OT: Mercury (Was: BBS software for the PDP 11)

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Metallic mercury isn't anything you want to ingest, but it won't go thru 
> your skin unless it has some other compound to drag it,

This isn't quite true. Elemental liquid mercury will pass through skin but
at a much slower rate. Vapourized elemental mercury via inhalation is, uh,
more "efficient."

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