There's are a lot of nutrients in the gulf, especially from the farm runoff (would be interesting to experiment with "bubblers" in the dead zone, but that's another topic). I've loaded your video (thanks!), but haven't watched it all yet.
Oil doesn’t consume oxygen especially quickly, but natural gas does. BP’s gusher is much more than crude oil – millions of cubic feet of gasses are also being released. These gasses rapidly consume all available oxygen.
“how serious is the oxygen depletion problem?” “Very Serious” “How much biodegredation appears to being observed for the oil plumes?” “There is a tremendous amount of oxygen consumption in the plumes. We have measured respiration rates in the plumes, above and below the plumes, and at control sites where plumes are not present. The respiration rates in the plume are at least 5-10 times higher than we see anywhere else.”
Last summer I thought the Navy should get some giant air pumps and oxygenate the water, to help the bacteria with their cleanup operation. The Navy has "portable" nuclear power plants, which is why I thought they'd be good for the task.
But I'm not a celebrity with a skimmer to sell, so they didn't ask me. Oh well.
The US has a $3.7 TRILLION manufacturing sector.... The notion that the US has exported all its manufacturing is simply not supported by the facts.
This is a really good point. I think the problem is that machinery used to require human operators. Humans are expensive, and robots always do repetitive tasks better than humans anyways, so the trend has been to automate as much as possible.
The problem is that there are fewer replacement jobs for those displaced, and Wall Street just pockets their machines' "wages".
I spent some time recently in an injection molding company. Never would have known they were there, if I hadn't needed some basic machining done.
The problem is that human economies are still organized under the scarcity principle, when the problem is dealing with the abundance created with modern machinery and technology.
Your link says that the Aether concept is now understood to be a perfectly valid theory:
... Subsequent studies with large particle accelerators have now led us to understand that space is more like a piece of window glass than ideal Newtonian emptiness. It is filled with 'stuff' that is normally transparent but can be made visible by hitting it sufficiently hard to knock out a part. The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo.
Seeing as how 20% of the labor force has been replaced by machines, what are these people supposed to do to support themselves? They can't all be criminals...
This story is about a type of make-work employment too, it's just not funded by the government. It's not so different than organized crime, in that no true value is created for the economy by the actions of the parties involved.
If the government made money (instead of the banks), they could spend it into circulation to employ people who do valuable things. Community cleanup, public works, etc.
Jobs projects are totally different than make-work jobs. A job project is paying someone to do something that ought to be done, but which isn't profitable for the market to do itself. Make-work jobs put people to work doing pointless or harmful things: 1/2 digging ditches, 1/2 filling them in.
Laws criminalizing plants (Marijuana, coca leaf, etc) create make-work jobs in the prison industry, for example. Some of the other ones that come to mind are political sacred cows, so I won't mention them here.
... Nothing could be more foolish right now than policies that reduce government spending or increase taxes. We have nearly 14 million unemployed people in the United States, a number that undoubtedly underestimates the true magnitude of the problem since it ignores discouraged workers and the underemployed. Despite this, Messrs. Obama, Ryan, and Geithner tell us that we need to make sacrifices. Seriously? The American people already have, and what they are asking us to do will simply make it worse....
That's why you make a prediction, get more data, and then compare the data to your prediction and throw out or keep the model that produced the prediction. Viola - science!
Science is highly susceptible to the ivory tower phenomenon. I mean this in the sense that a scientist can build up an elaborate explanation to justify their pet theory, but then new black swann (unexpected) data comes along to completely shatter their theory...
Up till now, the data has suggested that global warming is very real.
Data can show anything you want, based on what you want to "prove". This is called Confirmation Bias ("a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true").
It's sorta like the parable about the blind men and the elephant:
In various versions of the tale, a group of blind men (or men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then compare notes and learn that they are in complete disagreement.
More important than interpretation of the data we do have is finding ways to make data out of information that is currently unavailable. To my knowledge, there are currently no efforts being made to measure the cyclical nature of underwater volcanic activity.
