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| cdev:
(The Vikings?) primitive peoples used to use animal urine for washing battle wounds - somehow they realized before germs were even known to science that it is usually sterile of germs (unless somebody has a UTI) At least much more so than stream or lake or even puddle water which anybody who has microscope will realize is absolutely teeming with microorganisms. --- Quote from: Stonent on April 21, 2014, 05:32:52 am ---I'd bet there are several million people in the world that would love to have 140 million liters of water contaminated with nothing more than .5L of urine. Isn't that partly why water in most of the US is slightly chlorinated so that things like this don't matter? --- End quote --- |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: cdev on August 21, 2020, 12:36:59 pm ---(The Vikings?) primitive peoples used to use animal urine for washing battle wounds - somehow they realized before germs were even known to science that it is usually sterile of germs (unless somebody has a UTI) At least much more so than stream or lake or even puddle water which anybody who has microscope will realize is absolutely teeming with microorganisms. --- Quote from: Stonent on April 21, 2014, 05:32:52 am ---I'd bet there are several million people in the world that would love to have 140 million liters of water contaminated with nothing more than .5L of urine. Isn't that partly why water in most of the US is slightly chlorinated so that things like this don't matter? --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Urine is not sterile. Take your pick of popular or scholarly sources: http://www.urotoday.com/conference-highlights/aua-2019-annual-meeting/aua-2019-infections-inflammation/112448-aua-2019-urine-is-not-sterile-what-s-next.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/turns-out-urine-isnt-actually-sterile-180954809/ https://www.popsci.com/urine-sterile-drinking-pee/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/ https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/urine-not-sterile-and-neither-rest-you |
| Sal Ammoniac:
--- Quote from: MadTux on August 21, 2020, 09:56:49 am ---Piss works great as fertilizer, btw. --- End quote --- Does it? Back when I had a lawn, I'd always see brown spots after a dog pissed on it. |
| MadTux:
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on August 21, 2020, 04:42:53 pm ---Does it? Back when I had a lawn, I'd always see brown spots after a dog pissed on it. --- End quote --- Might be because of concentration and dogs diet. If dog drinks very little and eats lots of protein/meat, dog urine contains lots of nitrogen, perhaps so much that it's toxic to plants. Human with a little protein and more water/beer/coke input might have a more plant friendly piss, more dilute with less nitrogen and more phosphorous from coke. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: G7PSK on April 21, 2014, 08:37:39 am ---They reckon that the water in London has been drunk three times before you get to drink it, keeping processed water in an open holding tank at ground level with no protection at all seems silly as any thing and every thing in the form of contamination can get in. The Ganges problem is such that it affects not just India but other parts of the world, in the 1970's cooked bones for dogs were being imported from India,then some one found their dog munching on a human bone, it turned out that the company in India was collecting the bone from the Ganges before cooking or drying them in the sun, the importation was stopped by the then Ministry of Agriculture on the grounds that it could bring foot and mouth into the country. --- End quote --- Only THREE? Do they not realise how long the earth has existed for? I'd say maybe 3 billion times! |
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