Examining New York's Bioresearch Laboratory

Evangelion quotes from a NY Press story about Plum Island: "'Located just two miles off the tip of Long Island and six miles from the Connecticut coastline, Plum Island is home to a Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL-4) research facility... During the fifth month of [an Engineer's] strike, a three-hour power outage renewed public interest in the island... Without power, the air filtration systems are inoperable. Without power, decontamination procedures break down. Without power, the seals in the pressurized airlock doors start to deflate. According to one report, workers were desperately sealing the doors with duct tape...'"

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Re:phhhewwww

[DR SoB]

"Labs such as the one at Plum Island investigate the effects of disease-causing agents and bioweapons in the hopes that remedies/cures/vaccines/treatments might be discovered.
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Yes, that is what your government would like me to believe....

Re:Go Duct Tape

[dillon_rinker]

Reason, as you use the term, is a mode of thought formalized by the ancient Greeks. It has proven to be wildly successful at certain limited areas of human endeavour. Perhaps you've observed the utter failure of reason in changing the behavior of human beings?

Common sense, according to you, is denying the existence of a category of entities that EVERY HUMAN CULTURE has believed in. If everyone says the sky is blue and you maintain that the sky is actually a maroon paisley, then I'd suggest that common sense goes against you. I don't say that common sense is always right, but you can hardly maintain that the believe of an overwhelming minority is common sense.

Now, to take issue with the substance of your claim, that Einstein didn't believe in any divine entity, I'd have to disagree. Note that Einstein (in 1951) is different from Einstein (in 1895). Are you saying that Einstein, at no point in his life, held a belief in the divine? Do you have a source for this?

Fucking unions

[ToadMan8]

See, striking workers causing power outages and not caring about spreading disease and chemical agents as long as they get their extra 0.40 $ per hour... Unions are like hundreds of schoolchildren getting together to overthrow the administration when the administration may be annoying but know what's best for the future of the children, the school and education in general. Christ that's dangerous and annoying. It's even worse in the public sector because the employer can't hire permenant replacements for monetarily striking workers. Don't get me wrong, safety or working condition striking unions are completely in the right but for monetary gain.... if you don't like what the market pays get another fucking job.