I know enough people from the mediterranean area who would, just for the taste, take a tablespoon full of olive oil, every now and then. To be honest, if it is a really good oil, it is not unpleasant.
As I said, I would not categorically rule it out. But we know a lot of chemistry outside of biochemistry defining life here, and most of those chemistries do not really support complexity. I am open to be surprised and would be glad to, but I would not bet my house on it.
Here in Germany, we have specialized judges at the Federal Patent Court, so called "technical judges". They did not study law, but are instead required to study engineering or a science. Believe me, you can't bullshit those guys on technical matters, I tried and still carry the scars....
Perhaps we start with a book on what actually constitutes prior art for the slashdot crowd... Because 99% of the "lol, lol - prior art" posts on/. are beyond pathetic.
As a biochemist, the requirement for liquid water seems somewhat reasonable to me. If you want life, you need a chemistry that supplies a minimum level of complexity - you need information storage, you need thermodynamics that can be balanced quite tightly, and from all our knowledge of chemistry, there is not much room for something like that outside of carbon chemistry in liquid water. I wouldn't categorically rule it out, but it is a pretty good bet.
I dunno, I find that most of the things I am cooking for myself can be made for one serving without problems. As long as you can get your groceries not prepackaged, that is - at my greengrocer's and butcher's shop, I get exactly as much as I want, instead of 500g prepackaged stuff that goes to waste. Sure, there is stuff you can't just prepare for one person, like roasts, but there is enough to get you through the week with great diversity. Pasta, Thai curries, salads, any roasted or grilled meat that can be prepared by the single slice or piece - I rarely throw stuff away and I rarely eat the same dish two days in a row. And I am definitely saving money.
Hey, well. Utter cluelessness about the patent process is basically standard for/. articles. Of course this is an application. No one patented anything yet. Springboard might be usable to challenge inventive step, I guess, but I doubt it'll even be enough for novelty.
Now that my memory comes back to me - give the parent AC credit. He is 100% right - the Gran Sasso Lab is located in a road tunnel - and that, in all likelihood, is the tunnel referred to.
My Italian is a bit rusty, and this is beside the point anyway, but wouldn't "galleria" more specifically refer to a road or railway tunnel? Something made for driving through, but not necessarily, say, a utility tunnel where you run cables through or something like that? Any native speaker around?
Sure - you are right on all accounts. Some of this generation will be abducted, too - but will putting them on a GPS leash change any of that? And even if, is it worth it to destroy every last bit of trust between parents and kids by constant monitoring?
How did my generation manage to grow up in the 70s and 80s without getting abducted every second day and constantly being ass-raped? I mean, we had no cell phones, no GPS - we should be dead by now, shouldn't we?
The European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures also managed to fuck up the environment they live off and depend on on an unprecedented scale. Way to go..... But if your racist wankery only uses metrics like "iPhones build", well... I am not sure if you can be helped at all.
True. I am lacking knowledge here - so I really can't provide an informed opinion, but I guess that is a common trait among cultures developing in scarcity. I'd wager that it is mostly cultural and not biological, though. For comparison, see the first obesity epidemic we had in Germany after the war. After years of extreme scarcity, eating was good in the fifties. And lord, the people ate... I'd still say that such cultural effects can be overcome without destroying the underlying culture itself.
In all likelihood H. sapiens is adapted so well to different environments that there was simply not enough evolutionary pressure for speciation - we simply thrive everywhere as we are. Your speculation is interesting though, if real speciation happened there, how would we have handled it? Would make for a great SF story. If only I could write....
You can show actual proton transport by, say, a proton pump protein in a membrane. Just put some 3H+ on one side and watch for it being pumped to the other. The mechanism is not just attraction between positive and negative charges, the mechanism is active - so you spend ATP to pump protons against a gradient of the electrochemical potential, usually by funneling them between a series of binding sites.
We do work with both at the moment in my office - all data is digitized, but we still keep hard copy of everything (as necessitated by law around here). While the digital archive is nice to quickly call up a document I need, I could only go paperless if I get a screen that can display 5-10 pages side by side, as I do need to compare a lot of technical documentation, especially technical drawings, and nothing beats just filling up your desktop with the printouts, take a step back and stare at it until you get the overview you need.
That's because it is not that clear cut - I have seen departments in private business slacking off like there is no tomorrow and government departments where people busted ass - mostly in the scientific sector there. You got that mix everywhere.
Poor little operaghost is a pure, uncut libtard. He doesn't give a flying fuck about liberty. In his twisted shriveled soul, property is all that matters.
Their care for the citizens' tax burden ends abruptly where their care for dictating everyone their morals begins. If they'd actually wanted to save money, they'd stop the "war" on some drugs and end a gigantic waste of taxpayers' money. Wait, but that money gets funneled to their pals in the prison-industrial complex. So I guess it's 'carry on'....
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I know enough people from the mediterranean area who would, just for the taste, take a tablespoon full of olive oil, every now and then. To be honest, if it is a really good oil, it is not unpleasant.
