Ozone does respond to magnetic attraction, and so does the Solar wind, which sparks in our magnetosphere, creating the Auroras Borealis and Australis. The enviro-argument is that FCF particles from Silly String are attracted to the South Pole, resulting in the Ozone Hole.
Possible, but hardly a proven fact.
Meanwhile, I have much stronger index finger from using pump-sprays.
And just a very cool pic:
A background of distant stars, sinuous and spiky bands of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis), and the faint glow of charged plasma (ionized atomic gas) surrounding the Space Shuttle Discovery's engines give this photo from the STS-39 mission an eerie, otherworldly look. This image reflects Discovery's April 1991 mission well - its payload bay (PLB) was filled with instruments designed to study celestial objects, aurora and atmospheric phenomena, and the low Earth orbit environment around the PLB itself. The aurora seen here are at a height of about 50-80 miles. Aurora are caused by charged particles in the solar wind, channeled through the Earth's magnetic field which excite molecules in the upper atmosphere.
Image Credit: NASA -- Astronomy Picture of the Day (February 22, 1998)
Old science, btw, is often shown to be wrong, merely because it's an accepted, barely-tested "theory".
Dan
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re: No, but Tech1 did 'touch' on that . . .
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- Ozone hole bigger than ever.
- The Ozone Hole was discovered in about 1957
- OZONE HOLES 101 - Class in session! (advanced class from the year 2190;-)
- More Environmental Nonsense From Tom
- I don't understand
- re: Ozone hole bigger than ever.
- re: I wonder . . .