How do changes in a subsurface volcanic activity influence temperatures on the surface of the ocean? The El Niño/La Niña temperature swing is currently unexplained ("Mechanisms that cause the oscillation remain under study")... Perhaps it's the volcanoes, but those are hard to measure.
What incentive does the medical industry have to cure it?
The Mayo Clinic got to bill Medicare $1000/injection for my grandmother's weekly shots that were supposed to boost her red blood cells. After six months they couldn't justify it anymore, and turned her over to hospice care. She passed away a week later.
Sure, her doctors meant well, and were practicing the kind of medicine they were trained in...
it is doubtful that it would be sensible to spend a similar sum on a follow-up.
Did you know Explorer 1 was 12 minutes late? The twelve-minute hiatus of Explorer 1. I just found this response to that article, which concludes that something is indeed amiss...
Reading this article just confirmed my opinion that NASA is hiding something here. I don't think Hoagland knows what it is, but he is certainly correct that something is rotten. If the official story were true, then we would not have to see articles like this by Harris fifty years later, fudging equations and spinning furiously to create cover. - http://milesmathis.com/pi4.html
I remind everyone that Ireland is now a bankrupted state in IMF hands, devastated by a massive property bust and credit crunch, with 5 out of 6 banks nationalised.
Ireland is also a part of the Eurozone. It has, therefore, abdicated its economic destiny to the "common market", which is really nothing more than a sophisticated form of economic warfare.
Just like Greece was screwed by profiteers, so too was Ireland screwed by its bankers. The solution is not "austerity", but to take the private banking system's power to create money away, and have a government and the people be in charge of their own destiny. The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out
Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.
"Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write that."
I put down my notebook. "Just that?"
"That's right," he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there."
The Pioneers were spin-stablizied (like tops), whereas Voyager was 3-axis stabilized (with thrusters).
The first probes fired at the moon were also spin-stabilized. Both the US probes and the Soviet probes missed, by large margins. The Russians were the first to hit the moon - I guess they loaded extra propellant to perform course corrections.
The proper thing to do is launch another spin-stabilized probe on an extragalactic trajectory. I wonder how much that would cost.
What is the "Pioneer Anomaly"... <snip> Is the same effect seen with the Voyager spacecraft? The Pioneers are spin-stabilized spacecraft. The Voyagers are three-axis stabilized craft that fire thrusters to maintain their orientation in space or to slew around and point their instruments. Those thruster firings would introduce uncertainties in the tracking data that would overwhelm any effect as small as that occurring with Pioneer.
This difference in the way the spacecraft are stabilized actually is one of the reasons the Pioneer data are so important and unique. Most current spacecraft are three-axis stabilized, not spin stabilized.
My 1994 Civic VX was stickered for 56mpg on the highway. I've averaged about 45 mpg over the past 80,000 miles... I think it's quite good for a car with 212,000 total. I think it'd do better without the ethanol...
The Civic VX burns "lean" sorta like a diesel... 5 wire oxygen sensor costs about $600.
California Emissions didn't like how the engine put out a lot of the NOx when doing the leanburn trick, so the Civic VX was neutered in 1996 to become the Civic HX, Someone here said the Japanese Civic HX was good for 70mpg - it had lean burn and a CVT...
Honda brought Lean Burn back for the 1st generation Insight in 1999. The 5-spd was good for 70mpg highway. The CVT insight didn't have lean burn, and only got 50-something. A few years later Honda figured out a catalyst to break down the NOx, and incorporated lean burn (that the air regulators are happy with) into all the Civic Hybrids.
The point here is that it's possible to make a gas engine that gets the economy of diesel, but Honda only uses this feature in their hybrids (and the mpg on these is rather poor compared to what they used to sell). Wonder why that is.
I have a copy of Art Bell (of coast-to-coast AM fame) interviewing Ingo Swann, author of Penetration: The Question of Human and Extraterrestrial Telepathy.
Ingo was the creative genius behind the CIA's remote viewing program (which was shut down after 20 years because it "didn't work". Conveniently this was just after the soviet union fell apart). In the interview he talked about how he was asked to remote view the moon by an agency that didn't officially exist. "50% of what I know I put in my book, Penetration..."
