Conquer Club

Does it ever occur to you, when the rain is pelting your face, that those H2O molecules were in the urethra of a hammerhead shark just a few short days ago?

I'm glad that I'm not the only person who really gets why we don't need umbrellas.

Dukasaur wrote:Does it ever occur to you, when the rain is pelting your face, that those H2O molecules were in the urethra of a hammerhead shark just a few short days ago?

Yes. It has. I think it's fascinating.

Dukasaur wrote:Does it ever occur to you, when the rain is pelting your face, that those H2O molecules were in the urethra of a hammerhead shark just a few short days ago?

That's why i piss in the ocean whenever the occasion arises.

Also, plants release their jizz to the wind and it coats you. So gross.

-TG

Dukasaur wrote:Does it ever occur to you, when the rain is pelting your face, that those H2O molecules were in the urethra of a hammerhead shark just a few short days ago?

No. H2O molecules can associate with whomever they want to. It's the combined collection of molecules called "germs" and "viruses" that I have a problem with.

And generally speaking, they are not found in the urethra tracts, although I'm not an expert on the hammerhead shark. But as long as they are not in the rain, I'm not particularly bothered.

"don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" - anonymous

riskllama wrote:"don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" - anonymous

I thought it went "Don't piss on my head and tell it's raining"?

muy_thaiguy wrote:

riskllama wrote:"don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" - anonymous

I thought it went "Don't piss on my head and tell it's raining"?

I think I understand why the originator wanted to remain anonymous.

tzor wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:Does it ever occur to you, when the rain is pelting your face, that those H2O molecules were in the urethra of a hammerhead shark just a few short days ago?

No. H2O molecules can associate with whomever they want to. It's the combined collection of molecules called "germs" and "viruses" that I have a problem with.

And generally speaking, they are not found in the urethra tracts, although I'm not an expert on the hammerhead shark. But as long as they are not in the rain, I'm not particularly bothered.

The amount of water in the world is pretty much constant to my understanding. It is very feasible that the water you drink at some point coursed through a dinosaur's urethra.

Does everyone know they filter the urine on the space lab and re-drink the water?

Not sure that I "know" it, but it's logical. How else are they going to have water that long?

Yeah, I didn't bring this up to gross people out. I brought it up as an illustration of the interconnectedness of life.

notyou2 wrote:The amount of water in the world is pretty much constant to my understanding. It is very feasible that the water you drink at some point coursed through a dinosaur's urethra.

Both Oxygen and Hydrogen slowly escape out of the atmosphere (depending on the strength of the magnetosphere) but are replaced from within the crust of the earth through volcanic actions.

But at some point ... is a pretty vague time frame.

I'm not grossed out. Like I said, I find it fascinating. I'd love to be able to track individual molecules on a multi-year study, see where they go.

Dukasaur wrote:Yeah, I didn't bring this up to gross people out. I brought it up as an illustration of the interconnectedness of life.

I did not add my trivia to be gross either even though I was a bit grossed out first time I heard it.

I was shopping for a water filter and that was part of the sales pitch. "It's reverse osmosis. The same membrane used on the Space Shuttle to re-use their urine for drinking water." It back fired, I put off buying a filter.

Dukasaur wrote:Yeah, I didn't bring this up to gross people out. I brought it up as an illustration of the interconnectedness of life.

It's kind of a less twee version of the "every atom in your body was once part of a star" thing. I like it. What inspired you?

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:Yeah, I didn't bring this up to gross people out. I brought it up as an illustration of the interconnectedness of life.

It's kind of a less twee version of the "every atom in your body was once part of a star" thing. I like it. What inspired you?

Driving for 12 hours in the rain. Constant rain, never ceasing. Had a lot of thoughts about "where the f*ck is all this water coming from?" Of course I know where the water's coming from. So I got a lot of thinking done about the lakes and the oceans, of which this was just one tiny sample. Lot of time to think when it's just you and the windshield wipers and a huge malevolently dark sky for 12 hours.

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:Yeah, I didn't bring this up to gross people out. I brought it up as an illustration of the interconnectedness of life.

It's kind of a less twee version of the "every atom in your body was once part of a star" thing. I like it. What inspired you?

Driving for 12 hours in the rain. Constant rain, never ceasing. Had a lot of thoughts about "where the f*ck is all this water coming from?" Of course I know where the water's coming from. So I got a lot of thinking done about the lakes and the oceans, of which this was just one tiny sample. Lot of time to think when it's just you and the windshield wipers and a huge malevolently dark sky for 12 hours.

I've often thought that rain is underrated as a catalyst for existential thinking. It's humble, yet powerful and essential.

2dimes wrote:I was shopping for a water filter and that was part of the sales pitch. "It's reverse osmosis. The same membrane used on the Space Shuttle to re-use their urine for drinking water." It back fired, I put off buying a filter.

There is an irony here in that this is exactly how a Dune Stillsuit worked. Urine is probably the safest thing to drink, assuming that you aren't ill with a bladder infection. It's the germs and bacteria in your rectum that are the nasty things.

That being said, pure water sucks. Impurities make water taste great! Well the right ones, anyway.

On the subject of filters, a simple sand filter as long as the sand stays wet, is according to a few sources I read, one of the best filters you can get. If the sand dries it does not work for reasons I never bothered to learn.

2dimes wrote:On the subject of filters, a simple sand filter as long as the sand stays wet, is according to a few sources I read, one of the best filters you can get. If the sand dries it does not work for reasons I never bothered to learn.

The reason is simple. As long as the sand is wet, algae live on it and will eat most of the toxins. If you let the sand dry out, the algae will die and will actually start to release toxins, doing more harm than good.

Back on my parents' farm, this was how we did it. We had a cistern which had multiple layers of sand with barriers in between, and all the rain water went into the cistern. It went in dirty and came out clean. I'm sure there were microorganism in it, but none of them ever harmed anybody, and even people from the city with their weak constitutions would come over and drink our water and never had a problem.