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Comment Re:Fear leads to Hate, Hate leads to Measles (Score -1) 668

Perhaps they should stop killing people?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/09/health/medical-mistakes

I enjoy telling the pharmacist that it's okay, I already have autism.

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It concerns me that there's a growing distrust of medicine. Every day it seems there are more and more people who insist, "Doctors don't know anything." It's a very disturbing phenomenon that's getting people killed.

The medical community needs to start doing something about this.

Comment I guess this is what Obama meant (Score -1) 536

He said the interconnected nature [of the Internet and other computer networks] makes it very difficult to regulate and secure. "Most of the progress they can point to is in the government sector," whereas the majority of the critical infrastructure seen as vulnerable is in private hands.

This is great now they have control over the "majority of the critical infrastructure". I was getting worried they didn't have enough control, I mean I don't want planes dropping out of the sky or anything, so this is good for everyone!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/14/obama-to-drop-in-at-cybersecurity-review/

Comment Re:The problem with using extremophiles as models (Score 1, Interesting) 91

The whole idea of cross contamination across the universe is what makes sense to me. Life in one of the "habitable" planets seeds life in another less "habitable" planet. As that newly arrived "life" thrives, it creates a hospitable environment for other types of organisms which might be arriving on some of the 100 tons of comet debris that enter into the planets atmosphere and/or evolving locally. Effectively the planet changes from a desolate wasteland into a place that can sustain life. Basically the life is what creates the hospitable planet, not the other way around. There was a program on a few days ago about this same idea a few days ago.

Comment Super Cooled Water (Score -1) 91

This discovery follows closely, in terms of the implications for life on other planets, with the work of Dino Leporini at the University of Pisa & the Indian Institute of Science. They have observed two new phases of liquid water which form at extremely low temperatures.

http://www.physorg.com/news165084657.html/

In high-density liquid (HDL) water, the molecules are close together and break some hydrogen bonds. That sounds like the conditions of meteorites. Extreme low temps, H20 under high pressure similar to the experiment of Mr. Leporini and you have a pretty good way of transporting life across space.

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