The most memorable line of the whole interview:
Art: What's on the moon, Ingo? Ingo: [hesitation]... Stuff. Art: Stuff? Ingo: and THEM.
I found a copies of both the book and the mp3 on the torrents once.
Swann's books on "Secrets of Power" are very high level too... Policemen have "false power" because they lose whatever they've got when they lose the job. Presidents are in the same boat... Bankers are more powerful than Presidents because they control the money.
There are several factors that I didn't mention - because if people are allergic to the idea that herbs have beneficial properties, it's even less likely that they'd appreciate processes for releasing traumas that get stored in the body, and restoring balance to the nervous systems.
Huperzine A is something I've taken a time or two, and have seen a bit of research on. It has an effect, but I don't know how to quantify it very well in my study of 1.
There's a bit of research on nootropics, but they tend to be expensive. I'll stick to the occasional glass of tea, thanks.:)
Many people here use that word, "placebo", as if they understand the full implications. You do realize that everything has a placebo effect, even and especially "real" drugs, right?
Research is important, but who's going to pay for it? Big Pharma pays for research into things that will make them money, and to "capture" government agencies which are supposed to regulate them. This responder to the "snake oil" dismissal mentioned some of the research that's been done on various components.
The tea is only a small portion of what I've done to restore my memory. The effect the first time I took it was quite dramatic, which is why I mentioned it first. I guess my post did imply that it did a lot, but I did note "There are a lot of other important factors to memory improvement..."
Big pharma has some good stuff... Ideally, pharmaceuticals should be used temporarily for the immediate survival of the patient. I'll even concede that some people find benefit from a short term dose of certain antidepressants
Big Pharma makes $billions for Wall Street with maintenance medications for chronic conditions. Many people are on anti-depressants or heartburn medications for years at a time. Sometimes that can't be helped (thyroid for people without a thyroid, for example), but for the most part, Medicine should be looking for the cause behind the symptom first.
All drugs have placebo effects (even the ones that actually have physiologically useful effects), so gomiam's statement was entirely meaningless. But because of the Slashdot Bias for "Corporate Science", he gets instant +1 insightful +1 funny.
Last summer I found a little herb shop in Phoenix, Arizona. One of their custom loose-leaf tea blends was called An Elephant Never Forgets. My memory had been rather fickle, ever since I lost it entirely for a 2-week period after I nearly drowned at the lake, some 12 years before. The lack of consistency was rather annoying, but only when I realized that there was something I couldn't quite remember.
I bought an ounce of said tea, and immediately noticed a dramatic improvement in my ability to remember. I don't take it all the time, or even regularly, but I did happen to see the bag this morning. Funny how that works.
Here are the ingredients from the above link, to save you all a click:
Mental focus formula Ingredients: Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) – increases circulation to brain, increases cerebral function Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica) – nerve and brain tonic Rosemary (Rosemarinus officinalis) – antioxidant, supports cerebral function Rhodiola (Rhodiola rosea) – increases memory and overall performance Sage (Salvia officinalis) – antioxidant, supports cerebral function Spearmint (Mentha spicata) – increases circulation, flavor Cardamom (Eletteria cardomomum) – increases circulation Calendula Petals (Calendula officinalis) – encourages lymphatic circulation
Additional Information This formula is great for those who wish to be mentally alert without using caffeine. A very popular tea among students, but excellent for anyone wishing to support focus, concentration and memory.
Huperzine-A, from the moss, also has potent memory-improving properties.
There are a lot of other important factors to memory improvement... I should look for a publisher.:)
If the US Government is going to build 12 submarines anyways, I think they should be multi-purpose.
A powerplant that can quickly go anywhere in the world could be really useful. I imagined using the navy's nuclear reactors to power bubblers to help the bacteria break down oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The catchy title was To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise.
Now the Enterprise isn't outfitted with bubblers, or much else besides the equipment needed for its usual duties of launching airplanes to dogfight with Soviets and bomb stuff, so the proposal wasn't exactly feasible. But some guys at the Naval Research Institute said the idea had merit. Selected comment from the link is blockquoted below...
