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To: Meatspace

I think you have to be skeptical anytime some test says it is 21 millionths of a gram of X vs 10 millionths. Good God some dust particle with the stuff on it could have floated onto the test same.


10 posted on 05/09/2021 8:16:33 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary

> some dust particle with the stuff on it could have floated onto the test same <

There was a story out a couple of years ago about some drunk who was arrested for murder. A very small amount of the victim’s DNA had been found on him.

It turns out that earlier in the day the guy was checked out by a paramedic. That paramedic had been at the murder scene. The victim’s DNA was transferred to the innocent drunk via the paramedic’s clothing.

So ya never know.


22 posted on 05/09/2021 8:28:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

It is 21 trillionths of a gram. What is that? Four molecules??? Ridiculous.


44 posted on 05/09/2021 9:07:37 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: BiglyCommentary
It's WAY worse than that. Millionths would be micrograms. Picograms is trillionths of a gram. (Billionths would be nano). There's probably trillionths of a gram from the wind blowing over the poop of some other house that took it.
47 posted on 05/09/2021 9:18:53 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: BiglyCommentary

a picogram is a TRILLIONITH of a gram, a millionith of a microgram, and a billionith of a milligram ...


75 posted on 05/09/2021 10:30:07 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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