Flushing Liquid Mercury Down The Toilet

Nope. I don't watch videos at work. Everyone sits in an open office environment. Only place to do so would be if I went to my car with my phone.

Every now and then I make an assumption (like the toilet is actually attached to the sewage lines, which really isn't a crazy assumption in most cases). I don't feel badly about it.

But you read and post on forums? LOL
 
Let me know when he posts a video injecting it into his blood stream. Now that's a video.
 
China's first emperor ate mercury pellets for years before he went insane and died young because of it. Not as dangerous as you might think, but still horribly bad.
 
I have questions... environmental questions.

Like who he's going to get to cart of 240lbs of mercury contaminated water? And how he'll respond to "WTF were you doing, and were you thinking at all?"


Idiots like him are why city/county hazmat need budgets.
 
But you read and post on forums? LOL


I take an occasional break between tasks, yes.

It's a laid back place. As long as we get our shit done, no one cares how and when we come and go and what we do.

Tonight I had to do some catching up and just wrapped up a 14 hour work day. I don't mind it, because there have definitely been days I've only worked a few.

The only reason i don't do videos at work is to not bother other people.
 
Like who he's going to get to cart of 240lbs of mercury contaminated water? And how he'll respond to "WTF were you doing, and were you thinking at all?"


Idiots like him are why city/county hazmat need budgets.

Well he does just submerge his hand in it at one point so hopefully he won't be around for much longer :p
 
listening to people in this thread one would think I was the only one as a kid that ever bit the end off of thermometers and drank the mercury out of them because of how it tasted.
 
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listening to people in this thread one would think I was the only one as a kid that ever bit the end off of thermometers and drank the mercury out of them because of how it tasted.
That was alcohol.
 
Well he does just submerge his hand in it at one point so hopefully he won't be around for much longer :p
But he made sure he had no cuts on his hand........ :)

Interesting stuff to watch, but yeah gloves would of been better.
 
listening to people in this thread one would think I was the only one as a kid that ever bit the end off of thermometers and drank the mercury out of them because of how it tasted.

please describe this rare and exquisite delicacy...
 
Like who he's going to get to cart of 240lbs of mercury contaminated water? And how he'll respond to "WTF were you doing, and were you thinking at all?"


Idiots like him are why city/county hazmat need budgets.

Considering he has refined his own heavy water, runs his own gold mine, uses mercury to refine his gold on a regular basis.. I think he can clean the water himself, as he said he would in that video...

Seriously spouting off about someone you don't know is dumber than you claim he is. (I've been watching his videos for years, it's call Cody's LAB for a reason, it is where he posts interesting things he does)

(edit: though he may blow himself up someday.. he's done some "interesting" experiments)
 
Considering he has refined his own heavy water, runs his own gold mine, uses mercury to refine his gold on a regular basis.. I think he can clean the water himself, as he said he would in that video...

Seriously spouting off about someone you don't know is dumber than you claim he is. (I've been watching his videos for years, it's call Cody's LAB for a reason, it is where he posts interesting things he does)

(edit: though he may blow himself up someday.. he's done some "interesting" experiments)

It isn't just the water. The toilet, the buckets. All of it. It is all hazmat IRL as well as legally being hazmat, and disposing of it is a huge problem. Hell university departments with actual labs don't like having so much as a mercury thermometer because of the hazmat cleanup liability.

Then this tool decides to play mad scientist. Guess what, we tax payers are going to pay for it. Either because hazmat has to dispose of all the contaminated toys---or because he illegally dumps it in a landfill making for a superfund site.



BTW he runs a gold mine. GREAT! Do you know how many mine owners leave superfund sites in their wake with illegal dumping? Hint: lots. Who pays for it? You and me.
 
"Tune in next time when I go to the hostpital to test my blood..." dude is a bit reckless, I used to watch him way back... he sure looks different now, jollier I'd say...
 
Crazy how the mercury stuck to the gold.
That happens. Mercury will naturally 'plate' to gold.

I also, had a High School Chemistry teacher who kept a 'stash' of mercury around that she let us play with. We poured ~500mL in a beaker and all took turns pressing our bare hands into it. First though, she made everybody remove any jewelry that they were wearing on their hands because, it does in fact naturally 'plate' to the gold.