If the Government is going to spend a billion dollars on new submarines to fight the soviet menace, at the very least they could design in features that would be useful for disaster response... I imagine steam vents that could be attached to external electrical generators, or bubble generators.
Because we don't know when or where the next offshore oil rig is going to blow out...
I think the idea of a large aviation-capable logistics support / humanitarian assistance ship has merit, but do not believe CVN 65 would be the solution, for the reasons stated above, as well as the need to consider that we do not need to spend money on reactor-trained personnel and the Nuclear Propulsion Program overhead unless that capability is truly needed for war-fighting reasons. For this application, I don’t think it is.
If we are going to do this, it probably should be new construction. Such a ship needs, off the top of my head, command facilities, aviation capabilities, a well-deck (to load boats with both supplies *and* with trucks to deliver those supplies in disaster areas), a hospital, and a large storage capability for supplies. The Wasp-class has all this to some extent, so with some rejiggering an addition to that class may be prudent. The America class also has potential, though the well-deck is a really nice-to-have item for disasters (where port facilities may not be in existence and landing supplies across the beach is needed).
If we think the ship during peacetime would be too big to be out there just waiting for the need for a Japan/Indonesia-type rescue capability, just put some oceanography gear on it and map the bottom when it has nothing else to do, so we don’t have another submarine run into a uncharted seamount. I joke, but not overly much. There is potential there. With the well-deck it can also serve as mothership for small PT-type boats for piracy patrols/engagement. It would still perhaps be considered too big, so maybe increased scope for education and scientific research things are also players–as well as helping friendly nations enforce and study their EEZs. Add the Seabees, and we have something else it can do–build things in Africa or Asia or South America as it shows the flag. All these items have been mentioned in the previous post on the subject.
There is no doubt in my mind the ship could be a potent item of statecraft. Especially if we have more than one so that we have a steadily reoccurring presence in South America, Asia, and Africa. Though we may want to rethink the size again. And maybe one would be better, so it was seen as a genuine effort and not “imperialist propaganda”. But then disaster response time becomes an issue. All these are trade items.
In wartime it could serve as a fleet command ship to replace existing units when they decommission, as an aviation-capable escort for the fleet logistics train (in the tradition of CVEs), as an ASW platform, as a logistics ship capable of long range VERTREPs, as well as whatever capabilities it can bring as a dedicated amphibious assault ship augmenting the capabilities of the ARGs (or whatever they are called now). The only debate would be ab
The only resource that matters to humans are hands and minds working to solve human's problems. Minerals in the ground are just minerals in the ground, without humans to extract them, or to design & build the machinery that can extract them...
There have only been a few times that the United State's debt was paid off. Economic depression immediately followed.
The problem is that money is borrowed into existance. No new debt == no new money.
Presidential candidate Ron Paul has a good temporary solution for the debt ceiling: start tearing up the bonds that are held by the Federal Reserve. The Fed returns the interest paid on these bonds to the treasury anyways...
Economic power allows women to choose the size of their family, and experience shows that population growth levels out when a country achieves a certain level of prosperity. Condoms, birth control pills (synthetic hormones - bad for long-term health of the woman, but good for temporarily preventing conception or implantation), vasectomies (or wearing a testical-heater/nut-cup), etc - lots of ways to prevent babies. Even "Natural Family Planning" works pretty well, because there's only a few days a month that a woman is actually fertile.
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Gulf researcher Samantha Joye's paper has some quotes about oxygen: http://gulfblog.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Joye-et-al-NGeo-2011.pdf
There's are a lot of nutrients in the gulf, especially from the farm runoff (would be interesting to experiment with "bubblers" in the dead zone, but that's another topic). I've loaded your video (thanks!), but haven't watched it all yet.
Several of the pages I read last summer said the oxygen deprivation was serious... From my original piece, To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise:
Last summer I thought the Navy should get some giant air pumps and oxygenate the water, to help the bacteria with their cleanup operation. The Navy has "portable" nuclear power plants, which is why I thought they'd be good for the task.
But I'm not a celebrity with a skimmer to sell, so they didn't ask me. Oh well.
