• VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Looks like a general aviation airport, in which case most planes would be burning 100LL gasoline (the LL stands for “low lead” - so called not because it has low lead content (it’s very high) but because it’s a bit lower than its predecessor).

    I used to work as a flight instructor so I was around the stuff all the time. It’s, uh, not good for you.

    What I mean to say is everyone living there is gonna get lead poisoned

    Edit: This is it

    So uhh, living there is gonna take a couple decades off your life expectancy

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        3 months ago

        I’ve never dealt with motorboat fuel so I can’t really compare, but I can say that it’s not “horrible” in a certain sense - the stuff isn’t sticky and evaporates pretty quickly, it’s easy to wash off, it’s not sticky like jet fuel (it’s almost water-like), it doesn’t smell bad and it’s not as combustible as jet fuel.

        In the health sense - well, have you ever bought canned 1970s LA air and breathed it in all day long? That’s what you’re doing to your lungs. And if you handle it up close, most folks don’t wear gloves and it readily absorbs into the skin. It’s basically what happened to the boomers in the 60s but today.