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computalk.net
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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Deep Thoughts |
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?
It's not a coincidence that doctors and lawyers call what they do "practice".
What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If the police arrest a mime, does he still have the right to remain silent?
DO they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?
Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups
Live every day as if it were your last. Eventually you’ll be right.
The easiest way to find something that’s lost is to buy a replacement.
How come when you open a can of evaporated milk it’s still there?
Why is there only one Monopolies commission?
If a thing is worth doing, it would have been done already.
Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, 'My name is Bob, and I am an alcoholic?
Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Deep Thoughts |
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| computalk.net wrote: |
Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
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This is pretty easy to answer. Kamikaze pilots aimed to crash their aircrafts (usually laden with explosives, bombs, torpedoes and full fuel tanks) into their enemy ships, i.e. American ships. That was their main objective, and in order to achieve that, they had to have as much control as they could until their aircrafts hit the ships.
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altyfc
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: Re: Deep Thoughts |
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| computalk.net wrote: |
| Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date? |
Because it reacts with the plastic bottle...?
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Deep Thoughts |
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| altyfc wrote: |
| computalk.net wrote: |
| Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date? |
Because it reacts with the plastic bottle...? |
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| Yes, that always makes me laugh too. The truth is that by law all food and drink products have to have a Use/Sell By Date. The date on bottled water is usually more governed by the expected degradation of the plastic bottle rather than the actual water going off. A lot of things in law are governed by precedent and plastic bottles would have established this by being cheaper to produce and more prolific, therefore glass bottles would have had to follow suit. |
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There are a couple reasons for this. In order from most likely to least likely:
1. A few states (and possibly the federal US govt) require an expiration date to be placed on the water, even if it will not "go bad.
2. Some believe that the taste of the water changes. Some believe that the plastic bottle adds a taste to the water if it is left unopened for several months.
3. There can still be bacteria and other pathogens in the water that remain dormant, instead of dead, in the water. Even with current sanitation procedures, and the source of the water, it is still possible for minimal amount of bacteria to survive in the water.
Overall, water has an indefinite shelf life. Really, the manufacturers are putting a "Best By" date that goes along with the flavor of the water. There hasn't been much information recorded on ill-health effects of water drank past the expiration date.
So, it is mostly likely a combination of items one and two that there are expirations/sell by/best by dates on water bottles. |
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I work in a waste and or drinking water testing lab that works closely with the EPA. During a blind study a while back, water that was fairly newly bottled was tested against the same brand that had expired. There were no changes in biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, minerals, metals, or microbiological inclusions. We did this study just to try to find out why water would expire. The only thing that we could find is that it is possible that the water's flavor could change because of the different inclusions in the water changing minutely because of light being able to penetrate the container.
Other than that, it's a marketing scheme to get us to buy more water. |
I reckon whoever originally wrote this “Deep Thoughts” is not much of a deep thinker …
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