The US has a $3.7 TRILLION manufacturing sector. ... The notion that the US has exported all its manufacturing is simply not supported by the facts.
This is a really good point. I think the problem is that machinery used to require human operators. Humans are expensive, and robots always do repetitive tasks better than humans anyways, so the trend has been to automate as much as possible.
The problem is that there are fewer replacement jobs for those displaced, and Wall Street just pockets their machines' "wages".
Cheap consumer shit (throw-away plastics at the Dollar Store, for example) is now made in China, but medical supplies, airplanes, automobiles (most the Japanese manufacturers have plants here, as do BMW and Mercedes), etc are made in the US. American Apparel was doing pretty well making clothes in Los Angeles, but last I heard the economy threw them some speed bumps.
I spent some time recently in an injection molding company. Never would have known they were there, if I hadn't needed some basic machining done.
The problem is that human economies are still organized under the scarcity principle, when the problem is dealing with the abundance created with modern machinery and technology.
Your link says that the Aether concept is now understood to be a perfectly valid theory:
... Subsequent studies with large particle accelerators have now led us to understand that space is more like a piece of window glass than ideal Newtonian emptiness. It is filled with 'stuff' that is normally transparent but can be made visible by hitting it sufficiently hard to knock out a part. The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo.
HTH, HAND.
Yet another side effect of the bad economy.
Seeing as how 20% of the labor force has been replaced by machines, what are these people supposed to do to support themselves? They can't all be criminals...
This story is about a type of make-work employment too, it's just not funded by the government. It's not so different than organized crime, in that no true value is created for the economy by the actions of the parties involved.
If the government made money (instead of the banks), they could spend it into circulation to employ people who do valuable things. Community cleanup, public works, etc.
Jobs projects are totally different than make-work jobs. A job project is paying someone to do something that ought to be done, but which isn't profitable for the market to do itself. Make-work jobs put people to work doing pointless or harmful things: 1/2 digging ditches, 1/2 filling them in.
Laws criminalizing plants (Marijuana, coca leaf, etc) create make-work jobs in the prison industry, for example. Some of the other ones that come to mind are political sacred cows, so I won't mention them here.
The blog post I'm (slowly) working on links to some of John Harvey's blog posts. I found them last month, starting with Why You Should Learn to Love the Deficit: Federal Budget Fallacies:
That's why you make a prediction, get more data, and then compare the data to your prediction and throw out or keep the model that produced the prediction. Viola - science!
Science is highly susceptible to the ivory tower phenomenon. I mean this in the sense that a scientist can build up an elaborate explanation to justify their pet theory, but then new black swann (unexpected) data comes along to completely shatter their theory...
Up till now, the data has suggested that global warming is very real.
Data can show anything you want, based on what you want to "prove". This is called Confirmation Bias ("a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true").
It's sorta like the parable about the blind men and the elephant:
More important than interpretation of the data we do have is finding ways to make data out of information that is currently unavailable. To my knowledge, there are currently no efforts being made to measure the cyclical nature of underwater volcanic activity.
How do changes in a subsurface volcanic activity influence temperatures on the surface of the ocean? The El Niño/La Niña temperature swing is currently unexplained ("Mechanisms that cause the oscillation remain under study")... Perhaps it's the volcanoes, but those are hard to measure.
What incentive does the medical industry have to cure it?
The Mayo Clinic got to bill Medicare $1000/injection for my grandmother's weekly shots that were supposed to boost her red blood cells. After six months they couldn't justify it anymore, and turned her over to hospice care. She passed away a week later.
Sure, her doctors meant well, and were practicing the kind of medicine they were trained in...
I think you mean interstellar, not extragalactic.
Certainly, thanks for that. :)
it is doubtful that it would be sensible to spend a similar sum on a follow-up.
Did you know Explorer 1 was 12 minutes late? The twelve-minute hiatus of Explorer 1. I just found this response to that article, which concludes that something is indeed amiss...
I remind everyone that Ireland is now a bankrupted state in IMF hands, devastated by a massive property bust and credit crunch, with 5 out of 6 banks nationalised.
