Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
Because, uh, I don't know for what reason besides broadcasting to the world RAWR WE'RE FREEZING AND SOAKED! THAT'LL SHOW THOSE WOLVERINES!
What we do know, however, is that the reveling students have an effect on the lake itself. They leave it teeming with pee.
Last year, students in the College of Earth Sciences tested the water in Mirror Lake before, during and after thousands plunged in to psych themselves up for The Game."Interesting results from last year's study include a lake-wide temperature increase of approximately 3 degrees Fahrenheit during the course of the night and an ammonia spike around 1 in the morning," said Steve Goldsmith, a postdoctoral research associate.
The temperature increase could be chalked up to warm-blooded people standing in a cold lake, Goldsmith said. But, yes, that ammonia spike means exactly what you think it means.
Urine.
"It went from a background of 5.2 parts per million to a peak of about 42 parts per million," Goldsmith said. "So it was an eightfold increase."
Remember now, there can't be too high a concentration of urine, lest the trouble start (Ed. note: South Park clip from Wednesday that's slightly gross). Plus, it can't be good to be sitting in yellow days before the big game. Them's Wolverine colors!
(H/T to Dr. Saturday)
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lol buckeye fans are pathetic. They should move to the south where they belong with other hicks
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Always be the furthest guy upstream at one of those events, Ohio!
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