Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space • Hacker News Board

Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by canadianfella » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

witheld wrote: post #18

anon___ wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd rather ask a stranger on an Internet forum than trust the information on the packaging of your medicine? And still use that medicine?

Most medicine is efficacious long after it’s use by date

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Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by mpalmer » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 2:37 PM UTC

samsk wrote: post #16

Hmm, isn't this equivalent to finding out: Almost anything _unshielded_ and exposed to radiation will will become poisonous ?

I don't think that's a supportable claim based only on this finding. It depends on the substance and how it reacts to irradiation. Into which compounds does it degrade? Does water become poisonous? Air?

Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by trehalose » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 2:44 PM UTC

I'm curious what these "extremely poisonous benzoic acid derivatives" are. Benzoic acid itself is not very poisonous to humans at all.

Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by humanistbot » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

> Elementary school students in Canada recently schooled NASA scientists when they discovered that life-saving EpiPens can turn poisonous when launched into space.

No. Elementary school students did not discover this. They just asked a question to university researchers ("Do EpiPens work in space?"), and I'd bet that their science teacher played a huge role in coming up with that question, or at least filtering out all the other ideas. Then university researchers did all the experimental design and analysis. Read the actual press release: https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/media/news/useless-space-uot...

Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by westmeal » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 4:21 PM UTC

UncleEntity wrote: post #17

unnamed76ri wrote: post #5

Looks like the ISS crews could be in trouble if there is an invasion of space bees.

I’m sure the lawyers are already salivating at the class-action suit as this proves they weren’t properly protected from the space bees.

People on hn hate jokes

Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by unnamed76ri » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

westmeal wrote: post #25

UncleEntity wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sure the lawyers are already salivating at the class-action suit as this proves they weren’t properly protected from the space bees.

People on hn hate jokes

There is definitely an element on hn that seems to have no sense of humor.

Re: Elementary schoolers prove EpiPens become toxic in space

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Post by woleium » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 5:58 AM UTC

humanistbot wrote: post #24

> Elementary school students in Canada recently schooled NASA scientists when they discovered that life-saving EpiPens can turn poisonous when launched into space. No. Elementary school students did not discover this. They just asked a question to university researchers ("Do EpiPens work in space?"), and I'd bet that their science teacher played a huge role in coming up with that question, or at least filtering out a…

But the headline! What will become of the headline?