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Living is after all, the number one cause of death with 100% fatality rate. I feel that we're living long enough now. Until we are able to get our resource ab
by codelap 13y ago
Living is after all, the number one cause of death with 100% fatality rate.
I feel that we're living long enough now. Until we are able to get our resource abuses under control and eliminate poverty the world over, then ~75+/-10 is a reasonable expectation. And when will these studies factor in quality of life.
- mikeash 13y agoTechnically, life in humans is only known to have about a 93% fatality rate, although it's likely the remaining 7% will succumb in time.
- codelap 13y agoFunny. But don't use the word technically, because that's factually incorrect. A bug spray need not kill every mosquito in existence to prove that it has 100% fatality rate on mosquitoes.
- tekacs 13y agoIt depends on your model - no number of mosquitos killed can deductively prove (à la mathematical proof) that a bug spray will kill all mosquitoes. It can at best inductively prove it - the scientific approach, or alternately do what you called '100% rate' (the hidden words there being 'so far').
- lutusp 13y agoAvoid use of the word "prove" in a discussion of science and scientific theories. Science can't prove theories true, it can only prove theories false. Philosopher David Hume expressed this best: “No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.”
- mikeash 13y agoYour spray had better kill 100% of the mosquitos it's sprayed on, though. And 100% of humans have been "sprayed with" life.