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Re: God sleeps in the minerals

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Post by fragmede »

nullc wrote: post #84
01100011 wrote: post #66

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Central California has several abandoned asbestos mines which continue to release asbestos into the nearby air and water. I remember considering some hiking around the area once and then came across the warnings regarding exposure. CA also has a lot of naturally occuring mercury as well. I seem to remember that some lakes in CA are so high in natural(i.e. not from gold mining) mercury that you shouldn't eat the fish.

There are several different kinds of asbestos and they differ radically in their level of risk and the worst kinds are not (generally?) found in California. So that signage might just be out of an abundance of caution. I wouldn't be surprised if by the numbers you have a lot more risk of serious injury driving to and from the hike than from the asbestos, particularly if your hiking doesn't involve intentionally distu…

Prop 65 requires me to tell you that the device you are reading this on contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause Thinking-regulations-are-stupid in mice.

Re: God sleeps in the minerals

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Post by hermitcrab »

carlosjobim wrote: post #88
hermitcrab wrote: post #40

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It's fine as a poetic term. But no god is required. Just time, pressure and the laws of physics.

"Just" Could you create the laws of physics? If all of humanity got together in a common effort, could we make one law of physics or change one law of physics? Something which has always existed, which created the entire universe, is ever present through space and time, and invisible. Something which can never be resisted because it is almighty. Not even for one second. Something which will create beautiful sculpture…

>If all of humanity got together in a common effort, could we make one law of physics or change one law of physics?

It wouldn't be a law of physics if it was something humans could change.

Re: God sleeps in the minerals

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Post by s0rce »

chasil wrote: post #11
vscode-rest wrote: post #8

The Cubes are the most captivating to me. Organic mishmash of polyhedra and assorted blobs is one thing, but perfect cubes is uniquely striking.

Maybe try copper sulphate? https://crystalverse.com/best-way-to-grow-copper-sulfate-cry... Crystal growth has been on here before. Let me see if I can find a link or two... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31105320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30487511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29255511

Sodium chloride will grow cubes but probably not trivial to get big ones.

Re: God sleeps in the minerals

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Post by s0rce »

Ifkaluva wrote: post #34
vscode-rest wrote: post #8

The Cubes are the most captivating to me. Organic mishmash of polyhedra and assorted blobs is one thing, but perfect cubes is uniquely striking.

You can buy pyrite cubes on Etsy—I know because I also love them :) They’re not expensive

Sodium chloride also grows cubes but hard to make perfect and large.

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Post by mr_toad »

netmare wrote: post #50
recallingmemory wrote: post #39

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The term "God" doesn't need to be reserved for only the religious. We're allowed to be in awe of this place too.

The religious have managed to make every YouTuber say "gosh" though.

Suffer them to tarnation.
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