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    If Steve! Were God

    If Steve! were God, (er, sorry, that's God! to YOU!!!!) I'd ask him for Cindy's twin sister, world peace and a bigger *censored* EDIT: Hey! I said "DUCK"! Stupid auto-censor...
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    MARRIAGE Q

    Perhaps a bit off-topic, but has anyone noticed that whenever the OT appeared to bolster some wacked-out position of TWI, it was "for our learning", but if it constricted their happy time, it was "oh, we're under grace now, so adultery, etc., is okay." Amazing. Anyway, to be a bit more on-topic, I'm going through this divorce thing, too. She doesn't want it, but I do. It's emotionally and physically exhausting.
  3. I don't know for sure, but it should be obvious what the tear-jerk part will be--Amidala dies shortly after giving birth to the twins. Remember from the original movie: "General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars..." Princess Leia's last name is given in the novels as "Organa", even though it's never mentioned in any of the films. In Episode 2, Jimmy Smits plays Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, Leia's adoptive father, and Anakin's stepbrother Owen Lars is also introduced as a young man in the same film. He becomes Luke's "Uncle Owen" who gets killed early in the original. In Return of the Jedi, Luke & Leia discover they're brother and sister, having been separated at birth to keep them hidden from the Emperor. Connect the dots...
  4. A) Yes. B) Because his agent got him a fantastic play-or-pay contract. C) The dog is with the kid. D) It's a phone number to an all-night bikini-wax joint in Islamabad, Pakistan. :P
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    D-I-V-O-R-C-E

    Post deleted. Aaah, what's the use? Ex70: Good luck, you'll need it.
  6. Actually, most of this stuff happened after I left GSC, but it was building in the background. I just didn't see it until her enabling of her son's drug habit turned into lying to my face and a slide towards financial ruin.
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    D-I-V-O-R-C-E

    The point is, you're not happy, are you? If she's not meeting your needs in bed, and treats sex like a chore, she's already broken her "due benevolence" commitment to you. That's not a license to go elsewhere before you're divorced, but if one party breaks the contract first, the other is not bound. If you're really worried about son #3, you might try getting him some counseling. Screw what the neighbors think--they'll know for certain as soon as you get divorced anyway. They'll either know your marriage is in trouble and you're trying to fix it, or your marriage is over, period. If your wife will not change, and you don't want to stay with her if she won't, talk to an attorney. You're going to get screwed over though, because she'll probably get half the business you own. But how much is the rest of your life worth? Going through it myself, Zix
  8. There were many reasons I moved on. Many old friends had stopped posting, only to be replaced by new enemies. Arguments would start at the drop of a hat, the same people would choose up sides, and off we'd go. It just became more and more drama and less and less friendly company. With all the actual problems going on in my life, I just could not stomach subjecting myself to this needless stress. But I'll always treasure the friends I made here. There are some truly wonderful folks here that have seen me through some very bad incidents in my life. (most recently Cindy! and Steve!, who've really helped sort some things through in my dissolving marriage.) I don't wish anyone ill will here, and I'll stop by from time to time, but no, the GSC chapter of my life is pretty much closed. God bless you all, Zix
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    D-I-V-O-R-C-E

