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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2008, 06:27:12 pm »
TheOnion is better!

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2008, 06:57:36 pm »
TheRegister is actually real news, though. So maybe TheOnion is a better comparison to MSNBC :)

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2008, 07:25:11 pm »
MSNBC has WAY more credibility than Super

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2008, 07:43:11 pm »
Personally, I'm just making fun. :)

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2008, 10:26:48 pm »
MSNBC has WAY more credibility than Super
Maybe they're a little more credible, but I'm cooler.  I wasn't saying it's not bad, I was just saying it's not the worst. I mean, you can look at the LD50 for mercury sulfate versus mercury. I don't really care to, considering I don't want to eat either of them.

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #36 on: April 24, 2008, 09:01:51 am »
Mercuric sulfate: ORAL (LD50): Acute: 57 mg/kg [Rat]. DERMAL (LD50): Acute: 625mg/kg [Rat]
Mercury: The LD50 values in animals for elemental mercury range from 10 to 40 mg/kg (WHO 1976)

That's the best info I could find.. Mercuric sulfate was easy, but I had a lot of trouble finding plain Mercury.

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #38 on: April 24, 2008, 11:10:14 am »
Mercuric sulfate: ORAL (LD50): Acute: 57 mg/kg [Rat]. DERMAL (LD50): Acute: 625mg/kg [Rat]
Mercury: The LD50 values in animals for elemental mercury range from 10 to 40 mg/kg (WHO 1976)

That's the best info I could find.. Mercuric sulfate was easy, but I had a lot of trouble finding plain Mercury.

Dimethyl mercury (or any other organic mercury) beats those two any day. It takes a drop or so on exposed skin to kill a person.
errr... something like that...

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Re: Happy Earth Day!
« Reply #39 on: April 25, 2008, 04:21:57 am »