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Comment Re:Surface area to volume (Score 1) 66

Surface area to volume ratio found to affect rate of dissolution, details at 11.

Unfortunately it's not nearly that simple. If pills were simply dropped into a static solution and allowed to dissolve, you'd be right. The problem is that mechanical mixing occurs in the stomach, something which varies a lot from individual to individual.

Pharmaceutical companies work very hard to try to make generic pill formats that ensure consistent delivery. They test the dissolution rates in stirred beakers and try to correlate those results to delivery rates in animal models and human testing. Even if they hit upon the right shape, some percentage of patients will not get correct dosage delivery due to their stomach physiology. The ability to print a more (or less) dissoluble form would help these patients.

Comment Nuclear Generating Station Shuts Down Safely (Score 4, Insightful) 213

Nothing to see here. Generating stations, nuclear or otherwise, trip off line when major changes in load occur.

Oh, but right.., it's NOOCOOLAR POWAH! It must mean a near-miss meltdown and a cover up! I'll get my potassium iodide pills and my tinfoil hat and make some popcorn.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 5, Insightful) 108

Umm, that "microbial life we 'forgot'" (which we didn't) has been baking in the UV glow of the sun, unoccluded by clouds or atmosphere of any kind, for well over 4 years. And it crashed into a planet that been baking in the UV glow of the sun, unoccluded by clouds or atmosphere of any kind, for well over 4 billion years, as well. If the bugs survived, they earned it.

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