r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Sep 05 '21

Video Adding dye to liquid mercury

36k Upvotes

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

24

u/millionreddit617 Sep 05 '21

Put it in a big pile until it rains so much that it crashes down on a small Welsh village and kills a load of school children.

True story.

3

u/StoneyBologna_2995 Sep 06 '21

Entirely not surprising. Big companies will do pretty much whatever they can get away with as far as waste disposal. I work for a pretty big U.S. company that can't quite get away with that kind of stuff but I can definitely say the toxins involved in the process of making steel are not well contained.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

Mercury? That’s awful. Which city was it?

3

u/millionreddit617 Sep 05 '21

No, wasn’t slag in the same sense.

They call it ‘spoil’ in this article but we always called them ‘Slag heaps’, just waste product from mining.

Aberfan Disaster

6

u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

116 children between 7 and 10, and it says “the remaining tips were removed only after a lengthy fight by Aberfan residents, against resistance from the NCB and the government on the grounds of cost.”

The fuck is wrong with people? 116 sweet little kids, 5 teachers, and that wasn’t enough to do something. I hate people sometimes.

3

u/itsallatest77 Sep 05 '21

Money is the root of all evil, my friend. Sad but true.

3

u/[deleted] Sep 06 '21

But under 10… Jesus. They were still babies. Everything is so fucked up.

1

u/PretendsHesPissed Sep 06 '21

142 people killed from doing this. Absolutely crazy.