Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits
...and some very, very tiny fraction may have actually touched some component which made them slightly ill.
Tf they ingested a part made of beryllium alloy, it could make them
At 06:18 PM 2/3/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: pretty
sick...
Yeah, first thing some people will do with space debris on their lawn is eat it. (Well, *some* will, but that's how evolution works..) Berylliosis is mostly from *inhaled* Be dust. You can touch the metal. ----- Smell that, son? Nothing else in the world smells like that.... I love the smell of hydrazine in the morning.... It smells like incompetence.
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Berylliosis is mostly from *inhaled* Be dust. You can touch the metal.
I thought they mentioned hot isotopes being onboard. Beryllium is really not very relevant. Ditto plutonium, unless you insist to machine it sans microfilter mask.
Smell that, son? Nothing else in the world smells like that.... I love the smell of hydrazine in the morning.... It smells like
It's MMH that cooks your goose. Regular hydrazine (smells like fish) ain't that hypergolic with N2O5.
incompetence.
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