threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Stupid human race
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Slick
Guru
I'm sure you will find all too many sufferers of all ages who already know this vile disease is not of their own making.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Old age is one of the very largest risk factors for cancer, so if your only aim is to reduce cancer, you should kill everyone before they get old. Either that, or spend lots of money on military hardware - every person dead before their time is a person who won't get cancer.
(This post might be somewhat satirical.)
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
They did pretty well in WW2.Think of all the stupid wars that the USA have got involved in, and that the only reason that they pulled out of them was because US voters couldn't stomach the ever-rising number of body bags/coffins coming home. Then imagine Trump in power with NO body bags or coffins to worry about ...
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Unless they happen to have the remote control to the robots.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
The whole history of warfare technology is an endless quest for ways to engage your enemy by remote means. Otherwise people would still be in caves trying to brain each other with large stone clubs, Flintstone-style.
Probably quite a good idea really.
swee'pea99
Squire
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Let us not forget the huge advances in science ad technology that warfare brings us. Every cloud and all that, eh?
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Please put a warning on that!
I'm sitting in an open plan office with cheeks soaked from crying with laughter and people are peering at me over the top of their desk dividers. I'm trying to hide now...
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Another boring numbers post, I'm afraid.
According to wikipedia, about half a billion people have ever been killed in war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll) Compare that with the 110 billion or so who have ever lived (http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx) and I'm afraid facts are getting in the way of another good rant. The number of people killed in war is a rounding error in terms of human population. It reduces average life expectancy by about 4 months.
There is absolutely nothing good about war. It's a dreadful experience for those who find themselves caught up in it, displaces millions of people, wrecks economies and results in untold levels of misery.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Flu is in a completely different league to war. The pandemic of 1918 to 1919 killed between 20 and 40 million people. Absolutely staggering.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Wikipedia reckons 50 to 100 million people - 3% to 4% of the world's population. Which is manflu compared with the various plagues of the mediaeval period - the Black Death obliterated between 30% and 60% of the population of Europe.
Fortunately modern medicine (despite all the money wasted on working out how to kill each other more effectively) has worked out how to save life very well.
