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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    Gordig said:

    Also arsenic.

    Is arsenic all natural?

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,078

    Pretty much.

    Arsenic was commonly associated with copper mines in Cornwall in the 1800's and early 1900's.

    At the Devon Great Consol's mine in [surprisingly enough] Devon, the copper ore was so contaminated with Arsenic that they put all the ore through a calcinator to evapourate it off and let it condense on the walls of a labarinthine chimney flue. The workers who chipped the Arsenic off the flue walls were so contaminated with Arsenic that they rarely had any form of bug until they died of Arsenic poisoning in their early 30's.

    My Great Grandmother worked at that mine as a 'Bal Maiden' in the 1880's and early 1890's, a woman who smashed the copper ore into small enough rocks to fit in the stamp mill - it often came out of the ground in rocks weighing up to 100kg (220lb) and she used her sledgehammer to break it up. She lived across the border in Cornwall, going to England every day to work. We have a photo of 3 Bal Maidens, all standing foresquare in their long skirts, wide brimmed hats and scarves under their chins tieing the hat down, white blouses, hobnail boots and 5ft high sledge in their right hand, head in the air and end of the handle next to a hobnail boot. These little women were shorter than their sledge handles (my gran was taller than her Bal Maiden mother, and was only 4'11.5"/151cm tall). We don't know which of the three in the photo was my great grandmother, but all three looked utterly fearsome.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    A fact that many don't seem to know in the US...there is no law defining "natural".  That's one reason so many companies are always claiming it. It sounds great, good for you, all that.  But as has been said here, some natural things are deadly!  And on the BoTox thing...I can't uderstand why anyone thought it would be a good thing to inject it into people.  Tox...toxin!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited June 23

    Old Timer Americans might remember a black & white TV show called "Burke's Law" from the early '60s (not the terrible, cookie-cutter, highly predictiable, color remake in the '90s).  A murder mystery series loaded with big time actors of the era.  It featured several different oddball characters in each episode, and weird murder methods.  One of the cleverest means of murder was the Paris Green coloring of the wallpaper in the businessman's office.  Continuous exposure to the dust from it, over time, did the victim in.devilenlightened

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    This is what happens if you put a potato with dirt into an empty popcorn bucket.  I also added water too.  Just checked the dirt is still wet, but my finger is dirty.  Probably because I put that finger into the dirt.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075

    Are you sure it's not a Triffid?surprise

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,577

    Sfariah D said:

    Gordig said:

    Also arsenic.

    Is arsenic all natural?

    Ahhh Why? wink 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075

    Sfariah D said:

    Gordig said:

    Also arsenic.

    Is arsenic all natural?

    Arsenic is an Element. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    I put a sweet potato and an onion in their own container of dirt and added water.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited June 24

    Sfariah D said:

    I put a sweet potato and an onion in their own container of dirt and added water.

    Add a quarter cup of milk and bake for 2 hours at 350F and you have dirt casserole.enlightened If desired, layer Velveeta cheese on top after it comes out of the oven.yes

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,599

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Sfariah D said:

    Gordig said:

    Also arsenic.

    Is arsenic all natural?

    Arsenic is an Element. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic

    Speaking of things that are both elements and highly toxic: mercury!

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Sfariah D said:

    I put a sweet potato and an onion in their own container of dirt and added water.

    Add a quarter cup of milk and bake for 2 hours at 350F and you have dirt casserole.enlightened If desired, layer Velveeta cheese on top after it comes out of the oven.yes

    In the Midwest, it's not casserole until you add some sort of condensed cream soup. =P

    Although, if you leave it as is and don't bake it, you have a solid argument that it might be a salad. Because apparently anything can be a salad, whether or not it has anything to do with a vegetable.

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    richardandtracy said:

    My Great Grandmother worked at that mine as a 'Bal Maiden' in the 1880's and early 1890's, a woman who smashed the copper ore into small enough rocks to fit in the stamp mill - it often came out of the ground in rocks weighing up to 100kg (220lb) and she used her sledgehammer to break it up. She lived across the border in Cornwall, going to England every day to work. We have a photo of 3 Bal Maidens, all standing foresquare in their long skirts, wide brimmed hats and scarves under their chins tieing the hat down, white blouses, hobnail boots and 5ft high sledge in their right hand, head in the air and end of the handle next to a hobnail boot. These little women were shorter than their sledge handles (my gran was taller than her Bal Maiden mother, and was only 4'11.5"/151cm tall). We don't know which of the three in the photo was my great grandmother, but all three looked utterly fearsome.

    "Though she be but little, she is fierce!" -  Midsummer Night's Dream (III, ii, 326)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited June 24

    SilverGirl said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Sfariah D said:

    I put a sweet potato and an onion in their own container of dirt and added water.

