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DACK FAYDEN posted:don't they typically use mercury for seeding article says they're using silver iodide, which is whatever i guess i really appreciate that just one degree of separation from this article is a headline that reads "greenpeace says china winning war on urban pollution" - as though you needed more proof that both china AND greenpeace are completely full of poo poo.
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Coolguye posted:article says they're using silver iodide, which is whatever i guess Are you saying the shining beacon on the hill of the truth that is the South China Morning Post publishes falsehoods?
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Coolguye posted:article says they're using silver iodide, which is whatever i guess To be fair, I'm sure Greenpeace would be okay with China saving the environment by wholesale slaughter of the rural peasantry, but the current policy of throwing them under the figurative bus to save face is kinda the same thing 
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Went to the pharmacy to get some baby stuff today and I thought that I would take my 7 month old into Petland to see if he would get a kick out of the different animals they have there. A Chinese mother and her child were there and she lifted her ~2 year old son right into one of the Guinea pig pens to try and play with them. I was waiting for him to stomp on one of their skulls, but they were quick enough to steer clear of him. A minute later the mother overturned one of the rabbit shelters and grabbed a sleeping bunny by the ears and yanked it right off the ground. I don't know if anyone has ever heard a rabbit shriek, but it's something to hear. Three employees came over and and told her not to handle the rabbits like that, but she just waved her hands in their faces while muttering something in mandarin about "just animals" and proceeded to have her kid pound on all of the aquariums.
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Yeah, rabbits screaming is pretty creepy, fox whistles emulate the cry
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Apr 3, 2018 05:22
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China finally finding a use for all those backyard furnaces again. Obviously the end game here is to claim all the water in the Ganges is Chinese property because Who made that cloud?
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brocked posted:China finally finding a use for all those backyard furnaces again. Obviously the end game here is to claim all the water in the Ganges is Chinese property because Who made that cloud? I'm thinking that Xi's advisors have told him what I have been saying for years and they know they are absolutely hosed water wise 30-50 years down the road.
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I thought that was extremely common knowledge tho
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brocked posted:I thought that was extremely common knowledge tho One Child Policy, Great Leap Forward, War against the Four Pests, etc. When there's nobody left who knows any better, or people that do know better also know to keep silent then even massive organizations like governments can blindly walk into huge debacles.
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Coolguye posted:article says they're using silver iodide, which is whatever i guess Whoever wrote that was either remarkably high, or working off of propaganda leaflets.
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and here I thought they were investing heavily into nuclear power to run de desalinization plants
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Power Khan posted:Whoever wrote that was either remarkably high, or working off of propaganda leaflets. i was about to ask which article and then i realized the answer was just 'yes'
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Kharnifex posted:Ahh mercury, sweetest of the transition metals Hot Mercury is good for the body, don't you know?
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tote up a bags posted:Hot Mercury is good for the body, don't you know? Why do you think they filled Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb with the stuff?
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weren’t those tomb traps like having a tripwire release a swinging axe or open a pit with a gelatinous cube
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Nope! Mercury was used to fashion a kind of microcosm of all of China with rivers, lakes and seas of shimmering mercury. The main chamber of the tomb supposedly contains a mercury model of the hundred rivers, the Yellow river and the Yangtze river, and the seas in such a way that they flowed.
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Cry Havoc posted:weren’t those tomb traps No. Story is his sarcophagus is on a map of China with mercury streams and lakes since water wouldn't last. The hill above apparently has a quite high mercury concentration so the story might be true.
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He also drank mercury every day since he believed it would grant immortality. TCM joke here lol
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McGavin posted:Nope! Mercury was used to fashion a kind of microcosm of all of China with rivers, lakes and seas of shimmering mercury. The main chamber of the tomb supposedly contains a mercury model of the hundred rivers, the Yellow river and the Yangtze river, and the seas in such a way that they flowed. are there any photos or anything?
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underage at the vape shop posted:are there any photos or anything? Afaik no. They can't figure out how to uproot and excavate everything without causing a natural disaster unleashing mercury everywhere, and refuse to ask for help in excavating. Plus they wouldn't be able or want to prevent looters from destroying and carrying off everything.
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i read a thing on china.org.cn bragging that his body was very well preserved because they found huge amounts of mercury in the soil near the tomb. loving hell china.
