Anytime you see people working with mercury these days, they are decked out in full-on hazmat suits, masks, etc. My dad had a bottle of it, and we poured it into a plastic container and played around with it with our bare hands at least 2-3 times while I was growing up. We were careful with it, but not like to the extent that any modern video you see with it would show.

Big Brother / Public safety gone mad? Crazy / cavalier / irresponsible dad? Bit of both?

Messing around with it was fun, and I think other kids (or at least teens or young adults) should have that opportunity unless it really is as dangerous as all that. I seem to have managed to get by unscathed though.

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Information like this make it seem like a real bad idea to encourage people to handle mercury without gloves/mask/goggles. I know (and knew at the time) that the gas form was bad news, but I've heard enough anecdotes of people handling the liquid stuff in ways similar to my experiences with it that it seems like it could be done safely in a High School chemistry lab sort of environment -- even with brief bare-handed handling.

Then again, I remember a student in my chem class taking a big direct sniff of the vapor over a test tube of sulfuric acid when he was specifically told to waft it just to get a sense of it. That resulted in a profusely bloody nose. I suppose the worst-case scenarios with mercury are worse than that, and maybe the positives don't outweigh that even though it is an interesting case of a metal liquid at room temperature.

@dag
I'd rather be doing more to capture the mercury, sulfur and other toxins coming out of the smoke stacks. Better still, I'd rather turn them off and turn on a series of nuclear plants in their stead and go to zero emission power.

@NetRunner,

The difference is I stated that we don't have a high confidence in projections of temperature change due to increased CO2 when all other factors are taken into account. The research done either ignores all other factors but CO2, or lacks a high confidence level, in no small part owing to a lack of quality long term data and understanding of H2O's role.

Translating that to what should we do means we don't have a good idea how much lowering CO2 emissions will help, what we do know is it will be expensive to do it on a large scale today. Hence my recommendation is battery powered cars and nuclear delivered electricity, as those are things we really should be doing anyways. We should additionally be spending money adapting to a warmer world, again because I believe if you are already living within a foot of being below sea level adaptations are already long overdue.

I suppose I could be biased, I grew up on a grain farm in Canada and so we only stand to profit in a warming world, but I'd like to think I value the plight of the whole of humanity more highly.

I think the reason why no one said any of the radioactives is because they're stable. You can deal with the radiation easily. Something that becomes sulfuric acid on contact with the water in the air, or poisonous and unstable materials, the unknown factor, I think is what makes them jump a little.

>> ^00Scud00:

That's it, from now on nobody let them near the helium tanks.


Alright, I'll just leaves these sulfur Hexafluroide tanks here instead. =)

>> ^carneval:

>> ^Oxen_Morale:
OK so why is it very dangerous?

If it's heavier than air and you inhale a lot of it, you have to do a lot work to displace it; if you don't know that fact, you could suffocate. If you do know that and account for it it's not as unsafe.


Also, it displaces oxygen. If a canister of SF6 is leaking, and you don't know it, it could displace enough O2 in the room that you could pass out and die.

>> ^Oxen_Morale:

OK so why is it very dangerous?


If it's heavier than air and you inhale a lot of it, you have to do a lot work to displace it; if you don't know that fact, you could suffocate. If you do know that and account for it it's not as unsafe.

Lasers, light, and the universe... 2012 will be amazing as predicted. I'm glad Obama couldn't stop all progress, despite his efforts... right QM?

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/more-evidence-found-for-quantum-physics-in-photosynthesis.ars

Quantum coherence in antenna-protein chlorophylls from green sulfur bacteria:

"A team led by Engel and Shaul Mukamel of the University of California, Irvine analyzed the fluctuation of lasers as they passed through antenna proteins. Depending on how they shifted, the researchers could track what happened inside.

They found a clear mathematical link between energy flows and fluctuations in chlorophyll coherence. The link was so clear it could be described in derivative sines and cosines, mathematical concepts taught in college trigonometry."

"The mounting evidence that quantum effects can be seen in natural systems when excited by lasers is compelling" - Greg Scholes, University of Toronto biophysicist

Yea there is also a similar method



you may hear cops refer to it as the "Shake and Bake" method

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Materials : 1 box of pseudo-ephedrine pills, 1 Cold-Compress pack, a bottle of lye crystals, 2 AA energizer lithium batteries, Coleman fuel, Iodized salt, sulfuric acid or Muriatic acid, 2 20oz bottles, coffee filters, a clear hose about 6 - 12" long, funnel, 2 Pint Mason jars, and lineman pliers.

first off, make sure your working in a clean and safe area. Clean both of the 20oz bottles with some paper towels and a clothes hanger, rinse with Coleman fuel, and repeat. You want the bottles to be clean as possible to make clean dope.

After you clean one bottle, use your funnel and one coffee filter and put 8 oz of Coleman fuel in the bottle. Then, using your lineman pliers, obtain the lithium metal from the batteries, tear them small balls and put them in your fuel. After you get both your lithium strips in, add 3 tablespoons of crushed Ammonia nitrate from the cold compress pack, and 3 tablespoons of lye crystals. Shake the bottle and get a reaction going. After you get a good reaction add your crushed pseudo-ephedrine and let it cook for 45 minutes to an hour. Burping the bottle when it get tight. refrain from shaking the bottle in the during the last 15 minutes of the cook.

Their should be a good amount of copper "b.b.s" floating with your lithium strips. this is a good sign your cook is close to finished. Clean out the mason jar you have ready, and use 3-4 filters to filter off your cook into the mason jar.

Now its time to make a smoke bottle, either using sulfuric acid or Muriatic acid. Clean the 20oz bottle like before, and make a hole in the cap big enough for your hose. if your using sulfuric acid, add 1 tablespoon of salt to the bottle and just a couple drops of sulfuric acid. If your using Muriatic acid, put 3-4 balls of aluminum foil in the bottle and a couple drops of Muriatic acid. Put the hose right above your fuel in the mason jar and watch the dope drop.

Hit it with the smoke a couple times and stir it up until it doesn't drop anymore, then filter this into another mason jar, and you got your first pull in the filter. dry it out and test it. then take the fuel you poured off and put it back in the cook bottle. cook it for about 30 minutes and try for a second pull.

You should yield about a gram, to a gram and a half of Methamphetamine.
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That's the shake and bake for easy meth in a bottle, you can make it in an old soda bottle.

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Agreed. It's a joke. Maybe he should apologize to Ted Levine, too. The guy REALLY sounds like that.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^Esoog:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
NPH had to apologize for saying, "I've never sounded more like a tranny in my life."

He shouldnt have to apologize for something so funny.

Agreed.

Yes, I've seen all of this before..it is unconvincing. As soon as you start twisting scripture to support your conclusion, you've ceased being interested in the truth.

Revelation 20:10

and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.


>> ^SDGundamX:
This link is directed mostly @shinyblurry but is also for anyone who is interested in an analysis of what the different versions/translations of the Bible say about hell/Sheol/Hades. It comes to a similar conclusion as this bishop in the video that the idea of hell as a burning lake isn't supported by scripture.

>> ^Esoog:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
NPH had to apologize for saying, "I've never sounded more like a tranny in my life."

He shouldnt have to apologize for something so funny.


Agreed.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

NPH had to apologize for saying, "I've never sounded more like a tranny in my life."


He shouldnt have to apologize for something so funny.

Thanks dude!

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