Texas Phil Peeno #50923 Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Watching Dances with Wolves. I noticed that Lt. Dunbar could not have survived his post. There were no clean water around his adobe. That creek/pond below would have taken a long time to clean before he can drink that water.
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Watching Dances with Wolves. I noticed that Lt. Dunbar could not have survived his post. There were no clean water around his adobe. That creek/pond below would have taken a long time to clean before he can drink that water. Not trying to be rude nor anything like that, but...that was the first thing I noticed. ' The 2nd thing was that Lt. Dunbar would have had to walk a long way to get a shot off at some game.
Deja Vous Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Watching Dances with Wolves. I noticed that Lt. Dunbar could not have survived his post. There were no clean water around his adobe. That creek/pond below would have taken a long time to clean before he can drink that water. Spring fed?? But then there is the dead animal to deal with. However the plaind indians figured out if you drink arsenic and get use to it over time, you can put it in a water pond and kill off a lot of white people and you can still drink it. Not to say I would ever do that.. lol...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Given that people drink out of the Ganges River and certain others in Africa and southeast Asia...it is plausibe that one might survive the experience. That pool looked spring fed and fairly well aerated. Then again we had a neighbor that had a skunk fall into his irrigation well...he drank from it and damn near died. Lotsa people in my younger days had overhead windmill tanks without covers. Dead sparrows, bird fecal matter, and a rat or two didn't seem to hurt anybody that I know of. Not that I approve or would do that again but when your really thirsty visions of pure clean water go out the window. The only thing that matters is that its wet.
Sergeant Smokepole #29248L Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 You can boil brackish water to make it drinkable.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Some people develop immunity to many things. Some other people die of those very same things. Now, most people are not exposed to the problems and never have a chance to develop immunity or die from them.
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Holy crapola....but wait it was only a Hollyweird movie So anything is possible.
Aunt Jen Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Watching Dances with Wolves. I noticed that Lt. Dunbar could not have survived his post. There were no clean water around his adobe. That creek/pond below would have taken a long time to clean before he can drink that water. True. I think sometimes compromises have to be made in the production of the film. The writing may call for X, Y, and Z, and they have to find sets within a budget that they can do all that with. The writing may have called for a stream, there, not just a pond. Or maybe a river. Sets around the area may have been good for X and Y, but not Z, so they may have shot it so that Z looked passable... Who knows. But you're right. I love the movie, too, and I did worry about the water when I saw what looked like a pond with foul water in it. No way would I have drunk from it. If there wasn't a little stream or something attached to it, so that there was a source for fresh water at one end, I'd have had to abandon the post, probably go back to the former Army post and report it. But we needed him to stay and enculturate, fall in love, and perhaps the scenery around the area was good for some other filming. Possibly: It may even have not been a pond at all, but a trough they filled with water for the scenes. AJ
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Bottled water????? Anything's possible in Hollyweirdland!
Trigger Mike Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 actually in an episode of "Man verses wild" he pretended to be out at sea in a make shift raft and passed an uninhabitated island and found left bird eggs and bird poop infested rancid water and gathered it up and on his raft took a piece of tubing he had found and drank the water through the tube into his rear as the colon absorbs water but does not cause ill health from the rancid water since it is already rancid down there. maybe 1LT John dumbear did it that way.
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted July 3, 2011 Posted July 3, 2011 actually in an episode of "Man verses wild" he pretended to be out at sea in a make shift raft and passed an uninhabitated island and found left bird eggs and bird poop infested rancid water and gathered it up and on his raft took a piece of tubing he had found and drank the water through the tube into his rear as the colon absorbs water but does not cause ill health from the rancid water since it is already rancid down there. maybe 1LT John dumbear did it that way. I seriously hope I'm never that thirsty. Lt Dunbar made coffee. They never showed him drinking the water. Plus he had the juice of those pickled eggs. (I hope I'm never that thirsty or hungry)
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted July 3, 2011 Posted July 3, 2011 I seriously hope I'm never that thirsty. Lt Dunbar made coffee. They never showed him drinking the water. Plus he had the juice of those pickled eggs. (I hope I'm never that thirsty or hungry) Yup, yur rat. I did see him drinkin coffee, but never gave it a monemnts thought as to where the water came from to make it. Now, as fer dem pickled eggs.....don't knock it till you've tryed it !! Yup, I like dem things !!!! And Primerose hot sasages !!
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