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From: hucka@utah-cs.UUCP (Michael Hucka)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: plutonium :-((?
Message-ID: <3431@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:44:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 16:44:41 1985
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In article <495@h-sc1.UUCP> mccauley@h-sc1.UUCP (john scott mccauley jr.) writes:
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>In article <479@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>>I seem to remember that plutonium causes cancer in sub-milligram
>>quantities. To make a bomb you need of the order of 10kg (probably
>>a lot more). Therefore, even a dilution of 1:10^7 may still be dangerous.

	[lots of text omitted]

>P.S. Don't worry too much about 10^6 atoms. I don't think that 10^15 atoms can
>even be weighed. Along similar lines, there is a classic problem that shows
>that there is more than a 95 % chance that the air in your lung has at
>least one molecule that was part of Julius Caeser's dying breath ....


	Hey, I really don't think this is bizarre enough to be talked
about on this newsgroup.  Why, this sounds like a very serious matter!
Isn't there a net.radiation for this?

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