Re: Radon in Caves

[Laurie Taylor <laurie-taylor@uiowa.edu>]

Franz and other Radsafers, obviously my attempt at humor was not very good!
 Sorry for the confusion.  

At 05:58 PM 1/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 16:00 22.01.1999 -0600, you wrote:
>>Very interesting, Susan.  Perhaps that's why the Nearderthals disappeared? 
>>
>>Purely tongue-in-cheek!
>>Laurie Taylor
>>laurie-taylor@uiowa.edu
>>
>...............................
>
>Laurie,
>
>I do not believe that, because obviously the Neanderthals did not live long
>enough to develop lung cancer. Moreover they were usually most of their
>time in the fresh open air for hunting and gathering food. They had food,
>which was not irradiated, was of true biological origin, did not contain
>any artificial coloring, no fertilizers, no pesticides - a real paradise
>for a healthful life! For some groups of today it might have been a much
>nicer life to die of famine, freeze to death, being killed by animals or
>the Neanderthals of next door - sorry, next cave - die of a cold at the age
>of 25 or 30, than to live to the age of 70 in social security in mostly
>good mental condition, but to be subject to the incredible risk of
>receiving a femtoSievert from radon when visiting a cave.....
>
>Sorry, I am cynical again.
>
>Franz
>
>
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