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Inspirational. . Everyone was really suprised to learn that every cloud had gained an actual silver lining. Cloud Silver lining People took it as a sign... To e

Tags: OC | Alpacalypse | Silver linings

Everyone was really suprised to learn that every cloud had gained
an actual silver lining.
Cloud
Silver lining
People took it as a sign...
To express their love...
To Care more about others...
To be Happier...
More carefree.
of course scientist were baffled. But who cared?
People were more peaceful, Faithful and charitable.
For once everyone was happy because they knew...
Every cloud had a silver lining.
Cloud
Silver lining
Everyone was dead in a year.

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Submitted:	10/18/2015

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#2 - lollypopalopicus ONLINE (10/18/2015) [-]

Funny, I would have figured they would have tried harvesting it.

#1 - magiclizard ONLINE (10/18/2015) [-]

Well.
It is called "Quick"silver for a reason.

#7 - runescapewasgood (10/19/2015) [-]

dropped a +1 because it reminded me of civ 5

#8 to #7 - bestmofoevr [OP](10/19/2015) [-]

not gonna lie. that's where i got it from

#3 - craftyatom (10/19/2015) [-]

Mercury poisoning generally takes years to actually cause death, you'd start seeing the effects (losing hair/teeth, shivering, psychosis) in the first year, but it would probably take a while longer to actually die.

People throughout history have been exposed to mercury quite a lot (gold miners used to use it to melt gold out of rocks, of course this introduced gaseous mercury compounds into their surroundings), but it takes them years of constant exposure to actually outright die.

/uncalled for science

#4 to #3 - bestmofoevr [OP](10/19/2015) [-]

Mercury poisoning takes a variable amount of time based on amount/how fast it's absorbed.

At any given moment the atmosphere contains 37.5 million gallons of water. lets say the mercury lining on the clouds was 5% of the cloud. this means that's 1,875,000 gallons of mercury in the earths atmosphere. Enough to cover the earth in 1.27 millimeters of mercurial rain. That's not really quantifiable but this next thing is. The volume of earths atmosphere is about 4.2 billion cubic kilometers. An average 2.13% of that is water vapor. 5% of that is about 1%. this works out to 42 million cubic kilometers of mercury. A little math here and there and we get 135.34 grams per cubic meter. Gold miners are exposed to 1 micro gram of mercury per cubic meter according to this ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307864/. That is now, so lets take the days when it wasn't as safe and call it 10 micro grams (10X that amount.). 135.34 grams per cubic meters would be 135340000 micro grams per cubic meter, 13534000X the old timey gold miners dose. Not to mention the massive amount of mercury that is also in the earths oceans and rivers. I'm quite comfortable saying a year.

#5 to #4 - craftyatom (10/19/2015) [-]

Huh. I'm not quite sure the "atmospheric water vapor" statistic is a good one (I don't know how much of atmospheric water vapor is contained in clouds - of course, the comic said "silver lining on clouds", but it could well imply a number of things about the rest of earth's water), but that's still a lot more than I had expected.

Interesting.