug Macenzie…. Damn those guys are funny!
As for the Ozone, I say we alll just start learning to live under ground like mole people. Curse the sun!
bigger? i have trouble believing that, as a recently heard a news report that its shrinking….
…conflicting reports suck :(
As for the Ozone, I say we alll just start learning to live under ground like mole people. Curse the sun!
That’s what I said!
Ok then how about we round up all the people who are so concerned about the Ozone and send them to antarctica to work at the new ozone factory.
Problem solved, what else you got!
