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From: greg@harvard.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Plutonium
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 12:12:10 EST
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In article <1069@h-sc1.UUCP> breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) writes:
>||A few pounds of plutonium *IF* properly distributed in tiny specks to
>||everyone's lungs could indeed kill everyone on Earth.  Plutonium is
>||incredibly toxic stuff.  However it would be practically impossible
>||to distribute a mere few pounds of plutonium in such a way that it
>||*would* kill everyone on Earth.  My point there was to show the
>||incredible toxicity of plutonium which is awesome.
>|
>|A few pounds of carbon, *IF* properly distributed in everyone's brain
>|cells, could indeed kill everyone on Earth.  However, it would be
>|practically impossible to distribute a mere few pounds of carbon in such
>|a way that it *would* kill everyone on Earth...
>
>I hope you know that you are talking nonsense. Carbon is non-toxic
>as a compound, and by just distributing it physically, it will kill
>no-one...
>Personally, I doubt that anyone can really anticipate the effects that
>the release of large amounts of plutonium oxide in the athmosphere
>would have.

Yes, I know I was talking nonsense; Tim Sevener was also.  But you're
changing the subject.  Mr. Sevener was talking about small amounts
of plutonium; you are talking about large amounts of plutonium oxide.
Note the differences:  "small" vs. "large", and "plutonium" vs. "plutonium
oxide".
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gregregreg