I know I’m on vacation, but this seems important: for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security has deemed an entire state of matter to be a national security risk.
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I know I’m on vacation, but this seems important: for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security has deemed an entire state of matter to be a national security risk.
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Don’t forget that DHMO can be converted to the very hazardous form known as Ice-9.
Grant beat me to it, but mine is nicer. Search Zazzle.com for Terror Diagram if link doesn’t work.
Spelling mistake now fixed.
Anyone who would like can use the red-yellow-orange diagram in anyway they please, no attribution necessary.
In fact, I don’t want to explain it to anyone from the Department of Homeland Security, so make that “no attribution preferred.”
Gavin
Just wait until they figure out polywater.
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I’m geeky, but not enough to want that on a t-shirt.
Comedians lamented the loss of Dan Quayle, you know, because he made their jobs so easy. Doonesbury had whole comics with verbatim quotes. But you know, you have to watch what you wish for.
I’m hoping that one day, comedians will start writing their own material.
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The DHMO Song
Mark A. Mandel, © 1997_to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
There’s a chemical that poses deadly danger to us all
If we don’t eliminate it, we are headed for a fall
But our governments refuse to see the writing on the wall
They’re going to let us die!
CHORUS (after every verse):
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
Ban dihydrogen monoxide
Before it kills us all!
Dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical to fear
Uncounted thousands die of inhalation every year
Yet the FDA allows it in our burgers, beans, and beer
And never questions why!
In gaseous form it’s subtle, without color, taste, or smell
But it’s part of acid rain, and it’s a greenhouse gas as well
It’s also found in car exhaust, which makes our cities Hell
And dirties up the sky!
It’s widely used by industry, and agriculture too
They dump it on the ground or in the river when they’re through
And from the ecosystem it gets into me and you
Which they dare not deny!
You’ll find dihydrogen monoxide everywhere you go
In rivers, oceans, lakes, and streams, in air and soil and snow
Its quantitative formula is simply H2O —
You’ll get it if you try!
This verse contributed by Gary McGath]
How far DHMO has spread no one can safely tell.
They’ve found it on Europa, and it’s on our Moon as well.
It may well turn our Solar System to a living hell!
It’s filling up the sky!
This verse contributed by Erik Von Halle
It kills the little children in the safety of their pools,
It make the politicians always sound like fools,
Linked to Hypothermia a death that kills and cools
It’s going to kill us all.
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the museum of hoaxes had a piece on this last month… “beware of hydrogen in the water”.. some of the comments on the administration’s take on this hypothetical threat are worth the time to go to the site:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4270
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the reality of chemistry is that it’s trivial to find two relatively harmless compounds that can be mixed to form a high explosive.
at university I knew someone who was quite adept at making Lead Azide, a high explosive in power form made by mixing two solutions, sodium azide and lead nitrate. Although toxic, you could probably taste the ingredients without flinching or dying on the spot! Lead azide was abandoned in mining as it was so dangerous that nitroglycerine was much safer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_azide
these days, you’ll probably find that trying to buy any azide compound will get funny looks at any industrial supplier!