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(Message started by: Gator on Mar 26^th, 2005, 11:47am)

Title: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Gator on Mar 26^th, 2005, 11:47am

I'm not your typical environmentalist wacko, but I came across some information this morning that moved me to post this. I read that Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is around in massive quantities and it can be difficult, if not impossible, to protect yourself from it.

Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death. It is a major component of acid rain and is found in every river in this country. It has even been discovered in Artic Ice.

Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:

* as an industrial solvent and coolant.
* in nuclear power plants.
* in the production of styrofoam.
* as a fire retardant.
* in many forms of cruel animal research.
* in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
* as an additive in certain junk-foods and other food products.

Please check out http://www.dhmo.org/ and see what you can do to save our environment, hell our very lives from DHMO!!!

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Jonny on Mar 26^th, 2005, 12:44pm

You tree hugging commie, hippie bastard ;;D

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Gator on Mar 26^th, 2005, 12:51pm

on 03/26/05 at 12:44:48, Jonny wrote:

You tree hugging commie, hippie bastard ;;D

Like I said, I don't normally side with the environmentalists. I burn my trash rather than have it taken to the land fill. I believe in hunting and logging and I question this global warming crap, but I thought this deserved some immediate attention.

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Mr. Happy on Mar 26^th, 2005, 1:34pm

The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.

You should see what they're doing with DHMO in Iraq.......and I have YET to hear of it's use by either the media or the government. It's a conspiracy of unparalled proportions.
RJ

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Kevin_M on Mar 26^th, 2005, 1:50pm

looks to me you're talking about water Gator.

dihydrogen = H₂

monoxide = O

Kevin M

*read about that. It was some kid from MN high school science project, or something like that. About 99 out of 100 signed up to ban it.

*didn't read the article Gator but here's another aspect too. It consists of Hydrogen, and EXPLOSIVE gas; and is combined with Oxygen, which promotes violent combustion. Together, H₂O, it puts out fires.

RANDY, I expected YOU to get that one. ;;D. But I forgot, Lithium is on the metals side of the chart, ey? ;;D

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Hirvimaki on Mar 26^th, 2005, 1:59pm

Interestingly, the municipality of Aliso Viejo (a suburb in Orange County, California) scheduled a vote in March of 2004 for the City Council on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events because (among other things) they were made with DHMO, a substance that could "threaten human health and safety."

Ignorance may be bliss... but sitting outside looking in at it is funny as hell...

Hirvimaki-Isi

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Donna_D. on Mar 26^th, 2005, 2:10pm

Health-obsessed California's latest environmental scare exposed dangerously high levels of gullibility, reports Dan Glaister

Wednesday March 24, 2004

The city councillors of Aliso Viejo in Orange County, California, are well-meaning, socially responsible people. And when they came across the huge threat posed to their constituents by dihydrogen monoxide they did what any elected official should do: they took steps to protect their community. A motion due to go before the city legislature proposed banning the potentially deadly substance from within the city boundaries.

Researchers found that the presence of dihydrogen monoxide in Aliso Viejo had reached startling levels: it was present in its crude form, often spilling unmonitored on to the city streets; it was found to be a crucial ingredient in many common chemical compounds; its presence was even detected in that most ubiquitous of civilised artifacts, the styrofoam cup.

And it got worse: dihydrogen monoxide is lethal if inhaled, causes severe burns in its gaseous state, and is the major component in acid rain. Prolonged exposure to solid dihydrogen monoxide can cause severe tissue damage. It can, said the city council report, "threaten human safety and health".

Fortunately for the concerned legislators, the rat was smelt before it got as far as the debating chamber. The perils of dihydrogen monoxide have been ignored until now largely because it is better known by its common name: water.

"It's embarrassing," said city manager David Norman in an inspired act of buck-passing. "We had a paralegal who did bad research."

The relieved styrofoam industry saw it as a sign of environmental correctness run wild. "The plastic industry has always been a favourite target of environmentalists," Robert Krebs of the American Plastics Council told the Los Angeles Times. "But we dream about instances like this when our opponents do something foolish."

So far, so amusing. But should this bout of crankiness be filed under Crazy Californians and their crazed correctness? Or is it another one to pin on that old bogeyman, the internet?