Ireland is also a part of the Eurozone. It has, therefore, abdicated its economic destiny to the "common market", which is really nothing more than a sophisticated form of economic warfare.
Just like Greece was screwed by profiteers, so too was Ireland screwed by its bankers. The solution is not "austerity", but to take the private banking system's power to create money away, and have a government and the people be in charge of their own destiny. The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out
The Pioneers were spin-stablizied (like tops), whereas Voyager was 3-axis stabilized (with thrusters).
The first probes fired at the moon were also spin-stabilized. Both the US probes and the Soviet probes missed, by large margins. The Russians were the first to hit the moon - I guess they loaded extra propellant to perform course corrections.
The proper thing to do is launch another spin-stabilized probe on an extragalactic trajectory. I wonder how much that would cost.
What is the "Pioneer Anomaly"... <snip>
Is the same effect seen with the Voyager spacecraft?
The Pioneers are spin-stabilized spacecraft. The Voyagers are three-axis stabilized craft that fire thrusters to maintain their orientation in space or to slew around and point their instruments. Those thruster firings would introduce uncertainties in the tracking data that would overwhelm any effect as small as that occurring with Pioneer.
This difference in the way the spacecraft are stabilized actually is one of the reasons the Pioneer data are so important and unique. Most current spacecraft are three-axis stabilized, not spin stabilized.
- http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/pioneer_anomaly/update_20050720.html
My 1994 Civic VX was stickered for 56mpg on the highway. I've averaged about 45 mpg over the past 80,000 miles... I think it's quite good for a car with 212,000 total. I think it'd do better without the ethanol...
The Civic VX burns "lean" sorta like a diesel... 5 wire oxygen sensor costs about $600.
California Emissions didn't like how the engine put out a lot of the NOx when doing the leanburn trick, so the Civic VX was neutered in 1996 to become the Civic HX, Someone here said the Japanese Civic HX was good for 70mpg - it had lean burn and a CVT...
Honda brought Lean Burn back for the 1st generation Insight in 1999. The 5-spd was good for 70mpg highway. The CVT insight didn't have lean burn, and only got 50-something. A few years later Honda figured out a catalyst to break down the NOx, and incorporated lean burn (that the air regulators are happy with) into all the Civic Hybrids.
The point here is that it's possible to make a gas engine that gets the economy of diesel, but Honda only uses this feature in their hybrids (and the mpg on these is rather poor compared to what they used to sell). Wonder why that is.
COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF FUEL ECONOMY IMPROVEMENTS IN1992 HONDA CIVIC HATCHBACKS
I have a copy of Art Bell (of coast-to-coast AM fame) interviewing Ingo Swann, author of Penetration: The Question of Human and Extraterrestrial Telepathy.
Ingo was the creative genius behind the CIA's remote viewing program (which was shut down after 20 years because it "didn't work". Conveniently this was just after the soviet union fell apart). In the interview he talked about how he was asked to remote view the moon by an agency that didn't officially exist. "50% of what I know I put in my book, Penetration..."
The most memorable line of the whole interview:
Art: What's on the moon, Ingo? ... Stuff.
Ingo: [hesitation]
Art: Stuff?
Ingo: and THEM.
I found a copies of both the book and the mp3 on the torrents once.
Swann's books on "Secrets of Power" are very high level too... Policemen have "false power" because they lose whatever they've got when they lose the job. Presidents are in the same boat... Bankers are more powerful than Presidents because they control the money.
HTH. :)
There are several factors that I didn't mention - because if people are allergic to the idea that herbs have beneficial properties, it's even less likely that they'd appreciate processes for releasing traumas that get stored in the body, and restoring balance to the nervous systems.
Huperzine A is something I've taken a time or two, and have seen a bit of research on. It has an effect, but I don't know how to quantify it very well in my study of 1.
There's a bit of research on nootropics, but they tend to be expensive. I'll stick to the occasional glass of tea, thanks. :)
Many people here use that word, "placebo", as if they understand the full implications. You do realize that everything has a placebo effect, even and especially "real" drugs, right?
