Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the mid-20th century, radiation was shown to shrink tumors and was immediately deemed to be the silver bullet for treating various diseases (including blasting people's noses to cure rosacea). It's impossible to determine just how many people died from ionizing radiation before people knew that not damaging DNA was important. Jeffery On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Ken Carney wrote: > I remember looking through these. It was great fun at the time. Then, > there was a plausible defense of ignorance. Now, it is just statistics. > IMHO. > > Ken > > http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/002457.asp > > Ken > > On 9/30/2010 6:49 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> If it is x-rays powerful enough to penetrate steel, it's going to be >> seriously bad for fetuses and adults. Homeless people sleeping in their >> cars will get some serious ionizing radiation. >> >> Jeffery >> >> >> On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Ric Carter wrote: >> >>> i fear for the fetuses who get zapped with this amount of radiation in >>> their first week or so of gestation >>> >>> ric >>> >>> >>> On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:38 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: >>> >>>> ah, i remember the old foolish days when the police needed a warrant to >>>> search someone -- back before we learned that photographer were >>>> terrorists. >>>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information