As I said, I would not categorically rule it out. But we know a lot of chemistry outside of biochemistry defining life here, and most of those chemistries do not really support complexity. I am open to be surprised and would be glad to, but I would not bet my house on it.
Here in Germany, we have specialized judges at the Federal Patent Court, so called "technical judges". They did not study law, but are instead required to study engineering or a science. Believe me, you can't bullshit those guys on technical matters, I tried and still carry the scars....
Perhaps we start with a book on what actually constitutes prior art for the slashdot crowd... Because 99% of the "lol, lol - prior art" posts on /. are beyond pathetic.
As a biochemist, the requirement for liquid water seems somewhat reasonable to me. If you want life, you need a chemistry that supplies a minimum level of complexity - you need information storage, you need thermodynamics that can be balanced quite tightly, and from all our knowledge of chemistry, there is not much room for something like that outside of carbon chemistry in liquid water. I wouldn't categorically rule it out, but it is a pretty good bet.
Another analog guy in a digital world? Greetings, brother!
*gobble* *slurp* *gobble*
Sorry, can't understand you while you got the dick of your spinmasters down your throat THAT deep.
No true scotsman....
I dunno, I find that most of the things I am cooking for myself can be made for one serving without problems. As long as you can get your groceries not prepackaged, that is - at my greengrocer's and butcher's shop, I get exactly as much as I want, instead of 500g prepackaged stuff that goes to waste. Sure, there is stuff you can't just prepare for one person, like roasts, but there is enough to get you through the week with great diversity. Pasta, Thai curries, salads, any roasted or grilled meat that can be prepared by the single slice or piece - I rarely throw stuff away and I rarely eat the same dish two days in a row. And I am definitely saving money.
Hey, well. Utter cluelessness about the patent process is basically standard for /. articles. Of course this is an application. No one patented anything yet. Springboard might be usable to challenge inventive step, I guess, but I doubt it'll even be enough for novelty.
Now that my memory comes back to me - give the parent AC credit. He is 100% right - the Gran Sasso Lab is located in a road tunnel - and that, in all likelihood, is the tunnel referred to.
My Italian is a bit rusty, and this is beside the point anyway, but wouldn't "galleria" more specifically refer to a road or railway tunnel? Something made for driving through, but not necessarily, say, a utility tunnel where you run cables through or something like that? Any native speaker around?
Sure - you are right on all accounts. Some of this generation will be abducted, too - but will putting them on a GPS leash change any of that? And even if, is it worth it to destroy every last bit of trust between parents and kids by constant monitoring?
How did my generation manage to grow up in the 70s and 80s without getting abducted every second day and constantly being ass-raped? I mean, we had no cell phones, no GPS - we should be dead by now, shouldn't we?
The European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures also managed to fuck up the environment they live off and depend on on an unprecedented scale. Way to go..... But if your racist wankery only uses metrics like "iPhones build", well... I am not sure if you can be helped at all.
True. I am lacking knowledge here - so I really can't provide an informed opinion, but I guess that is a common trait among cultures developing in scarcity. I'd wager that it is mostly cultural and not biological, though. For comparison, see the first obesity epidemic we had in Germany after the war. After years of extreme scarcity, eating was good in the fifties. And lord, the people ate... I'd still say that such cultural effects can be overcome without destroying the underlying culture itself.
Come on - you can provide access to decent medical care without imposing cultural imperialism. You are making up a false dichotomy there.
In all likelihood H. sapiens is adapted so well to different environments that there was simply not enough evolutionary pressure for speciation - we simply thrive everywhere as we are. Your speculation is interesting though, if real speciation happened there, how would we have handled it? Would make for a great SF story. If only I could write....
You can show actual proton transport by, say, a proton pump protein in a membrane. Just put some 3H+ on one side and watch for it being pumped to the other. The mechanism is not just attraction between positive and negative charges, the mechanism is active - so you spend ATP to pump protons against a gradient of the electrochemical potential, usually by funneling them between a series of binding sites.
We do work with both at the moment in my office - all data is digitized, but we still keep hard copy of everything (as necessitated by law around here). While the digital archive is nice to quickly call up a document I need, I could only go paperless if I get a screen that can display 5-10 pages side by side, as I do need to compare a lot of technical documentation, especially technical drawings, and nothing beats just filling up your desktop with the printouts, take a step back and stare at it until you get the overview you need.
As we say in my office - we won't get paperless data processing soon, but we rock at dataless paper processing right now!
Here, get some education thrown in for free.
J'accuse
That's because it is not that clear cut - I have seen departments in private business slacking off like there is no tomorrow and government departments where people busted ass - mostly in the scientific sector there. You got that mix everywhere.
Poor little operaghost is a pure, uncut libtard. He doesn't give a flying fuck about liberty. In his twisted shriveled soul, property is all that matters.
Their care for the citizens' tax burden ends abruptly where their care for dictating everyone their morals begins. If they'd actually wanted to save money, they'd stop the "war" on some drugs and end a gigantic waste of taxpayers' money. Wait, but that money gets funneled to their pals in the prison-industrial complex. So I guess it's 'carry on'....