Can we benefit from drinking seawater? Water expert Robert Slovak says “Yes!” Robert is a mechanical, aeronautical, and astronautical engineer best known for his decades of research, exploring a variety of waters: hydrogen-rich water, deuterium depleted water (DDW), and seawater.
Today, Robert focuses on seawater, a world-famous medicine, hidden in plain sight. For most of the twentieth century, seawater was considered a medicine. It was even imported and used to treat tuberculosis in children’s hospitals in the USA.
Robert makes a case for including seawater in our diets today, because of its mineral-rich composition, noting that it is the only aqueous solution that contains the entire periodic table! Robert explains how to get the therapeutic benefits: he covers the amount we should drink, and where it should be sourced.
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…There’s a reason why experienced sailors, let alone actual doctors, would tell you NOT to drink seawater, even when stranded and dehydrated. Moron.
Drink seawater then, Bob.
It's not just your kidneys' funeral.
the only aqueous solution that contains the entire periodic table!
Okay. Extract from seawater Plutonium and Americium.
We'll wait: but can your 'argument'...?!
noting that it is the only aqueous solution that contains the entire periodic table!
Oh yeah, I really wanna drink some that yummy uh….Seaborgium! (I don’t even know if that would be good for you or not, though I’m guessing not, lol, just looked at the periodic table and picked out one of the more obscure ones, lol)
Good on ya, then. It sounds crazy, sailors in Coleridge’s day had a FAR better idea than you, as do I merely from surfing.
Water, water, every where,
Mind you, IF I was ever marooned like sailors back then, I would make a damn good attempt at distilling seawater, over a campfire, the steam would become fresh water.
No...no it does not contain the entire periodic table. The salt in it dehydrates you more, and finally, the ocean is a really salty, weak, tea.
Like, ya know, have you actually been swimming in the ocean somewhere and actually got an accidental mouthful of saltwater? That kinda ain't a bunch of fun, to be honest.
@Citizen_Justin #90976
I mean, if you wanna do it as a kink, fine, just don’t pretend it’s something healthy, lol
it is the only aqueous solution that contains the entire periodic table
So, where are Technetium and the transuranians in saltwater? And I’m sure there’s harmful elements such as quicksilver and lead which aren’t good for organisms.
Finally, there’s a reason why seamen devoted large parts of their ships to fresh water and why desert nations need specific machines to turn saltwater to drinkable water.
"...noting that it is the only aqueous solution that contains the entire periodic table!"
Why would anyone consider this a selling point, even if it were true?
@TheKingOfRhye #90949
Nah, Seaborgium is a perfect choice–it doesn’t exist in nature; it has to be created in nuclear accelerators, only very small quantities ever exist, and the most stable isotope known has a half-life of 14 minutes so it’s radioactive as hell.
Yeah, sure, that’s gonna be in your sea water, Bobby.
@Titania , @JeanP
...and even in life rafts there is equipment provided in the survival kit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still#Seawater_still
In 1952, the United States military developed a portable solar still for pilots stranded on the ocean, which comprises an inflatable 610-millimetre (24 in) plastic ball that floats on the ocean, with a flexible tube coming out the side. A separate plastic bag hangs from attachment points on the outer bag. Seawater is poured into the inner bag from an opening in the ball's neck. Fresh water is taken out by the pilot using the side tube that leads to bottom of the inflatable ball. It was stated in magazine articles that on a good day 2.4 litres (2.5 US qt) of fresh water could be produced. On an overcast day, 1.4 litres (1.5 US qt) was produced. Similar sea water stills are included in some life raft survival kits, though manual reverse osmosis desalinators have mostly replaced them
I'd like to see the OP stranded out in the middle of the Pacific to see how long he'd survive without using said still or desalinator: for he knows what he would be admitting should he do anything other than drink what already exists around him: and the effects doing so for a long duration would have on him.
Remember the golden rule that survival expert Bear Grylls always emphasises: the human body can survive up to three weeks without food. But only three days without Water: as in Clean .
How long on purely that salty stuff, Bobby-boy...?!
You know what you'll be further admitting every second you're not proving said former SAS reservist & Chief Scout wrong.
Lead, radium, mercury, thallium, arsenic and tantalum are all parts of the periodic table. Perfectly natural. Also, lethal in any quantity.
That isn’t much of a selling point.
Or, ya know, you could just add a bit of sea salt to your food? Sure, it’s processed a little bit, but at least you won’t have to worry about it being full of live microorganisms. Just saying.
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