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Comment Re:Be careful (Score 1) 130

Because 0 lead, arsenic, and mercury is basically impossible to achieve, you are saying not one atom of the above is allowed to be present. I will always be able to detect any really low level of anything.

It's a bit like coal power stations release more Uranium-235 every year than the Chernobyl disaster. Even if it is only one part per billion in coal, given that we burn ~8 billion tonnes of it a year, that is one tonne going into the atmosphere every year.

Comment Re:What's all the drama about? (Score 1) 104

Jocelyn Bell was a doctoral student at the time of her discovery. Since the start, the convention has been that students, including postgraduate students, CANNOT win a Nobel Prize. Bell was ineligible for the prize. It has nothing to do with sex or race.

Comment Re:AM (Score 2) 269

If a radio is a piece of safety equipment then it needs to be a FM radio with Radio Data System (RDS) so you can get an alert regardless of what you are otherwise listening to. AM does not factor in whatsoever.

Though I guess they could also include a Digital Radio Mondiale tuner and maliciously comply as it would technically be an AM radio, just digital not analogue.

Comment Re:obligatory (Score 1) 105

However, blood clots, pericarditis and myocarditis are also complications of COVID-19. All you can ever hope to do is reduce your risk; eliminating risk is only something morons think is achievable. So the question is, did taking the COVID-19 vaccines reduce your risk of death or serious complications? The answer to that is outstandingly yes for all age cohorts.

Comment Re: I'm all grown up (Score 1) 84

Experimenting on elephants or dolphins would be economically unviable regardless of any other constraints. We do experiment on other primates mind you which are somewhat cheaper. Even then it is generally only in late stages of treatment development that you get to primates because it's to expensive to do early stage testing in them.

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