Comments on: Perchlorates http://www.orangewallaby.net/wall/2005/perchlorates personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor Wed, 20 May 2009 18:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 <img class='wavatar' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=cfc2e9ca8f2694b74abfd6c90daf1a4f.jpg&s=80&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orangewallaby.net%2Fwall%2Fwp-content%2Fcache%2Fwavatars%2Fcfc2e9ca8f2694b74.png' width='80' height='80' alt='Wavatar' />By: Tigger http://www.orangewallaby.net/wall/2005/perchlorates/comment-page-1#comment-411 Wavatar Tigger Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:34:27 +0000 http://www.orangewallaby.net/wall/2005/perchlorates#comment-411 "Finally, the recent AP story featured the town of Rialto, California, which is up in arms about perchlorates coming from an area north of town that used to be used for weapons manufacture and storage. Now they’ve built a bunch of new homes around the edges of that land — why? Had nobody considered that it might not be a good idea to live right next to that land?" that'd require some common sense, though... like the people who have been whining for the last 10 years or so about the noise of the airport around their nice new homes when they knew very well that the airport had been located there for years and wasn't likely to get moved... “Finally, the recent AP story featured the town of Rialto, California, which is up in arms about perchlorates coming from an area north of town that used to be used for weapons manufacture and storage. Now they’ve built a bunch of new homes around the edges of that land — why? Had nobody considered that it might not be a good idea to live right next to that land?”

that’d require some common sense, though… like the people who have been whining for the last 10 years or so about the noise of the airport around their nice new homes when they knew very well that the airport had been located there for years and wasn’t likely to get moved…

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