I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet regading the nanotube/lung hazard. Yes, size and shape of particles influences many lung hazards effects. But Asbestos is particularly dangerous.
The May 2007 Scientific American has an article "Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer", which I found disturbing in what has been known for a century, but nearly forgotten, and not is well known: ALL MALIGNANT CELLS HAVE BROKEN CHROMOSOMES! Cancer is not simply broken genes, or insructions. The whole computer file system is broken!
Also, asbestos is particularly dangerous because of the specific shape and crystal structure. It has long, thin crystals, small enough to get inside the lung cells. But much worse than that, the crystal spacing is such that it very easily gets entangled in the microtubules that pull chromosomes apart during cell division. The end result is that during the most vulnerable part of cell division, chromosomes become mechanically sliced in half, and this is a starting point for all cancer!
I'm sure that indiscriminate inhaling of nanotubes is a bad thing. But probably only very specifics forms can be remotely as dangerous as asbestos. Perhaps none of them.
To those of you who refuse to keep an open mind to the unproven: Be a true open minded skeptic, and wait for real evidence!
Try looking at this from GoogleEarth if you would. The longitude and latitude given are pretty good. (+43 58' 40.80", +18 10' 40.80") But the easier way to look at this is to just ask GoogleEarth to go to "Sarajevo", then zoom out until the dark rectangle around Sarajevo is about 1/3 the width of the screen. At this point, NorthWest of Sarajevo, in the top left corner of your screen, you will find "Visoko". Pan/scroll over to Visoko, and start to zoom in. The "hill" in question is labeled "Grad" in green. Zoom in further, and then "tilt down" button on the right to get a view from the side. Use the "rotate" buttons to look at it from different directions.
What you will find is a hill with one REDICULOUSLY flat and triangular face, and two other nearly flat, triangular faces at 90 degrees to that one. Two of the edges between these faces are exceedingly straight and sharp: It is very hard to assume that this is a natural formation just because the publicist is a known charlatan!
So, are there any more people who would like to hold out hope that this really is a man-made structure after seeing this? I suspect that it may have been cut out of an existing hill as much as built up from the bottom, but who cares?
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet regading the nanotube/lung hazard. Yes, size and shape of particles influences many lung hazards effects. But Asbestos is particularly dangerous. The May 2007 Scientific American has an article "Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer", which I found disturbing in what has been known for a century, but nearly forgotten, and not is well known: ALL MALIGNANT CELLS HAVE BROKEN CHROMOSOMES! Cancer is not simply broken genes, or insructions. The whole computer file system is broken! Also, asbestos is particularly dangerous because of the specific shape and crystal structure. It has long, thin crystals, small enough to get inside the lung cells. But much worse than that, the crystal spacing is such that it very easily gets entangled in the microtubules that pull chromosomes apart during cell division. The end result is that during the most vulnerable part of cell division, chromosomes become mechanically sliced in half, and this is a starting point for all cancer! I'm sure that indiscriminate inhaling of nanotubes is a bad thing. But probably only very specifics forms can be remotely as dangerous as asbestos. Perhaps none of them.
To those of you who refuse to keep an open mind to the unproven: Be a true open minded skeptic, and wait for real evidence!
Try looking at this from GoogleEarth if you would. The longitude and latitude given are pretty good. (+43 58' 40.80", +18 10' 40.80") But the easier way to look at this is to just ask GoogleEarth to go to "Sarajevo", then zoom out until the dark rectangle around Sarajevo is about 1/3 the width of the screen. At this point, NorthWest of Sarajevo, in the top left corner of your screen, you will find "Visoko". Pan/scroll over to Visoko, and start to zoom in. The "hill" in question is labeled "Grad" in green. Zoom in further, and then "tilt down" button on the right to get a view from the side. Use the "rotate" buttons to look at it from different directions.
What you will find is a hill with one REDICULOUSLY flat and triangular face, and two other nearly flat, triangular faces at 90 degrees to that one. Two of the edges between these faces are exceedingly straight and sharp: It is very hard to assume that this is a natural formation just because the publicist is a known charlatan!
So, are there any more people who would like to hold out hope that this really is a man-made structure after seeing this? I suspect that it may have been cut out of an existing hill as much as built up from the bottom, but who cares?