Klarinet Archive - Posting 000386.txt from 2001/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] OT: mortality in rats
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:31:20 -0500

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:08:40 -0000, clarinet1@-----.uk
said:

> > ... Death is proven to be 99.9% fatal to all laboratory rats.

> Sorry - Completely OT, I know, but I'm intrigued as to how death can
> only be 99.9% fatal. Does this mean that out of 1000 lab rats, one
> died, but that death wasn't fatal?

Just an acknowledgement of the possiblility of experimental error, I
think:-)

Tony
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