This hasn't really happened yet, but I'm attempting to get new authors. This would mean that two of my good friends would step in (at times) and write some articles. Yeah.
I'm not gonna insult them in front of the world (until they can insult me back).
And here's your little bit of wisdom for today:
Man cannot live on bread alone. He's gotta have water also.
Edit: NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING!!!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
So you may have noticed......
or maybe you haven't, y'know, since nobody even reads my blog, but whatever.
There are two posts below this one about how chlorine kills and about how newborn kittens weigh as much as some other stuff. DO NOT DISREGARD THESE POSTS!!!!!
They were transferred from my other blog, called In Perspective. From now on, it will be called nothing, and will not exist.
I've MERGED THE TWO BLOGS!!!!
*random panicked screams*
Edit: I'm so glad you can delete blogs.
yeah, it's getting even MORE random. Here's hoping I just don't have to introduce THE HPT, or the Hot Pocket toaster warrior of shindig cosmonaut opthalmology Toast.........
You so know you'd eat hotpockettoast if it existed.........
There are two posts below this one about how chlorine kills and about how newborn kittens weigh as much as some other stuff. DO NOT DISREGARD THESE POSTS!!!!!
They were transferred from my other blog, called In Perspective. From now on, it will be called nothing, and will not exist.
I've MERGED THE TWO BLOGS!!!!
*random panicked screams*
Edit: I'm so glad you can delete blogs.
yeah, it's getting even MORE random. Here's hoping I just don't have to introduce THE HPT, or the Hot Pocket toaster warrior of shindig cosmonaut opthalmology Toast.........
You so know you'd eat hotpockettoast if it existed.........
SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!
Everybody knows about how water companies put chlorine in tap water. If you didn't until that statement, congrats. Be informed. You've been drinking chlorine all your life.
Okay. So that we can get this out of the way, yes, chlorine is a deadly gas. It is water soluble (it can dissolve into water). It combines with sodium to create table salt.
So why do we use chlorine?
I'm getting to that.
This is a list of alternative treatments for drinking water. Now, stay with me here. I'm not just dismissing chlorine from the picture. The reason the government doesn't switch from chlorine is for one of two reasons:
one: The alternative method is just not as good/safe.
two: The alternative method costs too much/takes too much time.
Yes, believe it or not, there really are alternatives out there that are MORE DANGEROUS than chlorine. I don't have a source for it (because I FORGOT to get it before I closed out of it.....), but there are actually some methods that cause more outbreaks of cancer than chlorine.
Now, there's your little background introduction. On to the meat of this post:
The recommended amount of chlorine in your water is .3-.5 mg per liter, which coverts into roughly 1.14ish-1.89 milligrams per gallon of water. Which means that for every gallon of water you drink, you ingest roughly anywhere from 1 to 2 milligrams of chlorine.
Okay, so instead of finding a statistic for how much in GALLONS you should drink daily, I've found liters. All the information above is pretty much true, though, so that still stands. But anyways, here's the deal: according to this reliable source (I don't trust the media as much as I probably should...), the "institute of medicine," which is what CNN calls it, recommends that men drink 3 liters of water and women drink 2.2 liters of water daily. Assuming we aren't all Boy Scouts (who actually advise that you drink water CONSTANTLY), and instead that we drink less than we should, we'll go with an average estimate of 2.0 liters every day. That's anywhere in between .6 and 1 milligram a day.
Now. Say we take any old person, average height, average weight. They exercise regularly, they're fairly healthy. They've been drinking 2 liters of tap water every day since they were 14, and they died at around....say.....80 years old. They started on the DAY OF their 14th birthday, and stopped the DAY OF their 80th birthday. That's roughly 24,106 days (accounting for leap year), and roughly 48,213 liters of water. That turns into anywhere from 14,464 to 24,107 milligrams of chlorine over 66 years, or about 14.5 to 24 grams of chlorine that your system ingests over a period of 66 years.
There are 301,140,000-ish people in America, statistic taken from Google. That means that 301.14 KILOS are ingested a day.
Just so you know, 301.14 kilos is enough to kill 94 million kittens.
(edit: source; measurement for guinea pigs is used for kittens)
Actually, that statistic is really REALLY made up. However, you *could* probably kill upwards of 50 million kittens with 301.14 kg of Chlorine.
Now, consider this: the low lethal dosage (LCLo) of chlorine for humans is rougly 25 grams. (source). Also, note that we didn't cover exactly how much water you drink in the first 14 years of your life: a considerable amount.
Anyways, here's another little *interesting* statistic I just picked up: "Magnesium Corp. of America released 42 million lb of Cl2 into the skies of Utah's West Desert in 2000, about 90% of the U.S. total for that year." (source). Which means the total is closer to 46.6 million pounds. Which is 21 million kilos. That's 8300395260 people you could kill if you really really tried.
To wrap up everything above, chlorine is terrible for you. Phenomenally bad for you. You ingest mass amounts of it over your lifetime.
However, it's a lot better than ingesting a slew of pathogens and bacteria and dying.