Certainly, California is a cranky place, cult centre of the universe, a self-made psychic at every corner. And correctness of all shades - political, environmental, whatever - can be exasperating and not a little hypocritical: in Los Angeles there is a surfeit of liquor stores yet the only thing anyone seems to drink is sparkling dihydrogen monoxide, and smokers are scared-looking furtive creatures, scurrying about from pavement to pavement, avoiding the disapproving stares of god-fearing, clean-living folk. LA is also a city where total strangers have no qualms about telling you just how you should be living your life, in the friendliest, most unassuming way possible.

The dihydrogen monoxide hoax is the result of a collaboration between the two prime suspects: a zealously concerned paralegal faced with an authoritative-looking spoof scientific website, dhmo.org, home to the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division. The Californian proactive social conscience - the social equivalent of current US foreign policy - combined with the influence of the internet was a recipe for confusion. The DHMO website professes to offer "an unbiased data clearing house and a forum for public discussion". "The success of this site depends on you the concerned citizen," says the introductory blurb.

It is, of course, absolute rubbish. But it is convincing rubbish, plausible because it feeds off and satisfies so many anxieties: about our environment, about science, about the unknown, about what we are doing to our bodies and ourselves. And in California, the environment, the unknown and, above all, the body - the, hairless, tummy-tucked body - are what count.

DHMO HazMat Vial

http://www.dhmo.org/products/hazmatvial.gif

Sorry if we spoiled the joke, Gator...

8)

DD

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Charlie on Mar 26^th, 2005, 3:07pm

Penn and Teller did this on one of their "Bullshit" Showtime programs. They got all kinds of tree huggers and the like to sign up to ban this terrible chemical at a Washington rally. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/cheesyrotfm.gif

The funniest water thing they did was on the bottled water cons. They got yuppie diners to sample fancy bottled water that all came from a garden hose on the roof of a Los Angeles restaurant. New York City water got great marks too but then it's one of the best in the country anyway.

Thanks Gator.

Charlie http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/Hat tip.gif

By the way, is my little dancing cool guy showing? Don't see him here.

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Gator on Mar 26^th, 2005, 3:08pm

on 03/26/05 at 13:50:23, Kevin_M wrote:

Couldn't just play along and watch the game unfold, eh? ::)

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Redneck on Mar 26^th, 2005, 5:20pm

Smoke it ! Eat it ! Snort it ! GLOW In The DARK [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by mikey-de on Mar 26^th, 2005, 8:35pm

LMAO@DHMO [smiley=crackup.gif]

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Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Drk^Angel on Mar 26^th, 2005, 9:05pm

Look at it this way Gator... Ya had everyone fearing water for over 2 hours... Good job... :P

PFDAN.............................................. Drk^Angel

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Mr. Happy on Mar 26^th, 2005, 9:13pm

Pearls and swine, Gator.....pearls and swine....

Water you doing?
RJ

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by firebrix on Mar 27^th, 2005, 6:02am

HHO HHO HHO-ing maybe?

Title: Re: Environmentalists Unite!
Post by Gator on Mar 28^th, 2005, 1:02am

on 03/26/05 at 21:13:12, Mr. Happy wrote:

Pearls and swine, Gator.....pearls and swine....

Water you doing?
RJ

Actually, I was in between hits and found a link to it on your website, RJ. Thought I'd try to cause a little mischief on a rainy boring day.

Supposedly you can't kill a guy for trying, but with the way my head is acting here lately would it be too much to ask? :-/

Title: Poor Spellers, Untie!
Post by Mr. Happy on Mar 28^th, 2005, 1:40am

on 03/28/05 at 01:02:25, Gator wrote:

Actually, I was in between hits and found a link to it on your website, RJ. Thought I'd try to cause a little mischief on a rainy boring day.

Nice try, but yer dealing with congenital idiots. That site is a decade old, and I lost access 9 years ago. Shit.

on 03/28/05 at 01:02:25, Gator wrote:

Supposedly you can't kill a guy for trying,

Yes I can.......without compunction.

on 03/28/05 at 01:02:25, Gator wrote:

but with the way my head is acting here lately would it be too much to ask?

Yes. IT has no mercy. There are many alternatives you can take to deal with this affliction, but......ya wash `em all down with DHMO.

Shit.
RJ