Re: Risks and their avoidance

[BobCherry@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/20/2003 8:48:25 AM Central Daylight Time, BLHamrick@AOL.COM writes:


> While I think we can reduce our risks of an untoward death, we first must all realize that one day, like it or not, we will with certainty become a "statistic." 



While teaching physics at West Point in the eighties, I provided a course-wide lecture on the biological effects of radiation. In leading to the discussion of LNT, I mentioned that we all have about a one in six chance of dying of cancer. However, that shouldn't be alarming because we also have a five in six chance of dying of something else. The cadets seemed surprised at facing mortality in such cold terms, but it helped put radiation risks in perspective.


Bob