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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: toxic spill remediation
- In-Reply-To: jmullison@ucsd.edu's message of 15 Dec 92 20:56:52 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:13:49
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- On the one hand, the rules probably call for entering the premises of
- a mercury spill with self-contained breathing apparatus.
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- On the other hand, when I was in Junior High School we played with
- liquid mercury quite freely, and it was explained that only ionized
- mercury was harmful. Perhaps many of those junior high school
- contemporaries who have since died, had their lives significantly shortened
- by the mercury, but I doubt it.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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