There are 20 000 drops of water in a litre. Volume of a typical bucket is 10 litres. Thus there are 200 000 drops in a bucket. So, in cosmic terms 10 000 years is 1.5 drops in a bucket.
Well I didn't RTFA (this is Slashdot) but I guess they just might provide targets (like for example what proteins ought to be inhibited) for drug development.
Saying "a few animals can survive temporarily in the absence of oxygen" is sort of like saying "a few animals can swim" or "a few animals eat meat". There are countless animals that survive temporarily in anoxic environments. For example a vast number of insects begin their life in the oxygen depleted (often anoxic) environments of lake sediments.
The thing is that multicellular organisms require a lot more energy than unicellular organisms and for that there's the citric acid cycle. However there's no citric acid cycle without oxygen. This is the reason we haven't found any multicellular anoxiphiles (?) so far. I think. BTW there's a horrible mistake on the second sentence of the original article and they say it went thru peer-review. WTF! Hint: google "anoxia tolerance"
Well actually whatever OS it runs, it's in many ways like a real girl. If it runs Windows you'll end up getting viruses. If it runs something Apple you'll pay for updates (or monthly fees). If it runs Linux you'll have to spend an insane amount of time with it to make it right.
I'm a Finn. I've already got a filter for spam snail mail. I wrote "Ei mainoksia, kiitos" (no adds, please) to a sticker and placed it on top of my mail slot. The only post I get is postcards from friends and relatives twice a decade or so. Everything else is already digital..
While watching the webcast, just seconds away from the first collisions, the stream went down. I was like w000t! You have no idea how disappointed I was as I realized that it was just my shitty wifi..
I'm thinking what Phoebe did to her bullies is infinitely worse than what they did to her. Imagine growing up knowing that you pushed a classmate over the edge and in a way caused her death. I used to feel horrible because back in elementary school me and a bunch of others bullied this one poor kid for 6 fucking years. Eventually I came to terms with it. I was, like most kids, a fucking retard shithead. Thankfully most of us become better human beings as we mature. And what about Phoebe's little sister and her parents? Did she think how they'd feel as they found her hanging? Did she consider that they might feel a hell of a lot worse than she ever did? Why did she kill herself? Was it a "I'll fucking show them" kind of act and was she really that desperate? Whatever she went thru really doesn't seem to be that big of a thing.. but what do I know. Nobody ever threw a red bull can at me. One year a kid in a school bus bullied me for some months in a row, but I was all passive about it. That is until one day he spat on me. I stood up and punched him in his face. The bullying ended that day..
Apparently the European Digital Agenda Commissioner (2010-2014) is a 70 year old woman who according to her webpage has "an ongoing interest in mental health issues." Seriously? They couldn't find anyone more qualified? How many 70 year old people are there who even know what open source means? I'm not an ageist nor a sexist, but I'm pretty sure about all of my friends would have been more qualified to this particular job.
I had heard about the accident, but had no idea what really happened. Having now watched that thing I totally know what went down. Not that it makes it any more meaningful.
It's only Briffa's tree-ring data that doesn't match other tree series and proxies from 1960 onwards. It's a set of 10 or so trees (might be less) that agreed with 100's of trees from Europe and Asia till 1960, but then something happened. That is the "decline" or the "divergence problem". It has never been a secret and it sure as hell doesn't invalidate tree-rings as a good proxy for direct temperature readings. It would however be interesting to find out what happened in Alaska..
The other day I watched this documentary "Race and Intelligence" in which they asked the same question (and also why certain Asian Americans score higher than European Americans). In it they didn't deny that there's a genetic component to IQ (as measured by IQ-tests). Twin studies clearly show that genes play a part. However they argued that the difference was mostly due to sub-cultural differences (like for example blacks might refer reading books as a white thing and thus don't really do it as much as whites). In the documentary they talked about Flynn effect (rise of IQ-test scores over generations) and how African Americans are gaining on European Americans (their scores are rising more). Is this a reflection of black and white American cultures becoming more similar?
The phenotype of most of our traits is not due to our genotype alone. So unless all people carrying whateverthehell mutation this guy has stab people this ruling is f*cking stupid.
The rovers were sterilized and even if they weren't we could most definitely figure out if supposed found bacteria from Mars where from there or Earth. All you have to do is to have a look at their ribosomes. Don't exist? Definitely not from Earth! Different to Earth ones? Definitely not from Earth. If they're somewhat similar to ones found from Earth then just sequence genome DNA. Pretty similar to something from Earth? Well then odds are that they're indeed from Earth. Otherwise you've got a Martian.
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Car analogies are always much appreciated, however I think a better one in this case would be:
This is like someone complaining that someone installed a state of the art sound system to their car and then someone else stole it.
Gizmodo is nothing more than a meeting place of Apple fanbois.
You're all so fucking retarded. Don't have a nice day, die instead and face the void.
I already said it before. Let's build the freaking transatlantic tunnel!
If Eyja keeps on erupting for long enough maybe transatlantic tunnel becomes real?
