Friday
May142010
Baby hates Vegas, genetically - Ep. 31
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 2:57PM Roger Chang and Scott Fletcher tell us why tailor-made newborns fear the forbidden lands around Las Vegas, the last outpost of humanity.
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Reader Comments (3)
"In the future people will be able to deadhead (freeze themselves)"
In Trucking, to deadhead means to travel with an empty trailer. So, a dispatcher might say "Deadhead from Denver to Pueblo to get your next load". I think the scientists need to pick a different name cause if we were hauling deadheads in a refrigerated trailer, from Denver to Pueblo, it could get confusing.
Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Wow, hate Las Vegas much?
One part of the discussion that bugged me was all the laughing about dead people inside the buildings. Construction deaths are a real problem, a story the Las Vegas Sun won a Pulitzer for last year. It's really not a fun topic, especially for the families involved.
Besides Tom, who seemed pretty fair, the rest of you guys bashed the city pretty unfairly. By the numbers, prostitution is a bigger problem for New York than Las Vegas. It's illegal in both cities.
Roger - happy to show you some depressing parts of San Francisco. Every city has them.
I like the show but all the piling on was a real turn off.
Hi guys!
I love the show. Here is one quick prediction for you, if you read these that is. I believe that within the next fifty years that the job you work at will have its own iPhone style app, that you must have on your phone, that monitors your gps location. This will be used for productivity analysis, and greatly reduce people's ability to call in sick without being sick. Just a thought.
Keep up the awesome show, and may our robot overlords be merciful.