Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!utah-gr!utah-cs!hucka 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 Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3431 Posted: Tue Aug 6 16:44:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 03:46:47 EDT References: <541@bentley.UUCP> <499@mit-vax.UUCP> <217@kitty.UUCP> <479@talcott.UUCP> <495@h-sc1.UUCP> Reply-To: hucka@utah-cs.UUCP (Michael Hucka) Organization: VCIS Research Group Lines: 25 [()] In article <495@h-sc1.UUCP> mccauley@h-sc1.UUCP (john scott mccauley jr.) writes: > >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? -- ........................................................................... :::::: _Mike Hucka_ ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!hucka, hucka@utah-cs.ARPA) :::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::