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All this talk about children ingesting smoke detectors points up one thing:
Much of the otherwise educated populace views radioactivity in a
superstitious way, with numinous awe, as if it were witchcraft.

A child's environment is _full_ of things that are dangerous if ingested.
Yet somehow people become morbidly fascinated with the radioactive sources
in smoke detectors, as if they were somehow A Class Apart, because they
work by means of Invisible Mysterious Rays.

Folks, radioactivity is a part of nature.  We have never lived in a world
without it.  Like electricity, chemicals, etc., it can be dangerous in
large amounts, but that doesn't mean it should (or can) be eliminated
totally.


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+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
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