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3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away 470

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @12:54PM from the drink-em-if-you-got-em dept.

Nzimmer911 writes "Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a 20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: 'But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.'"

Comment Re:prepaid is the way to go for privacy (Score 3, Insightful) 178

by zuckie13 on Friday May 28, 2010 @09:35AM (#32375264) Attached to: Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location

Until they force you to show ID to buy the prepaid phones.

Comment Re:Typical (Score 2, Insightful) 325

by zuckie13 on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @10:59AM (#26969473) Attached to: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails

You arse, you do realize that the damned rocket (the thing that actually failed) was NOT - I REPEAT NOT - built by NASA. It was built by Orbital Sciences.

Comment Re:Taurus XL (Score 3, Insightful) 325

by zuckie13 on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @10:54AM (#26969401) Attached to: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails

Taurus was probably chosen because it was cheaper than the Delta II (since the satellite didn't need the full capacity of a Delta II), was available, and fit the mission profile. It has had 5 or 6 successful launches, including launches for the Air Force/NRO, so it was a proven vehicle before this. The A-train constellation (which OCO was going to join) is a high inclination orbit (98.2 degrees), so Vandenberg was used for the launch site.

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