Oh yeah - and I survived the experience as well. It's not something you want to do every day, and like others have said you definitely don't want to be breathing the vapor. However, our teacher 'let' us play with it under the auspices that it's something we'd probably never get to do again. And she was right - to this day it's the only time I've ever done anything like that.
 
please describe this rare and exquisite delicacy...

Feels nice and cool pooled on your tongue , then kind of just slides down your throat with an odd sensation as it goes down. It has no taste so it all about the feeling.
 
Feels nice and cool pooled on your tongue , then kind of just slides down your throat with an odd sensation as it goes down. It has no taste so it all about the feeling.
Interestingly, purified deionized reverse-osmosis water is much the same way. It has no taste, and you can barely tell it's there apart from the temperature.
 
It isn't just the water. The toilet, the buckets. All of it. It is all hazmat IRL as well as legally being hazmat, and disposing of it is a huge problem. Hell university departments with actual labs don't like having so much as a mercury thermometer because of the hazmat cleanup liability.

Then this tool decides to play mad scientist. Guess what, we tax payers are going to pay for it. Either because hazmat has to dispose of all the contaminated toys---or because he illegally dumps it in a landfill making for a superfund site.


BTW he runs a gold mine. GREAT! Do you know how many mine owners leave superfund sites in their wake with illegal dumping? Hint: lots. Who pays for it? You and me.

Seriously chill out, its Mercury, not Plutonium: The facts about mercury poisoning: Its (supposed) dangers and when to be really worried - Heraclitean River

It exists in Nature as a raw element: Mercury (element) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And there is more Mercury in the air if you live near a Coal Power Plant than he got playing with that Mercury: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/energy/assets/pdfs/cctr/outreach/Basics2-Mercury-Mar07.pdf He didn't burn it, or heat it up.

You are acting like this is some kind of deadly radioactive carcinogenic poison.

It's a natural element, that he did a reasonable job of keeping contained, to test an interesting hypothesis. He hurt no one but maybe himself (but really, not even himself) over-reacting doesn't make your attempted arguments any more valid.

Quote from the first link:
"Quick quiz: rank the following three situations in terms of the danger they pose to your child.

  1. You find your child playing outside with a drop of liquid mercury from a broken thermometer. He’s been handling it for a half hour, and you think he even ate some of it.
  2. Your child accidentally knocks over a lamp with a compact fluorescent bulb in it, and the bulb breaks, though the shards end up out of the way so your child can’t be cut from them.
  3. Your child loves fish, and he wants to have tunafish sandwiches for the fifth night this week for dinner. You give in.
If you answered (1) as the most dangerous, you need to read on. Situation (1) is actually by far the least dangerous of the three situations in terms of mercury poisoning. In this post, I’ll separate out myths from facts concerning liquid mercury (which isn’t very dangerous at all) versus the real dangers of mercury poisoning."
 
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Interestingly, purified deionized reverse-osmosis water is much the same way. It has no taste, and you can barely tell it's there apart from the temperature.

Plus there is the small part of being much safer on the body. :)
 
Uhm...


Is this even legal? Disposing of hazardous materials in the sewer system?

That shitneeds to be taken to hazardous waste collection, and you need to pay to dispose of it. Can't just flush it down the drain.

That is awful.

Did you even watch the video? It's "flushing" into a bucket. I'd call you a name, but with how long you've been around here, there's no point to state what's already well known.
 
Did you even watch the video? It's "flushing" into a bucket. I'd call you a name, but with how long you've been around here, there's no point to state what's already well known.


Already addressed it here thanks.

So, I was wrong. Big deal. 90+% of the time when you make an obvious assumption (like flushing a toilet means flushing something down the pipes) it is right. I don't see how not having watched the video is such a travesty.
 
Already addressed it here thanks.

So, I was wrong. Big deal. 90+% of the time when you make an obvious assumption (like flushing a toilet means flushing something down the pipes) it is right. I don't see how not having watched the video is such a travesty.

Because when someone is flushing hundreds of pounds of mercury, it's usually a given that they aren't dumping it into the sewage system.
 
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