There are several hundred to several thousand other chemicals that must be working in addtion to DNA before a truly artificial organism is constructed. No one knows all what these are yet. It may take decades to solve this.
A few throwbacks claim that life can only come from life, i.e. there is some inherent patterns in the cells you just cant recreate from inert chemicals. Other claim some life energy or essence, but I think thats a supersition.
The previous attempt at synthetic life was some viruses from scratch. They tried this with polio, but some it wasn't infectious because something was still missing.
2000 climbers in 2007; about 600 summits so far
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Beats previous 2006 record of 480 summits. Gets pretty crowded on top when the 1-2 week weather window opens in late May. This year the window was unusally long, so more peole had second chances. Theres a second, much smaller season in October for a handful of remaining summits.
The factor that greater increased climbers was the entry of cut-rate Chinese climbing companies from the north. Nepal permits cost about $10K per climber, total expedition is $20K - $60K. China cost be below $10K, thus attracting hordes. 2006 had the second highest death total (8), mostly blamed on the shortcuts and inexperience of Chinese companies. I saw (6) so far in 2007.
Stanford Physics Departnment has 40 year long satellite development and deployment to test an obscure warping of space near rotating bodies called frame-dragging. It cost like 700 million dollars. This is the infamous gravity Probe B satellite where they had to machine a sphere to the smoothness of an atom. In the meantime radio astronomers already verfied frame-dragging. The Stanford experiment is supposed to have 20 times better precision if it worked perfectly. however there is an unexpected source of instrument noise that has degraded results. Tehy are hopeful longer measurements and better computer processing might improve resutls.
A few years back someone argued that ubquitous cameras were OK only if everyone had full and equal access to the images. Else this creates a power inequality where a privleged class of people has access to more information than other people. In some sense google is approaching this standard. Except if they keep internal databases that have more information than they allow the public to see.
Thats not amazing when Moore's law(*) increases price/performance a magnitude every five years. My cell has a faster processor, more memory, and better graphics and games than my first PC and costs less.
(* OK I know the original law refers to doubling transistors on a chip every 18 months which is an increase in magnitude every five years and price performance if the chip costs remain approcimately constant.)
according to one of the Mars rovers chief investigators.
He estimates he could have found most of the significant
discoveries of the rovers in just a few days if he were walking
aroudn those areas of Mars.
Still he is grateful for the robots. Much better than nothing.
The news in the UK worries and whines about everything- global warming, genetically enhanced food, cell phone radiation, etc. Sounds like an island of sissies to me. Mod me down you thin-skinned Brits!
Most people anticipated something like the public/commercial internet some years in the future, but not that it would take-off in a couple of years (1993-1995 courtesy of NSF Mosaic). Event the founder of the MIT Media Lab and Wired Magazine Negopronte missed this in his book about computing trends (Being Digital) published that year. Gates missed until he had his "revelation" that MSN would not be the Internet.
Remember the difference between Apple Music (Beatles) and Apple Computers? Although that has been litigated, there are have been domains limits for multiple name holders.
I've been writing software since 1970 and still paid very well for it - vertical applications in video game graphics. I have a MIT degree and had a email address since 1974 and computer newsgroups sicne 1984. I have not bought my own computer yet, bought my first TV and car age 35. Didnt buy a cell phone until last year when when payphones went nearly extinct, and only use it for travel. I sweat from confusion of choices when going into a circuit city.
Too few original ideas these days.
Stil there are plenty of brain-dead 15-years to buy the product as we saw last week for lame three-quel comic book product.
It is likely that Mars become more hospitable to life earlier than early by solidifying sooner. Dozens of Martian meterites have been discovered on earth. Perhaps there have been thousands or millions Martian meteorites over the eons. Bacteria have been found living five miles deep in earth where they may have been cut off from the surface from tens of millions of years or longer. They either live extremely slowly or metabolize other nutrients inside rocks. Rocks are excellent insulators from the heat and pressure of bombardment. Some meteors hitting earth are cool inside, even though their out layers have evaporated away from the heat.
Some these all together and you can make a case for bacteria first evolving on Mars and then infecting earth through meteroic hitchhiking, this happening billions of years ago. then they evolved on Earth while Mars became hostile to life.
What if you disovered the gene/protein differences and then amplified them?
Or changed them slightly to make more powerful human brains?
They are already trying this for athletes. For example humans have more of a muscle growth inhibitor called myostatin than some other species. Occasional mutations or very strong people have less myostatin. So some doctors are looking into suppressing this protein chemically or genetically.
Horses and donkeys have different numbers of chromosomes and that does prevent a hybrid.
Unless you wanted grandchildren or boys:-)
The pieces of chromosomes are all rearranged as in humans and chimps, and they find their matching components.
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There are several hundred to several thousand other chemicals that must be working in addtion to DNA before a truly artificial organism is constructed. No one knows all what these are yet. It may take decades to solve this.
A few throwbacks claim that life can only come from life, i.e. there is some inherent patterns in the cells you just cant recreate from inert chemicals. Other claim some life energy or essence, but I think thats a supersition.
The previous attempt at synthetic life was some viruses from scratch. They tried this with polio, but some it wasn't infectious because something was still missing.
