Re: SCO refuses to leave UnitedLinux...

From: Jeff Liebermann (jeffl_at_comix.santa-cruz.ca.us)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 01:21:46 GMT

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:35:06 GMT, bv@wjv.comREMOVE (Bill Vermillion)
wrote:

>In article <vcle10ptujplr4m7snhed2shfrrfjki57k@4ax.com>,
>Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>>On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:05:02 GMT, bv@wjv.comREMOVE (Bill Vermillion)
>>wrote:
>
>>>And it helps keep your mercury levels up too!
>
>>I beg to differ:
>> http://www.atuna.com/Opinions/My%20Opinion/Opinion%20Page.htm
>>I eat quite a bit of canned tuna and have seen no evidence of brain
>>damage or memory loss. Ummmm... what were we discussing?

>The most frightening aspects of Mecury were first brought to light
>in the series of photographs by Gene Smith from Minamata. I have
>many from that series in a copy of Aperture from many years ago.

Those were massive quantities of mercury in the water and fish.
Damage claims are still being tried:
  http://www.american.edu/TED/MINAMATA.HTM
Methinks there's a rather large difference is exposure and injestion
levels between eating fish from the Shiranui Sea and tuna from the
ocean.

>It is interesting how mercury is found to be so bad, yet when I was
>a kid we'd often get mercury from sun lamp bulbs that had burned
>out, and hold in the hand, roll it around, and rub it on pennies to
>make them look like dimes.
>Bill

I was wondering why the price of liquid mercury had soared. It's all
the telescope builders and their rotating mirrors full of liquid
mercury:

http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/thermo/liquid_metal/4m%20International%20Liquid%20Mirror%20Telescope%20Project.html 

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