# sweat209 is thick as two short planks

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**Created:** [April 29, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweat209-is-thick-as-two-short-planks/753409 "2016-04-29T10:49:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweat209-is-thick-as-two-short-planks/753409/7 "2016-04-29T13:29:24Z")

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> [@Recovery rates for chemotherapy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovery-rates-for-chemotherapy/753208/32):
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> Where Popular Machines and Popular Science is flooded with cars, space, mars trip,robots, AI, drones and light science every day.Than really getting into medicine and things like that.

I regret to disagree with our moist and obviously well-read contributor, but “Popular Machines” is the well-known magazine devoted to reviewing top-selling electric sex aids on their famous “5-dildo” rating system, though they have recently started a creative series on how small kitchen appliances can be used as such. They are very popular.

> [@Why are drugs so hard to make and take so long to come out on the market?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-drugs-so-hard-to-make-and-take-so-long-to-come-out-on-the-market/698700/1):
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> 1.Government retriction , once a chemists finds a computer model that shows results and you doctor prescribes medication add 10 to 15 years to it.All running lab rats tests after tests ,clinical trials and testing. You wont it faster , have people sign up for guinea pigs and lower the testing and you will get 5 year mark than 10 to 15 year mark.

This is the thing. With all these lab rats tests and guinea pigs we have today, why electric sex aids no better today than they were 50 years ago? As our sweltering poster might well ask, where is progress? And as he so eloquently put it when lamenting our lack of “Hologram, landspeeder or Mega vehicle”: Why are we not putting R&D into it?

I believe “Popular Machines” routinely asks the same question.

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