"Can't we just for once not get along. " RODNEY KING in a Feng Shui moment
sharon soderquist
sharonsod at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 11 07:35:56 CDT 1997
"Feign Shui, literally means wind and water." Come on guys.
" Well, I'll be a four horned Brahma!"
Another_ ZEN Mojo_ rehash that sounds suitable for conning computer programmers
out of their Mortal Shells.
"Can't we just for once not get along. " RODNEY KING in a Feng Shui moment
Light / Dark UP/DOWN?LEFT?RIGHT<>|+_~
OHH ! The duality of it all. Since we are all in it, in the all together
..(Finnigan's WAke .HCE etc.. .
We probably didn't realize how much we do get recycled.
I thought I would send this piece from _New Scientist_along. (MAY 18, 96 )
We are all polymers in the eyes of an organic chemist... from ICE9 to IMPOLEX
G.
" Oh, tidings of complex rehydration and Joy!."
QUESTION : Is it true that every time we take a breath
of air or swallow a mouthful of water, we
consume some of the atoms breathed or
swallowed by Leonardo da Vinci.
ANSWER: We do indeed breathe in a considerable
number of molecules that once passed through
Leonardo's lungs and, unfortunately, Adolf Hitler's
or anyone else's for that matter. The calculation is
not too difficult and is as follows:
The total mass of the Earth's atmosphere is about
5^1021 grams. If we take air to be a mixture of
about four molecules of nitrogen to one of oxygen,
the mass of 1 mole of air will be about 28.8 grams.
One mole of any substance contains about 6^1023
molecules. So there are about 1.04^1044 molecules
in the Earth's atmosphere.
A single mole of any gas at body temperature and
atmospheric pressure has a volume of about 25.4
litres. The volume of air breathed in or out in the
average human breath is about 1 litre. So we can
assume that Leonardo da Vinci, in one breath,
breathed out about 2.4^1022 molecules.
The average human takes, say, 25 breaths per
minute, so during his 45-year lifetime (1452 to
1519) Leonardo would have breathed out about
2.1^1031 molecules. So, about 1 molecule in every
5^1012 molecules in the atmosphere was breathed
out by Leonardo da Vinci.
However, as we breathe in about 2.4^1022
molecules with each breath, there is a pretty good
chance we breathe in about 4.3^109 molecules that
Leonardo breathed out. In fact, you can also show
in a similar way that you probably breathe in about
5 molecules that he breathed out in his dying gasp.
Of course, there are some pretty crude assumptions
involved here in order to arrive at the conclusion.
We assume that there has been a good mixing of
Leonardo's molecules with the rest of the
atmosphere (quite likely in 500 years), that he didn't
recycle some of his own molecules, and there is no
loss from the atmosphere due to later users,
combustion, nitrogen, fixation and so on. But there
is still scope for a considerable loss of molecules
without it affecting the main point of the calculation.
By knowing that the number of molecules in the
hydrosphere is 5.7^1046 molecules, similar
calculations can be made for water. These show
that a mouthful of liquid contains about 18^106
molecules that passed through Leonardo during his
lifetime. So, in addition to breathing in his breath,
there is also a pretty good chance of picking up
some of Leonardo's urine in every glass of water
that you drink.
Another question for the Easter season:
Is how much water that was through Christ,
is in your glass of wine ?
This also means all the water on earth has gone
through the Holistic dilution process with all the poisons
leaving and imprinting its mysterious energy (10 times juicer than
Willy Reich's ORGONE ) and we should be already cured of
everything already.....
"You bet your Bond Angles"....
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