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Too hot to be human? I can agree with that theory.TazManiac wrote:lake_wrangler wrote:Nah... I'm expecting a future MIB movie to tell us he's just as alien as Dennis Rodman...
As is Anne Hathaway...
And I suspect, Scarlett Johansson is too, once you get under the skin
I first saw that picture in a Time Life book on, probably, geography. We had a series of Time/Life books on 'The World'. If I remember correctly, it's a South African miner at a mercury mine. But I haven't seen that book in almost 35 years, so I might not be all that correct.Dave wrote:Audrey II? If eating beans causes humans to be flatulent, then eating humans causes beans to be... what?lake_wrangler wrote:Can human beings also float on it?Jabberwonky wrote:Yes, that's a miner floating on a pool of mercury. It's dense enough to float a human bean...
What's a human bean look like, anyway?
I'd guess that the photo of the miner sitting on a tubfull of mercury might have been taken in California during the later years of the Gold Rush... or possibly in Alaska a bit later on. In either case, mercury was an important if dangerous part of the gold-mining industry. Partially sorted and pulverized gold-bearing ore was run through a "bath" in mercury, and the gold would dissolve into the liquid mercury and form an amalgam of the two metals. The gold-saturated mercury was then distilled away and captured for re-use, leaving the gold behind.
Nasty stuff. We're still dealing with mercury contamination in San Francisco Bay, more than a century later... runoff from the mercury mines south of here, and from the gold-mining sites in the Sierras. They're still doing some mitigation work at the old Almaden mercury mine, south of San Jose.
It was a big business at the time, though... and cut-throat-competitive. One big company managed to gain control of most of the mercury production, buying up all of the smaller mines, leaving the gold-miners no choice but to deal only with Amalgamated American Amalgams. "When the mercury rises, we're hot for your business!"
That much exposure to free mercury he's probably not bean a human for years now...lake_wrangler wrote:Can human beings also float on it?Jabberwonky wrote:Yes, that's a miner floating on a pool of mercury. It's dense enough to float a human bean...
What's a human bean look like, anyway?
October 1972 edition of National Geographic Magazine. I think that he may be one of the cinnabar miners from the Almadén district of Spain.Jabberwonky wrote:I first saw that picture in a Time Life book on, probably, geography. We had a series of Time/Life books on 'The World'. If I remember correctly, it's a South African miner at a mercury mine. But I haven't seen that book in almost 35 years, so I might not be all that correct.
Dayquil or Nyquil?
Mommy says I'm not supposed to take candy from strangers...Jabberwonky wrote:Dayquil or Nyquil?
(two of my favorite Pokemons)
*takes another sip of tasty Aztec mercury*Jabberwonky wrote:And they don't get much stranger than this lot...
