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- Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose take...
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:42:35 GMT
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- In article <1h7v1gINN4nm@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com (Dave Waller) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec20.052918.21974@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- > |> I think we are gradually getting the point: anything, in sufficient
- > |> quantities or administered in a sufficiently silly manner, can be
- > |> lethal. Even neutrinos (hint: supernovae emit lots of neutrinos).
- >
- > Uhhhh, I don't think so. Better check your references again about the
- > properties of neutrinos.
-
- Bzzzzzt. I think *you'd* better check your referrences for neutrino's.
- Although they rarely interact w/ matter, they do in fact interact.
-
- It *is* possible to get a fatal dose of neutrinos, although you couldn't get
- yon dose here on earth. The hint to which Jbaez was referring was SN1987a, and
- yes, virginia, if you were one AU (astronomical unit, the distance from terra
- to sol) from 1987a when it blew, you would have received a fatal neurtino dose.
-
- _Science_ or _Sci. Am_ had a pretty nifty article on sn1987a which included
- lots of gee-whiz facts like the neutrino factiod. Worth checking out when
- in an altered state.
-
-
- Speaking as a crafter of quality neutrinos.max
- maxwell@fnal.fnal.gov
-
- p.s. try not to worry about the millions of neutrino's that passed through your
- naughty bits while you read this... :-)
-
- merry ex mass
-