Ooooh,
hello dear English speaking-reading-hearing listener, welcome back to
me, @sciencemug, the blog/podcast/twitter&instagram
accounts/entity behind the unsuccessful e-shop stuffngo on zazzle.com
which tells you science stories while air-guitar playing heavy-metal
songs but instead of air is using helium so every gesture is high
pitched and funny and the metal is lighter, aaand which talks to you
thanks to the voice, kidnapped via a voodoo-wireless trick, from a
veeery very very dumb human.
Aaand
which does all of this in Eng?ish, a language that is
to proper English what a complete lack of logic is to something you
can easily distill from the just mentioned helium-guitar playing
thing.
Today I’m gonna tell you a story ‘bout
pollution on high.
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Sooo, dear listener, you probably already heard that the top of the world, Mount Everest, if full of crap by now. Meaning not that it has become an unbearable arrogant mount full of itself always bragging for being the tallest of them all (at least above sea level), nope, meaning that, given the massive amount of people that climb it every year (since 1953), well, it is now full of human garbage.
Aaand, dear listener, you probably also
already heard that space, around our planet, is by now full of
garbage too. There’s in fact a lot of space junk orbiting our
world: old satellites, pieces of rockets, debris of various sizes and
nature, in conclusion objects
in the millions
that are a constant real serious threat for whoever and whatever is
or is going to orbit Earth nowadays.
But the pollution on high I am going
to tell you about today, dear listener, is none of the above.
And it is not even the pollution people
that are high produce when smoking dope or other garbage
of the kind...
No, dear listener, I am going to talk of a kind of pollution you find in the sky, in the atmosphere, but that you wouldn’t expect at all, of all the pollutants you can think of, to find up there.
And above all, to find in the rain that
comes down from up there…
You wanna know what this pollutant is?
Eeeh, let’s start from the beginning
then.
The US.
Geological Survey,
the
United States “sole
science agency for the Department of the Interior”,
publishes
a report
(R)
which I’ll call ReportX, since I’m not telling you its actual
title as it would be a major give away about the mysterious
atmospheric/rain pollutant this whole episode/post is about, and I
want to keep the suspense going as long as possible.
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| "ReportX about rain pollution": free pic by John-Mark Smith on Pexels; Adapted by @sciencemug |
Anyway, ReportX is written by Gregory Wetherbee, an expert of
Environmental Science, Austin Baldwin, an hydrologist [that is a dude
who studies “how water moves across and through the Earth’s crust”
(source: Boureau
of Labor and Statistics)],
and Professor James Ranville, a chemist and geochemist of the
Colorado
School of Mines.
We’ll call ‘em the ReportX Guys (aaaah such a clever and witty
blog/podcast I am!).
The ReportX Guys
