OK, I don't mind looking foolish once in a while.
I guess it goes to show
how much I do not know.
Thanks for taking the time to respond!
(Time to go hunt down my brother...)
Jack
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Jack,
This is a myth on the same level as "Coke Cola has ACID is it and
drinking it will eat out your stomach and teeth" (see www.snopes.com).
It is true that a penny placed in a glass of Coke will become etched by
the citric acid, and it is also true that placing a penny in a glass of
orange juice will etch it faster. It is also true that if you overdose
on citric acid (by drinking too much orange juice), it will kill you.
That does NOT mean drinking three or four glasses of orange juice a day
will harm you in any way! (I won't make that claim for Coke. Too many
confounding factors!)
If you spit into that "pure" water, it won't be pure any more, now will
it. I'd like to see you get pure water into your stomach without
getting saliva in it. As a point of reference, all nuclear powered
vessels (submarines and aircraft carriers) get ALL of their drinking
water through distillation. Carriers also supply fresh (distilled)
water to the rest of the battle fleet. That's a lot of sailors
consistently drinking "pure" water for their 6 month tour at sea over
the last 50 years! Amazingly, I know of several retired sailors who
have survived the pure water ordeal and lived to tell about it.
Ryan
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack C. Olson
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:31 PM
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Ok, don't laugh at me if I have been decieved,
but this conversation reminds me of something
my brother told me, and I don't know how to
prove if it is true or not.
He said if you drank pure water consistently,
it would eventually kill you.
Sounds weird, but his reasoning is that water
is a powerful solvent, and the reason tap water
doesn't do too much is because it already has
so much "stuff" in it. If you drank PURE water
it would keep leaching minerals and "stuff"
from your body and you'd DIE.
For the record, I have learned that my brother
is not always right... <grin>
bunk?
(or debunk?)
Jack (aka "the gullible guy")
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