12th May 2005, 7:19 AM
Good point, progeria IS pretty frickin' rare. In fact annually whoever is able of ALL known worldwide cases get together for a picnic of sorts, and that amounts to roughly 20 families (I saw a special...).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)