It looks pretty bad after some time. Initially it was beautiful.
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> On Oct 10, 2024, at 8:28 PM, Warren King <wk...@rf-ee.us> wrote:
>
> So then I can use liquid Hg to spot treat the smallish areas on my trumpet
> where the silver plating has worn off? How noticeable will the treated areas
> be?
>
> And the actual volume of Hg used would be very, very small?
>
> :-)
>
> Warren
>
>> On Oct 10, 2024, at 11:33 AM, ch...@go-mtc.com wrote:
>>
>> I coated my whole trumpet with mercury. I still have it. Been outgassing
>> for 55+ years.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof
>> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:12 PM
>> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Weather
>>
>> 1965-1967 my family lived in South America, in a house with lead water
>> pipes. Not just the main feed, all the pipes in the house were lead.
>>
>> Plus my dad was a chemist, and strangely he would bring home metallic
>> (liquid) mercury and let us kids play with it like Silly Putty.
>>
>> So maybe I'm immune to getting dementia because my baseline is already so
>> low. On the other hand, as George Carlin said, think how stupid the average
>> person is and realize half of them are even stupider than that. I'm
>> constantly amazed how many people seem dumber than their pets and yet they
>> are able to dress and feed themselves, drive cars, hold paying jobs (some of
>> them), and all of them (not the pets) can vote. I can understand why Calvin
>> wanted to paint stripes on himself and have Hobbes teach him to be a tiger.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
>> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2024 1:00 PM
>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Weather
>>
>> Meanwhile, a 10% of our population is sitting in chairs in the sky.
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>>> On 10/9/2024 1:58 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>> I thought that might be true. But what do I know, I'm a boomer, so
>>> probably dumb as a rock.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Robert Andrews
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 3:28 PM
>>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Weather
>>>
>>> This would have had a much much bigger effect on Boomers than any
>>> other generation... ( this is actually true !)
>>>
>>>> On 10/9/24 12:21, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>>> I saw someone the other day saying Gen X votes a certain way because
>>>> breathing lead from leaded gasoline cost them X many IQ points. I am
>>>> pretty sure this was sarcasm, but you can’t tell anymore.
>>>>
>>>> *From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *ch...@go-mtc.com
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 9, 2024 1:54 PM
>>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Weather
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_last_2,000_ye
>>>> a
>>>> rs#/media/File:2000+_year_global_temperature_including_Medieval_Warm_
>>>> P eriod_and_Little_Ice_Age_-_Ed_Hawkins.svg
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_last_2,000_y
>>>> e
>>>> ars#/media/File:2000+_year_global_temperature_including_Medieval_Warm
>>>> _ Period_and_Little_Ice_Age_-_Ed_Hawkins.svg>
>>>>
>>>> I have no reason to doubt this data.
>>>>
>>>> *From:*dmmoff...@gmail.com <mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> *Sent:*Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:18 PM
>>>>
>>>> *To:*'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
>>>>
>>>> *Subject:*Re: [AFMUG] OT Weather
>>>>
>>>> Come explain this to my whole family, please. I’ll invite you to
>>>> Thanksgiving dinner.
>>>>
>>>> “Here is another fact: All the records indicate a non linear
>>>> increase in temperatures.
>>>>
>>>> So circle back to the beginning, warmer air == more moisture in the
>>>> air. More moisture in the air makes clouds which make storms and rain.
>>>>
>>>> Occam's Razor.
>>>>
>>>> “
>>>>
>>>> *From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>>
>>>> *On Behalf Of *ch...@go-mtc.com <mailto:ch...@go-mtc.com>
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 09, 2024 11:20 AM
>>>> *To:* af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com>
>>>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT Weather
>>>>
>>>> I have many friends and acquaintances that love them a good
>>>> conspiracy theory. I am not given to any conspiracies.
>>>>
>>>> Today the subject was HAARP. (Defunct research project to attempt
>>>> ionospheric heating). I was actually tangentially associated with
>>>> HAARP for a while.
>>>>
>>>> Being a life long ham the prospect of creating a patch of ionosphere
>>>> that could reflect HF signals any time of the day or night was very
>>>> exciting. The problem is, it never worked. They learned a whole
>>>> bunch about the upper atmosphere but the initial promise never worked out.
>>>> But wow, is there a group believing that the guvmnt can control the
>>>> weather. Yes, they can with cloud seeding etc but not with HAARP.
>>>> And control is not really a good word, more like influence.
>>>>
>>>> I try to speak reason, share some facts, always falls on deaf ears.
>>>>
>>>> HAARP was heating the ionosphere. There ain’t no weather up there.
>>>>
>>>> Weather is in the troposphere.
>>>>
>>>> Troposcatter can inject a bit of energy in the troposphere but it is
>>>> 100 times higher frequencies and produces no noticeable increase in
>>>> temperature.
>>>>
>>>> Here is a fact: Warmer air can hold more moisture. Something like 7%
>>>> per degree. Don’t recall if that was F or C.
>>>>
>>>> If you could selectively and effectively heat the atmosphere with
>>>> something like radiowaves interesting things could happen. Even
>>>> nefarious things. So far, no system has been demonstrated. Inverse
>>>> square law governs. If you calculate the specific heat of a large
>>>> enough volume of air (Like a sphere 20 miles in diameter) the amount
>>>> of energy needed for the transmitters would be on the scale of
>>>> several nuclear powered aircraft carriers to power the transmitter.
>>>> Better just to launch small nukes with cloud seeding fall out.
>>>>
>>>> Here is another fact: For as long as there have been thermometers,
>>>> humans have been keeping a record of temperatures. Some of those old
>>>> thermometers actually survived so that their inaccuracies could be
>>>> characterized and their records could be adjusted to modern standards.
>>>>
>>>> Here is another fact: All the records indicate a non linear increase
>>>> in temperatures.
>>>>
>>>> So circle back to the beginning, warmer air == more moisture in the
>>>> air. More moisture in the air makes clouds which make storms and rain.
>>>>
>>>> Occam's Razor.
>>>>
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