Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20180507055000/@comment-28169398-20180509162104

Sirebel wrote:

Sunlight only disinfects water based pathogens, it has no effect on non-organic chemicals like lead or mercury. Whilst it is a good way to clean rainwater collected sensibly, it is not a good way to clean river water near industrial plants.

That's an old wive's tale if I have ever heard one.

Lakes and Oceans are filled with organisms that can be pathogenic to humans, and they are exposed to the Sun. Pathogens, which have evolved for millions to billions of years in sunlight are not "disinfected" by sunlight. The atmosphere filters out a huge amount of the Ultraviolet and Gamma Radiation that could actually act as a disinfectant... and it will do nothing for Prions.

The UV that we use for disinfection is high intensity (shortest wavelengths), which are able to cause breaks in DNA and crosslink DNA to Proteins, but I would still prefer autoclave treatment. And yes, sunlight is still harmful, but don't fool yourself into thinking it is a disinfectant for pathogens.

And this post has nothing to do with the topic (OMP is a hackfest circle jerk), but if you are going to make a claim about biology in your post that isn't accurate, then I will write one to point it out.