April 23, 2006
Empires Fall
Added another site into the crosslynx - Empires Fall. The piece on Asbestos and New York City is interesting - makes me glad i live on the other coast. The worst thing you can do is stir up asbestos - a cloud of dust that is continually stirred up by the daily movement of 10 million people - hmmm. I'd like to see the graph of the blast radius based on the epidemiology of this one, and compare it to Chernobyl. I wonder whether longitudinal studies have been set up to quantitate the eventual damage as a function of health and wellness. Time to see what the CDC is up to.
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over time, yes, and you could calculate a half life - but each particle is a needle that tumbles in its haystack. we almost need an asbestos unsharpener, to dull the pointy ends so that it doesn't rip skin after the inhalation. every needle breathed in, at any concentration will cause damage. maybe chemically designed endcaps - a drop of inert wax that only attracts the crystal structure of needles. hmm - and they talk about designer drugs , ha ha ha
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