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The coating is environmentally harmless and non-toxic, and easy to clean using only water or a simple wipe with a damp cloth. It repels bacteria, water and dirt, and resists heat, UV light and even acids. How can you use water to clean it if it repels water?
yawn... Get back to me when you have transparent aluminum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminium "To create transparent aluminium, more power than is used by an entire city had to be focused into a dot with a diameter of less than one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair, and then could only maintain the transparent state for 40 femtoseconds." And its only transparent to the X-rays that are needed to knock out the electron in the L-shell.
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In my mind, especially because of this: > [Neil McClelland] said soon almost every product you purchase will be coated with liquid glass. Because such things are probably good for you, right?
Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.
So yes, lets add new things to food without the testing we require of drugs, and lets do it on a massive scale.
The coating is environmentally harmless and non-toxic, and easy to clean using only water or a simple wipe with a damp cloth. It repels bacteria, water and dirt, and resists heat, UV light and even acids. How can you use water to clean it if it repels water?
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Cigarettes, DDT, Agent Orange, radium, hormone-leaching plastics, certain pharmaceuticals, antibiotic-laced meat. All were known to be harmful and were subject to a cover up to promote consumption. You can debate his example, but his point stands.
DDT, Agent Orange, "hormone-leaching" plastics are not harmful to people. Antibiotics in meats are only a problem to a small number of allergic people. Of course, if you are really a vegetable or insect, then I could see why you consider the first two to be threats.
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In my mind, especially because of this: > [Neil McClelland] said soon almost every product you purchase will be coated with liquid glass. Because such things are probably good for you, right?
Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.
This isn't that new... I've always been told glass is already a liquid. :)
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Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.
I have one word for you, but it's a doozy: pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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The lack of understanding about possible adverse effects of asbestos worries me... Oh wait, it is actually pretty nasty stuff. Now, while the "20 years down the road" thing is a bit silly, a lack of understanding about potential adverse effects is a reason to investigate further, not to dismiss anyone who's cautious about it as paranoid.
Society's track record is pretty good, then. Deaths attributable to asbestos are extremely rare in the scheme of things. Sensational headlines and ambulance chasing lawyers fool our primitive brain's broken probabilistic reasoning circuitry into making bad risk assessments. Given the overwhelming improvement in health and lifespan due to new material development and widespread use, I'd say we've been consistently mak…
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Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.
I have one word for you, but it's a doozy: pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.