Should dihydrogen monoxide be banned?

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Greebe
But Zokes, your avatar would go flat!

For the love of boobies I can't have that happen!!!

Oh well, just disredard my last post then.

[Tjalfe]

I am personally addicted..darn stuff that H2O

[VJ]

Can we say : banned for some (morons), legal for other people...?


Jörg

[Ribbit]

I think it should be a controlled substance which only I have access to.

[ZokesPro]

I have a big dihydrogen monoxide addiction. Parents accidentally gave me some when i was born, been addicted since. Can't seem to kick it either, everything I consume has some in it!! ARG!!!

[DGhost]

Ban it! Ban it!

(i would like to point out that this is a rather... old... thing)

[ZokesPro]

@DGhost: No no no! Banning it won't solve a thing. We should build a mega space ship and point it directly at the sun, that'll solve that for good.

[Jon P. Inghram]

I don't think it should be banned right away, people have become too dependant upon DHMO. IMHO, it should instead be slowly phased out of use to give people time to adapt to it's loss, and to find a replacement universal solvent.

Did you also know that DHMO and it's alloys are common even in the crust and mantle of the Earth, and that it's presence significantly lowers the melting point of minerals which in turn gives rise to increased volcanic activity? DHMO, along with doubly oxidized carbon, are the primary volatiles that drive virtually all of the worlds dangerous volcanoes.

[Paddy]

Amanita phalloides?

I had something distinctly more hopish in mind

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
Amanita phalloides?

What is the world's most dangerous mushroom?

[Helevitia]

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/dhmo.htm

Update: In March 2004 the California municipality of Aliso Viejo (a suburb in Orange County) came within a cat's whisker of falling for this hoax after a paralegal there convinced city officials of the danger posed by this chemical. The leg-pull got so far as a vote having been scheduled for the City Council on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events because (among other things) they were made with DHMO, a substance that could "threaten human health and safety."

[gt40]

which just re-affirms my belief that politicians are basically clue-less.

[cjolley]

I voted while sitting in a
STarbucks on I35 stuck in
Gainsville Texas by a bad thunderstorm.
I think that may have affected my answer.
Chuck

[spadnos]

Perhaps it should be patented instead.

- Steve

[Brian Ellis]

Talking of hoaxes, I put up a spoof page on salt at http://www.bnellis.com/msc/ with an MSDS at http://www.bnellis.com/msc/MSC_MSDS.htm, several years ago. Word must have got around; a few days later I received an e-mail from a well-known international eco-political NGO, informing me that they were forwarding the information to their scientific committee with a view that action be taken to ban it. Needless to say, I heard nothing more, but I bet the scientific committee had a damn good laugh!