Comment on Pens in Space

JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Tiptopit@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plus, graphite dust and electronics are also not a great combination.

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• termaxima@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s carbon dust, which your body is pretty good at dealing with, and in quantities so trivial you probably already inhale more currently than you would using a pencil in an otherwise mostly sterile spaceship (at least sterile compared to earth)

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Have you broken a pencil tip? I wouldn’t want to breath that in after it goes flying.

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hardly anything is less problematic than graphite. No idea why you think that is an issue.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re probably thinking “it’s just carbon, nbd”, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for your lungs:

    www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0893.htm

    “Repeated or prolonged inhalation of dusts may cause effects on the lungs. This may result in graphite pneumoconiosis”

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    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean water is toxic if you drink too much. The amount of dust of a pencil is negligible… now graphite from pencil production? Thats more concerning.

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      • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “I mean, water is toxic if you drink too much”

        Translation: “my argument is lazy and not really well thought out, I’m not going to even acknowledge your point, I’m just gonna double down”

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nothing is good for lungs, that’s the point. Workers inhaling stuff for 8 hours, 5 days a week for 30+ years with 20 % having respiratory symptoms is the kind of “dangerous” we are taking about here. What is NOT problematic at such exposure?

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What do you mean? Graphite can be fine or sharp, you saying it’s fine to breathe in? I know I wouldn’t want to breath in a broken tip of a pencil.

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All this concern about partices when breathing in whole pencils is the most dangerous of all!

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Well and the second too.

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