Published: January 10th, 2013 at 12:21 pm ET
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Title: Neil Degrasse Tyson, Brian Redban
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience
Date: Jan 9, 2013
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At 1:48:00 in
Neil Degrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist: “It turns out hydrogen sulfide is extremely lethal, is one of the most lethal gases that exists.”
See also: Local TV: Poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide gas below giant Louisiana sinkhole (VIDEO)
At 52:05 in; Buckyballs
Fukushima study discussing buckyballs here: Journal: Unprecedented phenomenon from using saltwater in Fukushima reactors -- Forming new uranium compounds able to travel long distances... "like carbon buckyballs"
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Published: January 10th, 2013 at 12:21 pm ET
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What's with this fixation on Hydrogen Sulfide? It is present in just about every natural gas well in the Gulf. Some wells higher than others.
Natural gas clouds are deadly for all kinds of reasons. Flaring gives off a witch's brew of other toxic gasses. Does focusing on one single, fairly-easy-to-detect gas that's pretty much expected in Gulf gas wells serve some purpose other than scare-mongering?
Raw natural gas bubbling out of the bayou is bad for you, period. It's pointless to single out one (of many) lethal components and act like there is some kind of novel, distinct risk unrelated to the others. It does not separate out of the gas any different than the other dense, toxic gasses.
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It helps the average joe to focus on the most dangerous component in the conversation. Like pointing out how dangerous plutonium is, versus cesium. It's the plutonium that is killing off all life on this planet, not cesium. Well, the uranium is towards the top of that list, too.
There would be a lot less interest in Bayou Corne if most folks were just focused on escaping CO2. Ultimately they will learn all the components are bad for them. One at a time . . .
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"…It helps the average joe to focus on the most dangerous component in the conversation…"
It also helps distract the average joe from worrying about the active, uncontrolled natural gas formation blowout brewing three thousand feet deeper.
"A 900 psi fracked-out gas formation without a well bore, casing or head? Who cares. The mudslide and trees seem to have corked it up pretty good. At least Texas Brine has been forced to clean that DEADLY sulfur dioxide out before flaring. Go outside and play now, kids. It's marginally safer for you."
There must not be many oil workers that live around there. They would pee their pants if they understood the situation for what it is: a slow-motion uncontrolled blowout that seems to be plugged with mud for the time being. They would be well out of the parish before you could toss in any sour gas warning, threat of further salt dome collapse or NORM danger.
They are ALL insignificant considering the very real possibility of a few tens of millions of cubic feet of natural gas coming to visit you on the surface – all at once.
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bit off topic, but the discussion as to whether the US went to the moon was brought up by Joe and put to Neil. Joe displayed the video clip of the flag being disturbed as the astronaut passed in front of it. Neil was at a loss to explain this. I'd suggest that if you watch the video (see below), it was not air being displaced but rather, the electrostatic field between the flag and passing astronaut that caused this movement. You can do this with any static sensitive material and a charge source, like a nylon comb that's been rubbed several times against wool. All-in-all, it was as usual, a great Joe Rogan interview!
…back out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDRBCYp5-0&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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p.s. the discussion about the flag occurs at the 37 minutes marker…
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Hey, I'm fond of buckeyballs. You can capture and hold some really highly reactive compounds with very little chance of their escaping to react with other compounds. They're the ultimate chemical prison.
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how would you go about doing that?
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