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One is oriented more short-term (polio), whereas the other is more long-term (not putting all our eggs in one basket). Both are good.
by Florin_Andrei 13y ago
One is oriented more short-term (polio), whereas the other is more long-term (not putting all our eggs in one basket).
Both are good.
- pizza234 13y agoWell, "good" depends for who. The beneficiaries would be first-world population in one, and third world in the other. Besides, putting all eggs in a basket could be a fitting metaphor, except if the person holding the basket has a perverse passion for stomping on it. Moving to Mars wouldn't be a way to save the population, it would be an excuse to find another planet to destroy.
- UnFleshedOne 13y agoThere really is nothing to destroy on mars. You can't destroy an ecosystem where there is none.
- nollidge 13y agoStomping out polio is not short-term.
- davidw 13y agoWhat with the anti-vaccination idiots, stomping out lots of things that should be simple is proving difficult.
- aestra 13y agoWe are really friggin close to eradicating polio! The Americas (North and South) have been polio free since 1994. The last 1% is what has proven to be difficult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication