h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A very impressive, in-depth analasis. I didn't know there was so much about tea to know!

Me neither.

Do you know it all yet?

I dunno...

If you knew it all, how would you know? Or would you know that too? Now I'm confused...
Good article. I tend to prefer herbal teas or green teas, not black teas, although if someone gives it to me, I drink. No milk, of course, and usually no sugar.

To add milk and sugar to green tea is an abuse! I'm glad you liked the article.
I have to admit that it was actually written once where I had to find a little something to teach my class (I'm a teacher) for a week of English-teaching (three lessons) and then I came up with this and included some tea-tasting. They liked it - most of it - and I've used it often since.
To apply it as an article for the Guide seemed obvious.

Thanks - KimotoCat

Yes, it does seem like a practical application. I'm 14, and when I do a report on something interesting, I intend to write an article. The only problem is that the last three major reports I've done have been on Dada, for which there's already an arcticle, Orpiment mines, which is an incredibly boring subject, and penguins, for which there is a guide entry, but I don't like it very much.
Yes, nothing should be added to good tea.

I have to ask: Who / how / what are Orpiment mines? And are you sure that it is boring? Consider some of the subjects available as approved guide entries already, and think again.

Tea rules!

Orpiment is an ore of arsenic. I was assigned to do a report on how people mine it and Realgar, another much more stable ore of arsenic. The problem is that, people don't really mine it anymore. The teacher had been assigning the same project for 30 years, and times had changed. Now a days, arsenic is considered "a pollutant" and "the next asbestos." Many companies, especially out in the western US, are very concerned about the issue. Recently, someone invented a device that uses the sun's UV rays to decompose Arsenic into its less toxic forms, which was quite an advancement.
The only modern uses for arsenic are poison, which by now is mostly accidental, and for collectors' samples. Big samples of both Orpiment and Realgar can be pretty valuable, especially if they are crystaline. Orpiment is almost always amorphous(without crystal form)and yellow, and realgar occasionally forms tabular red crystals. It's actually quite pretty if you have a good sample. The Chinese used to carve it. However, very few of those carvings have survived because when you expose Orpiment and Realgar to light, they decompose, or break down.
The main deposites of the two minerals in the U.S. are in Mercer, Utah, and Manhattan, Nevada.


Well, maybe I will write a guide entry. I still don't find the subject enthralling, however. It was extremely difficult to piece together that much information as it is. The other reason I didn't want to do a guide entry is that I got a B- on the report. I suppose I can blame it on the two guys I was supposed to work with who really wouldn't do any work, but still...

This was wildly informative. I was aware of arsenic as such, but had no idea that it was mined. I think you should do an article at once and forget abvout the B-. After all, grades are subject to subjectivity and, unfortunately, not so much objectivity. Try again, work with it, write it and post it.
Oh, and thanks for the info.

I did. Actually, after I responded to your last post, I turned it into a guide entry. It's partly the response I wrote to you, which I edited and expanded, etc. It's here: http://www.h2g2.com/A261497

Do you think it's worth submitting?

To add one more thing, I do think it's still a bit short.