He is also, apparently, the reason we know the age of the earth.
So – there’s that.
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Why are people celebrating his death day? Dude was born June 2nd, why not make that the holiday?
Why do Christians celebrate Good Friday, when we’re at it?
The day he died is the day we failed to celebrate him for the last time; we’re not celebrating we’re commemorating.
CCP means something very different on Lemmy lol
Yea all the commies are going to be disappointed after reading the text in the image
I think the abbreviation CCP is already taken…
Maybe a different name would be best.
Why don’t we just leave out the middle name? We could just have Clair Patterson day, or CP day. Surely that wouldn’t confuse the internet, right?
Yikes… Maybe let’s just do “Patterson Day” :)
Can we also take a minute to appreciate the guy that invented the lead additive and pushed for its adoption despite knowing the risks? I forgot his name but that fucker should live on in infamy.
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Also invented CFCs (the stuff that put the hole in the ozone layer).
In his later years, he had limited mobility, so he designed a system of pulleys and levers to give him some degree of independence. Eventually, he was found strangled by his contraption.
