Marty_d Posted October 21 Posted October 21 Jaysus Spacey, you've got to your eighth decade despite this "poison"... it can't be very effective! 2
spacesailor Posted October 21 Posted October 21 Because I try not to indulge . If that makes sense. Boiling water gets rid of chlorine, but concentrates Flouride. spacesailor
onetrack Posted October 21 Posted October 21 Bruce, salt in the air from ocean spray rarely carries any further than about 20 to 40 kms inland. Nev is correct, the salt is still leaching out of our soils, because we have the youngest continent of all the continents. In planetary ageing terms, it only popped up from under the sea yesterday.
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 22 Posted October 22 Thanks Onetrack, here's a question that I asked the medicos without getting an answer: Our blood is about 900ppm salinity. Q: Is this equal to the sea salinity when our ancestors left the sea? It is a LOT more saline now, so the 900ppm seems about right for hundreds of millions of years ago. Our ancestors at the time were of course fish. ( The coelecanth fish looks like a candidate.... alas, the ones around now lack the five-fold symmetry of their appendages which apparently mark a true ancestor) 1
spacesailor Posted October 22 Posted October 22 A few millennium ago , the sea was not as salty as it is today. At one stage it had no salt at all . So the " primordial ooz " can never come back , to make a different form of life . spacesailor 1
facthunter Posted October 22 Posted October 22 A saline drip is .9% and the oceans are 3.5%. MUCH more than our blood level. Nev 1
spacesailor Posted October 22 Posted October 22 It tastes salty. Blood that is . I try to bleed as little as possible, so don't taste it a lot . spacesailor 1
spacesailor Posted October 22 Posted October 22 A new one for me. ! . I have just learnt that I cannot go to see my newest Greatgrand daughter . New bureaucracy rules informed. no vaccination for whooping cough. Then the baby is isolated from the family untill the compulsory baby vaccination. After which the whole family may see that , now. Two week old child. spacesailor 1
old man emu Posted October 22 Posted October 22 You've got to deal with a lot of pricks before you can see the results of just one prick. 1 1
nomadpete Posted October 22 Posted October 22 Whooping cough has a high mortality rate for infants. And there has been quite a lot of it about in recent years. I had whooping cough as a 40 year old and it really knocked me around. That was a long time ago. I had no qualms about getting the vax before visiting a new grandchild. My conscience would never forgive me if I accidentally killed the baby. 3 1
onetrack Posted October 22 Posted October 22 Yeah, the old whooping cough is a nasty complaint. I had it when I was about 5, there was a whooping cough epidemic swept Australia in the early to mid 1950's, most kids in that era caught it. It's a dreadful disease, I can still remember gasping for breath. It can lead to pneumonia. I read where there was a National programme for whooping cough vaccination for kids since the 1940's, but I don't remember being vaccinated against it. Maybe it wasn't compulsory then, as many of the early vaccinations are today. I must look up my old vaccination card to see if it's listed there. I didn't start school until I was 6, and I do recall school vaccinations, so maybe I caught WC before I was vaccinated under the school programmes. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/303c1ab7-9b04-4544-9c5d-852c533ac87a/aihw-phe-236_whoopingcough.pdf.aspx 1
nomadpete Posted October 23 Posted October 23 1 hour ago, facthunter said: I don't subscribe to the anti vaxxer theory.. Nev Your personal opinion will not carry any weight in this world until it gets a million likes on 3 different social media platforms. 1
nomadpete Posted October 23 Posted October 23 I have long since lost my old vaccination records. But I recall standing in line with the all the other kids in grade 1, to get a needle in my arm. This was late 50's, way before disposable syringes and needles. The nurse had two glass syringes. One in use and one being refilled. Each syringe held enough for several kids. After each injection the nurse passed the needle through the flame of a spirit burner to sterilise it. By the time the needle had been in a dozen arms the point was getting blunt. But we all got our shots. It wasn't until 40 years later when I caught whooping cough that I was informed that the immunisation was only valid for about a decade. 1
nomadpete Posted October 23 Posted October 23 13 hours ago, old man emu said: You've got to deal with a lot of pricks before you can see the results of just one prick. My (ex) wife was a nurse and at one time worked briefly at a STD clinic. As she plunged the needle into the patient for their blood test she delighted in saying "Just a quick little prick and it'll all be over". Nurses can be cruel. 1
spacesailor Posted October 23 Posted October 23 (edited) STD . subscriber trunk dialing. STD . sexual transmitted disease . I know there's another one . spacesailor Edited October 23 by spacesailor A I changed a word
facthunter Posted October 23 Posted October 23 Sizes. Piston rings STD +020, + 040 OS Oversize. Nev 1 1
spacesailor Posted October 23 Posted October 23 (edited) STD : standard ( size ) . Plus the ' 0.020 inch ' over size . spacesailor Edited October 23 by spacesailor
nomadpete Posted October 23 Posted October 23 9 hours ago, Litespeed said: STD Sexually transmitted debt That's marriage! 1
facthunter Posted October 24 Posted October 24 LIFE is sexually transmitted DEATH. None of US get out of this alive. Nev 1
spacesailor Posted October 24 Posted October 24 Speak for ' yourself ' Been there , done that. There is life , after death . ( for a few ) . spacesailor 1
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