There are 20 000 drops of water in a litre. Volume of a typical bucket is 10 litres. Thus there are 200 000 drops in a bucket. So, in cosmic terms 10 000 years is 1.5 drops in a bucket.
Well I didn't RTFA (this is Slashdot) but I guess they just might provide targets (like for example what proteins ought to be inhibited) for drug development.
Saying "a few animals can survive temporarily in the absence of oxygen" is sort of like saying "a few animals can swim" or "a few animals eat meat". There are countless animals that survive temporarily in anoxic environments. For example a vast number of insects begin their life in the oxygen depleted (often anoxic) environments of lake sediments.
The thing is that multicellular organisms require a lot more energy than unicellular organisms and for that there's the citric acid cycle. However there's no citric acid cycle without oxygen. This is the reason we haven't found any multicellular anoxiphiles (?) so far. I think. BTW there's a horrible mistake on the second sentence of the original article and they say it went thru peer-review. WTF! Hint: google "anoxia tolerance"
Yes grandpa. We know there is an animated SW series.
Well actually whatever OS it runs, it's in many ways like a real girl. If it runs Windows you'll end up getting viruses. If it runs something Apple you'll pay for updates (or monthly fees). If it runs Linux you'll have to spend an insane amount of time with it to make it right.
does she run Linux?
I'm a Finn. I've already got a filter for spam snail mail. I wrote "Ei mainoksia, kiitos" (no adds, please) to a sticker and placed it on top of my mail slot. The only post I get is postcards from friends and relatives twice a decade or so. Everything else is already digital..
While watching the webcast, just seconds away from the first collisions, the stream went down. I was like w000t! You have no idea how disappointed I was as I realized that it was just my shitty wifi..
Oh. Well great! Usually I hate being proven wrong. This time it's the opposite :)
I'm thinking what Phoebe did to her bullies is infinitely worse than what they did to her. Imagine growing up knowing that you pushed a classmate over the edge and in a way caused her death. I used to feel horrible because back in elementary school me and a bunch of others bullied this one poor kid for 6 fucking years. Eventually I came to terms with it. I was, like most kids, a fucking retard shithead. Thankfully most of us become better human beings as we mature. And what about Phoebe's little sister and her parents? Did she think how they'd feel as they found her hanging? Did she consider that they might feel a hell of a lot worse than she ever did? Why did she kill herself? Was it a "I'll fucking show them" kind of act and was she really that desperate? Whatever she went thru really doesn't seem to be that big of a thing.. but what do I know. Nobody ever threw a red bull can at me. One year a kid in a school bus bullied me for some months in a row, but I was all passive about it. That is until one day he spat on me. I stood up and punched him in his face. The bullying ended that day..
Apparently the European Digital Agenda Commissioner (2010-2014) is a 70 year old woman who according to her webpage has "an ongoing interest in mental health issues." Seriously? They couldn't find anyone more qualified? How many 70 year old people are there who even know what open source means? I'm not an ageist nor a sexist, but I'm pretty sure about all of my friends would have been more qualified to this particular job.
I read Google will air this tonight.
I had heard about the accident, but had no idea what really happened. Having now watched that thing I totally know what went down. Not that it makes it any more meaningful.
It's only Briffa's tree-ring data that doesn't match other tree series and proxies from 1960 onwards. It's a set of 10 or so trees (might be less) that agreed with 100's of trees from Europe and Asia till 1960, but then something happened. That is the "decline" or the "divergence problem". It has never been a secret and it sure as hell doesn't invalidate tree-rings as a good proxy for direct temperature readings. It would however be interesting to find out what happened in Alaska..
Joo = yes in Finnish yesyes Well, at least they didn't name it "ei ei" :p
The other day I watched this documentary "Race and Intelligence" in which they asked the same question (and also why certain Asian Americans score higher than European Americans). In it they didn't deny that there's a genetic component to IQ (as measured by IQ-tests). Twin studies clearly show that genes play a part. However they argued that the difference was mostly due to sub-cultural differences (like for example blacks might refer reading books as a white thing and thus don't really do it as much as whites). In the documentary they talked about Flynn effect (rise of IQ-test scores over generations) and how African Americans are gaining on European Americans (their scores are rising more). Is this a reflection of black and white American cultures becoming more similar?
Mensa and testing agencies have been making it clear for a couple decades now that IQ only measures your ability to take tests.
IQ tests measure your puzzle solving skills.
The phenotype of most of our traits is not due to our genotype alone. So unless all people carrying whateverthehell mutation this guy has stab people this ruling is f*cking stupid.
The rovers were sterilized and even if they weren't we could most definitely figure out if supposed found bacteria from Mars where from there or Earth. All you have to do is to have a look at their ribosomes. Don't exist? Definitely not from Earth! Different to Earth ones? Definitely not from Earth. If they're somewhat similar to ones found from Earth then just sequence genome DNA. Pretty similar to something from Earth? Well then odds are that they're indeed from Earth. Otherwise you've got a Martian.