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Article #96Re: Walk on Mercury?
From: James Bielak
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:31
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:31
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In article <1992Jul30.142203.3437@nuchat.sccsi.com>, steve@nuchat.sccsi.com
(Steve Nuchia) writes:
|> Some years ago I saw a photo in National Geographic showing a
|> pool of mercury with two people floating on it. The article
|> was about some kind of mining operation (Silver?) in which
^^^^^^^
It was actually about the mercury mines in Spain (Almaden?). The participant(s)
were wearing no special protection, were just sitting in a huge tub of Hg,
sinking in at the butt maybe 3-4 inches....
Wonder if they're still around?
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Newsgroups: sci.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!inetg1!dbsjwb From: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM (James Bielak) Subject: Re: Walk on Mercury? Message-ID: <1992Jul30.193130.11457@Arco.COM> Originator: dbsjwb@doofus Sender: news@Arco.COM Reply-To: bielak@arco.com Organization: ARCO Exploration and Production Technology References: <1992Jul29.144611.23703@access.usask.ca> <1992Jul30.123759@sicsun.epfl.ch> <1992Jul30.142203.3437@nuchat.sccsi.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:31:30 GMT Lines: 18