JoYo ( @JoYo@lemmy.ml ) English30•2 months agoI’m pretty sure everyone is allergic to having their skin and lungs rubbed with mica.
verdare [he/him] ( @verdare@beehaw.org ) English12•2 months agoYeah, moon dust is basically microscopic shrapnel. No one should be breathing that shit in.
Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) English14•2 months agoIsn’t moon dust just sand?
Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) English6•2 months agoSand, but sharp due to a lack of water erosion, and formed mostly from asteroid impacts and thermal cycling. So it’s more like glass dust. It’s possible it has similar effects on lungs as asbestos, but we don’t know for sure.
Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) English1•2 months agoAh got it.
qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English2•2 months agoJack Schmidt = Anakin confirmed.
halvar ( @halvar@lemm.ee ) English13•2 months agoNot being allergic to finely graded rocks that have been bathing in radiation for billions of years seems more unlikely.
gitamar ( @gitamar@feddit.de ) English10•2 months agoHere’s a source for this: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
He’s a climate change denier though.
Grubberfly 🔮 ( @grubberfly@mander.xyz ) English6•2 months agowhat’d be the smallest sample size that would yield a relevant result?
30? 1000?
flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months agoWell, if humans were a homogeneous population maybe that could work. But just imagine the huge number of factors at play here. Like, demographics, cultural background (different exposures & different allergy rates in general I would guess), genetic susceptibilities, individual lifestyles (e.g smoking) and probably a lot more! Even a sample size of 1000 seems pretty small to test for general human allergy rates to moon dust. If you were talking about just one population of humans, e.g. the US, you would certainly need more than 30 but maybe not 1000.
MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) English2•2 months agoFor reference: https://www.newsweek.com/last-man-walk-moon-allergic-lunar-dust-1449945
But. Moon dust is poisonous and gets everywhere.