Posted on 08/17/2023 6:56:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Maya... were entranced by elemental mercury as well as its vermillion-hued offspring, mercury sulfide, also known as cinnabar.
Cinnabar is by far the most prevalent of the two compounds in the archaeological record. Archaeologists have unearthed numerous artifacts made of it and turned up evidence that the Maya extensively used cinnabar-based paints.
Pure elemental mercury is a rarer find, usually linked with ritual caches or elite burials. One of the most dazzling discoveries was a bulbous vessel retrieved from an underwater site in Guatemala holding as much as 500 cubic centimeters of elemental mercury.
The wide presence of the toxic element appears to have seriously contaminated many Maya sites...
Could Maya citizens have been subtly sickened by pervasive mercury poisoning, much the way that leaded gasoline blunted the IQs of tens of millions of Americans before it was phased out? It’s certainly possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigthink.com ...
The Mayans dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm.
They were mining it for more advanced beings. Gold and Mercury both.
What do contemporary Americans blame for the downfall of the USA? Cocaine? Fentanyl? Heroin? Racism? Political corruption? The luxurious lifestyle provided for them by their ancestors?
Whatever it is, the basic cause is a moral failure of the American People.
Contemporary Americans are 100% to blame for the destruction of America and the priceless inheritance bequeathed them by their forefathers.
Contemporary Americans have all the resources their ancestors had and could restore all the promise of America and the American Dream. All they need is the courage and moral strength. Can they muster that? Time will tell.
Sometimes I think Washington is awash in mercury.
Vermillion Pigment -
Vermillion Flycatcher -
Vermillion Starfish -
Vermillion Peak - in the San Juan Range, and is the 74th highest mountain in Colorado. -
Vermillion Abstract - artwork. -
Vermillion Dusk - more art. -
Cinnabar / Cinnabarite / Mercury Sulfide -
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Et-cetera.
Thank God for the Spanish Conquistadors. For having wipes out the evil Aztecs and Incas. Viva Espana.
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May have. Maybe. Kind of sort of, Perhaps. Could have.
''...a bulbous vessel retrieved from an underwater site in Guatemala holding as much as 500 cubic centimeters of elemental mercury..."
We used to play with it as kids. Use it in high school labs. Really need that adjective, bulbous. Helps. As to "as much as," a lovely kind of sort of. As to 500 cubic centimeters, sounds like a lot! Right? That's a bit more than a pint. Today, online, about $100 worth, delivered to your home or classroom....
Source: https://www.grainger.com/product/8ZL32?gucid=N:N:PS:Paid:GGL:CSM-2295:4P7A1P:20501231
If I had vermillion dollars, I’d buy you a fur coat.
But not a real fur coat, that’s cruel.
Be sure to mix some in with the punch at your next party.
“much the way that leaded gasoline blunted the IQs of tens of millions of Americans before it was phased out? “
What is the excuse now for all the blunted IQ Americans?
Climate change? Mistreatment of the protected class? Not enough money spent on government K-12 schools?
Mercury made great switch contacts. I use to rob the glass vials from old mercury switches and put the mercury in a glass bottle. Fun stuff.
Maybe the Aztec , Mayans, and Olmecs were “mad as hatters” and couldn’t fight. Let’s see, Rome was destroyed by lead, ancient Mexico by mercury, China destroyed by opium. Is the U.S. going to be destroyed by unmitigated accrual of opulence(love of gold and pleasure)?
“Blunts” dood it. A slang term for marijuana cig. Maybe marijuana(if abused) will be our downfall.
“We used to play with it as kids. Use it in high school labs. Really need that adjective, bulbous. Helps. As to “as much as,” a lovely kind of sort of. As to 500 cubic centimeters, sounds like a lot! Right? That’s a bit more than a pint. Today, online, about $100 worth, delivered to your home or classroom....”
Had a friend who grew up around the great lakes. He was telling me that there were small streams of it running out of the hills into the lakes.
I don’t know if it is true or not because of the constant environmental “one size fits all” narrative and brainwashing, but someone once told me it is only mercury in a certain type of state that is poisonous? The mercury we played with was not that harmful.
It must be in an engineer's / scientist's DNA. Non-eroding contacts. We too did that and similar things. Cheers!
Available in minis... https://www.amazon.com/Midzooparts-Mercury-Switch-Sensor-Unidirectional/dp/B09P47DY3C/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Mercury+Switch&sr=8-3
And metal-wrapped... https://www.newark.com/durakool/4859/tilt-switch/dp/99F5659
An unnecessary and snide remark.
--- "Mercury is found at varying levels (0 - 2 µg/L) throughout North Carolina. Only 0.03% of wells sampled for mercury in North Carolina from 2018- 2019 exceeded the state standard (1 µg/L). "
Source: https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/oee/docs/Mercury_WellWaterFactSt.pdf
Of course, there are pollutants in our environment, but generally we in the US are in a better situation today than in decades past. Excepting one great pollutant. Government.
Thinking of "lead in paint chips" and small children versus the situation of small children in Democrat-led inner cities today, I'd pick paint chips over being shot at.
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