Gadgetory

okay so look I eat again okay cocaine it's pretty well known that money is riddled with cocaine some 90% of all bills circulating in the state's carry traces of it it's safe to say that the stuff can spread around pretty easily but here's the thing all those fish in the sea well they're getting a whiff of that caviar too you see we're throwing a lot of our into the water about five trillion pieces of it and we know what usually happens to sea animals when they eat too much garbage they die case in point in 2012 Spanish scientists dissected a beach sperm whale and found 37 pounds of garbage blocking its stomach not exactly a great way to go out and a lot of chemicals like cocaine are getting into the water system too it's become a particular problem in Italy's rivers specifically the Sarno River some 15 grams of cocaine flow through the Sarno River each day that's $1,800 of the stuff flowing downstream on a daily basis but with powder chemicals like cocaine the effects on sea organisms aren't immediately apparent so a bunch of scientists from their region conducted experiments in which they exposed fish to cocaine specifically to the most cracked out looking thing in the sea the European eel no not that one yeah this one anyway after giving 20 nanograms of the stuff to the eels they found some expectedly negative results on top of exhibiting hyperactive behavior the coked-out eels experienced changes in the intestine and skin at the microscopic level for instance light micrograph showed a strong decrease in the number of mucous cells lining their skin which is pretty bad for eels considering that the mucus aids in the defense against pathogens and helps them recognize sexual partners sucks mucus so yeah the idea of a coked-out eel is pretty funny but the consequences of a chemically imbalanced ocean isn't the fact is we are pouring much more harmful into the ocean than cocaine and while experiments like these might seem silly what they show is a peek into the future filled with toxic oceans and coked-out eels so before we throw god-knows-what down the toilets let's pause and reflect let's dare to keep the oceans clean and the eels drugged free