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- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Radioactivity and Superstition; was: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive?
- Message-ID: <3645@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 23:55:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.192043.24001@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug26.195524.25813@athena.cs.uga.edu> <l9ns6oINNmol@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
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- In article <l9ns6oINNmol@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
- >[Followups, again, directed to misc.consumers.]
-
- Darn, I don't read that group.
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- >In article <1992Aug26.195524.25813@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >>
- >>Yet somehow people become morbidly fascinated with the radioactive sources
- >>in smoke detectors, as if they were somehow A Class Apart, because they
- >>work by means of Invisible Mysterious Rays.
- >
- >They *are* different. You can't see, smell, taste, hear, or feel
- >radioactivity. This isn't true of most physical phenomena people deal with,
- >including chemicals and electricity. It's hardly surprising that it's treated
- >differently.
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- By the time you feel electricity that's going to really hurt you, it's
- too late.
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- Little kids don't mind the taste of Drano for a little while.
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- They don't read the warning labels very well.
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- They hear the car coming and turn to watch it.
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- They feel the ground hit them only after they fall.
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- Yes, isn't it strange how some people think that radioactivity is
- somehow A Class Apart. It's just too Mysterious. :-)
-