I would like to run an experiment. That’s Right! I’m curious as to the world wide state of chemical content. So i’m asking any members on this and other forums to use whatever technology (i.e. Oxygen/air monitors, Geiger Counter, water quality measure…). Basically i want to do a world wide independent open source “Chem Check” think of it as a personal colon exam.
So if you have any useful equipment in this regard i encourage you to post results and location on this thread (be sure not to be to close to home while testing), and follow the usual protocol, like for air quality, multiple locations within a given area on a calm windless day. Water the same, not necessarily in stagnant water but a good size lake, pH levels and such. Frequency pollution, light pollution, all avenues of testing, I’m hoping to find some answers regarding a curious discovery i’ve made recently.
The reason i am bringing this up is because of the vast majority of strange geo-phenomena centric videos on youtube and elsewhere. I would like to make a map/graph of sorts to show all results in one place, of one place, Our Home.
Thank you for seeing the benefits and risks regarding the unknowing of these true values worldwide, i think its clear professional/expert knowledge is less than accurate, not to mention susceptible to doctored results
This is purely under your own control, i don’t have the equipment, meaning no pay just something to do instead of sitting on the john playing angry birds
Wouldn’t you rather know the radiation levels of the west coast of north america for real…
A quick spot check of my living quarters (I know, you wanted data for places away from home, but I work with what I’ve got on hand…) shows that my apartment is populated by an amazingly wide variety of…
… substances.
Stay tuned while I gather some higher resolution data.
ETA: Location data: Earth. North America. California.
More ETA: Okay, I’m getting a tad more data here… wait for it…
Lots of it is carbon.
I’m on a boat in the gulf of mexico and our boat records all kinds of data like this. We are also picking up seismic data from nodes on the sea floor. If you’re willing to pay handsomely, I will compromise the data security of my company and get you some of it.*
I’m especially concerned about “frequency pollution,” in fact, I’m afraid that our company is responsible for A LOT of that. You see, in order to collect seismic data, we have to create lots of frequencies of sound by shooting highly compressed blasts of air at the surface of the water, which travel down and then into the Earth. There are so many frequencies generated, it’s scary.
You can already access TONS of environmental data online for free from a variety of sources. If you don’t know how to work with huge comma-delineated txt files many of these agencies provide instructions, detailed summaries of the data, or even user-friendly web interfaces for visualizing the data. These data are “real” in the sense that real scientists do real science with them, they are quality checked for errors, the sensors are maintained, the lab technicians doing the assays follow standardized protocols, etc. You should definitely use these resources for your project - you’ve paid for it, after all (if you’re a a taxpayer in the United States that is). Other countries and international organizations also have similar databases, all you have to do is spend about 45 seconds on Google.
This is gonna sound harsh, but if you can’t find reams and reams of environmental “chemical content” data online, I doubt you’ll really be able to do anything meaningful with the data when you get it. But I’d love for you to prove me wrong!
Hmmm… no wonder I don’t fit in here. I don’t have any of these toys and my last water tests cost well over $400 for a broad panel. If you want me to upload the data somewhere, just send me $400 and it is yours. I’ll even transfer copyright
wheresmymind, you missed my point entirely i was looking for independent results, google is nsa run, and 60% of the results i find are cooked, outdated or framed in crap. apparently this is not something you can do with a cheap science lab set. its all about the money isn’t it? funny how that works
Disregarding the fact that the NSA doesn’t control your Google results, Google has absolutely nothing to do with the data made available by the EPA or the USGS. What makes you think the data you find are “cooked?”
Yeah, it does take money to collect and analyze environmental samples, and to organize the resultant data. Yeah, it is all about the money. In the same way that I can’t go out and buy a BMW without paying for one. Funny how that works. :rolleyes:
The data freely available on the EPA and USGS websites are of much higher quality than just about any data you’d get from a “citizen scientist” volunteering information to a stranger on a message board.
Sorry shadowofneo 