Alright, well, the main article on Sirens of Titan turned out not to have anything about the harmoniums. But this will do.

I knew it! The harmoniums are real!

Urine? Well, yes, but also the feces and the nasty water from industry. As someone has pointed out already, if your WTP collects from the river, you are already drinking treated sewage water.

At our plant, we have a water reclamation facility at the end of our process, the same type of facility used at the water treatment plant upstream. A WRF is common, iirc, in CA, but is, afaik, the first of its kind here in MN. It is far more common to discharge without the additional filtering and contaminant removal provided by a WRF.

The water we discharge is tested biweekly for ammonia and phosphorus and daily for total coliforms and biological oxygen demand. Ammonia and coliforms are non-detectable ~99% of the time. We are doing a very good job turning sewage into drinking water for the next town on the river.

/lab intern at a WWTP

Your logic is bad and you should feel bad!

I enjoyed this post quite a lot. Kudos. Also, maybe you should find someone to drive you to the hospital

Don't worry. The researchers have asked the colony for volunteers. All paramecia you see are in the game of their own free will

As a chemistry undergrad currently studying physical chemistry...

He holds the liquid gold at 1127C. It would take an approximate pressure of 2.1 * 10^-7 atm for liquid gold to boil at 1127C. Now, it strikes me as very unlikely that he is using a close-to-perfect vacuum for this, especially since running any vacuum at all will encourage evaporation, but without further data, who knows, right?

Gender is between your ears. That said, the request for ggp to change their sig is moronic. It's a joke

You're working in the 70s? Aren't wages much lower? Why don't you invest in Apple, Microsoft, or IBM instead?

Oh, won't somebody PLEASE think of the lab mice??

I neglected 'small amounts' as being journalistically synonymous with 'trace amounts'.

How about when the huge ball of intensely hot plasma falls into the water at the end without producing even a hint of steam? Great science in that movie

My mom, between Waterville and Faribault, saw a piece falling and called me. Said it was coming down, not across. Pretty cool. I don't think she's up for hunting it down, though.

If we take 'universe' here to mean Earth, then I think pulsars are excluded anyway.

If autotune is just a function applied to a waveform, then an inverse function should be possible. Probably a fucking difficult thing to do, though, since most autotune I hear makes pitch changes abrupt (ie, the function is not continuous; a piecewise function. That sure makes a mess of things)

//IANA mathematician or acoustician etc