Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uiuccsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!grunwald From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Re: Irradiated Food - (nf) Message-ID: <7000029@uiuccsb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 09:29:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiuccsb.7000029 Posted: Mon Feb 27 09:29:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 21-May-84 04:09:04 EDT References: <4400016@uicsg.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:uicsg:4400016:uiuccsb:7000029:000:381 Nf-From: uiuccsb!grunwald Feb 27 17:29:00 1984 #R:uicsg:4400016:uiuccsb:7000029:000:381 uiuccsb!grunwald Feb 27 17:29:00 1984 /***** uiuccsb:net.cooks / uicsg!patel / 12:36 pm Feb 27, 1984 */ What If? Here is the scenario. Suppose the Gamma radiation did not kill ALL bacteria. Suppose further that it altered the genes of the bacteria which were left alive. Suppose these mutants can multiply at a high rate and spread some totally new disease. What then? /* ---------- */ Then we all die. Tough.