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Posted By: Alex - Tue Aug 11, 2015
Category: Science | Experiments | Alex

Comments

Minor typo?

Navy researchers conceded that humans would be preferable to humans, in terms of the medical information that might be gained.

Posted by Doug on 08/11/15 at 03:20 PM

Thanks, Doug! Just changed it. (Though it takes about an hour for about's system to update itself.)

Posted by Alex on 08/11/15 at 03:34 PM

Not surprising that there is a nut for every occasion.

Posted by KDP on 08/11/15 at 04:26 PM

Sort'a like sailing around the world even in the sure fact that they were going to drop right off the edge where there be dragons.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/12/15 at 01:12 AM

I recall a cartoon on Playboy showing a buxom young lady sitting nude in a laboratory, surrounded by leering technicians. One is telling another "She wants to give her body to science ... NOW!"

Posted by tadchem on 08/13/15 at 02:45 PM

KDP's comment says it all!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/16/15 at 12:10 AM

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