accidental drowning in the gene pool?,Extropy

From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 12:46:42 MDT


>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:16:59 -0700
>From: spike66 <spike66@attbi.com>
>Subject: accidental drowning in the gene pool?
>While rebuilding my brakes on an antique motorcycle
>yesterday, I cleaned the calipers with compressed
>air. I puffed an enormous choking cloud and got a deep
>whiff of the stuff before realizing I had just inhaled
>asbestos dust. Did I just kill myself? spike

Asbestos brakepads? Crikey, that *is* an antique.

Don't know much about asbestos, but I'd recommend seeing a doctor or doing
some Googling to be certain. My take is that you're unlikely to have done
much harm. Asbestos is at its worst with prolonged and repeated exposure ISTR.

And for non-entities sake get some Kevlar pads!

James...

PS - What sort of CA system are you using?
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'



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