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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.192043.24001@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Aug26.171638.4066@sctc.com> beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:
- >> [....] Normally
- >> they learn early-on that the class of objects to be hammered
- >> does not usually include foods. [....]
- >
- >Like veal, chicken, Swiss steak, coconuts, cracker crumbs, and cracked
- >ice? I would imagine a more realistic scenario to be 1) big kid
- >mashes smoke detector with hammer 2) big kid chucks it somewhere 3)
- >little kid finds it, chows it down.
-
- Your argument applies to small shards of glass and rocks and
- trees, and car parts and screws and razorblades and pieces off
- of anything that can be hit with a hammer and ...
-
- I don't, of course, know if you have kids, but have you scoured
- your house for all possible things that they can injest, especially
- if they are hammered apart? Have you emptied your cabinets
- of all utensils they can possibly shove down their throat?
- Have you calculated the danger of source exposure
- vs. the probability of hemorrhage from sharp edges?
-
- I'd have to say that right after Alar, injestion of sources in
- lightbulbs and smoke detectors is probably the most serious
- health threat facing our children today.
-
- dale bass
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- C. R. Bass crb7q@virginia.edu
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- University of Virginia
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