[Future Useless Eater]

Now there is a fun way to dispose of nuc waste. Put it in little packages and sell it to the public! Brilliant.

It's worked before. That is how Alcoa managed to keep from having its fluoride waste products (a hazardous byproduct of Aluminum manufacturing) kept off the hazardous-waste listings. They paid off an incoming Executive branch administration, and paid Carnegie Melon to do a study and "find" that it was actually healthy for you.

One of the very first official acts of the incoming administration was to herald this sludge was "good for you" and recommend it go into drinking water.

Now, Grand Rapids Michigan has the highest bone cancer rates in the country, which just happens to be one of the first cities in America to welcome this new finding and pollute their drinking water with the crap. Grand Rapids also happens to be a half-hour away from the Alcoa plant that funded the Carnegie study.

To this day, tons of "experts" will swear it is settled-science that fluoride is good for your teeth and bones. The reality is it makes both of them harder, but more brittle. like a sword made out of iron would be very hard, but it would shatter the first time it struck anything.

(Flouride likes to bond with bone almost as well as it bonds with Aluminum. And some theorize it holds Aluminum longer in the body that it would otherwise be held)

[wally_bert]

Thank you for the history lesson. I had no idea.

In a way Alcoa couldn’t wait for tomorrow.

It was a slogan from the 70s fantastic finishes football commercials.

[TexasGator]

LOL.

[tet68]

like a sword made out of iron would be very hard, but it would shatter the first time it struck anything.

Actually iron is very soft and malleable, it is
only the introduction of carbon that turns it into
steel which then can be hardened and then tempered
to give it the various properties we use it for today.
Hardened steels often crack just from their internal
stresses which the slow reheating releases and that is
called tempering which gives the various conditions
which allow steel to be used for so many objects.
We still live in the Iron/Steel age.

[hopespringseternal]

Deaf Smith County Health

"The percentage of men accepted by the [U.S.] Army in Deaf Smith County is higher than anyplace where I have had an opportunity to obtain such figures. In June 1944, 93 percent of those called had passed the physical examinations. When we compare this with a scant 65 percent accepted for the whole nation and with the low points, where only 30 to 40 percent have been accepted, it becomes a remarkable record. "

Hereford, Texas

Hereford is a city in and county seat of Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States.
...
Hereford's local water supply contains an unusually high level of naturally occurring fluorine. Because fluoride is used to protect against tooth decay, Hereford earned the title "The Town Without a Toothache".