Moon dust

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure everyone is allergic to having their skin and lungs rubbed with mica.

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  • verdare@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, moon dust is basically microscopic shrapnel. No one should be breathing that shit in.

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Moon dust is functionally a lot like asbestos. It is composed of a sizeable amount of tiny shards of rock that aren’t great for your lungs.

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  • stiephel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea, you should really consider that before breathing on the moon

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    • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Any lunar dust that they made contact with would have found its way into the lunar module for them to breathe in and be exposed to.

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t moon dust just sand?

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s sand that has never been exposed to water or oxygen. This leaves various reactive chemicals on the surface that would normally be broken down. The lack of water also means the particles haven’t been smoothed off as much. They are sharp and spiky.

    The combination of these effects makes the dust quite unique, compared to earth dust.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It also reportedly smells like gunpowder.

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  • vind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    50% SiO2, 15% Al2O3, 10% CaO, 10% MgO, 5% TiO2 and 5-15% iron

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    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And 100% reason to remember the name.

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    • nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All those oxides but the iron is pure? SUS.

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  • Umbrias@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sand, but sharp due to a lack of water erosion, and formed mostly from asteroid impacts and thermal cycling. So it’s more like glass dust. It’s possible it had similar effects on lungs as asbestos, but we don’t know for sure.

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    • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah got it.

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jack Schmidt = Anakin confirmed.

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    • rustydomino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More like Jack Schmidt = Cave Johnson

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• halvar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not being allergic to finely graded rocks that have been bathing in radiation for billions of years seems more unlikely.

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The sample size is at least a little bit bigger…

  www.google.com/amp/s/…/748813

  Some guy stole moon rocks (presumably still had moon dust on them) to bang his gf on them.

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  • salarua@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    better link: www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/…/748813

    don’t use amp links pls

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Roberts was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for his role in the Moonrock caper, as well as a separate offence of stealing dinosaur bones from a museum in Utah.

      I’m afraid to ask what he did to the bones!

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you so much

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• Raxiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, if someone were to crash the moon into the earth to stop it escaping, as many as 1/12 of the population could experience a reduced quality of life?

  Might need to consider not doing that I suppose.

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• gitamar@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any reliable source for this? Wikipedia does not have anything to say about this. He’s a climate change denier though.

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  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wow seems you’re absolutely right livescience.com/63836-harrison-schmitt-climate-ch…

    very sad 😔

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• Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  geordi-no “moon dust”

  geordi-yes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changesite-(Y)

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• grubberfly@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what’d be the smallest sample size that would yield a relevant result?

  30? 1000?

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me. Just get me there

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    • Shellbeach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can we not… Just… Bring back some moon dust?

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, if humans were a homogeneous population maybe that could work. But just imagine the huge number of factors at play here. Like, demographics, cultural background (different exposures & different allergy rates in general I would guess), genetic susceptibilities, individual lifestyles (e.g smoking) and probably a lot more! Even a sample size of 1000 seems pretty small to test for general human allergy rates to moon dust. If you were talking about just one population of humans, e.g. maybe the US, you probably would need more than 30 but maybe not 1000.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For reference: newsweek.com/last-man-walk-moon-allergic-lunar-du…

  But. Moon dust is poisonous and gets everywhere.

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