[UA] Disease Fun.

[Unknown VariableX]

Read something similar to this, and that "Iron man" movie mentioned earlier, 
on an alternative medicine website. Some guy got shocked by the ground wire 
of an ozone-based wastewater purifier designed to react with the toxic 
elements in that water that comes out of mines (the hole in the ground type, 
as opposed to the ones that explode). It caused this weird reaction in his 
body that made him tired and sick all the time, and whenever he got close to 
carbon elements, metal wires would grow out of his skin, often valuable 
stuff like gold or silver. Those metals certainly wouldn't be there 
according to conventional chemistry and physics -- the site chalks it up to 
low-energy nuclear transmutation. Also, his doctor ran some tests and found 
he had several times the lethal level of reactive metals in his body. He 
should have died, but something kept him alive for just shy of a year until 
he found this treatment for toxic metal exposure, involving drinking 
hydrogen peroxide of a certain concentration. It made him vomit a few times, 
but eventually all the phenomena stopped. No metal wires, no constant 
fatigue, nothing.

This sounds like the converse of that. The chemical composition of the 
fibers is never mentioned, but I'm guessing they're leaning more towards 
non-metallic, organic elements, and perhaps they have an antagonistic effect 
towards metal. Blood cells use iron in the hemoglobin molecules... maybe 
that's enough, or maybe there's something else afoot.

-Variable (Half-Metal Alchemist)


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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Angus Fletcher" <ethdem at gmail.com>
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To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] Disease Fun.
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:12:06 -0400

Upon further research, this disease seems creepy in two ways:

-It may be true, which is creepy all by itself.
-It may not be, and may in fact be an offshoot of a kind of delusion
that was legitimized by the internet and then printed by a lazy
journalist.

Mass delusion is pretty creepy, I think.

On 5/14/06, Rich Ranallo <zincoxide at gmail.com> wrote:
>If you people could hear me scream when I read  stuff like this, you'd 
>think
>twice about posting it.
>
>Ugh.
>--
>From Whom It May Concern,
>Rich Ranallo
>
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