no laughing matter: pissing in the pool may actually be more than just gross
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[quote]Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has admitted to doing it, saying “chlorine kills it, so it’s not bad.” Peeing in the pool is inarguably a gross habit, but now science is telling us that it’s also harmful to our health.
A new study says chlorine doesn’t, in fact, kill the contents of our urine, but rather reacts with it to create potentially dangerous byproducts. The research, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, used a technique called membrane introduction mass spectrometry to measure the presence of dangerous byproducts in pools. Uric acid from human urine mixes with chlorine to create the cyanogen chloride (CNCI) and trichloramine (NCl3). CNCI is a toxic compound that can harm organs like the lungs, heart, and central nervous system. NCl3 has been linked with acute lung injury.[/quote]
[url=http://time.com/45424/no-its-not-safe-to-pee-in-the-pool-says-science]source[/url]
turns out South Park was right after all
well it IS waste
so is peeing in the pool chemical terrorism
are we gonna have al-queda pissing squads invading water parks
Peeing in the pool is stinkin like. It's ok todo it in the sea, if you're quite far out + away from people.
If i seen someone just piss near someone though, I'd definitely call them out on it.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44429248]This is why you put in that pool solution that turns urine blue
and to embarrass the assailant of course[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.vulture.com/2010/06/is_there_actually_a_swimming_p.html[/url]
No need for caps in that title I see.
So is shitting in the pool still okay?
Maybe we should stop adding chlorine to water, and let swimming pools stink of urine.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;44429285]So is shitting in the pool still okay?[/QUOTE]
Only if Bill Murray takes a bite afterwards.
[QUOTE=mobrockers;44429243]
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/21v695/peeing_in_a_swimming_pool_creates_a_chemical/cggzbvw[/url]
[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/ask-ars-how-much-pee-in-a-pool-would-kill-you/[/url][/QUOTE]This should go in the OP, but people would still probably not read it.
[QUOTE=HyperTails;44429212]well it IS waste[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's not the part that's dangerous, it's the part where it creates Cyanogen Chloride, a schedule 3 chemical under the US' Chemical Weapons Convention, meaning it can potentially be used as a chemical weapon.
[QUOTE=bravehat;44429968]Yeah that's not the part that's dangerous, it's the part where it creates Cyanogen Chloride, a schedule 3 chemical under the US' Chemical Weapons Convention, meaning it can potentially be used as a chemical weapon.[/QUOTE]
So do you mean I can create a chemical weapon by pissing in a bottle of bleach?
BRB.
[QUOTE=bravehat;44429968]Yeah that's not the part that's dangerous, it's the part where it creates Cyanogen Chloride, a schedule 3 chemical under the US' Chemical Weapons Convention, meaning it can potentially be used as a chemical weapon.[/QUOTE]Making Cyanogen Chloride requires an obscene amount of chlorine and typically sodium cyanide though, and that's the [i]proper[/i] way to make it. Relying on the reaction between uric acid and pool chlorine would be very inefficient.
Oh! Fun fact, trichloramine is actually a ridiculously powerful (and unstable) explosive in it's pure form, even more volatile and unpredictable than nitroglycerin. This isn't well-known because not only is it the usual heat and impact sensitive, but it's also prone to ignite under direct sunlight and will react violently to a shitload of other substances. So yeah, not a popular choice for explosive applications but it sure as hell can accidentally kill somebody. Like, you know, the type of fucking retard who would mix bleach into a 55 gallon drum full of piss.
so in the situation where i'm swimming in almost pure chlorine solution i'll remember not to piss
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44429248]This is why you put in that pool solution that turns urine blue
and to embarrass the assailant of course[/QUOTE]
At our pool, if you poured in the blue solution it would turn blue instantly there's so much pee in it
[QUOTE=bravehat;44429968]Yeah that's not the part that's dangerous, it's the part where it creates Cyanogen Chloride, a schedule 3 chemical under the US' Chemical Weapons Convention, meaning it can potentially be used as a chemical weapon.[/QUOTE]
Except you couldn't realisticly take a piss in such a high chlorine level environment
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