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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. sounds like a play on soviet russia jokes by buttahead · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...late last year, Lerner, Wentworth, and Babior demonstrated that the oxidants produced by antibodies can destroy bacteria by poking holes in their cell walls.

    in the human body, ozone pokes holes in you.

    On a more serious note, this sure doen't sound like a fix for the ozone hole in our atmosphere. You'd have to inject everyone in the world with bacteria they could survive, yet would have to fight. After that, you might have enough ozone to fill an aresol can.

    Isn't ozone bad for humans? Kinda funny that to save us, our cells make and transport a poison around our bodies.