🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Kagalenko wrote:
> 
> Kym Horsell (kym@faraday.ee.latrobe.edu.au) wrote in article <62d4qc$4c1$1@news.latrobe.edu.au>
> 
>  Lots of irrrelevant horseshit from Horsell snipped.
> 
> ]>I've read about nuclear complex worker
> ]> who got somewhat more then microgram quantities in his blood by pricking finger
> ]> on Pu metall shaving. He seems to be fine a couple decades later. But I
> ]> guess he'll die eventually, thus vindicating the position that Pu is
> ]> "the deadliest poison known."
> ]
> ]You're shifting ground, again. ;-)
> ]
> ]By co-incidence, I've heard that some heavy smokers didn't die of
> ]lung cancer.
> 
>  Then it follows then cigarette smoke is not "the deadliest poison known."
>  Similarly, since people exposed to far greater quanitities of plutonium
>  then Horsell's alleged lethal dose are feeling fine decades later, plutonium
>  is not "the deadliest poison known." Q.E.D.

OK, here goes. Plucking a definition out of the air, a toxin is "a
substance that in some form causes damage in the body which eventually
leads to death in at least some exposed individuals". Thus including
plutonium as a 'toxin'. This leads to the inescapable conclusion that
helium is the most toxic subsatnce known to man, especially in ionized
form and combined with a sophisticated delivery system such as plutonium
powder. Given that an appropriately administered dose of helium in a
carrier of 1 mg. of plutonium can lead to death, the mathematically
inclined can work out the lethal dose if they want - I suspect it will
be measured in femtograms. Obviously, balloon gas will now have to have
a warning label as to its possible toxicity...

Removing tongue from cheek,
Rob Buckley.