Research is important, but who's going to pay for it? Big Pharma pays for research into things that will make them money, and to "capture" government agencies which are supposed to regulate them. This responder to the "snake oil" dismissal mentioned some of the research that's been done on various components.
The tea is only a small portion of what I've done to restore my memory. The effect the first time I took it was quite dramatic, which is why I mentioned it first. I guess my post did imply that it did a lot, but I did note "There are a lot of other important factors to memory improvement..."
Huperzine A
hth, hand.
Big pharma has some good stuff... Ideally, pharmaceuticals should be used temporarily for the immediate survival of the patient. I'll even concede that some people find benefit from a short term dose of certain antidepressants
Big Pharma makes $billions for Wall Street with maintenance medications for chronic conditions. Many people are on anti-depressants or heartburn medications for years at a time. Sometimes that can't be helped (thyroid for people without a thyroid, for example), but for the most part, Medicine should be looking for the cause behind the symptom first.
All drugs have placebo effects (even the ones that actually have physiologically useful effects), so gomiam's statement was entirely meaningless. But because of the Slashdot Bias for "Corporate Science", he gets instant +1 insightful +1 funny.
I assume you are referring to the studies that show anti-depressants are no better than placebo. This was discussed here some time back:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/02/26/107234/Antidepressants-Work-No-Better-Than-a-Placebo links to http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045
hth, HAND.
I suppose that you didn't hear about the recent studies that found Big Pharma's anti-depressants are no better than placebo.
If it's not sold by MegaCorp Pharmaceuticals it's no good, right?
Last summer I found a little herb shop in Phoenix, Arizona. One of their custom loose-leaf tea blends was called An Elephant Never Forgets. My memory had been rather fickle, ever since I lost it entirely for a 2-week period after I nearly drowned at the lake, some 12 years before. The lack of consistency was rather annoying, but only when I realized that there was something I couldn't quite remember.
I bought an ounce of said tea, and immediately noticed a dramatic improvement in my ability to remember. I don't take it all the time, or even regularly, but I did happen to see the bag this morning. Funny how that works.
Here are the ingredients from the above link, to save you all a click:
Huperzine-A, from the moss, also has potent memory-improving properties.
There are a lot of other important factors to memory improvement... I should look for a publisher. :)
If the US Government is going to build 12 submarines anyways, I think they should be multi-purpose.
A powerplant that can quickly go anywhere in the world could be really useful. I imagined using the navy's nuclear reactors to power bubblers to help the bacteria break down oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The catchy title was To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise.
Now the Enterprise isn't outfitted with bubblers, or much else besides the equipment needed for its usual duties of launching airplanes to dogfight with Soviets and bomb stuff, so the proposal wasn't exactly feasible. But some guys at the Naval Research Institute said the idea had merit. Selected comment from the link is blockquoted below...
If the Government is going to spend a billion dollars on new submarines to fight the soviet menace, at the very least they could design in features that would be useful for disaster response... I imagine steam vents that could be attached to external electrical generators, or bubble generators.
Because we don't know when or where the next offshore oil rig is going to blow out...
All money is is allocation of resources.
The only resource that matters to humans are hands and minds working to solve human's problems. Minerals in the ground are just minerals in the ground, without humans to extract them, or to design & build the machinery that can extract them...
There have only been a few times that the United State's debt was paid off. Economic depression immediately followed.
The problem is that money is borrowed into existance. No new debt == no new money.
Presidential candidate Ron Paul has a good temporary solution for the debt ceiling: start tearing up the bonds that are held by the Federal Reserve. The Fed returns the interest paid on these bonds to the treasury anyways...
Read about this option in Ellen Brown's recent piece, QE2 Shocker: The Whole $600 Billion Wound Up Offshore
Economic power allows women to choose the size of their family, and experience shows that population growth levels out when a country achieves a certain level of prosperity. Condoms, birth control pills (synthetic hormones - bad for long-term health of the woman, but good for temporarily preventing conception or implantation), vasectomies (or wearing a testical-heater/nut-cup), etc - lots of ways to prevent babies. Even "Natural Family Planning" works pretty well, because there's only a few days a month that a woman is actually fertile.