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one of my old professors. Blast from the past!

Which makes the plans to throw them away with each launch even more silly. They are cobbling together jobs programs from space shuttle components with no real strategy except "worked before" and "we can charge a lot of money for this".

SLS is the last major gasp of a military industrial complex that has completely taken over congress. The fact that we're paying $146M for each engine on the SLS (takes 4 to launch) and SpaceX is promising an entire launch for Starship at <100M is obscene. (Oh, and SLS ends up at the bottom of the ocean...Starship you can just refuel).

While I don't agree with all thing Musk, he's revolutionized the global spacelaunch industry by reducing costs 10x. Now, totally dominant in an industry, he's making that rocket obsolete in favor of a better one (Spaceship).

Due to them saying that "the association might be due to an already-known correlation to haemochromatosis" I'm assuming they didn't have the data to correlate haemochromatosis to the data.

Haemochromatosis is a genetic disorder where individuals are unable to get rid of excess iron. If properly diagnosed, this is easily treatable with bloodletting (blood donation in this century :-)

Haemochromatosis is the sort of genetic disease that could really screw with data like this. Undiagnosed haemocromatosis leads to early death....so the correlation of excess iron to longevity should be treated as a weak piece of evidence until we can exclude people with the genetic disorder.