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Apparently mercury makes an excellent laxitive as it just pushes everything through.
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mercury is just new emperor juice
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Eox posted:mercury is just new emperor juice Xi drinks a glass every morning.
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So if you drank a full mug full of quicksilver how long before you rip out a grant heaping log?
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So many loser sexpats in this thread. Do you think Emperor Xi is stupid? He only eats mercury infused honey. Everyone knows that the qi life forces of the fast mercury and the slow honey balance each other out.
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imagine being so dumb that when some guy tells you to drink a potion to make you immortal your first question isn't "so where are the other immortals then?"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:imagine being so dumb that when some guy tells you to drink a potion to make you immortal your first question isn't "so where are the other immortals then?"
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DACK FAYDEN posted:They all hosed off to chinese heaven, right? I thought that was canon that they all got immortal but then, you know, got bored and went to live with the gods in the sky where things are way cooler. The process of becoming an immortal & transcending to heaven looks very much like becoming sick & dying, but the Emperor in his wisdom can surely discern.
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underage at the vape shop posted:are there any photos or anything? It hasn't been excavated because excavation is destructive and they want to wait until there's a less invasive way of exploring the tomb. If you leave it alone, it'll remain preserved--same reason about a quarter of Pompeii hasn't been dug yet.
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The site is also incredibly contaminated with mercury.
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It's 2018, send in a drone swarm and map it out like the scanners in Prometheus.
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They used some cool imaging hardware/software to find stuff in Cambodia recently, wonder if they can do that
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:imagine being so dumb that when some guy tells you to drink a potion to make you immortal your first question isn't "so where are the other immortals then?" Darkest Auer posted:So many loser sexpats in this thread. Do you think Emperor Xi is stupid? He only eats mercury infused honey. Everyone knows that the qi life forces of the fast mercury and the slow honey balance each other out. Or, maybe it's because foreigners only eat bread.
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Yeah they’re worried about loving something up. The terra-cotta warriors were painted when they dug them up and the paint started fading as soon as it was exposed to air again and uh whoops
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There was also the Ming Tombs outside Beijing where most of the original artifacts were destroyed because they were left in leaky storage rooms during the Cultural Revolution. And then the Red Guard dragged the remains of one of the Ming emperors and empresses to undergo a struggle session a la Cadaver Synod and then burned them.
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CIGNX posted:There was also the Ming Tombs outside Beijing where most of the original artifacts were destroyed because they were left in leaky storage rooms during the Cultural Revolution. And then the Red Guard dragged the remains of one of the Ming emperors and empresses to undergo a struggle session a la Cadaver Synod and then burned them. I love to imagine the logic (or lack thereof) of the Red guard during their hey-days of lunacy, where whatever they imagined went (assuming you had enough idiots to agree with you). There was even a point in the cultural revolution where the red guard wanted to switch the stoplights so that Red meant "go". http://nowiknow.com/the-communist-stop-light/
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McGavin posted:Nope! Mercury was used to fashion a kind of microcosm of all of China with rivers, lakes and seas of shimmering mercury. The main chamber of the tomb supposedly contains a mercury model of the hundred rivers, the Yellow river and the Yangtze river, and the seas in such a way that they flowed. In an unintended positive note, they now emulate the actual rivers far more accurately than if they had used water. Pham Nuwen posted:The process of becoming an immortal & transcending to heaven looks very much like becoming sick & dying, but the Emperor in his wisdom can surely discern. Vae, puto deus fio.
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Blistex posted:I love to imagine the logic (or lack thereof) of the Red guard during their hey-days of lunacy, where whatever they imagined went (assuming you had enough idiots to agree with you). There was even a point in the cultural revolution where the red guard wanted to switch the stoplights so that Red meant "go". Part of the logic behind these harebrained schemes was to come up with the most "red" scheme in order to prove yourself sufficiently revolutionary, which meant you could gain power and influence. If I remember correctly, there were times where one side who had the most "red" idea would then claim a rival faction was counter-revolutionary and revisionist for failing to think up the "red" idea themselves. At best the loser falls out of favor, but more likely they would suffer a struggle session and then possibly be executed So you'd get this competition to prove who was the most hardcore communist among very cynical and greedy people, with the loser having a reasonable chance of getting killed.
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