    Add a quarter cup of milk and bake for 2 hours at 350F and you have dirt casserole.enlightened If desired, layer Velveeta cheese on top after it comes out of the oven.yes

    In the Midwest, it's not casserole until you add some sort of condensed cream soup. =P

    Although, if you leave it as is and don't bake it, you have a solid argument that it might be a salad. Because apparently anything can be a salad, whether or not it has anything to do with a vegetable.

    Yeah, I forgot the Cream of Mushroom soup.blush  But, without it, I was also considering whether it might make a tolerable dirt stew if the dirt was clumpy enough. 

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,239

    Noncomplaint: I have now completed yet another trip arond the sun and it only took me a year to do it.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,885

    Charlie Judge said:

    Noncomplaint: I have now completed yet another trip arond the sun and it only took me a year to do it.

    I'd say Happy Birthday, but I bet the path wasn't an exact closed loop so I am not sure it counts.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,078

    I have wondered what the shape of the path looks like at 2am on a few morings. Someone on the surface is moving around the centre of the planet. The planet is moving round the sun, the sun is moving very fast around the centre of the Galaxy and heaven knows how the galaxy is moving reference the universal centre of gravity (if there is even one).

    I have wondered if a fixed point on the surface of the earth ever shows retrograde motion relative the to galactic centre. I think the solar velocity around the galactic centre means that the answer to that is always 'No'.

    How boring.

    Regards,

    Richard.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,885

    Don't forget the precession of the equinoxes.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,078

    The sun's doing a speed of around 220km/sec (roughly 493,000 mph) around the centre of the galaxy. Think that turns all other movements into small purtubations on a path.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    Charlie Judge said:

    Noncomplaint: I have now completed yet another trip arond the sun and it only took me a year to do it.

    Happy Birthday! 

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    All that galactic wobbling and loop-de-looping... no wonder I get motion sick so easy.

    Thankfully that one doesn't seem to have passed down to my kids... though it does mean I've needed to send elder child off with a Trusted Adult a few times when they wanted to go on the "must be accompanied" rides at amusement parks. Yay for a BFF who loves that stuff... I just bought them both unlimited ride wristbands and turned them loose.

    @Charlie - happy birthday! Hope it's full of good food and even better memories. :)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339

    Attention! This is not a drill!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited June 24

    It's a whammer!

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075

    Charlie Judge said:

    Noncomplaint: I have now completed yet another trip arond the sun and it only took me a year to do it.

    Contratulations on keeping up with the rest of us on this trip.  Because, y'know, if you were a bit slower, you'd be floating in space behind us right now.yes 

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235
    edited June 24

    I wonder if the Microsoft Snipping tool can record videos?

     

    edit: apparently somehow I changed Microsoft's name to microstructure?

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,239

    Sfariah D said:

    I wonder if the Microsoft Snipping tool can record videos?

     

    edit: apparently somehow I changed Microsoft's name to microstructure?

    Yes. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838
    edited June 25

    SilverGirl said:

    Although, if you leave it as is and don't bake it, you have a solid argument that it might be a salad. Because apparently anything can be a salad, whether or not it has anything to do with a vegetable.

    ....indeed. including one made of words.  

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    Charlie Judge said:

    Noncomplaint: I have now completed yet another trip arond the sun and it only took me a year to do it.

    Congratulations on putting another 584  million miles in your life logbook.  Wish they could be redeemed likr frequent flyier miles.

    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

    For those in the northern Hemisphere be glad that the Summer solstice does not occur at perihelion and the Winter Solstice at Aphelion or we'd be in for some really awful extremes on this side while in the southern Hemisphere summers would be milder and winters warmer.. 

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  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 2,198

    So my brother's son had a flat tire. Somehow this always involves me. So we came there with some tool I had picked up along the way. One of those iron things shaped like a plus sign that are meant to remove lugnuts. Out of the five lugnuts, three were normal. One of them was bigger than the rest. And one was completelly stripped, impossible to remove. We called the Roadside Assistance. At this point, I, my nephew, and the Roadside Assistance guy were all there, unable to figure out how to remove this lugnut. Since I didn't have my "go go gadget blowtorch", the Roadside Assistance guy towed the car to an auto shop where it spent the night. We went there the next day and spent five million dollars on one tire. And he lived happily ever after.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,599

    SilverGirl said:

    Because apparently anything can be a salad, whether or not it has anything to do with a vegetable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_salad

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,239

    Gordig said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Because apparently anything can be a salad, whether or not it has anything to do with a vegetable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_salad

    I love a good tuna salad made with fresh tuna. 

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