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In my mind, especially because of this:

>[Neil McClelland] said soon almost every product you purchase will be coated with liquid glass.

Because such things are probably good for you, right?



Silica is one of the most abundant oxides in the earths crust. Our bodies have no problem dealing with it.


I have one word for you, but it's a doozy: pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.


Been waiting your whole life to break that one out, haven't you? If that doesn't deserve an upvote I don't know what does.


... a disease where you breathe sub-microscopic silicon volcanoes?


My best guess is where you breathe "ultra" fucken tiny silica bits from a volcano.


wait, so they're going to coat everything with volcanoes?


No. The spray can will just be shaped like a volcano.


So is this the beginning influx of reddit jokes on HN?


I didn't actually intend it to be a stupid joke; I was actually trying to parse the word, and then it turned out I was in the middle of a redditesque joke thread. But, no, I doubt it, especially given the number of downmods.


Ah, I don't read the Reddit. Mea culpa!


No.


You mean pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis right?


In larger-scale chunks (ie, dust). There have been a lot of questions how nano-scale particles react in our bodies, some of them apparently very differently, and not very much science because the creation of them in relatively large quantities is such a new development.

So yes, lets add new things to food without the testing we require of drugs, and lets do it on a massive scale.





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