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Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People

 

BELMONT, MA—Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political closet: that as governor of Massachusetts he once tried to help poor, uninsured sick people.

 

Romney, who signed the state's 2006 health care reform act, has said he "deeply regrets" giving people in poor physical and mental health the opportunity to seek medical attention, admitting that helping very sick people get better remains a dark cloud hovering over his political career, and his biggest obstacle to becoming president of the United States of America.

 

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Oh my gaWD I love The Onion.

Good memory. That thread was from @2008 on the posts I checked. I wonder if size somehow makes a difference. It has always baffled me that zeppelins like the Hindenburg appear to have had heavy steel frames and a heavy payload. I suppose that's my subjective impression though, so I should go google it. Thanks for posting the link to the old thread.

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Lighter than air ships have been made to float using light gasses such as hydrogen and helium. Hot air balloons reduce the density of air by heating it. I wonder if it would be possible to make an air ship float by emptying the air out of it instead of replacing that air with light gas.

This rings a bell. I think it's been tried before...

As I recall, a "vacuum balloon" would be significantly more efficient (in the 7-10% range or so) than a helium or hydrogen balloon, except for the weight penalty incurred by the need for a rigid envelope.

Oh, right here on these forums:

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/30004-vacuum-balloon/

I am surprised this oldie hasn't been posted yet:

POLITICS: From the words "poly", meaning many, and "ticks", a blood sucking parasite.

Why did the young physics student run from the M theory symposium?

He mistook them for zombies: People were all shuffling around, mumbling something about "branes".

Hello there!

Hey. I'm just a gal of limited education with experience in information technology and working with and around psychology based programs (from whence my interest in psychology stems).

People say I'm very intelligent and I say for everyone's sake that I hope not

Here's to science! Woohoo!