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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Prom Erasure
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 11:08:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 11:08:08 1984
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>  This isn't a problem because real engineers aren't afraid of a little
>  UV!

I sincerely hope that a smiley face was unintentionally omitted from
that remark.  Let's ignore for a moment the well known effects of
UV-induced skin burns, more because they are more or less properly
associated with fairly high levels of exposure than because ``real
engineers'' obviously aren't afraid of a little cancer, either
(why else do so many of them smoke? [:-)]).  Since the fact is
evidently new to at least one reader of this newsgroup, I don't
feel the need to apologize for reporting that short-wave UV radiation
is also known to be responsible for the development of brown
cataracts.  Ladies and gentlemen, I am not referring to pollution
in Niagara Falls!  Does the idea of impending blindness appeal to
you?  Ever wonder why that germicidal lamp costs N times as much
as a fluorescent lamp of the same size?  Look at the envelope.
It's clear.  It's very clear.  It's very, very, very clear.  The
idea is that every #$&^!@% photon that discharge somehow contrives
to create is gonna make it through that glass.  AND YOU'RE GONNA
TURN THAT STUFF LOOSE ON YOUR EYES?!!!  Commit yourself to the
nearest mental hospital at once!
-- 

    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
               {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell