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And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

here's a short but sweet version

First, they don't even attempt to measure Nanoplastics, because they don't know how. (They'd need SNOM, and a better SEM, and a cyclotron, and PyGCMS, etc etc). nobody cares about micros anymore because nanos are whats in the environment. we just cant see them with anything but a really good electron microscope (EM) or the pyGMS

They did not deconvolute their spectrograms OR measure area under curve (unless it's hiding in their huge supplimental data) OR use a good spectra database (I like this one which takes into account weathering and dyes for multiple polymers, not pristine etc https://rochmanlab.wordpress.com/spectral-libraries-for-microplastics-research/)

Huge problem is that Nitrile is not HDPE is not PS is not PP is not (insert other plastic here). Many nanoplastics studies use PyGCMS which has to be compared against its own database signature. which is how we're able to differentate against HDPE and PS and PP and Nylon etc

anyways yall stop fearmongering (or start) everytime these sensationalist papers come out everyone actually trying in the plastic field loses a year of our lives. also sorry if this is disconnected its friday night yknow

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

Like imagine being a modern day sailor navigating the Pacific with GPS and strong hulls to protect against the raging ocean. And from portside you see like an honest to god viking ship. Except its made of some high tech carbon fiber material. But like, its still very definitely a viking ship. You can clearly see there's 24 oars along the hull where sailors are supposed to use to manually row their ship. Also the ship is leaking and theres like one little dude on board whos skittering around patching the holes constantly. Also this little dude is blind and doesnt know about water. Thats how insane Eridians look being an interstellar species without computers or radiation shielding.

According to sources a new boyband has been formed at Bootcamp with 5 solo contestants thought to be more promising as a group.

The boyband made up of auditionees: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik

(Liam being one of this years re-auditonee’s) The boyband are yet unamed.