Mad as a Hatter
Some kid brings a small vial of mercury to school. What should your response be?
A) Take the vial away and throw it in the garbage, where it will be delivered to a landfill which is sealed by a thick HDPE liner and several feet of compacted clay.
B) Call the school's science teacher, who can claim the mercury and use it for instructional purposes in his classes.
C) Fly into a panic, windmill your arms, wring your hands, call the local hazmat team and shut down the school due to "contamination."
If you chose the last option, congratulations; you've successfully absorbed the political programming. You may now step into the line to your Left, where your spinal column and cerebral cortex will be surgically removed.
A) Take the vial away and throw it in the garbage, where it will be delivered to a landfill which is sealed by a thick HDPE liner and several feet of compacted clay.
B) Call the school's science teacher, who can claim the mercury and use it for instructional purposes in his classes.
C) Fly into a panic, windmill your arms, wring your hands, call the local hazmat team and shut down the school due to "contamination."
If you chose the last option, congratulations; you've successfully absorbed the political programming. You may now step into the line to your Left, where your spinal column and cerebral cortex will be surgically removed.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:19
2 Comments:
You seem to have forgotten one other use for mercury. It is an unwritten practice that many of the Pacific Northwest prospectors still use it to extract gold.
We used to play with the stuff whenever anybody "accidently" broke a thermometer when I was a kid. "Quicksilver" is really neat stuff. It can also be found in just about any household thermostat made from the 50's through the 70's.
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