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post #61 of 770
5/28/03 at 7:50pm
Don't buy 'em when you can get handfuls for free in the Silica Valley!

I thought they grew on cacti, that's why Arizona and New Mexico are so arid.
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post #62 of 770
5/28/03 at 8:26pm
this thread is getting, er, super silly, yes?
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post #63 of 770
5/28/03 at 8:50pm
Third base!!!!
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post #64 of 770
5/29/03 at 2:04am
I kept thinking, "Damn, 2nd page and no one has mentioned Ice 9 yet???"

John Watson comes to the rescue!

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Mike Barnhill, ever heard of Ice 9?
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post #65 of 770
5/29/03 at 4:49am
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I thought they grew on cacti, that's why Arizona and New Mexico are so arid.


You are right. They do grow on cacti. Does anyone remember studying the great silica flood which occurred 20 million years ago?

60 - 70 million years ago as the Rocky Mountains were formed many cacti were trapped and encased in rock. The rock perfectly preserved the delicate silica packs which grow on the cacti. Around 20 million years ago a cataclismic event occured which released the water from these packets in an enormous flood which created the Grand Canyon.
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post #66 of 770
5/29/03 at 7:53am
If you get enough of these silica packs, maybe you can perform a cheap breast surgery.

Silica Implants?
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post #67 of 770
5/29/03 at 7:55am
Bad idea Mark. Remember, rumour has it they absorb moisture. So the breasts would end up looking like dried-up prunes.
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post #68 of 770
5/29/03 at 8:06am
Tony, Silica absorbs moisture???? Where did you read that?


p.s. Would Latino women get Salsa Implants?
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post #69 of 770
5/29/03 at 8:36am
Of course you can find silica in Arizona, that why it's such a dry heat.
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post #70 of 770
5/30/03 at 2:24am
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Where does the silica put the moisture? Are they some sort of gateway to a moisture-laden other world?


ever seen waterworld? costner knows what's up.

kevin t
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post #71 of 770
5/30/03 at 7:12am
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Tony, Silica absorbs moisture????


Oh, just a theory I've heard bantered about there and there... not sure where...
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post #72 of 770
5/30/03 at 8:15am
I was wondering whey I hadn't had a decent cup of coffee since they put these out with the Equal.
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post #73 of 770
5/30/03 at 10:56am
Guess what I found in my bottle of allergy medicine! A tiny cylinder labled....Silica GEL!!! Is this some new, more powerful form of silica? I'm afraid to try it, I fear that it might absorb all the water in the universe. Do you think there is any risk of addiction? I must remember the words of Uncle Ben, "with great silica comes great responsiblity." Help me out guys, what should I do with this newfound silica menace?

Kyle
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post #74 of 770
5/30/03 at 12:01pm
If silica absorbs moisture, what about silicone?

I had a girl with implant a while back. I got her into my waterbed and during the night the bed sprung a leak. By morning, she looked like Morgana.
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post #75 of 770
5/30/03 at 1:05pm
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By morning, she looked like Morgana
I have NO idea who Morgana is, but considering the set up you just made, I can only imagine.

( o )( o )
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post #76 of 770
5/30/03 at 1:25pm
Here:

The Kissing Bandit

WARNING Mild nudity in link!
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post #77 of 770
5/30/03 at 1:27pm
Morgans was the big breasted kissing bandit. She'd go on the baseball fields and find a ballplayer and kiss him, and then be led off the field by security. Her bra size was probably 48FFF.
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post #78 of 770
5/30/03 at 7:04pm
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Where does the silica put the moisture? Are they some sort of gateway to a moisture-laden other world?
Quantum physics theorizes that other dimensions exist simultaneously with us. Theories show that silica is most likely to become a gateway between us and the parallel dimensions. That's why we send the water into it. The water will drown the monsters over in the other dimensions.

