RE: Good Morning America

[jdelahunt@cc.colorado.edu (John DeLaHunt)]

>I saw that portion of the show as well (I was home sick, I swear!), and what
>perplexes me is that the Los Alamos folks who must have surely been there
>would allow Lunden into that facility when they MUST have known that the
>only way the press knows how to describe plutonium is using the words
>"deadliest substance know to man" and/or "instant death ..."

All right, all right.

I have to take issue with people knocking Joan and her writers.

I didn't tape the segment, but if you watched it, and were paying close
attention (as I was), Ms Lunden said:

"Plutonium is ... one of the deadliest elements known."

Elements, not substances.  Anyone want to show me botulotoxin on the
periodic chart?  And, fer crying out loud, she said "one of the", not "the".
That means it could be in the top 10% and be 11th on the list.  Tha acute
tox info that several people provided me after my initial query shows Pu
rates in the top 10 or 5 of toxic _elements_.

Nor, in fact, did she say anything about instant death.  She said that
inhalation of an amount the size of a head of a pin will cause death.
Instant?  No.  Just death.

Has anyone bothered to do the volume to density to activty to dose calculation?

Or are the members of this collective too busy reinforcing anti-media,
anti-hoopla earthworks to try to see things from another perspective?

Sheesh.

John

ObComment:  It was a nice story, though.  I liked the EOD grunts in the foam.

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