There is something that you can do about chlorine, however: let me encourage you to buy a water filter. It usually manages to take out almost all the chlorine, and plus it gives you even cleaner water than everyone else will be drinking if they didn't have a water filter.
Hope you enjoyed that little rant thing I gave.
Okay. So that we can get this out of the way, yes, chlorine is a deadly gas. It is water soluble (it can dissolve into water). It combines with sodium to create table salt.
So why do we use chlorine?
I'm getting to that.
This is a list of alternative treatments for drinking water. Now, stay with me here. I'm not just dismissing chlorine from the picture. The reason the government doesn't switch from chlorine is for one of two reasons:
one: The alternative method is just not as good/safe.
two: The alternative method costs too much/takes too much time.
Yes, believe it or not, there really are alternatives out there that are MORE DANGEROUS than chlorine. I don't have a source for it (because I FORGOT to get it before I closed out of it.....), but there are actually some methods that cause more outbreaks of cancer than chlorine.
Now, there's your little background introduction. On to the meat of this post:
The recommended amount of chlorine in your water is .3-.5 mg per liter, which coverts into roughly 1.14ish-1.89 milligrams per gallon of water. Which means that for every gallon of water you drink, you ingest roughly anywhere from 1 to 2 milligrams of chlorine.
Okay, so instead of finding a statistic for how much in GALLONS you should drink daily, I've found liters. All the information above is pretty much true, though, so that still stands. But anyways, here's the deal: according to this reliable source (I don't trust the media as much as I probably should...), the "institute of medicine," which is what CNN calls it, recommends that men drink 3 liters of water and women drink 2.2 liters of water daily. Assuming we aren't all Boy Scouts (who actually advise that you drink water CONSTANTLY), and instead that we drink less than we should, we'll go with an average estimate of 2.0 liters every day. That's anywhere in between .6 and 1 milligram a day.
Now. Say we take any old person, average height, average weight. They exercise regularly, they're fairly healthy. They've been drinking 2 liters of tap water every day since they were 14, and they died at around....say.....80 years old. They started on the DAY OF their 14th birthday, and stopped the DAY OF their 80th birthday. That's roughly 24,106 days (accounting for leap year), and roughly 48,213 liters of water. That turns into anywhere from 14,464 to 24,107 milligrams of chlorine over 66 years, or about 14.5 to 24 grams of chlorine that your system ingests over a period of 66 years.
There are 301,140,000-ish people in America, statistic taken from Google. That means that 301.14 KILOS are ingested a day.
Just so you know, 301.14 kilos is enough to kill 94 million kittens.
(edit: source; measurement for guinea pigs is used for kittens)
Actually, that statistic is really REALLY made up. However, you *could* probably kill upwards of 50 million kittens with 301.14 kg of Chlorine.
Now, consider this: the low lethal dosage (LCLo) of chlorine for humans is rougly 25 grams. (source). Also, note that we didn't cover exactly how much water you drink in the first 14 years of your life: a considerable amount.
Anyways, here's another little *interesting* statistic I just picked up: "Magnesium Corp. of America released 42 million lb of Cl2 into the skies of Utah's West Desert in 2000, about 90% of the U.S. total for that year." (source). Which means the total is closer to 46.6 million pounds. Which is 21 million kilos. That's 8300395260 people you could kill if you really really tried.
To wrap up everything above, chlorine is terrible for you. Phenomenally bad for you. You ingest mass amounts of it over your lifetime.
However, it's a lot better than ingesting a slew of pathogens and bacteria and dying.
There is something that you can do about chlorine, however: let me encourage you to buy a water filter. It usually manages to take out almost all the chlorine, and plus it gives you even cleaner water than everyone else will be drinking if they didn't have a water filter.
Hope you enjoyed that little rant thing I gave.
Ever wonder what weighs 100 grams?
Me neither. But I'm going to write on it anyways. Because it makes life beautiful.
Now, the average penny weighs within the bounds of about 2.5 grams apiece. Yeah, apparently grams don't really weigh as much as they used to, eh?
By the way, just in case you're wondering where I'm getting this, I'm not pulling it out of the sky. I did a google search, and it came up with a variety of results, the most prominent of which is this:
US Coinage
Penny Standard weight 2.5 grams
Nickel Standard weight 5.0 grams
Dime Standard weight 2.268 grams
Quarter Standard weight 5.670 grams
If you really, TRULY want a link to the site, here you go. However, be warned: NSFW.
Trust me, I don't want you getting fired or getting in trouble for looking at that website. Because if you do, you may never come back to my webpage again. And that would be sad.
T_T
Okay, back on track. Most of you have probably never SEEN 40 pennies all together in one nice little pile.
Now you have. I could end my post without actually making a point, saying that I taught the majority of the internets something: someone, somewhere, has a collection of MORE THAN four pennies. All in one pile, too.
Or, better yet, divided into four stacks of ten.
So you're probably wondering, "But wait, where is he actually going with all this?"
Simple. 40 pennies, each weighing 2.5 grams apiece, collectively weigh about 100 grams.
Also, take note: even though I don't have enough nickels (crazy, I've got plenty of pennies but not enough silver shinies...), they weigh about as much as two pennies: 5 grams apiece. This means that about 20 nickels weigh 100 grams as well.
