The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee 294
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An anonymous reader writes in with this excerpt from Inhabitat:"People aren't the only ones getting a jolt from caffeine these days; in a new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, scientists found elevated concentrations of caffeine in the Pacific Ocean in areas off the coast of Oregon. With all those coffee drinkers in the Pacific Northwest, it should be no surprise that human waste containing caffeine would ultimately make its way through municipal water systems and out to sea – but how will the presence of caffeine in our oceans affect human health and natural ecosystems?"
Mmmmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Caffeinated sushi. *drool*
Re:Caffeinated Fish (Score:5, Funny)
So that's why the dolphins are talking so fast. I can't even understand them.
Maybe the caffeine is getting some extra kick from some Japanese cesium.
WE'RE VERY AWAKE DOWN HERE GUYS! VERY!!! (Score:5, Funny)
*TWITCH!*TWITCH*
I'd like to swim upstream and spawn, but the last time I tried it, I wound up in Lake Erie! Eww! And MAN is the wind cold at supersonic speeds!
It took me almost a week to swim home! It would have happened faster, but I ran out of caffeine two-days from home. Hawaii was nice though.
Now where was I?
Oh yeah.
WE'RE VERY AWAKE DOWN HERE GUYS!
Re:Starbucks (Score:5, Funny)
I know it has a few health benefits, but it's just too bitter.
One benefit is making you think "bitter" is tasty. The second, and more important one, is the prevention of lack-of-coffee headaches.
Re:Bet Ya (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I have a hard time believing (Score:5, Funny)
that human coffe/tea consumption and pee will have an effect on the world's oceans.
Q: Why did the hipster burn his lips drinking his coffee/tea?
A: He wanted to drink it before it was cool...
Re:I have a hard time believing (Score:5, Funny)
You mean, you don't?
Re:Bet Ya (Score:4, Funny)
Good for them I say.
Re:Amounts (Score:5, Funny)
Please reframe your numbers using some useful metric - something like Filet-O-Fish/day.
Re:Amounts (Score:5, Funny)
That would be equivalent to 0.00277 fully-loaded 747s per Olympic swimming pool.
Re:Now I know why ..... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mmmmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Baconated grapefruit?
"Admiral" Crunch?
Re:Bet Ya (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bet Ya (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine now, how nervous are these sharks with lasers.
Stop it. Now.