Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, February 14, 1779:

"Captain James Cook, the legendary British explorer, was savagely murdered on this day after a confrontation with islanders at Hawaii who had mistaken him for a god".

"His voyages around the world helped guide other explorers for generations. He provided the first accurate map of the Pacific and many believe that he did more to fill the map of the world than any other explorer in history."

"Ironically, the Hawaiians ritualistically prepared Cook’s corpse as they would that of a king. They preserved his hands in sea salt, then roasted the rest of his body in a pit before cleansing his bones." (I wonder what they did with the meat... Eeeeewwww!)

http://www.onthisday.com/articles/last-adventure-of-captain-cook?utm_source=On+This+Day+in+History+by+OnThisDay.com&utm_campaign=d86b01bba6-Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b15ebf209d-d86b01bba6-112776277

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

From several things I remember reading years ago, they ate the body. Within a number of cannibal tribes, eating their gods, or in some places the enemy is an act of honor, they only eat those who are worthy. Great way to spread the human version of MAD COW disease, which i a prion and not killed by heat or chemicals.
Thanks, but I do not wish to be honored that way, so forget it!!!!

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Well dang I hope there weren't any God rituals going on when I was in Hawaii...Good Grief!!! 😲😝

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Don't worry about it, it was a long time ago. You should be safe, besides you are a queen, not a false god.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Aweee and you are a very special person!! Thank You...

I'd say king but I wouldn't want someone thinking king , means a God....🤗

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Well, if there were, I'm sure they must have been in your honor!

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

I how very nice , Larry.. I think, I mean I wouldn't want to be served up as dinner..

Thank You..

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Awww. Aren't you sweet?

BigJim

High heat will kill prions. It is believed they are spread during the preparation through open sores.

Captain Cook was a great navigator, but he was greatly helped by his H4 chronometer. made by Harrison in England. This was accurate enough that he could determine his longitude by observing Greenwich time on his chronometer at local noon. Earlier chronometers were not precise enough to get an accurate position.

teabag09

The Polynesians navigated all over the Pacific using the sun and stars and a hell of a lot of dead reckoning. We used a lot of dead reckoning when I raced ocean sailboats. Mike

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

not a good way to be treated if he was a god !!!!!

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

I checked a little further. Maybe you will find this interesting, as I did. On the other hand you probably knew all about it beforehand.

By Jon Bonné
msnbc.com
updated 9/21/2004 9:44:40 AM ET


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Mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease and similar ailments are all thought to be caused by misshapen forms of special proteins known as prions. In the case of chronic wasting, research shows infection can occur even by proximity to sick deer.

So how do you safely dispose of stricken animals?

It isn't as simple as burying their carcasses, or even incinerating them.

Prions are simply proteins, not living organisms, and they can survive almost anything, even hundreds of degrees of heat. Placing infected tissue in a landfill simply removes it, but scientists worry that the prions can leach through soil and groundwater, and spread.

Incineration is possible, but it isn't as easy as burning the carcass in a fire. Temperatures of more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit — sometimes up to 1,800 degrees — are required to effectively neutralize prions. Unlike most bacteria, regular cooking won't help at all.

"Disposal issues are tough," says Barbara Powers, director of Colorado State University's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

Even many of sterilization techniques used in hospitals, such as autoclaving, are not necessarily effective — though some may be when infected material is dipped in sodium hydroxide, or lye and heated well above the boiling point of water.

A combination of heat — about 275 degrees Fahrenheit — and bursts of unimaginably high pressure — over 100,000 psi — showed promise in reducing prion infectivity, at least in processed meats like hot dogs, in research published last year.

And a similar method has become the default process for getting rid of infected animals. Large vat-like machines known as alkaline hydrolysis tissue digesters, one of which Powers' lab operates, can essentially dissolve entire carcasses.

Infected material is placed in a solution of potassium hydroxide — also known as caustic potash — for at least six hours, at 300 degrees Fahrenheit and 60 psi, about four times ambient air pressure.

All remains at the end is a sterile brown, syrupy liquid that can be hauled away to compost.

"It's like a big steam cooker," Powers says. "That'll take care of the prions."

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