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The Threat From Life on Mars
sweetshot97 writes "According to the UK site, Times Online; future trips to Mars that will have probes return with samples of the martian surface may contain deadly microbes of course, foreign to our world. The threat may be incurable bacterial infections we have no cure for. What's funny is that we may have even infected Mars with our own bacteria when we sent several probes there. "
Actually, anyone who wants to live on welfare paid for by hard-working true Americans (mostly in left-leaning blue states) needs only to move to a morally-superior red state.
Or perhaps the murder of dozens of prisoners during torture at Abu Gharib:
But it's different for Christian religious zealots. Jesus is on our side!
There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
So should dictionaries also list words like rediculous, definately, and yuo? And should it's be listed as the possessive form of it? Should their, there, and they're all be interchangeable? That would reflect common usage, after all.
Certainly people understand what is meant by rediculous, so confusion is not an issue. But we already have a correct way to spell that word: ridiculous. Similarly, virus already has a plural: viruses. Virii doesn't even make sense, and a lot more people would be confused by virii than by viruses.
All it takes is nukes and nerves.