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[–] [email protected] 200 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It is a fantastically useful material, except for all the mesothelioma.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, except for the horrific issues with the stuff, it would be an essential material for various applications.

Its resistance to fire, heat transfer, etc would do wonders for insulation and construction.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if it could be treated in some way to make it not-so-inhalable. Though maybe we have better synthetic alternatives by now.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (3 children)

As I've understood it, the problem is primarily for the people having to manufacture products using it, and at rest it's supposed to be inert.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Except that people don't always recognize it and end up drilling holes in it or sawing through it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

This is probably how I'll die tbh

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s supposed to be it tends to get brittle and fracture creating airborne shards that you can breath in but your body can’t break down and that continuously damages the cells leading to cancer.

https://youtu.be/9ZIxGVJadyk?t=143

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any time you disturb it theres a problem

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

TIL, I'm an asbestos.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't burn, really hard to wear out, you can just dig it out of the ground, easy to shape and repair.

Except it kills people, and it hurts the whole time they're dying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Mother Gaia does a little trolling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is how you know the universe hates us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

The universe owes none of us anything. We stick our noses into everything and some things aren't good for us

This one is only really bad because the asbestos companies kept it secret when they found their product killed those exposed to it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to compensation..."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

We are in Australia. The company that mined the stuff was found negligent as they kept selling it for decades after they knew it was deadly dangerous

I also hear that so many times thanks to one of the Brain Blaze (on YouTube) editors

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The same shit happened in Spain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The company that founded Wittenoom?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

CSR, if I recall correctly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

As long as it doesn't break down it's awesome