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"Lifesaver Bottle" Filters Viruses Out of Water
gihan_ripper writes "British inventor Michael Pritchard has developed a small self-contained filter system that instantly cleans water, removing all particles larger than 15nm. He said that he was inspired after seeing the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004; people had to wait for many days to get fresh water and many died from drinking contaminated water. The filter is so effective that it can purify dirty river water and even fecal matter. His bottle will shortly be available for sale from Lifesaver Systems at an expected cost of £190 (approx. $385)."
Day 5: ...
I think and feel. Mommy,
Totally physically impossible. Of course, the religious right is used to lying and manipulating, because they can't ever show proof (like where's this God dude, anyway?)
Kevin Smith on Prince
Seriously, can we get some new tags for moderation already?
At least that asshole that got aborted won't have to listen to all the bullshit that all the god-believing pieces of shit like you spit out 24/7.
I Wish my mother had aborted me. It would have been better than being on the same universe you are.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Bzzzt! Wrong. Day 1 is nothing but a bunch of cells called a zygote which cannot be seen by the human eye.
At 5 weeks, the embryo is only 10mm (.3937007874 inches) in length.
It's not until the 18th week that the fetus approaches eight inches in length.
Done lying yet? Or does your God allow that?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Day 5 after conception I doubt that you can think or feel at that point, but you are certainly a human being at that point by definition because you now have the full 23 pairs of chromosomes in your DNA
I have distinct memories of being aware of myself and of other people "outside" while I was still in my mother's womb. I knew who my older sister was because she would lay next to my mother and sing to me. I knew who our family doctor was, because my mother had some medical complications and made many frequent trips to his office during the latter months of the pregnancy, and his voice was extraordinarily distinctive sounding, very deep with a thick southern drawl. I have vivid memories of my own birth. I was quite awake and conscious... and very terrified during the ordeal. Later as a child, I described everything I remembered to our doctor (this was in a small southern city in the late 1960s when there were no fancy big city hospital with teams of specialists, we had one and only one family doctor who took care of all our medical needs, and a very small and modestly equipped small town hospital) and the old doctor was flabberghasted that I recalled the details of what I remembered during my birth, the color of the delivery room, the unusual light fixture on the ceiling, seeing him for the first time, his two nurse assistants and the gowns they were wearing, and my crying uncontrollably until I couldn't catch my breath anymore when the nurse came at me with large scissors to cut the umbilical cord and then I stopped breathing and remember seeing the doctor and his nurses go into a panic just before I blacked out.
So yes, I am living proof that even before your birth, and at least several months before your actual delivery, you are very much self-aware, and understand the concept of other people even though you cannot yet see them, and you able to understand communication from them.
Too funny, mod parent up!