Thursday, September 13, 2012

Fact of the Day: Knowing Your Downfall

While Marie Curie discovered radiation with her husband Pierre, she actually died from long-term affects. She didn't have safe enough equipment, and because of this exposure she eventually developed aplastic anemia which killed her. 
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12 comments:

  1. Yes, I had read that...so unfortunate.

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  2. I didn't know that. Did her husband die of it also?

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  3. That's what got me when I was tooling around with it.

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  4. I discovered methane being released from my posterior. It hasn't killed me yet, but some episodes HAVE been pretty close to what you'd call DEADLY....

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  6. Not really her fault, no one really understood radiation at the time.

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  7. only because of their hard work today we know about radiation.
    great couple.

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  8. That's horribly sad. And no one could have predicted that, right?

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  9. I remembered the movie "downfall"

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  11. It's sad that that's why she passed away, but we can be thankful to her findings for helping protect us now.

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