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Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover 334

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @02:58PM from the go-ahead-and-have-another dept.

Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents."

Comment Not practical. (Score 1) 109

by xtrvd on Wednesday February 08, 2006 @07:00PM (#14673561) Attached to: The Road to 100 Gigabit Ethernet

The problem with fibre to the desktop is that it is so expensive to terminate and too fragile to put behind Joe-User's computer. When he starts moving his cables around and bends the fibre, the fibre cable will break internally and will need a replacement. These replacement fibre cables are not cheap, and are far more expensive than Cat6 cables.

The best method of incorporation is simply to have a fibre backbone to the horizontal cross-connect of the facility (Or the local Switch in a small environment), and then have copper running from the switch to the user's desktop.

In this scenario, when Joe-User bends his 'internet cable' in half, he only increases attenuation, and perhaps will need a new $2.00 2metre Cat6 patch cord to support the 10Gbps coming from his wall jack.

This solution is far cheaper and accomodates for the common problems with workstation cables.

-Jesse

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