Yeah, that's a tradition that started with Yuri Gagarin and has been done before every Soviet and Russian space flight since.

There is no other dimension. They are two related but different languages, so treat them like e.g. C# and Java.

From March till now, the mortality rate for ebola infected Government and NGO workers has been around 55%.

It's higher for the the rest of the infected, as they usually have preexisting medical problems which renders them less able to fight the virus.

I heard that too, so I went looking for more information.

October 04, 2014: Since March 2014, 16 MSF staff members contracted the virus; nine of them have died.

The "three" that NPR reported is probably Doctors Without Borders international staff, with the other infections being local staff.

What I think is telling is that at $15B you could have something like 5 GW sized fission plants. Even many research reactors have provisions to use utilize it's heat to produce electricity. Yet for all that money there are not only no provisions to produce electricity using ITER, but no provisions to even be able to install components to produce electricity.

The alternative I've repeatedly seen mentioned is the stepped wedge trial.

Basically, you take your sample, create subgroups of random patients, then give the treatment to one group at a time.

This allows you to use the upcoming subgroups as controls, while avoiding the ethical problems of denying people treatment.

The ethics are something reasonable people can and do disagree about. The problem in this particular situation is that you're trying to run a clinical trial during an active pandemic against a disease with a high mortality rate. And, IMHO, those facts tip the ethical scales quiet heavily in favor of giving everyone experimental drugs that aren't known to be actively harmful.

Yes.

The rest of us remember the wikileaks document dump and how important stories got did not get appropriate attention because of the sheer volume that was getting reported at once.

Another (perhaps unintended) aspect of the continuous reporting is that almost every time a denial is issued, the NSA is subsequently revealed as lying to the public and Congress.

You don't actually have to have all the drops go back to the entrance. I didn't mention it in this post(or I edited it out and don't remember doing it), but putting your switch in a central location can help drastically. Though I agree, 37 meters wouldn't be enough in many cases, the extra 18 meters I mentioned can make all the difference in the world for making that one run.

But note that I recommended both running the best wire available and conduit to boot. Futureproofing is a thing.

some people are moronic :)

because it's a lot easier for the US to stop a infection in its population than in a population it has no influence over?

spanish flu killed 50-100 million people, because it infected 500 million and had a 10-20 % mortality rate.

you want enough people to survive to spread quickly, you want something that spreads like wildfire. Ebola isn't the easiest thing to spread, because it incapacitates the hell out of the carrier during their most infectious period, and it makes them pretty visibly infectious. And the mortality rate on ebola is too high to be scary.