Petition to ban Dihdrogen Monoxide (H2O) Video from Penn and Teller

[waynesan]

Those of you who have seen the Penn and Teller gun control video know how funny and entertaining these guys can be. I ran across this one today. They sent someone to an environmental rally to collect signitures to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide ( the chemical name for water ). Its only about 4 minutes long but shows how easily people ( including us ) can be manipulated into doing/believing something before we stop to think it through.

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[Marswolf]

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the unstable radical Hydroxide, the components of which are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.

See http://www.dhmo.org/

[Guest Hyaloid]

Those guys are the best.

[Guest Len]

Too funny. I wonder how many people are out there right now worrying about overdosing on H2O?

Dang, I have some in my fridge, I better hide it before the anti-H2O crowd gets their way!

[Guest Hyaloid]

Too funny. I wonder how many people are out there right now worrying about overdosing on H2O?

Dang, I have some in my fridge, I better hide it before the anti-H2O crowd gets their way!

Water Poisoning/Intoxication

[Guest CrazyLincoln]

My chemistry teacher pulled this one on us as a joke in high school. I was cracking up while the sheeple in the class were like "this is a serious issue". Critical thinking gets you a good laugh once in a while...