Comments on: What is “sea foam” made out of? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/ Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Linda Gill https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507431 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:24:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507431 This may be most pertinent to what we are seeing and experiencing on the east coast. The foam is becoming more prolific with every passing low pressure that hits the east coast of Australia.

With the extreme events we are now experiencing, we can include in wikipedias explanation, tailings and waste water from numerous coal, heavy metal and CSG mines along the east coast of Australia.

]]> By: Rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507430 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:17:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507430 Ocean City Maryland surely gets more effluent from Delaware Bay than from the Chesapeake Bay. The latter is approximately three times as distant as the former from Ocean City.

I’m highly amused that this is happening to a Fox affiliate reporter.

]]> By: travc https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507429 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:26:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507429 MadScientist…
In many places, the stormwater drains feed into the sewer system. Yeah, really dumb, but cheap and works well-enough until there is a heavy rain.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507428 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:17:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507428 When it floods, sewage treatment plants don’t so much dump raw sewage as allow it to spill all over the place. That’s assuming the plant or some of its treatment ponds flooded or that the pumps have all shut down. The stormwater drains are not plumbed into the sewage system but they’re full of crap from idiots dumping their trash everywhere.

]]> By: nice_marmot https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507427 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:42:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507427

It’s so much better

When everyone is in
Are you in?
It’s so much easier
When sea-foam green is in fashion

Ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh…Are you in?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqd4wq7s5qE

]]> By: travc https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507426 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:27:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507426 The only question I really have about this stuff now is:
Should we call it Bachmann or Murdoch?

I vote for Murdoch due to the gritty sliminess and the Fox connection.

]]> By: Domestigoth https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507425 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:05:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507425 What, you mean it’s not made of dead mermaids?

Oh wait, daedalus4u already beat me to the reference.

Watching the video made me shudder. I grew up near water, and can clearly remember the nasty smell and consistency of that disgusting foam.

]]> By: daedalus4u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507424 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:09:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507424 I have it on good authority that sea foam is made from 300 year old, dead soul-less merfolk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Mermaid

]]> By: jonquil https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507423 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:44:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507423 Sugar, water and egg whites. Oh, you meant the other seafoam. I always thought it was bubbles, because it kind of looks like bubble bath at times.

]]> By: uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507422 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:13:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/29/what-is-sea-foam-made-out-of/#comment-507422 And next week we get live coverage of The Toxic Avenger

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