Scientists eradicate cattle plague. Second Disease to be Eradicated (Video in Source) - Polidicks

[quote]It may not be a household name, but it is one that has made history. Rinderpest - the German name for cattle plague - has felled herds of cattle across the world for centuries, causing human famine and economic disaster. Veterinary epidemiologists announced this week that it had been eradicated - something that has happened to only one other disease in history - smallpox. The eradication will have an enormous effect on the health of animal life, and food security. Al Jazeera's Jesse Mesner-Hage reports.[/quote] [url="http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2011/05/201152833513661895.html"]Source[/url] It's a short article, but a great thing.

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Stupid scientists condoning genocide against innocent microbes.

fuck microbes

[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;30126341]fuck microbes[/QUOTE] They really are dicks.

[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;30126341]fuck microbes[/QUOTE] yeah i can imagine yours is small enough to do that

Great success, two down and only a mind boggling large number to go.

I mean yeah it's good that the disease is gone, but something just rubs me the wrong way about this. It's not like it's a sentient being we eradicated, but we only have so many different forms of life on earth, it almost seems like a crime.

[QUOTE=Mon;30126367]yeah i can imagine yours is small enough to do that[/QUOTE] ive got a couple trillion microbes in my ass right now

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;30126400]I mean yeah it's good that the disease is gone, but something just rubs me the wrong way about this. It's not like it's a sentient being we eradicated, but we only have so many different forms of life on earth, it almost seems like a crime.[/QUOTE] Viruses (or virii) can be hardly considered lifeforms.

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;30126400]I mean yeah it's good that the disease is gone, but something just rubs me the wrong way about this. It's not like it's a sentient being we eradicated, but we only have so many different forms of life on earth, it almost seems like a crime.[/QUOTE] Who cares the humans got on top, we are staying there and we will damn well stay there until the end of time.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;30126494]Who cares the humans got on top, we are staying there and we will damn well stay there until the end of time.[/QUOTE] Time doesn't end, since it's a fictive thing we've created based on the cycle of earth, the sun and the moon.

[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;30126452]Viruses (or virii) can be hardly considered lifeforms.[/QUOTE] That's true, but keeping them around can still have some scientific merit. Even if it's just in labs.

[QUOTE=Van-man;30126619]Time doesn't end, since it's a fictive thing we've created based on the cycle of earth, the sun and the moon.[/QUOTE] Doesn't matter. We have a manifest destiny to colonise space, and make nature our bitch.

[QUOTE=Van-man;30126619]Time doesn't end, since it's a fictive thing we've created based on the cycle of earth, the sun and the moon.[/QUOTE] Tell that to GPS satellites.

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;30126651]That's true, but keeping them around can still have some scientific merit. Even if it's just in labs.[/QUOTE] Actually, they do keep them around at the CDC, they just keep them frozen and same goes for smallpox.

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;30126651]That's true, but keeping them around can still have some scientific merit. Even if it's just in labs.[/QUOTE] what if we kept HITLER around??!?! hmmmmmmm???

[QUOTE=del-re-re;30127091]what if we kept HITLER around??!?! hmmmmmmm???[/QUOTE] Maybe we could learn from him how to build a successful economic infrastructure.

[QUOTE=del-re-re;30127091]what if we kept HITLER around??!?! hmmmmmmm???[/QUOTE] the russians have him. well his remains anyway

[QUOTE=Uberman77883;30126340]Stupid scientists condoning genocide against innocent microbes.[/QUOTE] I heard PeTP are already protesting outside hospitals.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;30126786]Doesn't matter. We have a manifest destiny to colonise space, and make nature our bitch.[/QUOTE] What happens if we run into aliens?

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;30127398]What happens if we run into aliens?[/QUOTE] we must teach them to live a civilized life

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;30127170]Maybe we could learn from him how to build a successful economic infrastructure.[/QUOTE] Yeah, all we have to do is start a world war to put that infrastructure to use.

[QUOTE=Van-man;30126619]Time doesn't end, since it's a fictive thing we've created based on the cycle of earth, the sun and the moon.[/QUOTE] Lets fictively end it.

[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;30127442]we must teach them to live a civilized life[/QUOTE] With steel and cordite.

Jesus won't like this.

Science: 2, Jesus, 1,000,000,000

You're next, Polio.

[QUOTE=Van-man;30126619]Time doesn't end, since it's a fictive thing we've created based on the cycle of earth, the sun and the moon.[/QUOTE] Well, you could say it ends when the sun and moon end. But in a sense you are correct in that it doesn't have a definite end. I consider when the universe implodes (Assuming it will collapse back in on itself) as the mark of the end of time; as this would be the end of time/existence in this universe.

Didn't we eradicate Polio too?