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Episode 134: Benevolence Backfires: The Cobra Effect

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The Unintended Consequences of the Airbus A380

Harrison Bergeron: Let this New York thing play through for ten years. The rest of the country will see why it's such a bad idea. He says Airbus A380 is quietest airplane apparently that there has ever been of its size. But pilots started complaining from the minute they started flying these things, he says. It's so quiet that the background noise is not enough to drown out the bathroom activities of the people on the planes.

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