Re: Cosmic Rice

["Gary Damschen" <garyd@pageturners.com>]

Ah, but sending the seeds into the upper reaches of the atmosphere exposes
them to NATURAL radiation as opposed to that nasty MAN-MADE stuff that they
would be exposed to on the ground.

Gary Damschen
gary@stepenv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: Cosmic Rice


>At 12:23 AM 2/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>It would be so much easier to just expose the seed to 50 Rad and get the
same
>>result.
>
>How could anyone not agree with this statement? Sending the seeds into
>space via satellite or aloft in a high altitude ballon to be irradiated is
>ridiculous - like putting in a thumb tack with a sledge hammer. Leave to a
>government to seek out the most awkward and inefficient way to do something
>and then spare no expense implementing it.
>
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>Bob Flood
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>Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
>(650) 926-3793
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