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To: Richnorth who wrote (660)	6/17/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Respond to of 1615

Problems with cyanide gas from comet as dangerous (1) The earth crosses many comet trail clouds each year with no observed cyanide problems. Over recorded time, too many comets with no such problems. No reason to assume this one would be any different. (2) Cyanide is present in small quantities in things such as cigarette smoke. Unethical fishermen use it to stun fish for aquatic collection (sometimes for restaurant collection!) So, we already know that small exposures of it exist and do not cause catastrophic problems. Comets are relatively small when compared with the earth and it's atmosphere. So even if the comet's cloud trail was 100% cyanide and the earth grabbed onto all of it, the concentration should still be below that in cigarette smoke. Wonder how this would compare to the background levels caused by that polluted by gold mining and other industrial processes. The microbio stuff is more interesting. It's much harder to come up with baselines to compare with. Hey, more summer 1999 comet links! sightings.com members.aol.com zetatalk3.com