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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Measurement & Precision
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 19:55:23 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1drofbINN91n@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Nov9.124140.15658@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>,<1992Nov11.161327.11285@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- In article <1992Nov11.161327.11285@rosevax.rosemount.com>, grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
- >dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
- >
- >: Are you sure that insulin you are taking isn't affecting
- >: your eyesight?
- >
- >Carl indicates that he is an insulin dependent diabetic. Loss of
- >eyesight is one of the possible results of diabetes, so you start
- >making cracks about how well he can see.
- >
- >Derek, That was in poor taste, even for you.
- >
- >I don't even care if Carl wasn't offended, I was. You owe Carl (and
- >everbody else, for that matter) an apology.
-
- Actually, I was rather amused that Derek had shown his colossal ignorance of
- yet another field. Failure to take insulin can lead to degradation of vision.
- If the insulin dose had been high enough to affect my vision, I would've been
- incapable of typing anything, since I would've been unconscious or dead. By
- the way, I visited an opthalmologist yesterday and there's no evidence of
- retinal damage.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-