Beats previous 2006 record of 480 summits. Gets pretty crowded on top when the 1-2 week weather window opens in late May. This year the window was unusally long, so more peole had second chances. Theres a second, much smaller season in October for a handful of remaining summits.
The factor that greater increased climbers was the entry of cut-rate Chinese climbing companies from the north. Nepal permits cost about $10K per climber, total expedition is $20K - $60K. China cost be below $10K, thus attracting hordes. 2006 had the second highest death total (8), mostly blamed on the shortcuts and inexperience of Chinese companies. I saw (6) so far in 2007.
You asked.
Stanford Physics Departnment has 40 year long satellite development and deployment to test an obscure warping of space near rotating bodies called frame-dragging. It cost like 700 million dollars. This is the infamous gravity Probe B satellite where they had to machine a sphere to the smoothness of an atom. In the meantime radio astronomers already verfied frame-dragging. The Stanford experiment is supposed to have 20 times better precision if it worked perfectly. however there is an unexpected source of instrument noise that has degraded results. Tehy are hopeful longer measurements and better computer processing might improve resutls.
Is 24 hours too long for first hack?
The current adminstration has set my expectations so low that I find myself cheering a bit when they start going one percent in the proper direction.
And the Brits arent exactly the party animals of Europe either. And America is still puritanical after 400 years.
DNA is almost fractal. Fractal data doesnt compress very well.
Didnt it run on anything, including garbage?
A few years back someone argued that ubquitous cameras were OK only if everyone had full and equal access to the images. Else this creates a power inequality where a privleged class of people has access to more information than other people. In some sense google is approaching this standard. Except if they keep internal databases that have more information than they allow the public to see.
I'm not sure if I buy this myself.
With high end processor power consumption approaching the better part of a kilowatt, perhaps toasting speed could be a measure.
I still see the iPod dancers on TV.
Then there cool Apple guy versus the business nerd (could be IBM but is probably MicroSoft).
MicroSoft has the "dont be a dinosaur" campaign. But I thought that backfired referring to MicroSoft itself.
Its just that MicroSoft could miniturize their iPhone clone as much as Apple could, so they change the name to a "table".
A good OS and compilers should do most of the work.
Thats not amazing when Moore's law(*) increases price/performance a magnitude every five years. My cell has a faster processor, more memory, and better graphics and games than my first PC and costs less.
(* OK I know the original law refers to doubling transistors on a chip every 18 months which is an increase in magnitude every five years and price performance if the chip costs remain approcimately constant.)
according to one of the Mars rovers chief investigators. He estimates he could have found most of the significant discoveries of the rovers in just a few days if he were walking aroudn those areas of Mars.
Still he is grateful for the robots. Much better than nothing.
The news in the UK worries and whines about everything- global warming, genetically enhanced food, cell phone radiation, etc. Sounds like an island of sissies to me. Mod me down you thin-skinned Brits!
I guess the IPO dislikes snitches on snitches.
Most people anticipated something like the public/commercial internet some years in the future, but not that it would take-off in a couple of years (1993-1995 courtesy of NSF Mosaic). Event the founder of the MIT Media Lab and Wired Magazine Negopronte missed this in his book about computing trends (Being Digital) published that year. Gates missed until he had his "revelation" that MSN would not be the Internet.
Remember the difference between Apple Music (Beatles) and Apple Computers? Although that has been litigated, there are have been domains limits for multiple name holders.
I've been writing software since 1970 and still paid very well for it - vertical applications in video game graphics. I have a MIT degree and had a email address since 1974 and computer newsgroups sicne 1984. I have not bought my own computer yet, bought my first TV and car age 35. Didnt buy a cell phone until last year when when payphones went nearly extinct, and only use it for travel. I sweat from confusion of choices when going into a circuit city.
Too few original ideas these days. Stil there are plenty of brain-dead 15-years to buy the product as we saw last week for lame three-quel comic book product.
It is likely that Mars become more hospitable to life earlier than early by solidifying sooner. Dozens of Martian meterites have been discovered on earth. Perhaps there have been thousands or millions Martian meteorites over the eons. Bacteria have been found living five miles deep in earth where they may have been cut off from the surface from tens of millions of years or longer. They either live extremely slowly or metabolize other nutrients inside rocks. Rocks are excellent insulators from the heat and pressure of bombardment. Some meteors hitting earth are cool inside, even though their out layers have evaporated away from the heat.
Some these all together and you can make a case for bacteria first evolving on Mars and then infecting earth through meteroic hitchhiking, this happening billions of years ago. then they evolved on Earth while Mars became hostile to life.
What if you disovered the gene/protein differences and then amplified them? Or changed them slightly to make more powerful human brains?
They are already trying this for athletes. For example humans have more of a muscle growth inhibitor called myostatin than some other species. Occasional mutations or very strong people have less myostatin. So some doctors are looking into suppressing this protein chemically or genetically.
Horses and donkeys have different numbers of chromosomes and that does prevent a hybrid. Unless you wanted grandchildren or boys :-)
The pieces of chromosomes are all rearranged as in humans and chimps, and they find their matching components.