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Humans Make Ozone

Posted by michael on from the o3-150%-as-good-as-o2 dept.

MondoMor writes "Spotted this article at the Scripps Research Institute. Apparently humans have the ability to manufacture ozone, and do so as an immune response. Suppose we took a bunch of lawyers to the south pole, right under the ozone hole..."

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  1. Lawyers? by KILNA · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought you said humans produce ozone?

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  2. The *other* way to manually produce ozone.. by topologist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh,I have long known this, although I was thinking of the *other* way of producing ozone. Walk across a thick carpet or rub against an upholstered chair and accumulate some static. Then head to the nearest metal doorknob and put your finger near the knob..you'll probably see an arc jump from an extremity like a finger to the doorknob ("point discharge"). Electric discharges in oxygen can form ozone (O3), and you can actually smell it in some machine rooms, and after a burts of lightning. Of course, the static discharge is not exactly pleasant, but we all have to make sacrifices in the cause of science :-) Unless of course you're one of those people who liked touching battery leads or an electrode hooked up to a lemon to your tongue..

    1. Re:The *other* way to manually produce ozone.. by MarkGriz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just be sure not to use this method to produce ozone while you are similtaneously producing methane.

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  3. and? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Suppose we took a bunch of lawyers to the south pole, right under the ozone hole...

    Sure, and cut them all down with machine guns and bury them in a mass unmarked grave. I've had that dream too. But how does that help the ozone layer? And why the South Pole?

  4. and more... by Polo · · Score: 2, Funny


    Methane too ;)