413: How Things Really Work, You Jerk

It's Saturday evening, and the weather forecast for a Pachaug enduro loop ride tomorrow looks iffy at best.
I'll have to make final judgement when I awake tomorrow at the crack of dawn.
Actually, before dawn since this time of year sunrise is at about 7:05 am.
God, why so late?

Well, Bucky Beaver, you buck-toothed imbecile, allow some knowledge of the hard facts of:
How Things Really Work, You Jerk to permeate that thick skull of yours, would you?

The reason the sun rises so late and sets so early in December has to do with the 23.4 degree tilt of the Earth's axis, and that tilt plays a part on when the sun rises and sets - and where on the horizon it does this and the position of the arc it traces across the sky - as the Earth makes a trip around the sun over the course of a year.
Yeah, a year, the thing they call a 365-day time span.
Remember?

The tilt of the Earth also has everything to do with one of the great scams put across to people on the very same planet Earth:
The supposed depletion of the ozone layer and how man is making the "ozone hole" bigger and bigger, eventually to lead to destruction of the planet unless we all come together and fight this threat.
Remember that one?
Back in the 1980s, you'd swear we wouldn't see the end of the decade and all of the neon-colored disco clothing that came with it, eh?
Remember MC Hammer and his parachute pants?
Can't touch this!
Good thing, as I'd rather not.

That's right, Bucky, it's another scam dreamt-up by men that believe they are so much better than and brighter than and craftier than and slipperier than you, men who believe they can bullshit you into believing you're wrecking the fragile planet, and it's up to them and their like-minded groups of other slippery and crafty men with the initials U.N. to come up with the "solution" that will make this non-existent problem all better.
Just like when mommy used to put hydrogen peroxide on your scraped knee, blow in it so it wouldn't burn so much, and then put a band aid over it as she patted you on the head.
She should have kicked you in the balls while she was at it, too, and here's why, dipshit:

The ozone way up there in the stratosphere is not what protects the Earth and all of us from the sun's radiation, such as the ultraviolet rays (UV).
That's right.
All of the bullshit we have been told was a big fatty.
It is actually the Earth's oxygen up there that does this protecting, not the ozone, and the supposed ozone layer and this supposed growing ozone hole bullshit scam does not protect us, unless you like getting high off sniffing ozone.

When UV rays from the sun come careening into the Earth's atmosphere, they strike molecules of the oxygen we breathe.
These molecules are composed of 2 atoms of oxygen stuck together because they like being together.
However, when struck with the intense radiation of the sun, the 2 oxygen atoms get broken apart, making them two individual atoms.
These individual atoms are called ions, and they would rather not be all by themselves for very long.
So, they simply become attached to the other oxygen molecules near by, and since those oxygen molecules were already composed of 2 oxygen atoms, this attachment of the third now makes the molecule the stuff called ozone.
Ozone = 3 oxygen atoms stuck together.

It is this reaction - the UV rays breaking apart the 2 oxygen atoms - that protects us, as the energy of the UV rays needed to cause this reaction is used to heat the atmosphere by making all of those molecules move real fast instead of reaching us and frying your ugly face.
Wait, that might be an improvement.
Heating of the atmosphere, in other words, because if you remember your 3rd grade science books, you dropout, heat is defined by how fast molecular motion is - the faster the motion, the hotter something becomes.

The terrible ozone holes only occur at the poles.
Right?
Why the hell is that, if we're all doing our best to destroy it at parts of the world other than the poles?  
Who lives at the poles?
Well, Bucky, if you recall the 23.4 degree tilt of the Earth's axis, you might be able to strain your brain and picture it in your little mind.
When the Earth's north pole is tilted away from the sun in winter, the sun's UV rays strike at such an angle, you won't get the chemical reaction required to break apart the 2 oxygen atoms and make ozone.
Simple as that.

Now, how do you feel?

-John