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I am very familiar with qi, since the Fourth Edition Scrabble Dictionary made it the most life saving play at the end of the game when fate deals you a Q.

Tyrell: The facts of life. To make an alteration in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.

Roy: Why not?

Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.

Roy: What about EMS recombination.

Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.

Roy: Then a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells.

Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.

copied from here BTW

It doesn't even remotely mean that. This attitude is exactly the sort of thing that encourages the "if you have nothing to hide" mindset.

http://www.trussel.com/hf/fifth.htm/
Why the Fifth Amendment by Howard Fast

Um, no. Sure, biological processes preserve the body - but freezing stops both those processes, AND the processes that cause decay - also biological processes.

But to address your freezer question:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/2005_Hotline_ Planner_Text/index.asp

"From a safety standpoint, you can keep meat or poultry in the freezer indefinitely"


This woolly mammoth was still in good shape after 23,000 years in the cooler. They even found plant matter around the frozen beast, still green.

The article said they were retrieved the mitochondria from bone fragments (so I presume vessels inside the bone must offer effective protection from corruption). I know, however, there have been several cases of frozen mammoth remains being retrieved, including the discovery of a whole or nearly whole mammoth found buried in the ice in Siberia 6-7 years ago.

As others have noted, mitochondria can be useful for looking at lineage but that's a tiny piece of their genetic info. Ever since the blurb in the papers when it was first found and the Discovery channel documentary about removing it from the ice, I haven't heard anything about the studies of the Siberian mammoth. Even a google search was disappointingly sparse on relevant hits. Surely from remains that significant, there must be far more intact DNA than from a few mg of bone fragments.

There is not a single fossil that is part-ape part-man.

Problem is (seems to be?) that because Japan is a strong country, anything they say or write is more likely to be taken for granted overseas. Korea can shout all they want, they wont be heard.

For example, should I say east sea or sea of japan? Well, It's pretty much always been east sea. Korea and China use the term, but guess which one the rest of the world is using?

There are also some diputed teritories and signs of american involvment in the dispute... (the bastards ;)

Add to the history rewrite some fake archaeological discoveries and you end-up with Korean people being very angry not just about what Japan did but about what Japan is doing now.

It really is fascinating to be living here in Korea. It is a country still strongly affected by its past history. For instance, they have programs on TV about people looking for their displaced relatives in kazakhstan or uzbekistan (Blame Stalin) and when you go to Ansan, the Koreans who returned from Sakhalin and live there speak better russian than I do...

But from what you wrote, I guess you don't have to go very far to see signs of history being rewritten. In France, anybody who dares say concentration camps never existed or that gas was never used for killing Jews, ends-up in Prison. I don't like my country much but some things they do right. No use hiding behind some ammendment to try and spew crap: if you do, you know the risks...

Churchill's famous speech referred to the effective extension of Soviet borders to that of the European countries under their influence after the war.