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@ Ben Ag, Au, Pb, add Tantalum and Chromium to the list
I assume you also have Brass to go with the Pb.
Except for corrosion resistance, gold is a horrible metal. Way too heavy and soft to make a tool, weapon, or bicycle and if you are stranded on a deserted island and find a chest full fo pirate gold, you still would note be able to eat it. 😄
These days a lot of value is virtual. There is a lot of value in pure information, and companies that facility the flow of information (google, facebook, etc.) are doing well. Indentity theft (theft of information) is at an all time high.
The distiller has merit particularly as pollutants aren't all biological. Heavy metal pollution, pcb's, etc., aren't necessarily filtered out by "normal" filtration systems either. Wars have been fought over water, research the water wars in California in the late 1800's. Corporations are already in control of water resources in some countrys. It is one of the reasons that I am concerned about certain "mining" technologies, which use enormous amounts of water, and unfortunately leave those billions (trillions) of gallons of water contaminated with heavy metals that aren't dealt with well in municipal waste water systems. While the area I live in currently has an abundance of relatively fresh water (L. Ontario, downstream from all the other Great Lakes has been deemed the most polluted), we also have one of the most polluted (Onondaga Lake) right next to the city of Syracuse, a result of heavy, unregulated, industry and bad urban waste planning. It is being "cleaned up", at great cost, but part of that isn't cleaning, but rather sequestration (had to use that word!) in the form of a cap over part of the lake bottom. We can live with out gold, technology, etc., can even go for a few weeks without food, but a couple of days without water for most people is death.
@jcarmody wrote:
Yesterday I ran in my first 5K race since high school (mid-80s). I came in 15th :). [...]
Today I ran in my first half-marathon; I finished in 1:56:40 (69th place out of 167 runners). I've never felt so beat-up in my life. My son took a video of my finish so, if you want to see a LabVIEW developer/Test Engineer getting a beating by a 13.1 mile race, look here.
I'll definitely do it again. In fact, I'm building up to run a 40-mile trail race in October and a marathon in 2014.
@johnsold wrote:
[...] me finishing a marathon unconscious. I distinctly remember the 26 mile point. The course left the road and went over a curb (filled in with dirt to make a ramp) so the finish was on the grass. My thought when I reached that ramp was, "I don't know if I can climb that HILL." I do not remember anything after that in that run.
Lynn
Nice... 🙂
