Moon Dust

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  isn’t this like saying some people are allergic to asbestos?

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Far as i know it was overdose, because the sharp dust shards (because no erosion) got in the suit and the module, and not allergic?

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought ’em anyway. Ground ’em up, mixed em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill. Still, it turns out they’re a great portal conductor. So now we’re gonna see if jumping in and out of these new portals can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man’s bloodstream."

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ifunny watermarks on memes are like sprinkles on sugar cookies

    I don’t prefer them, I’d never go out of my way to add them, and I prefer their absence just barely enough that I’d pick one without over one with

    That being said, I’d also never complain about it being there XD

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• HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …that’s either a one-in-a-million chance or a VERY common allergy

  Or anywhere in between

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  • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    or less likely than one-in-a-million

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What I want to know is: how the fuck did he have an allergy to it in the first place?

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IMO (not a scientist), moon dust is basically pulverized glass, only without the benefits of weathering and erosion. So think of lots of microscopic sharp, abrasive, shards of finely pulverized volcanic rock and obsidian. Get that stuff anywhere near a mucous membrane - eyes, nose, mouth, throat - and it’s going to irritate you. At the same time, it’s pretty much intert; well, at least the parts that don’t instantly react to oxygen or humidity that is. My guess is that Schmidt is just a little more sensitive to it, or perhaps he rubbed his eyes with a glove by accident.

    And for the uninitiated, it’s well documented that everyone in the lander was physically exposed to moon dust. There was no airlock on the lander, so every excursion resulted in bringing whatever was on the suits right into the cabin. They reported that it “smelled” like burned gunpowder, so they were at least all inhaling the stuff.

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think moon dust doesn’t qualify as an allergen because breathing sharp glass dust is not something people are supposed to do without harm. IIRC ithings that are intrinsically irritant, like smoke or pepper, don’t qualify as allergens.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know how you think allergies work but if it was actually an allergic reaction it probably went something like immune system encounters a foreign never seen before substance and overreacts. Alternatively he was just the unlucky guy who didn’t clean his suit enough and breathed in more of it than the others.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shit happens.

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• WhiteHotaru@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Relevant study. tl;dr Earth is more toxic: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S2214552425000252?via=ihu…

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    But less shard dust.

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