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Re:China ‘cloning factory’ to produce cattle, racehorses and... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:03PM (#10629286)
China's economy is teetering near recession; labor and materials are super cheap at the moment, except for perhaps domain-specific equipment (which China may simply be copying from competitors).
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Re:China ‘cloning factory’ to produce cattle, racehorses and... by jbob2000 on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:09PM (#10629336)
No doubt, but what does it say about the Canadian economy? Slapping a couple steel girders together for pedestrians costs $20 million? How can we get anything done if something so simple is so expensive?
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Re:China ‘cloning factory’ to produce cattle, racehorses and... by ori_b on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @04:18PM (#10629766)
What's so impressive about a shack with test tubes, compared to building a long bridge over functioning train tracks without disrupting traffic?
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Re:China ‘cloning factory’ to produce cattle, racehorses and... by jbob2000 on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @04:52PM (#10629982)
Bridge could be pre-fabricated and dropped into place overnight. The train tracks there are primarily for commuter trains, which don't run between 1am and 5am. I know I'm being an armchair engineer, but I just thought the contrast between the two was funny.
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