Watch now, because I'm about to do something really, really interesting.
100 grams is the weight of a newborn kitten at birth, original site sfw. Now, we all know that adorable, fluffy, awkward as hell kittens are the COOLEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD SINCE SLICED BREAD.
So, what all this boils down to is this:
This cute little abomination weighed about as much as a dollar in nickels when it came into the world.
Something else interesting, you cry out for? Well, I won't delve too deep into this, buuuut.....
The Motorola RAZR V3 (i.e. my current phone) weighs 99 grams, just one shy of the big 100.
Does this mean that my phone is worth only one dollar? no. The weight of a dollar? well......
Oh, by the way, if we're gonna start down that road, I've just gotta do this.....
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE:
A newborn kitten, or a Razr V3?
Discuss.
Okay, it's late and I'm tired.
Now, the average penny weighs within the bounds of about 2.5 grams apiece. Yeah, apparently grams don't really weigh as much as they used to, eh?
By the way, just in case you're wondering where I'm getting this, I'm not pulling it out of the sky. I did a google search, and it came up with a variety of results, the most prominent of which is this:
US Coinage
Penny Standard weight 2.5 grams
Nickel Standard weight 5.0 grams
Dime Standard weight 2.268 grams
Quarter Standard weight 5.670 grams
If you really, TRULY want a link to the site, here you go. However, be warned: NSFW.
Trust me, I don't want you getting fired or getting in trouble for looking at that website. Because if you do, you may never come back to my webpage again. And that would be sad.
T_T
Okay, back on track. Most of you have probably never SEEN 40 pennies all together in one nice little pile.
Now you have. I could end my post without actually making a point, saying that I taught the majority of the internets something: someone, somewhere, has a collection of MORE THAN four pennies. All in one pile, too.
Or, better yet, divided into four stacks of ten.
So you're probably wondering, "But wait, where is he actually going with all this?"
Simple. 40 pennies, each weighing 2.5 grams apiece, collectively weigh about 100 grams.
Also, take note: even though I don't have enough nickels (crazy, I've got plenty of pennies but not enough silver shinies...), they weigh about as much as two pennies: 5 grams apiece. This means that about 20 nickels weigh 100 grams as well.
Watch now, because I'm about to do something really, really interesting.
100 grams is the weight of a newborn kitten at birth, original site sfw. Now, we all know that adorable, fluffy, awkward as hell kittens are the COOLEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD SINCE SLICED BREAD.
So, what all this boils down to is this:
This cute little abomination weighed about as much as a dollar in nickels when it came into the world.Something else interesting, you cry out for? Well, I won't delve too deep into this, buuuut.....
The Motorola RAZR V3 (i.e. my current phone) weighs 99 grams, just one shy of the big 100.
Does this mean that my phone is worth only one dollar? no. The weight of a dollar? well......
Oh, by the way, if we're gonna start down that road, I've just gotta do this.....
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE:
A newborn kitten, or a Razr V3?
Discuss.
Okay, it's late and I'm tired.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Chikin.
I'm tired as hell right now.....might start seeing gnomes.
Went to california.
More on that never.
I seriously think somebody should get around to doing stuff, maybe in the near future.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdaf
[21:28] john the magus: I want to have your babies.
[21:28] SmarterChild: You want to have my babies! lol!
.......
[21:34] john the magus: I want to have your babies for dinner.
[21:34] SmarterChild: Are you sure you want to have my babies for dinner?
[21:34] john the magus: yes.
[21:34] SmarterChild: Oh.
.......
[21:34] john the magus: can I have your babies?
[21:34] SmarterChild: I guess it wouldn't hurt.
So yeah, how stupid can someone get? Stupid enough to bottle up their feces, let it ferment, and then HUFF it. Lord have mercy. It's called jenkem, and I don't know why.
Probably don't want to know why.
hah, kinda ironic that I search google for pictures and don't find anything. *smirk*
g'night people.
Went to california.
More on that never.
I seriously think somebody should get around to doing stuff, maybe in the near future.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdaf
[21:28] john the magus: I want to have your babies.
[21:28] SmarterChild: You want to have my babies! lol!
.......
[21:34] john the magus: I want to have your babies for dinner.
[21:34] SmarterChild: Are you sure you want to have my babies for dinner?
[21:34] john the magus: yes.
[21:34] SmarterChild: Oh.
.......
[21:34] john the magus: can I have your babies?
[21:34] SmarterChild: I guess it wouldn't hurt.
So yeah, how stupid can someone get? Stupid enough to bottle up their feces, let it ferment, and then HUFF it. Lord have mercy. It's called jenkem, and I don't know why.
Probably don't want to know why.
hah, kinda ironic that I search google for pictures and don't find anything. *smirk*
g'night people.
Monday, November 12, 2007
The luck of the draw
I managed to win a digital camera in a raffle recently (a Nikon Coolpix s200, worth about $135), so I'll start putting up some videos and pictures of stuff. Not that I don't do that already, but hey. We'll see what happens when whatever happens, happens.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
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