06-26-2020, 10:45 PM
(06-24-2020, 04:25 PM)TheRedneck Wrote:(06-24-2020, 08:56 AM)Ninurta Wrote: What I'm studying up on is production of nicotine from grown tobacco.
We will make it entirely from scratch if push comes to shove comes to gunshots.
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Be careful... nicotine is a deadly poison. Rememer the stories of the African pygmies with poison-tipped arrows? That was nicotine. In extremely low doses it replaces acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter and relaxes the nervous system while also constricting capillaries, causing the heart to pump harder and giving a short spike in blood pressure. In higher doses, it shuts down the nervous system and closes off blood flow entirely.
Of course, that means if I am ever shot by African pygmies with poison arrows, I'll just get a mild nicotine rush.
TheRedneck
Oh, I'm aware. I may or may not have once upon a time been acquainted with folk who would mix it with a particular substance available at veterinary supply houses and paint the resulting mixture on objects folks would handle. The veterinary substance caused the nicotine to be transported through the skin and into the bloodstream, with pretty negative results for the individual - it don't really take much at all.
Then again, my vape juice is mixed at a whopping 50 mg/ml, so I may be immune by now...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’