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Comment Re:Aliens are statistically likely to exist (Score 0) 331

by siimv on Sunday February 20, 2011 @04:27AM (#35258426) Attached to: Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds

Agreed, it's quite an arrogance from our side as always to presume, that alien lifeforms should flourish on the similar conditions that helped life to evolve on planet Earth. For all we know, there could be ultimate intelligence right here on our solar system living on Jupiter.

Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise 254

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 22, 2010 @04:47PM from the don't-let-the-scurvy-get-you-down dept.

superapecommando writes "Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors. Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham of Newcastle University have written a paper in the British Medical Journal which warns of the rickets uptake – a disease which sufferers get when deficient in Vitamin D. The study boils down to the fact that as more people play videogames indoors they don't get enough sunlight and this has meant the hospitals are now having to combat a disease that was last in the papers around the time Queen Victoria was on the throne." At least the kids are eating enough snacks with iodized salt that we don't have to worry about goiters.

Comment I'm not so sure about that age thing (Score 0, Redundant) 254

by siimv on Monday September 29, 2008 @02:51AM (#25191257) Attached to: World's Oldest Rocks Found

I recall from some study claiming, that identifying age cannot be accurately estimated by carbon-dating beyond 40000 years or so.

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