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[at-l] Re: What's upstream...
- Subject: [at-l] Re: What's upstream...
- From: "David F. Addleton" <dfaddleton@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:49:43 -0400
Don't want to start a flame here .... but it turns out that most critters don't need boiling water for their complete destruction ... and most of what's left our immune system, provided it's in appropriate shape, can deal with ...
that boil for 20 minutes stuff i learned in the third world deals, for the most part, with some very difficult spores and the like.
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On 6/27/00 at 4:30 PM ThatSloetoe wrote:
>--- Coosa <coosa@fox21.net> wrote: back on the 16th of June!!!
>> Sloey, say what you will, I'm filtering.
>> Little story. I was hiking the AT in Va many moons ago (like I weighed
>what
>> the Insurance Co's said I should) and met a backpacker who was sitting
>> beside a stream heating water on his stove (Svea, I think). He got it warm
>> enough for his drink, but not nearly boiling, and sat and talked to me for
>a
>> few. Then he went on, as did I. Up around the next switchback, which
>> crossed the same stream, we found a dead slightly bloated deer laying in
>the
>> stream -- upstream from where he had warmed his water. The backpacker lost
>> his lunch in short order, and I left him quickly, so that he could regain
>> his dignity.
>> I'm filtering, Toedie, I'm filtering and remembering that dead deer,
>> I can still recall the odor, Coosa
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----from da Toedie
>> >Now where does all that [effluent regulation] leave the unfiltered water
>> consumed on the AT before
>> >say 1990, to where we are now? You're safer now than you've ever been.
>> >Doesn't mean you won't get sick. It DOES mean it's less likely than
>> before, when nobody "knew better."
>> >In health, >Sloetoe
>
>And today, Sloetoe further expounds (Oh Jeez!):
>Pound for pound, Coosa, there's much more death and decay from the animals
>you can't see -- from mice, voles, dropping birds, (bird droppings!), and the
>biggest single contributing category, by number, species, AND BY WEIGHT being
>...
>insects. Just think about the workaday earthworm: most soil, including that
>which we think "filters" nice clean water is, in fact, worm poop. A bloated
>deer carcus, while not particularly appetizing, is the least of your worries.
>A stream collects, by construction, all that happens upstream.
>
>Now, aren't you glad you head to the woods?
>Sloetoe
>"Spreading discomfort through knowledge."
>
>
>=====
>"The tragedy of man is not that a man dies,
> but what dies within a man while he's still alive."
>
> Mind your soul.
>
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