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Re:Forgetting the Asbestos: Or, how we lose knowledge and te... by thaumasiotes on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:42PM (#33324160)
> We, unfortunately, are simply too binary in our thinking "Oh, asbestos causes cancer? We better purge it from everything everywhere".

I don't think this has anything to do with the OP. It is focused on the process of knowledge being lost simply through the raw fact that nobody remembers it. This is applied to everything:

> We have lost more than 50% of all feature films made before the 1950s

The message of the piece is that we've forgotten the asbestos because, when you go to look at the preserved rockets today, it isn't there.

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Re:Forgetting the Asbestos: Or, how we lose knowledge and te... by userbinator on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:04PM (#33324375)
when you go to look at the preserved rockets today, it isn't there.

...probably because it was removed for aesthetic and health reasons.

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