    About counseling: Sometimes, you don't need a weatherman to tell you it's raining. If it works for you, great. If you're not really getting anywhere with it, don't continue to throw money down a rat hole.
  10. Wow. Not a single snide remark. Good sign. Ok, you've still got some stuff you haven't accounted for. 1) The stomach is not always open to the duodenum--because of the pyloric valve. 2) Water reabsorption takes place mainly in the large intestine, not the small. 3) Water absorption is not 100% efficient. 4) Plasma is not water. It has enough other stuff dissolved in it that its oxygen carrying capacity is feeble. Hence, hemoglobin. Raising the oxygen content of plasma requires maintaining a pressure above normal equilibrium, and even if it could be done with water, the binding sites on deoxygenated hemoglobin have a high enough affinity for oxygen that the majority of any possible excess oxygen delivered into the bloodstream would simply reoxygenate depleted hemoglobin--pink veins. 5) Explain the mechanism by which age affects hemoglobin function. 6) The big craze in alternative medicine a few years back was "antioxidants" like vitamin E, etc. Apparently, free oxygen in the body was a menace not too long ago--and the proponents of antioxidants were just as fervent about their claims as you are. You can't both be right, so who's to tell?
  11. There's been something nagging at the corner of my mind about this stupid oxywater junk the whole time, but I just figured out what it is. Even though blood plasma is mostly water, it already has quite a lot of stuff dissolved in it--salt, glucose, various minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. It's also relatively hot--98.6 degrees Fahrenheit/37 Celsius. In other words, the solubility of oxygen in plasma must be even less than its solubility in distilled water--and it is. According to the Anesthesiology department at the University of Virginia, arterial blood plasma can only carry 3 milligrams of dissolved O2 per liter. That's a grand total of 3 ppm, period. Three. Not 45 or 60, THREE. In fact, 98% of all the oxygen in your bloodstream is bound to hemoglobin in red blood cells, not dissolved in plasma. Now, David likes to try to bury unsupportive evidence under a mountain of haughty, smarter-than-thou, pseudo-scientific doublespeak, but all his logorrhea can't cover up the plain truth. He likes to tout oxygenated water (bunk) in the same breath as hyperbaric oxygen treatments (which do have legitimate medical uses). Now, yes, if you increase the pressure, you can get more oxygen to dissolve in blood plasma. HOWEVER, drinking fizzy water can't do the same thing, because no matter what the partial pressure of oxygen is at the water's surface, the partial pressure of the surrounding atmosphere is lower. Hence, the oxygenated water must start outgassing its oxygen in order to reach equilibrium with the surrounding environment. The oxygen comes out of the water, but it has nowhere to go. It can't be dissolved into blood plasma because the plasma is already saturated. If any survived the trip through the lymphatic system, the only place for the oxygen to go is into the hemoglobin of red blood cells. The easy test to see if the oxygen level is rising is to check the color of your veins. If any excess oxygen were available, the venous blood should be less blue. If it were enough to keep the system saturated, your veins would almost turn invisible through your pink skin. (Reddish veins are also a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning, so beware...) There's another problem. If the carbon dioxide level in the blood drops below a certain level, serious health problems will result from respiratory alkalosis. Ever feel light-headed from blowing up party balloons--that's a mild form of CO2 deficiency. Hyperventilating does the same thing--so much so that a sufferer can pass out from CO2 loss. If the plasma has more oxygen dissolved in it than leaves it room for dissolved CO2, the body will go into the same type of alkalotic shock. Too much CO2 is even more dangerous. Since David claims that carbon dioxide is many times more soluble in water than oxygen (and that's true), drinking a Coke with 900 ppm of dissolved carbon dioxide should trigger hyperventilation to blow off the excess CO2 going into the lymph, but strangely enough, that doesn't happen. The answer why should be obvious... Bottom line, there's just no way for oxygenated water to give the same effect as a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, no matter how petulant and childish some self-described "engineer" becomes.
  12. Does this mean that you looked up Henry's Law and are willing to retract your previous statements about what jerks folks are that claim water can hold 60-70 ppm oxygen? Everyone knows that you are not responsible for what others read or don't read, but are you responsible to correct your own errors of fact on this thread? That's the question I'd like answered. I would--if I had ever made such statements. What I said was that it was impossible, given the method you were espousing, to saturate water with oxygen anywhere near Penta levels. Bubbling the gas off of a household O2 generator through water, even chilled, distilled water, can neither dissolve nor maintain Penta's claimed levels of oxygen, precisely due to your precious Henry's Law. The generator cannot maintain pressure levels high enough without damage, apparently. Penta can do it through pressurizing their bottles at the factory, and no one here ever claimed any different, but once the bottle is opened and the water exposed to air, it will start losing that dissolved oxygen until its partial pressure is in equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere--again in perfect accordance with your vaunted Henry's Law.As I continually state, I'm not responsible if you didn't bother to read the whole thing, and I'm certainly not responsible if you refuse to comprehend what's written past your own subjective biases. "Lethal intent"? That's funny. I am curious about one thing, though. Did you get a good deal on your bunker? Paranoia like that is usually only found in the militia/survivalist nutcases...
