Gizmodo: Researchers Accidentally Got High on Laughing Gas From Penguin Poop.
When studying penguins, there’s a surprise you’ve gotta watch out for: the laughing gas produced by their poop.
Researchers based in Denmark and China were studying the effects of retreating glaciers and the accompanying surge in penguins on greenhouse gas levels on South Georgia Island. It turns out that climate change is kicking off a sort of feedback loop, where the influx of penguins leads to more penguin poop and therefore even more greenhouse gases. But it also leads to a hell of a time for the scientists breathing in all that nitrous oxide, colloquially known as laughing gas.
“After nosing about in guano for several hours, one goes completely cuckoo. One begins to feel ill and get a headache,” the study’s corresponding author, Bo Elberling from the Center for Permafrost at the University of Copenhagen, told the AFP.
South Georgia Island is a cold, cloudy island located in the South Atlantic just north of the Antarctic Circle. Over the past 50 years, the island’s glaciers have been retreating; its Heaney Glacier has retreated a kilometer since 1993, according to the paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
The island’s location makes it a prime spot for penguins; it hosts the world’s biggest king penguin population, with around 300,000 breeding birds. As the glacier retreats, the penguins advance inland.
Does this mean I’ll be able to purchase Penguins from my favorite Speed Shop soon?
The problem is that the penguins want to go to the art gallery in order to pique their respective appreciations for the ffffffff….arts.
Smells fishy.
Going to ask my dentist what he knows about this poop…
When does Penguin season open?
We gotta do it for the planet people!
If I had Nitro Sox I’d be a candidate for Minister of Silly Walks.
There’s a point in time when you choose to inhale penguin poop that you need to ask yourself some life choice questions…..
ummmmm…. @ willysgoat….. how about just standing around inhaling anybody’s poop?
Well, at least the penguins don’t throw it.
They’re not getting high from the poop in San Francisco.
As a general rule, I don’t inhale fowl shit.
Penguins don’t have hands so they can’t fling their poop. They’d have to fling it with their flippers. And who in their right mind studies penguin poop and who pays for it.
Now I’m thinking of puting the Linux penguin next to the Rat Fink on the side of my Charger.
I guess Democrats eat penguin poop it would explain a lot of things.
Considering ‘climate change’ is a load of penguin poop, it’s quite a nice analogy.
So that explains the hole in the ozone layer