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

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-ocean-long-pig dept.

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."

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  1. ACHTUNG -=:.x\.:[ Third -=- Post ]:./x.:=- ACHTUNG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wholeheartedly made the effort to get into third place today. It appears that my dreams have become reality. Thus, in the way that I have made this tertiary post, I have divined myself beyond a modest man's wildest dreams and into the oblivion of happiness.

  2. Third post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, THIS is the third post.

  3. Re:Screw that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So why exactly do you support the spending of trillions of dollars borrowed from China for an ineffective bailout program that only makes the rich friends of government even richer?