NanoSilver socks and toothpaste at Walmart*. Carbon nanotubes and the likeness to asbestos. When you design things at the nanoscale that have the violent look of clingy, scratchy asbestos, is it any wonder that there is a danger to the people and planet?
We are always thinking and behaving like exited monkeys playing with atomic weapons. An 8% chance of destruction from manufactured black holes at CERN? What the heck, let's try it. (And even shut it down temporarily, while we update it to be even more powerful, and try it again...something's gotta happen this time, hopefully-- something wonderful; something full of little stars.) DDT can harm eggshells and children and DNA? Well, let's get rid of the weeds, who wants to get their hands dirty in the fresh earth anyway? It's always the same old pattern of experimenting on common people all over again, however, since the chemical 'revolution' we now know that side effects and consequences happen across species and the landscape and ecosystem as a whole, eventually TRICKLING UP to the rich who marketed them in the first place.
Yes, nanotechnology exists in nature, yet when scientists design things on the nano scale that looks like ugly and violent asbestos, so small you can't cough it out, we then may have a problem, Houston.
We have often mishandled the current periodic table, and now we are jumping onto the nanoscale. Oh, such exiting times. Nanotechnology poses so many dangers across the scientific spectrum that we will have to invent a whole new set of hazardous waste symbols that will outpace the wave of mutilation it may usher in. You will need a degree just to understand the symbols. And judging by how most dentists treat mercury removal and average people throw out mercury and other toxic materials from their households, there will be someone in the nano -lab that will rush out and 'hand off' the nano waste to a non-english speaking janitor, (or Kazakh-Russian speaking scientist who has a bad bedside manner). Because, you know, it's Friday and it's pizza night, and he's quitting his job anyways. And his medication is having side effects, and the nano skin cream his company designed has crossed his blood brain barrier. Why does everything fall onto his lap all the time? Take this job and shove it!
Mistakes happen, right? Deadlines have to be met. The budget has to be balanced. The boss caved in to the Madmen wearing sleek, skinny ties and 'enamelly-challenged' polished white teeth, who just love what "This nanotech stuff can do."
He does have to pay for his BMW, you know?
The scientists have become the monkeys, and the hippie chick behind the health store counter has become more effective than the doctor with the stethoscope. Who bothers to check your heart beat and tongue anymore nowadays, right? That's just for show, isn't it? Doctors don't believe in superstition. They believe in money. And whatever the guys at the FDA say. And they're out playing golf with the chemical guys. You can follow them on twitter. (They have an IT guy for that). He has bad acne. He just bought the possible cancer or disease causing nano skin cream. The chemical guys gave him that for doing such a good (low paying) job. If only people knew he was using it to wackoff with while he was updating the web site. Somebody call a Doctor! One who understands nanotoxins for what they really are. No whistle blowers need apply....(they were all weeded out on campus anyway.)
-Paul von Dubrovnik
*The companies alluded to or mentioned in this post were used for artistic purposes only
Nanocrap 4U.
See some nano hazardous symbol proposals here:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=nanotechnology+hazardous+symbols&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Pgc4UZXdO8Lo2QWT7oEw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1234&bih=702
Click here to see video.
We are always thinking and behaving like exited monkeys playing with atomic weapons. An 8% chance of destruction from manufactured black holes at CERN? What the heck, let's try it. (And even shut it down temporarily, while we update it to be even more powerful, and try it again...something's gotta happen this time, hopefully-- something wonderful; something full of little stars.) DDT can harm eggshells and children and DNA? Well, let's get rid of the weeds, who wants to get their hands dirty in the fresh earth anyway? It's always the same old pattern of experimenting on common people all over again, however, since the chemical 'revolution' we now know that side effects and consequences happen across species and the landscape and ecosystem as a whole, eventually TRICKLING UP to the rich who marketed them in the first place.
Yes, nanotechnology exists in nature, yet when scientists design things on the nano scale that looks like ugly and violent asbestos, so small you can't cough it out, we then may have a problem, Houston.
We have often mishandled the current periodic table, and now we are jumping onto the nanoscale. Oh, such exiting times. Nanotechnology poses so many dangers across the scientific spectrum that we will have to invent a whole new set of hazardous waste symbols that will outpace the wave of mutilation it may usher in. You will need a degree just to understand the symbols. And judging by how most dentists treat mercury removal and average people throw out mercury and other toxic materials from their households, there will be someone in the nano -lab that will rush out and 'hand off' the nano waste to a non-english speaking janitor, (or Kazakh-Russian speaking scientist who has a bad bedside manner). Because, you know, it's Friday and it's pizza night, and he's quitting his job anyways. And his medication is having side effects, and the nano skin cream his company designed has crossed his blood brain barrier. Why does everything fall onto his lap all the time? Take this job and shove it!
Mistakes happen, right? Deadlines have to be met. The budget has to be balanced. The boss caved in to the Madmen wearing sleek, skinny ties and 'enamelly-challenged' polished white teeth, who just love what "This nanotech stuff can do."
He does have to pay for his BMW, you know?
The scientists have become the monkeys, and the hippie chick behind the health store counter has become more effective than the doctor with the stethoscope. Who bothers to check your heart beat and tongue anymore nowadays, right? That's just for show, isn't it? Doctors don't believe in superstition. They believe in money. And whatever the guys at the FDA say. And they're out playing golf with the chemical guys. You can follow them on twitter. (They have an IT guy for that). He has bad acne. He just bought the possible cancer or disease causing nano skin cream. The chemical guys gave him that for doing such a good (low paying) job. If only people knew he was using it to wackoff with while he was updating the web site. Somebody call a Doctor! One who understands nanotoxins for what they really are. No whistle blowers need apply....(they were all weeded out on campus anyway.)
-Paul von Dubrovnik
*The companies alluded to or mentioned in this post were used for artistic purposes only
See some nano hazardous symbol proposals here:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=nanotechnology+hazardous+symbols&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Pgc4UZXdO8Lo2QWT7oEw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1234&bih=702
Click here to see video.
