9 એપ્રિલ, 2015

"Seventy percent of the world is coated with goo."

"At the very top of oceans and inland waters lies a distinct micrometer-thick microbial habitat. It influences climate change, fosters unusual and deadly bacteria, and is made of jelly. It is the surface microlayer."
આમના દ્વારા પોસ્ટ કરેલા Ann Althouse પર 7:17 AM
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27 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

rehajm કહ્યું...

I've always heard it that the world is covered in a thin layer of poo.

9/4/15 07:22 AM
rehajm કહ્યું...

Surface Microlayer is better at breakfast.

9/4/15 07:23 AM
Bobber Fleck કહ્યું...

93% of all statistics are made up.

9/4/15 07:25 AM
Bob Ellison કહ્યું...

Seventy percent of the Internet is covered with goo, too.

9/4/15 07:44 AM
Tank કહ્યું...

Is it medicated?

9/4/15 08:13 AM
Fritz કહ્યું...

Old news.

9/4/15 08:32 AM
Henry કહ્યું...

From one of the meta articles:

This so-called sea-surface microlayer is important, scientists say, in part because it influences the chemistry of the ocean and the atmosphere. “One of the most significant things that happens on our planet is the transport of gases in and out of the ocean,” said Michael Cunliffe, a marine biologist at the University of Warwick in England. The ocean stores a large fraction of the global-warming gases we produce; at the microlayer, the gases are pulled down.

So how many climate models take the goo coating into account?

9/4/15 09:11 AM
Todd કહ્યું...

It influences climate change, fosters unusual and deadly bacteria, and is made of jelly. It is the surface microlayer."

Well don't everything these days? It is the "butterfly effect" writ large...

9/4/15 09:11 AM
traditionalguy કહ્યું...

Everyone needs Krud Kutter, available by the gallon from the Amazon portal of your choice.

9/4/15 09:13 AM
Crimso કહ્યું...

"It influences climate change"

Finally!! Something other than CO2 that influences climate change rather than results from it. I'd say we're making progress now. Wonder what else might be cause rather than effect...

9/4/15 09:16 AM
Crimso કહ્યું...

"Seventy percent of the world is coated with goo."

I blame the internet and its easy access to pr0n.

9/4/15 09:19 AM
Kylos કહ્યું...

The article states that the goo absorbs CO2 into the ocean thus reducing global warming.

9/4/15 09:21 AM
Crimso કહ્યું...

I am somewhat fluent in phase equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. I was being sarcastic.

9/4/15 09:39 AM
Crimso કહ્યું...

Let's do a Burroughs cutup of Althouse headlines.

"Seventy percent of Rand Paul has a problem with sex education coated with goo in the wake of Rolling Stone's problem with women."

9/4/15 09:42 AM
Jason કહ્યું...

LASLO SPATULA, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!

9/4/15 10:43 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...

doesn't warm milk get a layer after it's been sitting? We call it 'nata'.

9/4/15 10:49 AM
Skeptical Voter કહ્યું...

Good Lord--wait till these writers figure out how many bacteria, viruses, and protozoa of all types inhabit the human body! They'll run shrieking in horror.

9/4/15 11:07 AM
Roger Sweeny કહ્યું...

Just how big is "tens of micrometers deep"? Take an inch, then divide it into one thousand equal parts. One of those parts is 25 micrometers.

There is an old biology joke(?), "How may cells are in an average human body?" Answer: 100 trillion, of which only 10 trillion are human.

9/4/15 11:19 AM
Rusty કહ્યું...

Roger
One micron equals .00003937 of an inch. About 4 millionths of an inch, Tens of microns doesn't even equal .001(one thousanths) of an inch.

9/4/15 01:11 PM
rhhardin કહ્યું...

Polar bears survive on goo.

9/4/15 02:00 PM
Roger Sweeny કહ્યું...

Rusty,

0.00003937 of an inch is about 4 hundred-thousandths of an inch, not 4 millionths of an inch.

25 x 0.00003937 inch = 0.00098425 inch. That's just under 0.001 inch.

If I had been exact and said that one thousandth of an inch is 25.4 micrometers, and used a more precise micrometer to inch conversion factor, 25.4 x 0.00003937008 inch = 0.001 inch.

9/4/15 02:21 PM
Sam L. કહ્યું...

Seventy percent of the world is coated with goo:

Oh My God, we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

9/4/15 03:01 PM
RecChief કહ્યું...

I was mildly interested until I saw the words "climate change"

9/4/15 04:44 PM
Wince કહ્યું...

"Well, I'd guesstimate it's a sex thing.
It's the only way I can figure it.
High velocity impact, twisted metal, busted glass, all four souls taken at exactly the same time...

Probably the only way that diabolical degenerate
can shoot his goo."

9/4/15 05:13 PM
Freeman Hunt કહ્યું...

I am especially thankful for the thirty percent.

9/4/15 06:43 PM
Jaq કહ્યું...

Downwelling infrared as enhanced by CO2 penetrates only a few millimeters into the ocean, based on tests done. These results show that heating of the ocean in this manner is a very very very slow process.

Obviously this layer of goo affects the process as well. It is certain that the climate models do not include it.

9/4/15 08:12 PM
jr565 કહ્યું...

My friend Goo has a real tattoo

9/4/15 09:37 PM

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