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From: wdm@PUR-EE.UUCP (Tex)
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Subject: Re: plutonium
Message-ID: <8603030411.AA03642@pc.Purdue.EDU>
Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 23:11:49 EST
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In article <860228145732.368978@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> you write:
>(Please excuse the mild sarcasm :-)
>
>Since the scientific proof obviously does not exist to back up my
>statement, I retract my entire statement.  Plutonium is completely
>harmless, and there would be no additional danger in having the shuttle
>carrying the Galileo and Ulysses probes explode over the present
>explosion.  In fact, a plan has been developed to introduce plutonium
>into children's breakfast cereal as a replacement for sugar.
>
>After all, we've been doing this stuff for years and nobody can prove
>that anybody has ever died from it.  Therefore, it must not be harmful.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Brett Slocum

Upset that some people refused to jump on the hysteria bandwagon?