Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Prom Erasure Message-ID: <3657@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 11:08:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3657 Posted: Thu Oct 11 11:08:08 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 06:03:02 EDT References: <12306@sri-arpa.UUCP> <4377@utzoo.UUCP> <195@bragvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 25 > 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