  13. Except that when the water is exposed to air again, the partial pressure of oxygen is no longer at 100%, and the oxygen starts coming right back out of solution. And of course, keeping your refrigerator at a 100% oxygen atmosphere internally is just begging for a fire to boot. Someone remind me why I even bother with this any more? Is there anyone still on the fence on this issue? Kit thinks David is right, Krys thinks the water works, but not necessarily for the reasons he claims, and most everyone else is opposed or apathetic, it seems. People should leave medicine to the people who are trained for it, not some fly-by-night quack hawking the snake oil of the week.
  14. This just keeps getting funnier. David claimed(emphasis mine): Oh, really? From Penta's own website(again, emphasis mine): Source: http://www.pentawater.com/process.shtml Since pressure is the damaging factor to the generator, the back pressure cannot be very great, let's assume a maximum of 15% over ambient. (No more than 17 psia or about 870 torr.) At normal atmospheric pressure and temperature, (760 torr/20 degrees Celsius) you can only dissolve about 9mg of oxygen into each liter of water. That's 9 ppm, well short of Penta's claimed 60-70. David is correct that more oxygen can be dissolved in water at colder temperatures, so at normal pressure, but a temp of 4 degrees Celsius (38F, about your common fridge temp, more or less)the solubility only goes up to about 13 ppm. Which, as anyone who graduated the second grade knows is less than 60 ppm by a fair margin. More oxygen can be dissolved if the atmospheric pressure is higher too, so let's give it the full benefit of the doubt and jack up the pressure to 17 psi/870 torr and lower the temp to 1 degree Celsius (don't want it in any danger of freezing, of course). The result? A maximum dissolved oxygen content of only 16 ppm. If you have a lab-grade super fridge that can keep the temp at precisely 0.01 Celsius, you can almost stretch that to 17 ppm. Almost. (Source: Dissolved oxygen calculator on General Chemistry Online http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/1...icting-DO.shtml ) As soon as the water warms up to body temperature, though, (37 degrees Celsius/98.6F) water can only hold a little less than 7 ppm of dissolved oxygen. All that excess dissolved oxygen comes back out of the water and has to go somewhere, and so it does--right back up your esophagus with a burp. Or, the laws of chemistry could just be another Secret FEDGOV™ Plot to spread misinformation about the Oxygen Gospel According to David. Sneaky bastards, those FEDGOV™ provocateurs... Regards, Osama bin Zixar
  15. Krys: Don't bother. This loony is about 90 degrees out of phase with reality.
  16. I could write an entire paper on willful ignorance based on nothing but your posts in this forum alone. Here's where you are WRONG about the lymphatic system: 1) While chyle is an ingredient of lymph, it is by no means the primary component, nor is it the initial precursor. Interstitial cellular fluid leakage is the main component and about three liters per day are produced. 2) Lymph does not reenter the bloodstream at the lymph nodes. The lymph goes straight into the bloodstream via the thoracic duct emptying into the subclavian veins. 3) The lymph has been filtered clean at that point. It is not "sewer water". (Source: Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia and WebMD) Maybe you're describing Chewbacca's lymphatic system, but it sure isn't human. --> If the rest of your knowledge is as faulty as your knowledge of the lymphatic system, why do you persist on your public displays of ignorance? If you want to peddle your seltzer here, couldn't you at least take the effort to make sure anyone with a browser and 15 minutes to waste can't falsify your spiel? You're as bad as TWI was at hyping irrelevant crap under a load of pompous faux-pious and pseudo-scientific blather. Quit wasting everyone's time with your snake-oil screeds. Why not find someplace else that has more gullible, desperate, exploitable people?
  17. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Giovanni Ribisi Boiler Room
  18. William Hurt I Love You To Death Joan Plowright ;)-->
  19. Actually, I did know that. Did you also know that Bill Paxton, also of Cameron's Titanic and Aliens, was also one of the three punks at the beginning of The Terminator? He's the one who teaches Arnie how to say "F-you, a**hole..." About Jeannette Goldstein, the line in Aliens where Paxton says something about "illegal aliens" was a direct joke at Goldstein's expense. When the casting call went out for Aliens, Goldstein showed up dressed as an illegal immigrant... :)-->
  20. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" A charming comedy about a man cheated out of his birthright getting revenge on the family standing between him and the ducal coronet. A young Alec Guinness plays all 8 members of the d'Ascoyne family.
  21. The Perfect Storm William Fichtner Black Hawk Down
  22. You guys better watch out for the Evil FEDGOV™ black helicopters...the AMA and the Illuminati won't just let you market such a miracle cure as "p'ar juice" without getting their cut of the profits!
  23. Click here for a description of the human lymphatic system. (note well that it reveals several of David's factual errors...) Click here for the actual definition of a "double-blind" experiment. Click here for reasons why quackery persists. Click here for the definition of the type of defense David is using.
  24. Here's a good collection of water-quackery debunking: http://www.chem1.com/CQ/clusqk.html#PENTA
  25. And another relevant, cautionary example... Sound familiar?
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