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NNadir

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9. It must be the end of the world. How deadly exactly is 986 times background?

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #8)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:11 AM

Nov 2017

986 bananas?

It's pretty amazing. Billions of tons of carbon dioxide are dumped each year into the atmosphere, and hundreds of millions of tons of actually powerful carcinogens, things like benzofurans, dibenzodioxins, all kinds of crap like that, stuff that actually kills people, and yet right here at DU, more and more electricity is being burned to complain endlessly and mindlessly about "986 times background" Ru 106.

Scientifically illiterate journalists at the Guardian couldn't care less how many people die each day, each hour, each minute from air pollution but OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

RUTHENIUM!!!!!!!!! 106!!!!!!!!!!

We deserve what we're going to get on this planet. Fear and ignorance have won the day.

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