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Journal Journal: Proposal to move U.S. animal disease lab sparks controversy

Journal by MomaSaid on Friday April 11, 2008 @02:43PM

Nooooooo!!! OMG is this real?
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/04/11/tech-livestock.html
"The Bush administration is likely to move U.S. government research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak."

Comment Re:ID is an ally in this case (Score 1) 731

by MomaSaid on Friday March 28, 2008 @10:56AM (#22893704) Attached to: Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit

Our Solar System is far enough from the core of the galaxy to not have any issues with the fierce gravity field nor are we close to anything on the spiral arm to harm us.

Wouldn't it be likely that life had trouble to survive closer to the center of our galaxy because of hostile nature; gamma-rays and whatnot?

The planet itself is far enough from the Sun to not kill us from heat or the near absolute zero of space.

It appears that the ingredients for life are everywhere in our solor system.

The planet is protected by all the other planets from comets and asteroids (and the Sun for that matter). Our atmosphere protects from any material that gets through any of those other barriers. And most of our planet is covered by water so odds are if anything gets through the atmosphere it will cause less damage by hitting water rather than a land mass.

Not to burst the bubble but a great majority of damage caused by an asteriod hitting the planet is the compressed shockwave after it hits the atmosphere and explodes. The smaller piece that makes it to the surface (ocean) causing a 1000ft tsunami is freaky enough. The Earth has many scars of impacts from the past and tons more which were geologically washed away. Looking at the magnitude of those impacts I imagine one of the main reason we're here is life ability to rebound from catastrophe.

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