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On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:41:33 -0500, Steve <bozone@ripco.com> wrote:

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>Professor Vonroach wrote:
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>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:51:28 -0500, Steve <bozone@ripco.com> wrote:
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>> >Ought it not be possible, with a large enough statistical sample, to
>> >generate a relevant graph of reported human perception as it relates to
>> >the detection of salt in water?
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>> You require that to decide that sea water is salty? Got a lot of time
>> on your hands? Looking for a project and some grant money?
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>I wasn't entirely serious, except in that I intended to show the folly
>of splitting hairs in this context.  The same method, applied to
>freshwater streams and lakes, would yield a graph indicating that they
>were "not salty."  "Salty" is a sense experience, which may or may not
>overlap with other means of detecting the presence of salt.

Salty is an individual unique sensory experience that may or may not
over lap with the experience of  other individuals. By the sea is
salty, I implied only that others have analysed its salt content and
decided this was so, and proceeded on that basis to use it for
industrial purposes - a successful venture. The extraction of the
salts encountered to render `seawater' potable to a large population
in an economic manner has not been as successful to date. Also fish
that live in the sea differ from those found in other bodies of water
in important ways that may influence their survival. We carry the
salty water necessary to our survival within our bodies as a reminder
of our original home.
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>Why do I get the distinct impression that, at some point, you were the
>victim of an unscrewed shaker?

In humid climates that can usually be avoided by the addition of rice
grains to the salt. Pepper shakers with the small orifices are a much
bigger problem in this regard.