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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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- Subject: Re: Avoiding radioactive household products
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.013134.8857@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 01:31:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.164324.19218@SSD.intel.com> <1992Aug24.185340.19127@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1992Aug25.235542.17607@sopwith.uucp> <1992Aug26.025131.479@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Aug26.195222.12179@gasco.com>
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- In <1992Aug26.195222.12179@gasco.com> dlc@gasco.uucp (Darci L. Chapman x5930) writes:
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- >> >cbettis@unlinfo.unl.edu (clifford bettis) responds with:
- >> For that matter, how about nuke-free bananas?
- >> (Bananas contain potassium, and potassium is one of many elements which,
- >> in the naturally occurring mixture of isotopes, are slightly radioactive.
- >> People have never lived in a radiation-free environment.)
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- >So that's why it's okay to add more radiation into our environment?? Because
- >we were never radiation free to begin with? Wow, the logic is stunning.
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- It is really stunning that people are happy to accept one
- benefit (bananas) in spite of the risk (40K) when
- they shirk from another much smaller risk (radioactivity
- in smoke detectors) at the price of much greater benefit
- (smoke detection).
-