On the other hand ambiant radiation in stone houses can give some people cancer. When the Navajo were going into the Uranium mines the owners were told, by the government, to warn the miners to wear masks because of the cancer caused by the radioactive dust. The owners knew no one would work if they told them so they didn't. Now all of them are dead. They would be in their sixties now as am I. The water runoff from the tailings created a beautiful clear blue pool where the children were allowed to swim. Now those children have cancer or are dead. They must have thought Indians were Chimpanzees.
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:23 PM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Lovely low level radiation? Proposal for new Whitehouse dinnerware > I would guess that if uranium miners are radioactive, it would be because > they inhaled radioactive particles that are embedded in their lungs. But > irradiated food does not take in any radioactive particles, as I understand > it: it just receives radiation that kills germs (I guess?) but is left > uncontaminated itself, after the exposure. E.g. when I have an x-ray, I am > not left contaminated. If I inhale a plutonium particle, I am in serious > trouble. > > Cheers, > L > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brad > > McCormick, Ed.D. > > Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 6:23 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: William B Ward; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Lovely low level radiation? Proposal for new > > Whitehouse dinnerware > > > > > > Lawrence DeBivort wrote: > > > I don't think that irradiated food becomes itself > > radioactive... Am I wrong? > > [snip] > > That's certainly what I thought. They still need street lights in > > Hiroshima.... Uranium miners, however, are bad news not just > > for themselves but for everyone who spends much time around them. > > > > And, while we're at it -- "the lady doth protest too much", > > again: > > > > George W Bush whines on and on about somebody maybe > > detonating a "dirty [nuclear] bomb" here in the US, whereas > > the U.S. military uses depleted uranium artillery > > shells everywhere we go. > > > > I think George W Bush should > > commission new dinnerware for the Whitehouse: Made > > of depleted uranium! (Remember the mayor in the movie > > Jaws going in the water to prove it was safe, and the > > deputy mayor going in too, not because he > > thought it was safe, but because he feared losing > > his job if he didn't.) > > > > \brad mccormick > > > > -- > > Let your light so shine before men, > > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
