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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Matter transmission, etc. (uncertainty)
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 23:48:41 EDT
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In article <590@h-sc1.UUCP> gts@wjh12.ARPA writes:

>So it doesn't matter that the water molecules are all in the same place,
>as long as they're water and they have the same average kinetic energy?
>Not quite... imagine what might happen if a couple of very energetic water
>molecules happened to be transmitted through right next to some of your DNA.
>Mutagens, anyone?

We have that same problem now.  The qualifier is that statistically the
event is quite rare, so that water is not a serious mutagen.

Charley Wingate