I may be wrong about this, but I remember reading/hearing that many of these 'immune' women were just asymptomatic carriers. That meant they were still infected with HIV and infectious but didn't themselves develop AIDS.
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Look up the MSDSs for nickel 63, and, oh, let's say "methyl mercury". You will be enlightened.
Sorry to contradict you, but pure mercury and methyl-mercury are two quite different things. At the uni where I study, if we break a thermometer it's "lock the drawer and clean up later". If 1/2mL of methyl mercury was spilt, we would evacuate the building and send in the HAZCHEM team. Mercury alkyls are nasty shit, messing with DNA, cellular functions, etc. Dimethyl-mercury is so toxic that a few drops on your hand will probably kill you.
Note that I actually agree with your point that these batteries are not as "OMG, it's radioactive! we're all dead!" as some would have us believe, I just had to correct a minor misrepresentation.
We have a system something like that here in Australia. A person/company launching lawsuit after lawsuit can be declared a "vexatious litigant" by application to the courts (Supreme Court here, I'm not sure of your equivalent, but the highest state court).
If this is applied they then have to prove each subsequent case has merit to a judge before they can proceed. The State Gov. is currently trying to have this applied to a prisoner called Julian Knight. He went on a shooting spree in about 1980, killed about 7 people I think.
In the last 10 years he's sued the state about 20 times for everything from bad prison food to lumpy beds and discrimination because he's a criminal, or something.
This may help. Pascals are a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter. This is roughly equal to the weight of 100g spread over one square meter.
One atmosphere = 1 bar = 780 torr/mm mercury = 101.3 kilopascals.
Hence 1GPa is about 10000 atmospheres.
These kinds of pressures are not (too) difficult for research labs but industry goes all queasy above about 500 as these pressures don't scale well.
I go to school (uni) but don't work and the point is I can't get email elsewhere (I assume you mean through work/school) as I'd just lose the address when I changed providers/jobs.
I do have a student email address but I keep that for formal, secure correspondance. NO spambot is having that.
I find my webmail http://www.myownemail.com/ (not an employee) has all I need and can be accessed anywhere I can get online.
BTW, the last part WAS a joke... I would like an invite not "Oh my God, I'll just DIE without G-mail":)
I share a dsl connection between about 20 people so I can't have my own address. Plus i've gone through about five isp's in the last 4 years while keeping my address so webmail suits all my needs. All i need is a Gmail invite and I'll be set;).
The idea of cooking with the sun was actually used in some science fiction books (I forget which ones, maybe Larry Niven).
The general idea was a huge array of mirrors in orbit around the sun, when the {insert generic evil alien empire} ships invaded, all the mirrors were turned upon them and they promptly exploded.
viola.. free superweapon!
You'd need a long-sighted terrorist though since the BSE crisis in the UK took decades to build up with regular exposure via bone meal etc in feed stocks.
You would have to contaminate the feed and/or directly inject thousands of animals dozens of times over months/years and even then it might not work.
There are easier, faster and cheaper ways to fuck a nations economy (a DDoS on the banks/stock market springs to mind)
While not directly related this does support the taboo. Cannibalism tends to concentrate any species-specific toxins in the body (in the same way as drinking your urine in emergencies).
One of the theories for the spread of Kuru in PNG was by cannibalism, esp brain tissue. The brains of those who had died of Kuru were considered delicacies. OOPS!
NASCAR, Indy500 etc run on methanol but use it in an internal combustion engine like regular gas. They do this because straight methanol has an octane rating of 160 (compared to 92-97 for gas)so they get VERY high compression and power. In a liquid methanol fuel cell there is no methanol vapour and idealy the cell is electrically sealed so there is no static electricity.
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I may be wrong about this, but I remember reading/hearing that many of these 'immune' women were just asymptomatic carriers. That meant they were still infected with HIV and infectious but didn't themselves develop AIDS.
Sorry to contradict you, but pure mercury and methyl-mercury are two quite different things. At the uni where I study, if we break a thermometer it's "lock the drawer and clean up later". If 1/2mL of methyl mercury was spilt, we would evacuate the building and send in the HAZCHEM team. Mercury alkyls are nasty shit, messing with DNA, cellular functions, etc. Dimethyl-mercury is so toxic that a few drops on your hand will probably kill you.
Note that I actually agree with your point that these batteries are not as "OMG, it's radioactive! we're all dead!" as some would have us believe, I just had to correct a minor misrepresentation.
If this is applied they then have to prove each subsequent case has merit to a judge before they can proceed. The State Gov. is currently trying to have this applied to a prisoner called Julian Knight. He went on a shooting spree in about 1980, killed about 7 people I think.
In the last 10 years he's sued the state about 20 times for everything from bad prison food to lumpy beds and discrimination because he's a criminal, or something.
One atmosphere = 1 bar = 780 torr/mm mercury = 101.3 kilopascals.
Hence 1GPa is about 10000 atmospheres.
These kinds of pressures are not (too) difficult for research labs but industry goes all queasy above about 500 as these pressures don't scale well.
he said NOT unlikely, a confusing double negative but still consistent
Now that's something, a fp modded UP :)
I do have a student email address but I keep that for formal, secure correspondance. NO spambot is having that.
I find my webmail http://www.myownemail.com/ (not an employee) has all I need and can be accessed anywhere I can get online.
BTW, the last part WAS a joke... I would like an invite not "Oh my God, I'll just DIE without G-mail" :)
I share a dsl connection between about 20 people so I can't have my own address. Plus i've gone through about five isp's in the last 4 years while keeping my address so webmail suits all my needs. All i need is a Gmail invite and I'll be set ;).
That's not flamebait its just dumb
I like linux but... (ducking now, you may stone when ready)
The idea of cooking with the sun was actually used in some science fiction books (I forget which ones, maybe Larry Niven). The general idea was a huge array of mirrors in orbit around the sun, when the {insert generic evil alien empire} ships invaded, all the mirrors were turned upon them and they promptly exploded. viola.. free superweapon!
Why is this flamebait? Parent is not insulting or inflamatory. I would have modded it funny or left it alone...but that's just me.
You'd need a long-sighted terrorist though since the BSE crisis in the UK took decades to build up with regular exposure via bone meal etc in feed stocks. You would have to contaminate the feed and/or directly inject thousands of animals dozens of times over months/years and even then it might not work. There are easier, faster and cheaper ways to fuck a nations economy (a DDoS on the banks/stock market springs to mind)
The 'shaking' here is on a molecular scale so no, a vibrating machine will not give you CJD/BSE etc.
While not directly related this does support the taboo. Cannibalism tends to concentrate any species-specific toxins in the body (in the same way as drinking your urine in emergencies). One of the theories for the spread of Kuru in PNG was by cannibalism, esp brain tissue. The brains of those who had died of Kuru were considered delicacies. OOPS!
NASCAR, Indy500 etc run on methanol but use it in an internal combustion engine like regular gas. They do this because straight methanol has an octane rating of 160 (compared to 92-97 for gas)so they get VERY high compression and power. In a liquid methanol fuel cell there is no methanol vapour and idealy the cell is electrically sealed so there is no static electricity.