Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20180507055000/@comment-28169398-20180509201215

Sirebel wrote: Amrosa wrote: 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.

Hulk (mis)quoted a saying "Sunlight is the best disinfectant". It is basically the premise behind the fourth estate. Publicity is the best way to root out corruption. Solar Water Disinfection is also a real way to sterilise water in developing countries. Shock horror at the scientific evidence.

So I deliberately took what Hulk said literally and pointed out that whilst it works in developing countries, it doesn't work in industrialised nations where pollutants are man made and not just organic.

Now, if you have managed to follow all of this you might imagine that what I was saying is that in our modern world, the fourth estate is no longer holding those in power to account by shining lights on their dark secrets and is instead working hand in hand with them to protect the powerful. Imagine thinking Sean Hannity was an impartial interviewer of Rudy Giuliani about Micheal Cohen when Sean Hannity was recently revealed as one of Cohen's clients. Shocking that this goes almost without comment by the rest of the press.

At least you understood the next extrapolation that Hulk made and correctly pointed out how the internet is no longer the last bastion of hope. You are giving me a wikipedia article as evidence? You drink it and have fun with the dysentery you get.

I would take this https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/solardisinfection.html, but if you read a little bit the four randomized controls only had reductions of 9-86% in diarrheal diseases... better than dying of thirst, but I wouldn't say this is ideal especially if you are one of the 91-14% that get a diarrheal disease, especially infants and the elderly.

And if you read in between the lines, you are simply reducing the load and keeping your fingers crossed that the host immune system can combat the stuff that was hardy enough to survive.