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Amaze your fellow scientists — Piss rocket fuel

The WiZard is In - 2-11-2011 at 18:30

I (the Analogue Guy) buys book by the foot
this as the year comes to an end is my favorite
just arrived.

Roberts and Evans
The Book of Fungi
U of Chicago Press
(US $35 or so from Amazon)

Was paging through la book when I happened upon this —





False-morels-Roberts-and-Evans.jpg - 721kB

I pulled —

Denis R Benjamin's
Mushrooms poisonous an panaceas : A handbook for
naturalists, mycologists, and physicians of the shelf
as a fact check and found this —



False-morels-Benjamin.jpg - 261kB

Working out a less then lethal dose, maximum output
dobe your human factors chemical engineering problem.


djh
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Common bracket Hapalopilus nidulans

... The symptoms that appeared after about 12 hours ...
Rather alarmingly, the urine of all three victims
temporarily turned violet.

An idea for Halloween next....!

Bot0nist - 2-11-2011 at 18:43

Long time no see WiN.

Adas - 3-11-2011 at 07:24

WTH? You must be either high or making fun of us :X

Bot0nist - 3-11-2011 at 07:43

What do you mean Adas? That WiN's style. He posts a litany of interesting articles for our reading pleasure.

I fail to see how he seems high or offensive. Did you read the article? I guess you could question the placement in energetics forum, but monomethylhydrazine is energetic, and the fact that we can synthesize it in our bodies in pretty interesting to me, though maybe a tad whimsical.

Adas - 3-11-2011 at 07:56

Quote: Originally posted by Bot0nist  
What do you mean Adas? That WiN's style. He posts a litany of interesting articles for our reading pleasure.

I fail to see how he seems high or offensive. Did you read the article? I guess you could question the placement in energetics forum, but monomethylhydrazine is energetic, and the fact that we can synthesize it in our bodies in pretty interesting to me, though maybe a tad whimsical.


Have you any idea how toxic and carcinogenic it can be? Probably not :(

hissingnoise - 3-11-2011 at 08:11

Endogenous hydrazines + endogenous NOx = Spontaneous Human Combustion?
Lift off!


trezza - 3-11-2011 at 09:09

it sounds like something James Bond would do, serve the baddie a dish with his special mushrooms on it, wait an hour then shoot him in the stomach and blow up an entire room full of people.

Bot0nist - 3-11-2011 at 10:06

Quote: Originally posted by Adas  
Quote: Originally posted by Bot0nist  
What do you mean Adas? That WiN's style. He posts a litany of interesting articles for our reading pleasure.

I fail to see how he seems high or offensive. Did you read the article? I guess you could question the placement in energetics forum, but monomethylhydrazine is energetic, and the fact that we can synthesize it in our bodies in pretty interesting to me, though maybe a tad whimsical.


Have you any idea how toxic and carcinogenic it can be? Probably not :(



I wasn't implying that synthesizing MMH in your body would not be at your detriment, Adas. And it is of course not a good means to procure MMH, obviously. I was only pointing out that I found the fact that the toxic metabolite is energetic, and that is interesting IMO.

Besides, my post was more geared at expressing my opinion that you were derailing WiN's thread for no reason.

Adas - 3-11-2011 at 10:40

Okay, I am sorry ;)