Macro Concerns in a Nano World - KQED QUEST

At 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, you can't see nanoparticles, but you can find them in everyday products like sunscreen and clothing. But environmental and health concerns are mounting about exposure to nanomaterials, sparking a growing debate about their possible regulation. QUEST looks further into nanotechnology, as this rapidly expanding field begins to play a larger part in our lives.

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[onewhopwns]

@StabbyMcButterPants LOL

[StabbyMcButterPants]

But can they make a shirt that gives worms to ex-girl friends?

[libertarianjury]

False assumption: we need to be kept safe from private industry, more than we need to be kept safe from government

False assumption: Up-to-date regulation can keep us safe from nanoparticles.

[sumdingo]

@tjholowaychuk yes cause human life < animals ...

[i7Gam3r]

late comment, but anyways.. considering the animal testing..

Ask yourselfs, Would you want to be the one they test it on?

ofcourse not...

Im not for Animal testings, but Im neither against it..

simple as that..

[bitterbonker]

@bradsmithsite- testing on Mickey... that's a pretty good analogy, since animal testing is a fairy tale. They test on rats for political reasons, not health ones. Why is there so little emphasis on post-market monitoring & *human* epidemiology? Indeed, a product has to conspicuously harm or kill lots of people before anyone starts questioning it. But rats aren't humans. They are quite different in size, lifespan, physiology, morphology, metabolism, tissue characteristics, genetics, and so on.

[bradsmithsite]

Piss off with the animal testing shit. It's a rat, not a dog. You use things every day that were tested on Mickey. Hypocrites!

[tseng61]

Yeah sure whatever you say FreeIndividua, I wish technology was that advanced. I'm pretty sure there would be a better fucking use for nanotechnology than spraying "nano bugs" into the sky. Also something can't really be micro and nano (it can be, it's just not practical to state something as both). A micrometer (or metre) is one millionth of a meter. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter

[FreeIndividua]

Never believe governments. Especially scientist who experiment on innocent animals. We have micro nano bugs in sky now coming from chemtrails.

[tjholowaychuk]

lab rats... retards, this shit is human made, so subject humans to it, not animals