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Buckyball health threat?

dichotomy
in Medical Science

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Apparently buckyballs form naturally in minute quantities under extreme conditions such as lightning strikes. They are potentially as bad as asbestos dust is to our lungs.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527091910.htm

 

So, my question is are the lightening making rooms that many science museums have, could they be potentially hazardous due to the buckyballs that are created within them? Or does lightening need specific material present for the carbon-60 to be formed?

 

Or, are we at greater risk just by going to something like a sandy beach where silica is supposedly an issue?

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