Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air 164
If you live in Madrid or Barcelona, you might not notice the air pollution due to your contact buzz according to a new study. The Superior Council of Scientific Investigations found the air in those cities to be laced with at least five drugs: amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids, lysergic acid and most prominently cocaine. Researchers found cocaine in concentrations between 29 and 850 picogram per cubic meter of air. The group stresses that the air samples were taken in high drug areas and don't represent most of the air in the cities.
BRB (Score:5, Funny)
BRB, packing my bags....
That explains Manuel (Score:2, Funny)
He's from Barcelona.
Who still breathes CITY air? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who still breathes CITY air? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Less than a billionth of a gram per cubic meter (Score:3, Funny)
Don't knock it, people have made millions by working with similar concentrations [wikipedia.org].
Only coked out scientists (Score:2, Funny)
Would be arrogant enough to name their operation "Superior Council".
Makes me wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Is it still legal to breathe there?
Re:That explains Manuel (Score:2, Funny)
C-K-What?
Re:Prague (Score:5, Funny)
As a current resident of Prague, I can confirm that the predominant smell in the city is indeed beer in any of its three forms: the hops-scented beverage, vomit, and piss.
Diabolical laughter (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody expects the spanish intoxication!
Re:Well I don't know about cocaine (Score:1, Funny)
You get the supergeek of the year award
Re:Less than a billionth of a gram per cubic meter (Score:2, Funny)
Think about how small that is, and how large a cubic meter is. I'm not impressed. You can find a few molecules of almost anything almost everywhere, if you have sensitive enough equipment.
Did she believe you?
Re:Primordial soup (Score:2, Funny)
It might just mean that after millions of years of putting things in our mouths, we happened to find one that hit that receptor, and helped us 'study for the big test tomorrow'.
Take It To The Limit (Score:5, Funny)
Which absurdum shall we reducto it to?
It's Spanish air, which is to say the air in Spain. Except it's not, it's a couple cities. But it's just the part of those cities that have more of the stuff we're measuring. What's next, a particular apartment building? But really it's Carlos's flat. Mostly in the bedroom. Under the bed. Down by the foot of it. In that box there. No not that one, the other one, the one with the drugs in it. Yeah that's it, that's the air in Spain.
It's that air in those areas of those cities which is the Spanish air, and it has drugs in it. So the air in Europe is laced with drugs. Of course that means earth's atmosphere contains cocaine. In other words it's the solar system, meaning our galaxy, so it's the universe that has drugs in it. It's all the same, right?
So nice of them to be so honest about overgeneralizing. Right there in the headline and summary it says one thing except no, it says something else. Thankfully this takes all the pressure off the author when it comes to pesky details like accuracy and precision and stuff, and lets us get right to the business of it being important and all. That important thingy is what makes it important. Just as long as it's it's important, such as being Spanish air rather than some air samples from the drug areas of a couple large cities, that makes it newsworthy here on dot. And by that I mean slash. Or maybe some of each, it doesn't really matter. Oh, wait, there's more to it than that. It needs to have something more than important stuff to get posted. It should have some words. Doesn't matter which ones, because what it means can change from one sentence to the next in order to make it worth reading.
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Less than a billionth of a gram per cubic meter (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but the concentrations in the air is far too high to be effective, according to the homeopathic cultists. You'd have to dilute it down by at least another 100,000:1.
Know what they call a cubic meter of air in Spain? (Score:5, Funny)
A Royale.
Re:Primordial soup (Score:2, Funny)
thus the fact that we have receptors for cocaine-like molecules suggests that maybe cocaine like molecules were naturally abundant in pre-evolutionary times.
so you're suggesting that, instead of going to barcelona, it would be better for him to travel back in time to the biogenesis era?
Re:Primordial soup (Score:1, Funny)
And where can I buy some of this "Primordial soup"? It sounds tasty...
...Gone (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Who still breathes CITY air? (Score:2, Funny)
So let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
The rain in Spain will be full of cocaine?
Re:sooooo (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Primordial soup (Score:3, Funny)
Today's moderators are from Spain.
Come to think of it, it's not just today.
Re:BRB (Score:1, Funny)
The article then goes on to cite another study in Italy where the highest concentration of cocaine found was 100 pg/m3 -- whereas in the Spanish study, the maximum found was 850 pg/m3. That's almost an order of magnitude difference between Spain and Italy.
The Italians know to sniff IN
Re:Well I don't know about cocaine (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Primordial soup (Score:5, Funny)
And where can I buy some of this "Primordial soup"? It sounds tasty...
I'm sure roughly half the restaurants I have been to were serving this, but calling it something else.
Re:Primordial soup (Score:4, Funny)
We just learned earlier today that RNA is found in primordial soup.
I'd send it back, then.
Re:BRB (Score:3, Funny)