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Date: Wed, 2 May 90 23:19 MST
From: JONATHAN KANDELL <KANDELL@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu>
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From: IN%"kath@lingo.psych.rochester.edu" "Kathy Straub" 2-MAY-1990 08:07
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Date: Wed, 2 May 90 11:05:47 EDT
From: Kathy Straub <kath@lingo.psych.rochester.edu>
Subject: atmospheric aw-air-ness
To: barss@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu, bettger@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu,
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From: Boris "pregnant" Goldowsky <boris@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu>
Subject: Save The Earth. TIP #20... Simple Things U Can Do
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From: James Aspnes <asp@cs.cmu.edu>
From: Barak.Pearlmutter@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
[From the booklet "50 Simple Things YOU Can Do To Make Fun of Bad Save
The Earth Writing Published by the Earth-Works Group, EarthWorks
Press, Box 25, 1400 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley CA 94709 (415)527-5811"
published by the Humor Center, 1321 Doherty Academic Hall, Pittsburgh,
PA 13213 (412)268-8104.
TIP #20 "Stamp out Air" - Air is *completely* non-biodegradable,
and can cause suffocation of marine animals.
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TIP #20 "Stamp Out Air" (Americans breath enough "air" every year to
cover the earth 436 times.)
BACKGROUND:
What we think of as "air" is actually a high pressure mixture of
toxic gasses. This material is made from ammonia and methane (known
toxins), converted to oxygen, nitrogen (which cosmic rays convert to
Carbon 14, a highly radioactive substance with a half life of over one
thousand years), carbon dioxide (the most important "greenhouse" gas),
and water vapor (which causes burns under common household
conditions), and then injected with volcanic gasses that make it an
"atmosphere." The volcanic gasses often used include chlorine--which
"eats" ozone molecules, depleting the Earth's vital ozone layer.
Other volcanic gasses often injected include sulphur dioxide and
nitrous oxides--known carcinogens that contribute to urban smog and
acid rain.
IT'S GARBAGE:
- Air is almost completely non-biodegradable; it just won't go
away. Even 500 years from now, the air you cooled your coffee with
this morning might be drifting above the earth's surface.
- Because of its very structure--containing large amounts of
gas--all "air"--regardless of how it's made--takes up a lot of space
for its weight. This means it wastes enormous amounts of precious
space on our already-bulging planet.
- Air is deadly to marine life. If floats on ocean surfaces
and breaks up into bubbles resembling food. When tides go out,
fish--and sometimes even whales and dolphins--find themselves stranded
on beaches where their exposure to deadly "air" literally smothers
them to death.
SIMPLE THINGS TO DO:
- There is no such thing as "safe" air. Don't use it. Avoid
air in all its forms, such as automobile "safty" airbags, "balloons"
often used as decorations, tire inner tubes--filled to the bursting
point with super high pressure "air"--, so-called iron lungs used to
pump air into the chests of helpless invalids, etc.
- If you eat at classy restaurants, refuse "whipped cream",
which is often filled with deadly air, and can cause heart disease.
SOURCE:
- THE HUMOR CENTER, 1321 Doherty Academic Hall, Pittsburgh, PA
15213. For info on alternatives to breathing air, send a SASE.
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