> “So somewhere along the 50-odd years of my life, I breathed something in, and it landed on one of my lung cells. That caused a change in the DNA and the genetic material in that cell, and it became a cancer,”
This is the thing that would bother me the most, knowing that in all likelihood there was some innocuous thing I did or didn’t do that had such a huge butterfly effect. You can’t think that way very much or you’ll go crazy; you can’t walk through life trying to dodge invisible particles. Still a mind fuck.
This haunts me. I had to evacuate due to the Eaton Fire earlier this year in Pasadena, and afterward had several instances where, despite my best efforts, I definitely breathed in some very bad stuff. I don't think about it much, but in my heart of hearts I feel that this will come back to bite me hard in a couple decades.
“So somewhere along the 50-odd years of my life, I breathed something in, and it landed on one of my lung cells. That caused a change in the DNA and the genetic material in that cell, and it became a cancer,” he says.
Is this real? I know demolition people, carpenters, smokers, people who have survived fires and more, these people are in their 70s and 80s, how does one particle do this?
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 14.3 ms ] threadThis is the thing that would bother me the most, knowing that in all likelihood there was some innocuous thing I did or didn’t do that had such a huge butterfly effect. You can’t think that way very much or you’ll go crazy; you can’t walk through life trying to dodge invisible particles. Still a mind fuck.
Is this real? I know demolition people, carpenters, smokers, people who have survived fires and more, these people are in their 70s and 80s, how does one particle do this?