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[Eugenitor]

DMSA does that: chelates mercury into a state that is easier to remove from the body.

Dwarves, with their enormous and vastly superior livers, don't need to worry about it.

[Capntastic]

There was a poster who had a very large and interesting suggestion to basically turn Dwarves into some non-anthropomorphic creature that only vaguely resembles a little bearded man.   Their skeletons were reinforced with whatever metals their 'beard' sucked in, etc, so they'd be made of adamantine if they worked around it long enough.   It was impractical for the game, of course, but still had some cool ideas.

[Salabasama]

There was a poster who had a very large and interesting suggestion to basically turn Dwarves into some non-anthropomorphic creature that only vaguely resembles a little bearded man.   Their skeletons were reinforced with whatever metals their 'beard' sucked in, etc, so they'd be made of adamantine if they worked around it long enough.   It was impractical for the game, of course, but still had some cool ideas.

To tie all that back to the topic, the coal miners would track coal dust all over the fort, resulting in most dwarves having coal laced bones.  Fun.

[Ratbert_CP]

There was a poster who had a very large and interesting suggestion to basically turn Dwarves into some non-anthropomorphic creature that only vaguely resembles a little bearded man.   Their skeletons were reinforced with whatever metals their 'beard' sucked in, etc, so they'd be made of adamantine if they worked around it long enough.   It was impractical for the game, of course, but still had some cool ideas.

To tie all that back to the topic, the coal miners would track coal dust all over the fort, resulting in most dwarves having coal laced bones.  Fun.

Good funerary pyres...

[Sensei]

Maybe this belongs in suggestions.

[Noble Digger]

There was a poster who had a very large and interesting suggestion to basically turn Dwarves into some non-anthropomorphic creature that only vaguely resembles a little bearded man.   Their skeletons were reinforced with whatever metals their 'beard' sucked in, etc, so they'd be made of adamantine if they worked around it long enough.   It was impractical for the game, of course, but still had some cool ideas.

I also like the idea of the beard having its own sentience and hunger for microcline dust, or whatever else you'd rather not have in your fort. Imagine it gobbling up pebbles like the many-tendriled FSM of yore.

[godisdead132]

the cocept of a self advancing organisim that adapts to is environment by utilizing local materials in a very interesting concept that is actualy utilized somewhat in nature like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod this many other examples probobly exist but are as of yet unknown

[0x517A5D]

I also read that the amount of CO2 being ejected by that one volcano in Greenland (or was it iceland?) is ejecting many times more CO2 than the entire human race and all of its mistakes combined. Is this true, in your opinion?

Not true.  False.

Volcanos: 200,000,000 metric tons of CO₂ per year.
Human activity: 26,800,000,000 metric tons of CO₂ per year.

Comparison: less than one percent.

Source: USGS Hawai'i.  See also ↑2, ↑3 for some actual logical thinking about the proposition.

I swear, sometimes I believe there is an actual conspiracy to deny global warming.

[breadbocks]

Edit:  Dwarves' stats should be based on blood levels of various poisonous heavy metals.

Salt, Pepper, Ketchup, Uranium..

Mercury, Plutonium, Jaywalking...

Interesting, I know that the major problem with heavy metal ions is that they are too large to pass through some of a body's filtration membranes, thus they collect in very important organs like the liver, kidneys, etc. Many people who have suffered advanced mercury poisoning are in such a detestable state, and as far as I know, medical science can do nothing to help them due to the compartmental nature of these organs. If there were some way to cause the body to treat these toxins as a building material, say, by introducing a protein which catalyzes or chelates them into a handleable molecule and allows macro-transport out of the body somehow (when a macrophage is 'full' does it die, or how does it make its way out as waste? Do they bypass selectively-permeable membranes in this process? Are they simply re-eaten by other macrophages? How does this result in a net reduction of toxic content?) Imagine if we could chelate mercury(I) ions with a large number of iron atoms or keratin grains, such that they would form nodules that could be mechanically removed, even if at the cost of a small percentage of healthy liver tissue?

I think we are too busy trying to get theta defensins(silly spellcheck!) to activate at birth to figure out how to stop our slow path to earth having all red/cyan wounds.

[Noble Digger]

I also read that the amount of CO2 being ejected by that one volcano in Greenland (or was it iceland?) is ejecting many times more CO2 than the entire human race and all of its mistakes combined. Is this true, in your opinion?

Not true.  False.

Volcanos: 200,000,000 metric tons of CO₂ per year.
Human activity: 26,800,000,000 metric tons of CO₂ per year.

Comparison: less than one percent.

Source: USGS Hawai'i.  See also ↑2, ↑3 for some actual logical thinking about the proposition.

I swear, sometimes I believe there is an actual conspiracy to deny global warming.

Oh dear. I am suddenly awash in the feeling that conservatives have been lying to me... Again.

[Ratbert_CP]

Oh dear. I am suddenly awash in the feeling that conservatives have been lying to me... Again.

The Liberals lie, too (I'm one, but I try not to intentionally misinform anyone)...

[breadbocks]

So does Obama. Now that that has been said, [FLAME_WAR].