• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    The revelation about the sulphuric acid sparked wild speculation on social media as to what Epstein needed it for, including to ‘destroy evidence or even human remains’ - despite there being no evidence of criminal use.

    I think you may be confusing “wild speculation” with reason.

    What would be the other conclusion you draw when you hear a sex trafficking pedophile who murdered and tortured his victims, ordered multiple drums of sulphuric acid to be delivered to his private island the same day a federal investigation was announced?

    But further emails in the documents, dating back to 2013, suggest Epstein used sulphuric acid on the private island to purify water.

    RO stands for Reverse Osmosis - a water purification system - while sulphuric acid is widely used in water treatment, specifically to soften, adjust pH, and enhance the efficiency of other chemicals during purification processes.

    Oh well as long as that’s what he’d always been dissolving bodies in using to purify water, nothing to see here. Just like there was nothing to see in the entire decade between first being arrested for sex trafficking a minor in 2008 and charged with “soliciting prostitution of a minor,” continuing to do insane business transactions with powerful elites and banks who still won’t release records of those transactions, and ending up dead in his jail cell with a federal record date of death listed the day before he actually died at the exact time security footage resets itself, and both guards take a meal break so there are no witnesses. Oh and 2 minutes are missing because glitches happen.

    There’s no need for wild speculation because there’s always some perfectly logical explanation for why none of this is what it looks like.

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      Sulphuric acid is not particularly good at dissolving bodies. It’s hard to believe that a bunch of billionaires on a private island with bodies to dispose of would chose that as a method.

      Agree that Epstein was clearly murdered.

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        Hydrochloric acid may have been a better choice, but some interesting studies have found sulfuric acid is second most effective.

        Postmortem tissue alterations induced by corrosive substances – a scoping review

        Another study on human tissues dates back to 2011, where a group of researchers in America, represented by Hartnett, Fulginiti and di Monica28 examined the effect of household substances on five types of human tissues, namely bones, teeth, hair, nails, and skin/muscle/adipose tissue. However, the specific number of analyzed samples is not specified. The study involved the use of seven different substances including: hydrochloric acid (31.45 %), sulfuric acid (95–98 %), caustic soda (100 %), bleach (5.25 % sodium hypoclorite), organic cleaning substance (bacteria and enzymes – no concentration available), Coca-Cola (unknown concentration of phosphoric acid) and water (as a control). The duration of the study ranged from a few hours to 30 days for the submerged group. The authors assessed the macroscopic appearance and samples weight and concluded that hydrochloric acid was the most destructive agent, with tissue destruction occurring in less than 24 h. Sulfuric acid followed as the next most destructive substance. No notable changes were observed in tissues submerged in water or organic cleaning solution

        I’ve actually had a bit splash in my face while working in a lab. Luckily I was wearing safety goggles, but the tiny bit that did contact my cheek was quite painful and immediately did some damage. It doesn’t seem inconceivable that they would attempt to dispose of evidence by sealing it in barrels of acid, including human remains that may have already been in the process of decomposing. It also doesn’t mean it was the only thing used to conceal evidence. Definitely don’t believe these people have done much to earn the benefit of the doubt.

        It’s hard to believe that a bunch of billionaires on a private island with bodies to dispose of would chose that as a method.

        I would say it’s harder to believe a sex trafficking pedophile island run by a bunch of billionaires to serve the world’s elite, ever existed in the first place, or that it continued operating for as long as it did while victims of trafficking were flown in to be tortured and as some witnesses have claimed, murdered. And yet…

        If a scientist famously attempted to do it, not sure why you would think these people wouldn’t?

        Larissa Schuster, also known as “the acid lady”, utilized her knowledge as a biochemist and access to professional laboratory substances to dissolve her husband’s corpse in hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sulfuric acid “The People V. Larissa Schuster.

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          Definitely don’t believe these people have done much to earn the benefit of the doubt.

          I’m not giving them the benefit of the doubt, even remotely.

          I would say it’s harder to believe a sex trafficking pedophile island run by a bunch of billionaires to serve the world’s elite, ever existed in the first place

          I don’t find that hard to believe at all, that seems very consistent with the sort of things billionaires do.

          If a scientist famously attempted to do it, not sure why you would think these people wouldn’t?

          This is what you’re not getting. It’s not a question of whether they would or wouldn’t do it based on morals. Absolutely no question that they would. The thing is they could’ve literally just dumped bodies into mass graves, what, are cops going to be snooping around? Or thrown them into the sea, whatever they feel like. It’s purely a question of practicality.

          There’s simpler and more mundane explanations anyway, like desalinization. Again it’s not a question of “giving them the benefit of the doubt.”