To answer your question in the description, the waste water contains phosphogypsum which is a radioactive byproduct from the production of phosphate (sulphuric acid is reacted with phosphate rock to produce phosphoric acid used for fertilizer production).

The radioactivity comes from naturally occurring uranium and radium in the phosphate ore. Central Florida phosphogypsum averages 26 pCi/g radium, and the EPA prohibites its use, but further north in Florida the phosphogypsum has an average concentration of less than 10 pCi/g radium which can be used as an agricultural amendment, but for no other use.

Also, the European news that I saw reported 980 million litres of contaminated water which is only slightly higher than the 225 million u.s. gallons reported elsewhere.

Radium has a half-life of 1600 years and stops glowing after about 20-It's behind glass (watch crystal) so one was shielded from direct bombardment-The casualties from the process came with the paint girls in the preparation and assembly of the illuminated faces and hands, who used lippointing (brush-lickers) to straighten their brushes....that we're dipped in radioactive paint-Nasty bone cancer of the jaw in worst cases.

200 old watches in a display case isn't anything to worry your testicular function over, but you don't want your cat lying on a pile of em...

From Cosmic Variance
Predictions for 2012
by Sean Carroll

So you don’t enter the new year completely unprepared, here are my most secure predictions for 2012. Unlike other prognostication websites, these predictions are based on Science!

1. Freely-falling objects will accelerate toward the ground at an approximately constant rate, up to corrections due to air resistance.
2. Of all the Radium-226 nuclei on the Earth today, 0.04% will decay by the end of the year.
3. A line drawn between any planet (or even dwarf planet) and the Sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times.
4. Hurricanes in the Northern hemisphere will rotate counterclockwise as seen from above.
5. The pressure of a gas squeezed in a piston will rise inversely with the change in volume.
6. Electric charges in motion will give rise to magnetic fields.
7. The energy of an object at rest whose mass decreases will also decrease, by the change in mass times the speed of light squared.
8. The content of the world’s genomes will gradually evolve in ways determined by fitness in a given environment, sexual selection, and random chance.
9. The entropy of closed systems will increase.
10. People will do many stupid things, and some surprisingly smart ones.

Happy New Year, everyone.

Quorum sensing seems like a more mechanical version of smell. Smell doesn't cause anything to directly occur (though it has very potent indirect triggers like nausea). Though, they could be exactly the same if the bacteria are counting the presence of communications. I want to know if the receptors are unable to take in signals unless the volume of communications cause a pressure that forces the receptor in the slot. In that case, it would be kind of like smell, but more like a trigger. If, however, the cell is just keeping track of how many communications is receives (keeping track of the volume of communications), then it is a programed response that resembles our own feelings of illness when a foul smell is in the air. In other words, from what I got out of that video, I think you are right; quorum sensing is nearly identical to smell.

What they pointed out rightfully in that other video, current antibacterials actually bread for stronger bacteria. If you could dumb down, bread out, or otherwise interfere with their order you wouldn't encourage such evolutions. That was a very great video there flech, I thank you for it.

And everyone take it easy on Yogi. I think a healthy dose of skepticism keeps us from making bad assumptions. Look at all the people that took radium as a cure all then later died. Vaccinations came in and took over without a real study to show if they had negative long term or unexpected consequences. They were adopted rapidly because the results of less kids dead from polio was viable. And, because of the recent speculations, we have real data now that shows they are indeed, mostly benign. If it wasn't for people being skeptical, we wouldn't have put the science forward to finding the answer to a question we should of asked a long time ago. Since then, we have about 3 different good studies that show vaccines are a non-factor in cancer, and other more neurological disorders.

I just don't see why medicine should ever be added to tap water. It's supposed to be water, not medicine. People should have a choice in this. As stated many times, people in countries with unflourinated water have teeth that are just as healthy.

This just really reminds me of the use of lead, asbestos, and even radium.

"Radium was also put in some foods for taste and as a preservative, but also exposed many people to radiation. Radium was once an additive in products like toothpaste, hair creams, and even food items due to its supposed curative powers. Such products soon fell out of vogue and were prohibited by authorities in many countries, after it was discovered they could have serious adverse health effects."

The Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: An Environmental Overview
http://www.fluoridealert.org/phosphate/overview.htm

INTRODUCTION

They call them "wet scrubbers" - the pollution control devices used by the phosphate industry to capture fluoride gases produced in the production of commercial fertilizer.

In the past, when the industry let these gases escape, vegetation became scorched, crops destroyed, and cattle crippled.

Today, with the development of sophisticated air-pollution control technology, less of the fluoride escapes into the atmosphere, and the type of pollution that threatened the survival of some communities in the 1950s and 60s, is but a thing of the past (at least in the US and other wealthy countries).

However, the impacts of the industry's fluoride emissions are still being felt, although more subtly, by millions of people - people who, for the most part, do not live anywhere near a phosphate plant.

That's because, after being captured in the scrubbers, the fluoride acid (hydrofluorosilicic acid), a classified hazardous waste, is barreled up and sold, unrefined, to communities across the country. Communities add hydrofluorosilicic acid to their water supplies as the primary fluoride chemical for water fluoridation.

Even if you don't live in a community where fluoride is added to water, you'll still be getting a dose of it through cereal, soda, juice, beer and any other processed food and drink manufactured with fluoridated water.

Meanwhile, if the phosphate industry has its way, it may soon be distributing another of its by-products to communities across the country. That waste product is radium, which may soon be added to a roadbed near you - if the EPA buckles and industry has its way.

visit the link to read more

1) Introduction
2) Effects of Fluoride Pollution
3) Litigation from Fluoride Damage
4) Scrubbing away the problem
5) A Missed Opportunity: Little Demand for Silicofluorides
6) Fluoridation: "An ideal solution to a long-standing problem"?
7) Recent Findings on Silicofluorides
Gypsum Stacks & 'Slime Ponds'
9) Radiation Hazard
10) Will radioactive gypsum be added to roads?
11) Commercial Uranium Production
12) Cold War Secrets & Worker Health
13) Wastewater Issues
14) References
15) Photographs of the Phosphate Industry
16) Further Reading

Thanks, I'll have to queue something up. Great vid, I'm watching the bit about radium right now - ker-razy!

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Haha - very well, then. Gorgon has my next but I'll give ya one. I got nothin planned for it.

In reply to this comment by Deano:
Well just in case. Truth be told I had no idea what to do with my save and I haven't been using them lately

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Thanks, man, but I don't understand... it was queued on Friday, only two days ago...

In reply to this comment by Deano:
*save