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In that case I should fly in circles 
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I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
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That explains the Dutch roads.
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In the UK, they just throw loose stones over sticky tarmac and then let the traffic 'bed it in' for a couple of months - generating lots of business for the spray shops! 
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The "art of street building" is some undervalued engineering science. I have studied it long time ago, but it is underpayed and some boiler plate job. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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If the ground under the road freezes in winter, so it raises up as water freezes to ice and expands (unevenly, varying with the distrbution of water in the ground), the forces from below are immense.
The roadbuilders can avoid it if they dig a bed deeper than the freezing goes, and fill it up with draining material that lets the water run out, so that there is no water under the road surface that will freeze in winter. Obviously, that raises the cost of building the road significantly. Lots of roads here in Norway are not built that way (mostly small and old roads), so we are quite familiar with these problems. Usually they are moderate during winter, as long as the ground is frozen, but when it starts thawing, it can be terrible!
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I do not thing that we have that kind of weather... Even for a day or two...
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In Israel, the problem is that much of the soil is heavy clay. This absorbs water in winter, causing it to expand. In summer, the water drains from the clay, but does so in an uneven manner. This can cause the road to buckle even without freezing.
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And it brakes the pave into pieces and there are those nice holes... But it takes a few weeks at least...
Not the morning after...
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Maybe an army tank used the road (against regulations)…
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How dare this upstart virus come along and kill people! That's our job![^]
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That's our job![^]
Tobacco has valid uses. Smoking it is the problem.
Just like the people who tried to blame trump for ingesting chloroquine. I guess they'll read this article and start smoking and then blame the article for getting lung cancer.
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I think the article is an April Fool's joke.
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Greg Utas wrote: I think the article is an April Fool's joke.
What poor taste. 
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Greg Utas wrote: I think the article is an April Fool's joke.
Unfortunately, it's not -- or perhaps I should say fortunately; they may be on to something.
Nicotine kills bacteria, and a huge number of other medicines have come directly from plants (willow bark, anyone?), and growing plants containing toxins to be ingested relatively safely is their field of expertise.
Only a fool is convinced he's smarter than experts in their field.
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The reason I thought it was a joke is
- tobacco companies are always fair game
- the article is short on details
- it seems unlikely that a plant's defenses could easily transfer to humans
- if I recall correctly, The Guardian has done this kind of thing before
But sure, I could be wrong. They claim that a specific tobacco company said this, which could lead to a lawsuit.
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Greg Utas wrote: the article is short on details
That could be because they don't want to give too much away, and have some other company steal their thunder, too.Greg Utas wrote: it seems unlikely that a plant's defenses could easily transfer to humans
I doubt it's about the plants being immune. Acetylsalicylic acid is present in willow bark, and it's probably the most-used medicinal compound for humans since humans (and willows) were invented.Greg Utas wrote: if I recall correctly, The Guardian has done this kind of thing before
The thing I recall the most about the Grauniad is its typos.
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Bears with abscessed teeth have been found with willow shoots wrapped around the affected tooth.
At the end of the article, they describe inserting an antigen into tobacco plants to have it reproduced so that it can be harvested. But it makes no mention of GMO technology, so I wonder why the antigen would get reproduced, and why it wouldn't be easier to reproduce it using an industrial process.
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Greg Utas wrote: it makes no mention of GMO technology, so I wonder why the antigen would get reproduced
These guys have spent millions of man-years manipulating tobacco plants to make them produce substances to maximise their profits. They could probably do it with their eyes shut.Greg Utas wrote: why it wouldn't be easier to reproduce it using an industrial process.
Simple economics, I imagine. Machines and the setting up of machines are expensive. with "nature's machines", they just get a botany student to spray goop on a few plants, then send him back a few weeks later with a clothes mangle to squeeze out the juice.
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Similar articles show up on other sites, so it seems legit.
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Do you really have to add political garbage to every post?
If you take your political snipe out, the post doesn't lose anything of value -- and actually becomes amusing, rather than tiresome.
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OK, I will bite. How is it political?
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ZurdoDev wrote: Tobacco has valid uses. Smoking it is the problem.
Just like the people who tried to blame trump for ingesting chloroquine. I guess they'll people will read this article and start smoking and then blame the article for getting lung cancer.
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You are suggesting that mentioning Trump makes it a political statement? How very snowflake and woke over you.
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