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  • I guess you could run lab experiments to see if mice in a plastic free environment live longer and happier than ones chewing plastic things all day long. At least, that should reveal any acute symptoms. Who knows what happens after decades of exposure. Studying those types of questions is very difficult, but in recent years there have been more and more studies indicating potential carcinogenic effects in various chemicals.

    As far as I now, humans have been exposed to wood particles for thousands of years, and they could have similar effects as far as the physical particles are concerned. Obviously they leach off very different compounds, so that part of the net effect won’t be comparable at all. If the presence of tiny particles in the bloodsream or elsewhere in the body is harmful, we would probably already know about it. What if the effect could also be so subtle, that you won’t notice anything out of the ordinary in a society where people rarely live past their 40s.









  • I’m out of the loop, so what’s the big deal with this? What kind of promise does that break?

    If he wants to keep American companies in American hands, isn’t this exactly the kind of thing he should be doing? Still probably not the smartest thing to do but, isn’t this kind of period of isolationism exactly what he has promised.

    On the other hand, I recall hearing something about him protecting American jobs, but these two goals are in conflict here. Either you fund your industry yourself or accept foreign investments. If the former isn’t possible, then the latter remains the obvious choice.












  • Our current “forcefields” are super picky. They refuse to work with anything other than that one thing they were specifically designed for and the list of options is very short.

    If you want to deflect things with a magnetic or electric charge, we already have the right kind of “forcefield” for that. However, it’s not exactly the kind of shell you put around a space ship to keep it protected, so even in this limited sense we still have a long way to go. The magnetic field of the Earth directs some of the incoming particles to the poles, which isn’t really ideal if your goal is to deflect all incoming fire.

    If you want to protect the ship/planet from physical projectiles, we have no forcefields at all. That sort of stuff is just pure sci-fi at the moment.