Oh, and I support the sock-to-coat hanger theory. Couldn't find any clean socks this morning, and there was a coat hanger laying on the floor in the living room again. Fits the facts!
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post #79 of 770
5/30/03 at 7:12pm
Kyle

The silica with alergy medicine is put up your nose to drain the moisture until the medicine kicks in. Only you have to pull it out after 20 minutes or your brain will dry up.
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post #80 of 770
5/31/03 at 7:26pm
Silicon chips are really good with salsa, by the way.
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post #81 of 770
6/2/03 at 2:26pm
Silica gel was developed just prior to WWI and was used in Allied gas masks; then, in WWII it was used extensively to keep penicillin dry. It remains the highest capacity adsorbent available today. Not a "gel" as commonly thought of, and not to be confused with "silicon gel", silica gel is a porous, granular form of silica, synthetically manufactured from sodium silicate.

The internal structure of each small silica gel granule is composed of a vast network of inter-connecting microscopic pores, which attract and hold moisture by a phenomena known as physical adsorption and capillary condensation. (It sounds ridiculous, but a single teaspoon of Hydrosorbent Silica Gel has an internal adsorptive area equivalent to a football field, including the two end zones.) Hydrosorbent Silica Gel is inert, non-toxic and safe to use to protect foods, medicines, sensitive materials, electronics, films, etc. Even when saturated with adsorbed moisture, silica gel looks and feels dry to the touch.

Hydrosorbent Silica Gel can be reactivated indefinitely. Each Hydrosorbent Silica Gel unit has a built-in indicator which turns from blue to pink signalling when the product is saturated with moisture and needs reactivation. Once saturated with moisture, silica gel can be easily reactivated in a conventional oven using salsa for lifetime protection. Since World War II, silica gel has been the desiccant of choice by government and industry.
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post #82 of 770
6/2/03 at 3:52pm
The power of silica packets:

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Despite years of experiments by the federal government and backyard inventors, nothing has worked so far to stop a hurricane from barreling ashore.

But one Florida inventor hasn't stopped trying.

Businessman Peter Cordani has spent four years researching a way to drop absorbent particles into the eye of a storm to disrupt its spin and suck out the moisture.






http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/C21236/
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post #83 of 770
6/2/03 at 6:58pm
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Businessman Peter Cordani has spent four years researching a way to drop absorbent particles into the eye of a storm to disrupt its spin and suck out the moisture.

Bad idea. Those precocious ancient Egyptians had the same thing in mind, and it had catastrophic effects on the Sahara Rainforest
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post #84 of 770
6/3/03 at 7:52am
Just what we need, millions of saturated silica packets flying through the air at hurricane speed.
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post #85 of 770
6/3/03 at 8:14am
Is this how silicon breast implants work? Put in a small silica packet on each side, and they absorb fluid and expand?

Pamela Anderson must have really had a problem with water retention prior to getting hers done.
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post #86 of 770
6/3/03 at 11:49am
So, what do those little silica packets do?

Jay
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post #87 of 770
6/3/03 at 12:06pm
After wading through all these messages, it appears that they absorb moisture. Or perhaps salsa.
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post #88 of 770
6/3/03 at 12:12pm
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it appears that they absorb moisture. Or perhaps salsa
After eating salsa, I seem to absorb Coronas
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post #89 of 770
6/4/03 at 9:31am
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After eating salsa, I seem to absorb Coronas


Wow! You too Mark? I thought I was the only one!

Although a favorite blogger, James Lileks isn't a fan..

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Corona is awful beer. Corona is diluted Chihuahua piss. It's darker on the way out than on the way in, which ought to tell you something. It's astonishing that they make Corona light - that would be, by definition, the anti-beer. Want to sober up fast? Slam six Corona lights.




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Just what we need, millions of saturated silica packets flying through the air at hurricane speed.


Well at least it would be a DRY hurricane Malcolm!

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Those precocious ancient Egyptians had the same thing in mind, and it had catastrophic effects on the Sahara Rainforest


Jim....

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post #90 of 770
6/4/03 at 2:57pm
So...would a frozen pack of this stuff absorb snow?

If so, I am really going to stock up on those things and throw them on my driveway next winter.

To heck with Mr. Plow, say "Hello" to the "Silica Snow Sucking King"
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