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- From: cptully@med.unc.edu (Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,62699)
- Subject: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.212009.9598@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:20:09 GMT
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- In article l9k6fkINNqb0@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu, de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
- >[Followups directed to misc.consumers.]
- >
- >In article <1992Aug24.232439.25914@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >>
- >> If you are giving your children hammers and lightbulbs or
- >> smoke detectors, you probably have more worries that the little
- >> radioactive source. I'd keep a better eye on my children. Normally
- >> they learn early-on that the class of objects to be hammered
- >> does not usually include foods.
- >
- >Chuckle, chuckle...obviously not a parent. :-) We don't *give* them things they
- >shouldn't have, but surprisingly they sometimes get them anyway. And they
- >eventually learn what to hammer and what not to hammer, but in the process they
- >hammer things that they shouldn't. So, theoretically this isn't a problem. In
- >reality it is. You're theoretically-based comfort won't amount to a hill a beans
- >if your distinctly non-theoretical child ingests the radioactive source from a
- >bulb or detector.
- >
- >--
- >Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) For every Bill Joy there is a Kirk McKusick.
- >Martin Marietta Energy Systems For every Bill Gates there is a Richard
- >Workstation Support Stallman. --Paul Graham
-
-
- And, remember, there are some South East islanders who's children are running around with machete's at 2 yrs and younger....
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- I sometimes think that we protect our selves TTTOOOOOO MMMUUUCCCHHH!!!
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