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The first Wikipedia page is about fringe organisms which live in hot water and die in cold water. Arsenic is in all unfiltered water. You'd have to dig a well
by Flankk 17y ago
The first Wikipedia page is about fringe organisms which live in hot water and die in cold water.
Arsenic is in all unfiltered water. You'd have to dig a well to get a high enough level of arsenic to poison yourself.
It is extremely unlikely you'll get sick from drinking boiled water taken from a stream. Sure, nothing is proof of safety. You could distill pure water and then accidently inhale some of it and dry drown.
- davidw 17y agoIt's a lot more likely you'll die if you avoid drinking water. What's this got to do with HN, in any case? 'Survival skills' for hackers is probably more akin to having to cook for yourself if the local pizza/mexican/chinese/whatever place is closed (to play on a stereotype; plenty of hackers are good cooks).
- anamax 17y ago> You'd have to dig a well to get a high enough level of arsenic to poison yourself. Not so fast. Acute poisoning from above-ground sources may be unlikely, but chronic isn't unknown. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs210/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs210/en/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_contamination_of_groundwater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_contamination_of_ground...