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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182350.20893@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1992Nov17.184444.29099@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <28409@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.145341.5393@inel.gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:23:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.145341.5393@inel.gov> dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose) writes:
- >In article <28409@castle.ed.ac.uk>, gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
- >>
- >> If Greenpeace wish to make the point that trying to ship large
- >> amounts of the most toxic substance known,which also happens to be
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >> exceedingly fissionable,is a bit stupid,then their avenues are limited.
- >>
- >>
- >> G.
- >>
- >>
- >
- >Gee, I didn't know that cyanide and nerve gas was fissionable?
- >
- >OOOOhhhhhhhhh! You think that Pu is the most toxic substance known. Well,
- >it looks like you need to take a course in toxicology because you are plain
- >wrong on this point.
- >
- >Case in point: Who will die quicker? A person swallowing a gram of Pu or
- >a person swallowing a gram of cyanide? Think about it.
-
- So how is toxicology measured? Is it the speed of death or the amount
- os a substance nexessary to cause death?
- >
- >Don Palmrose
- >
- >
- >
- >
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- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
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