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  1. Re:Socialised Healthcare is the future for the US by westlake · · Score: 1 · on Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory
    His central point was: "Don't you feel like you're being ripped off paying for the health care of jobless people when you're busting a gut earning a living?"

    The uninsured has untreated and antibiotic resistant TB. He coughs. You die. It is in everyone's interest that we do not return to the plague years.

    Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the beginning of summer was a terror for every parent:

    1916 9,000 new cases are reported in New York City alone
    1934 2,500 in a localized epidemic are treated at L.A. County General Hospital alone
    1945-1948 20,000 new cases in the U.S. each year
    1952 58,000
    1953 35,000 The History of Polio

  2. Re:This is almost useless by rcw-work · · Score: 1 · on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG
    In fact the combat aircraft most famous for being able to take a pounding and still bring you home was made out of wood.

    Err, which plane?

    Carbon fiber is extremely strong, but it is also stiff and brittle (and expensive). Fiberglass is also strong, but very, very flexible - Voyager's wingtips could have bent until they touched each other before breaking. Of course, in a crash, you want the structure ahead of you to break or crumple in a controlled manner (to increase the amount of time you decelerate) and not rebound.

  3. Re:Maybe it is a good thing by tgibbs · · Score: 1 · on Keyboards Are Disgusting

    This is actually a real theory. It is thought that polio is less likely to be a serious problem if you are exposed in infancy. Insufficient exposure to bacteria is also proposed as an explanation for the increase in asthma in developed countries

  4. Re:Sounds like a good plan but.. by silphium_laciniatum · · Score: 1 · on Bacteria to Destroy Greenhouse Gases
    I don't give a damn about what I consider an inferior species if it has no effect on me.
    The air you breath has no effect on you? What pray tell takes the Co2 from the air combines it with H2o to give O2? um, yeah, that would be plants, algae (which give coral their color), and um, not your living and enjoying yourself. You cant live too long in a Co2 rich environment. The Co2 displaces the O2 ya need to "live."

    So don't go knocking the kingdom Plantae buddy!