Re: Elephants and blue whales

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Dukelow, James S Jr wrote:

> 
> This raises the obvious question, Why aren't all the elephants and blue whales
> dropping like flies?
> 
> If the elephants and blue whales were dropping like flies, How would we know?
> Elephants are famous for disappearing before they die -- elephant graveyards and
> all that.  I suspect we don't have much information on how blue whales die,
> except, of course. the one's we shoot.

	--This problem can be avoided if we stick to mice and humans.
Humans weigh over a thousand times as much, but the cancer risk from
radiation is about the same for both. 

> 
Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu


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