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HEAVY METAL

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Is That Still Too Much?

He made people, they had a little anteroom, and you had to strip down to your underwear and put on this tivex suit. He bilds positive pressure air vents, so the air is constantly blowing and pushing anything inside the lab outside the lap. Even if you walk in with a little micro gram of lead, the air may push it. But he ultimately gets his samples down, his blank samples, down to point one micrograms. So that's one tenth of one millionth of a gram. And that at and salic wab, that number is the age eart. It's just a number, but what it represents, i's this fundamental

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