Reply to: Real Doom(tm) bug completely resistant to all known anitbiotics

[BrilloPad]

So if you want the population to decrease you need to kill of old people.

Being elderly, death seems like a good option. At least it does at the moment, after my daughter forced me to watch the final of Britain's got no talent.

It is regularly claimed that medicine is on the point of getting people to live to 150. From which point being 1000 is apparently possible.

Time to buy shares in zimmer frames and Wurther's original.

[AtW]

I say we take off and nuke the entire planet from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure...

[SueEllen]

One of many things I don't understand. How come ancient things like Penicillin still work well in many cases? Why have some bacteria evolved to be immune and not others? And surely if we stopped using some drugs then evolution would cause immunity to fall.

Simply because not all bacteria are the same.

There is more if you have a spare few hours...

[xoggoth]

One of many things I don't understand. How come ancient things like Penicillin still work well in many cases? Why have some bacteria evolved to be immune and not others? And surely if we stopped using some drugs then evolution would cause immunity to fall.

[SueEllen]

It would be better if people understood the need for population control.

The green party want the UK to have about 40m people which is sustainable.

Though eating lentils instead of meat might make life a bit boring.

The world's birth rate is actually falling. Countries who have a tendency to have lots of children are having less once the women get educated. You only need to give them primary education to make a significant difference.

The reason while the population is increasing is people are living longer. The number of people 85+ around the world has increased especially in developed countries.

So if you want the population to decrease you need to kill of old people.

[BrilloPad]

Yeah the world would be a better place without you.

Well you are advocating the death of many people so we may as well include you in it.

It would be better if people understood the need for population control.

The green party want the UK to have about 40m people which is sustainable.

Though eating lentils instead of meat might make life a bit boring.

[SueEllen]

About time too. World is heavily overpopulated. A shame ebola never made it global.

Yeah the world would be a better place without you.

Well you are advocating the death of many people so we may as well include you in it.

[BrilloPad]

Have they tried wire brush and dettol?

[BrilloPad]

About time too. World is heavily overpopulated. A shame ebola never made it global.

[greenlake]

One word: VODKA

[AtW]

One word: VODKA

[d000hg]

Worrying situation.

People will be dying from things we take for granted, like an infection in a wound or from food poisoning. Back to the Victorian era in terms of life expectency....

Doomed!

Do you think this is really the case, or is it a bit like Moore's law - every generation of new CPUs we're told "this is the end of miniaturization because of physical laws" and then they go and find a new trick? We've been hearing about super-resistant-germ DOOM for quite a number of years but is it still on the same timeline as predicted or does it keep getting pushed when the headlines draw funding?

We need nano-tech to come ASAP, that's my view.

[barrydidit]

Will keeping your phone clean help prevent brain tumours?

Prevent you going blind at least

[vetran]

Will keeping your phone clean help prevent brain tumours?

h2g2 - Golgafrinchans

[greenlake]

The other one is those who look to the internet when they have a problem, then read up on all the symptoms associated with that and then start to imagine they have the same symptoms.

Yes, according to the internet, everyone has brain cancer.

Strangely enough, it may soon be true....

"Game-Changing" Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer | Mother Jones

Remember people, keep your telephones clean!

Will keeping your phone clean help prevent brain tumours?