Posted on 02/07/2018 12:19:05 AM PST by Zakeet
I’m still dying from:
The tax cut
Trumps election
The government shutdown
Two scoops
Will have to get back to you . . .
So? The 4-Corners area is a mercury laden area, so laden that back around 1910 pools of mercury were found at the bottom of the San Juan or Colorado rivers and extracted.
Now suddenly that area is also being warned of “Mercury pollution”.
I remember kids doing that sixty years ago. Some actually stuck their tongues in the mercury to see if it had taste.
My mom said her dad, my Grandfather, once bought a jar of liquid mercury at an auction. It disappeared when they cleaned out the old store room.
I remember reading about miners doing that. Once they had the mercury as loaded with gold as it would absorb, they would slice a potato, hollow out a hole in the center, place the mercury piece in it, place the two sides together, and bury it in HOT ashes till the mercury cooked off.
Then they would dig out the potato, cut out the remaining chunk of gold, then EAT THE POTATO.
***riding your bike in the cloud produced by the DDT fogging truck saved all of us.***
I remember those days. 1956, Farmington NM on the Animas river. Cool spray on a hot day. I was 9 years old. Too bad that spray will cut my life short. I am now 71 and still have all my teeth, and am in better health than anyone my age I know.
So DDT didn’t kill me.
Mercury in the area didn’t kill me.
Mercuricrome and merthiolate for cuts didn’t kill me.
Contaminants from the gold and silver mines didn’t kill me.
Lead we chewed on didn’t kill me.
White Lead used in shop classes (remember those) didn’t kill me.
Utah Uranium mine tailings a didn’t kill me.
WAIT! Maybe I am dead but just don’t know it yet!
The most deadly thing I have ever put me at death’s door was a virus and bacteria.
Is it melting because it’s sending all the ‘freezing air’ down to Minnesota?
Are there Mercury deposits in the Arctic Circle?
Every child, who ever saw liquid mercury from a thermometer, played with it. It was an irresistible temptation. So very cool!
Remember that red liquid used as an antiseptic when we were youngsters? It was the best stuff for a chancre sore. Put it on a Q-tip and gently slide it over the chancre sore before bedtime and in the morning it was all healed up.
Mercurochrome or merthiolate were the names used. It is now no longer available.
OK - that explains it. Why you are such a deplorable who is mentally impaired and voted for DJT!
I’ll never worry about mercury in fish again .... mainly because I’m 70 and like ... at this point ....... who cares ?
Yet another FAKE NEWS story based on discredited climate change. No actual numbers presented as facts. Juat a ‘maybe this, maybe that’ wool-gathering exercise.
Money quote: “... in some forms ...”
in SOME forms
Yeah...it’s a wonder any of us are still alive. Nowadays, as long as you don’t do, eat, drink, or breathe anything, you will live longer. /s
My question is how much—if any—permafrost has actually melted?
While frozen ground melts every Spring the permafrost, hence its name, never melts.
Can we see the numbers on how much has actually melted, that is, ground or land that was once true, established-as-fact permafrost that is now melted (at least in Summer)?
OR...
Is this just computer-modeled speculation that areas of permafrost WILL melt in the future?
Mad Hatter—once mercury was involved in the production of felt used in hat construction. Exposure to mercury vapors is one route into the body, which leads to deterioration of the nervous system.
That’s a very good fact. The Mad Hatter was an arch villain in the original Batman series, by the way.
A broken thermometer was always good for a days worth of fun back in the day!
IIRC, Merriweather Lewis applied mercury to some of the members of the expedition when they caught the clap from native chicks on their way back after reaching the Pacific.
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