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."

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Re:Screw that

[Attila Dimedici]

No, I believe he is talking about the economic "stimulus" package that didn't stimulate the economy. The bailout package that Bush got Congress to pass was "only" in the billions. While the "stimulus" package wasn't a trillion dollars, 800 billion is damn close. Although, the bank bailout was bad enough, but for someone who compaigned on opposing the overspending of the Bush Administration to immediately outspend them in a single year, that takes some chutzpah.