[ RadSafe ] Collective Dose and Death

[Egidi, Phil]

So is life too short, or are we dead too long?
Just wonderin...
PVE

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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Nielsen.Erik at epamail.epa.gov
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:12 PM
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Collective Dose and Death

Life is a contagious, terminal condition with a lifetime risk of death 
equal to 1.

Erik C. Nielsen
Health Physicist
USEPA, National Air and Radiation Environmental Laboratory
540 South Morris Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36115
Phone 334-270-3475
Fax 334-270-3454

"The sun formed 4.5 billion years ago, but it's got 6 billion more before 
the fuel runs out. Any creatures witnessing the sun's demise 6 billion 
years hence, here on Earth or beyond, won't be human - they'll be as 
different from us as we are from bacteria."
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, President of the Royal Society of 
London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge.
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