Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones"

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."

Comments

Re:Change from the original plan

[zepo1a]

You modded the Parent troll? Got a stick up your ass or something? That was funny.

instead of pigs...

[SnarfQuest]

Pigs are really useful, for example, as a seperator between a beef patty and lettuce. Why not use something that's completely useless, like politicions?

Re:Screw that

[Kelbear]

The difference in a trillion dollars spent on war, and the 700 billion "spent" in TARP loans, is that loans can get repaid:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126015764384079549.html

Whether or not Bush should have invaded Iraq, and whether or not Obama should have tried to stabilize the financial system are separate issues. Just saying that the spending involved is of a different nature.

Re:Screw that

[Attila Dimedici]

So the difference between Iraq (Bush) and TARP (also Bush) has what to do with Obama spending more in the first year than Bush did in 8?

Re:Screw that

[Boronx]

Where'd you hear that Obama added 5 trillion dollars to the national debt last year? You've been lied to. I'd guess by Rush Limbaugh, since he's been saying this for weeks, but no doubt a lot of lesser professional liars are repeating it.