Saturday, May 20, 2006
Odd story from a few years back
Well nothing much else happened today, work, home, shower, pick up moms, shop for clothes, lunch at Montana's, drop off Moms, more shopping, home. But....
I was thinking a few days back about a product that came out, over ten years ago with quite a few uses. I don't remember the name, but it was a crystal, that could absorb something like 1000 times it's weight in water, the crystal would look kinda like a clear clingy type of jello and even more interesting it would not give up this water. I saw this on some science show or CNN years back.
Some time later I was at a bar in Disney World's Pleasure island, and I watched a magic trick performed in front of me by a bartender.
He took a paper cup, and told me to watch it carefully, he then pored in about a 1/2 cup of water and asked me "where was the water?" Well I pointed at the cup, and said "it's there." He asked me "are you sure?". "yep" I answered. Then he picked up the cup and flung the open end at me. I tried to duck out of the way... But no water came out. Pretty neat trick. I noticed that when he drop the cup into the trash can that there was a heavyish "thunk" when the cup hit the bottom.
A few days later I ended up in a magic shop and had the same product demonstrated to my, the owner of the shop was telling me about these crystals that could absorb water. There I put 2 & 2 together and figured that this was that product I saw on that science show a while back. Pretty neat.
Well some time later one of those diapers companies came out with a new "leak proof" diaper, I can't remember which company. Again I figured, well this must be another use of these crystals.
A year or two later I read in a Fire magazine, that an small American town, somewhere on the east coast had a hazmat problem. From nowhere, a large pile of white trash appeared with a very high level of amonia smell coming off of it. People were a bit confused what this pile of trash was, and even more stumped where it came from. It just appeared overnight. Well once again I figured that this was another byproduct of these crystals, now in diapers, totally absorbing the urine. Never did find out where they disposed of that.
Well, thats about it.... just a bunch of strange facts and occurances that I happened to have (or noticed).
Have a great weekend.
Ian
I was thinking a few days back about a product that came out, over ten years ago with quite a few uses. I don't remember the name, but it was a crystal, that could absorb something like 1000 times it's weight in water, the crystal would look kinda like a clear clingy type of jello and even more interesting it would not give up this water. I saw this on some science show or CNN years back.
Some time later I was at a bar in Disney World's Pleasure island, and I watched a magic trick performed in front of me by a bartender.
He took a paper cup, and told me to watch it carefully, he then pored in about a 1/2 cup of water and asked me "where was the water?" Well I pointed at the cup, and said "it's there." He asked me "are you sure?". "yep" I answered. Then he picked up the cup and flung the open end at me. I tried to duck out of the way... But no water came out. Pretty neat trick. I noticed that when he drop the cup into the trash can that there was a heavyish "thunk" when the cup hit the bottom.
A few days later I ended up in a magic shop and had the same product demonstrated to my, the owner of the shop was telling me about these crystals that could absorb water. There I put 2 & 2 together and figured that this was that product I saw on that science show a while back. Pretty neat.
Well some time later one of those diapers companies came out with a new "leak proof" diaper, I can't remember which company. Again I figured, well this must be another use of these crystals.
A year or two later I read in a Fire magazine, that an small American town, somewhere on the east coast had a hazmat problem. From nowhere, a large pile of white trash appeared with a very high level of amonia smell coming off of it. People were a bit confused what this pile of trash was, and even more stumped where it came from. It just appeared overnight. Well once again I figured that this was another byproduct of these crystals, now in diapers, totally absorbing the urine. Never did find out where they disposed of that.
Well, thats about it.... just a bunch of strange facts and occurances that I happened to have (or noticed).
Have a great weekend.
Ian
