Sunday, December 03, 2006

Looking upwards.

The Ozone layer is the tower of Babel of the modern Era. Here is humanity, so reassured in their vanity and their need of beauty that they knowingly engulf themselves in hair sprays and cologne so they can look good and smell well to their fellow man. As our hubris soars ever higher to the tip of the earth, our egos tear upon a hole into the heavens themselves and down comes the fiery retribution for loving ourselves more than our superiors. Skin Cancer, cataracts, early aging, all the acts of a vengeful universe finally envious. Like the lowly cockroaches who wish to infest our beautiful cities, we squash them when they invade our territory. The little cockroaches, daring to infect the beautiful penthouse apartments on fifth avenue, awarded for their struggle by a steel toed boot.

2 comments:

C.J. Rilkoff said...

i'm not a cockroach, you are.

Anonymous said...

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were once often used but since the Montreal Protocol came into force in 1989 they have been replaced, in nearly every country, due to the negative effects CFCs have on Earth's ozone layer. The most common replacements are mixtures of volatile hydrocarbons, typically propane, n-butane and isobutane. Dimethyl ether (DME) and methylethyl ether are also used. All these have the principle disadvantage of being quite flammable. Nitrous oxide is also used as a propellant to deliver foodstuffs (for example, whipped cream). Medicinal aerosols such as asthma inhalers use hydrofluoroalkanes (HFA): either HFA 134a (1,1,1,2,-tetrafluoroethane) or HFA 227 (1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane) or combinations of the two.