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BigPapaSmurf
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 Posted - 06/12/2005 : 09:29:11
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Well skimming the local newspaper they had this blub off the wire in the nation section about sea lions beaching themselfs, the following line is the explination.
"Scientists believe they're victims of demonic acid poisoningfrom the seasonal red tide algae bloom."
http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/sf/Pubs/DomoicAcid.htm
It should say domoic acid, funny how this was missed by every editor, not skeptics I guess.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Giltwist
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2005 : 09:47:09 [Permalink]
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 06/12/2005 : 10:42:07 [Permalink]
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| Those mischievous demons! They have no heart! |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2005 : 11:37:23 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Giltwist
There's dihydrogen monoxide in our water!
I keep bottles of dihydrogen monoxide in the fridge. Just in case. Sometimes, I even make coffee with it. I like to live dangerously... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2005 : 11:50:48 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
quote:
Originally posted by Giltwist
There's dihydrogen monoxide in our water!
I keep bottles of dihydrogen monoxide in the fridge. Just in case. Sometimes, I even make coffee with it. I like to live dangerously...
Damn, but I'm serously hooked on it -- it's a monkey on my back. You cam maintain if you dilute it with whiskey, but still there should be a 12 Step Program for recovering addicts.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/13/2005 : 17:20:12 [Permalink]
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quote:
I keep bottles of dihydrogen monoxide in the fridge. Just in case. Sometimes, I even make coffee with it. I like to live dangerously...
I use it in combination with excercise. It greatly aids endurance.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/13/2005 : 17:58:26 [Permalink]
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Isn't this the same, insidious chemical compound that killed all life on earth some four thousand-odd years ago?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 06/13/2005 : 18:06:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Isn't this the same, insidious chemical compound that killed all life on earth some four thousand-odd years ago?
Indeed! A deadly chemical it is, not to mention very addicting. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
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"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2005 : 00:07:29 [Permalink]
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When it is in it's liquid form, just a teaspoon could potentially kill you.
Very bad stuff.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2005 : 16:52:24 [Permalink]
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| Before you even think of messing with this stuff, be sure to read the Material Safety Data Sheet. Better safe than sorry. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2005 : 17:38:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
Before you even think of messing with this stuff, be sure to read the Material Safety Data Sheet. Better safe than sorry.
Heh, a word to the wise, eh?
But they should have added that it reacts with soap. Now, soap and water are pretty much harmless by themselves (if handled properly), but when mixed, they create a highly caustic substance that will brutally strip off all of your protective insulation. This is especally dangerous in the winter and it is reccommend that you sew yourself into your wool long-johns at the first chill and not come out until late spring, or, to be on the safe side, summer soltice. During this period, avoid all water not stablizied by coffee or whiskey.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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