[sdiy] DONT TOUCH

[Magnus Danielson]

From: harry <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] DONT TOUCH
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 22:00:23 -0500

> Lets not get too afeared....
> 
> Mercury is not easily assimilated into the human body through the skin
> at all... and it is not very water soluable. If you clean it up well
> forget the
> superfund. If your dog or child likes to lick the floor.. that's
> different.
> 
> Oxides of mercury are bad. Bur they do not form at normal human
> temperatures
> ... think house fire...
> 
> Breathing the mercury oxides would be bad news. This is what killed a
> lot of photographic pioneers.
> 
> We all (those maybe 45+ years old) played with liquid mercury as
> kids....
> 
> didn't we ???

Ah well... these where the days when boys where boys, toys where toys
and blowing up the house actually had a meaning to it. You dreamt of
being a rocket scientist and invented new novel ways to make atom
bombs.

Today kids sit in dark rooms with extremely fast computers and try to
figure out how to slash the most bodies in the most horrific way in
the latest 3D graphic and sound version of Quake Ultra-violence. Few
have actually seen a real chain-saw, even less have actually used one.

Meanwhile we are happy having just a tenth of the computer-power to do
an analog simulation on it... ah well... I'm getting old, I'm getting
31... better just bugger off and stop wasting space...

(No, not *really* depressed...)

Cheers,
Magnus