Well, I'd predict that the first study suggested that people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that allowed people to actively influence or change their dream worlds – qualities suggestive of watching or controlling the action of a video-game character.
A second study tried to narrow down the uncertainties by examining dreams that participants experienced from the night before, and focused more on gamers. It found that lucid dreams were common, but that the gamers never had dream control over anything beyond their dream selves.
What's that you say? I just copied that from TFA? Well if you knew that was in TFA, why'd you ask?
TFA also mentions that the researcher in question was focused on lucid dreams until she saw her son kissing an NES box.
I also find the mitochondrial situation to be pretty weird. I mean, even if you get past the weirdness of bacteria with their own genes living in and dividing in almost all of your cells, in many cases even releasing factors which convince your cells to commit suicide, there's a whole other layer of weirdness that they all came from your mother.
My sister's cat is going to feel pretty silly about gnawing through all of her umbilical cords and eating the placentas. Next time I'll be sure to let Mittens know about the stem cells.
To be fair, she probably thinks we're the silly ones for wasting all those tasty stem cells on our measly one-offspring litters.
There are quite a few things relating to circulation that don't happen until a few moments after birth (i.e. blood pressure, heart rate, heart valve changes). Perhaps a stem cell transference has something to do with that...
There are several valves in the embryo's heart (such as the foramen ovale) which allows a lot of the blood passing through the heart to avoid the lungs. A lot of the blood coming into the heart before birth is oxygenated from the umbilical cord, so it can get pumped right out without going to the lungs.
When the lungs become functional, pressure changes cause at least some of those valves to close immediately, so that the blood is now forced to go through the lungs before getting pumped back out to the body. These valves should close almost immediately to avoid deoxygenated blood being pumped out. That's really too quick to be directly affected by the stem cells. They -might- have something to do with later changes, where those valves permanently fuse shut, I don't know.
Pretty sure the Keanu mention was a reference to his performance in the Gibson-based "Johnny Mnemonic" movie, not to the Matrix.
Right, but I couldn't think up a "No keanu reeves" joke to make off of that particular Keanu Reeves film. I was going to try a bill and ted's joke, something along the lines of "He went back in time, or to hell, not to my future with necromancer movie" but thought this crowd might appreciate the matrix a little more.
Do not try and appreciate the acting in the Matrix. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth: there IS no Keanu Reeves. He's a computer generated graphic.
What happened to the hope, change and a new kind of politics?
We haven't started any new wars for a while. That's a change.
Anyway, are you critiquing Obama with that? You do realize that the guy they're writing to, the guy who wants net neutrality, is an Obama appointee (see the 3rd sentence in TFA). The 74 house democrats and 37 senate republicans? I can't read make out who signed their names to the house dem letter, but I'm going to assume that most of the 111 congressmen and women didn't actually run on the campaign of "hope, change and a new kind of politics."
If you were expecting one election to bring about hope, change, and a new kind of politics immediately without any resistance, you're even more of a delusional liberal loon than I am.
I'm more interested in Tanzania. I'm not quite sure what the scale on either direction is, but it looks like it's zero to... something... halfway through. What, did the first person in Tanzania get broadband in the middle of the month?
Anyway, cheers to all of us for being ahead of North Korea. At the end of the day, when we think our country has thoroughly embarrassed and disappointed us, we can still usually say "At least we're not in North Korea."
I mean, in some contexts. Having a deity for a dear leader, for example, we're still trailing...
it would be better to subtly taunt them to make complete fools of themselves
This may be what has happened, since after all, this group DID just make complete fools of themselves.
I'm hoping this is what happened
-CBS execs try to decide what shows to put on the air next, cause they're scraping the bottom of the barrel -Out of the blue, this idiot group approaches them and pre-emptively warns that if they were to make a show with an obviously censored word in the title, they'll protest it. -CBS execs find this hilarious (and realize an opportunity for free slashvertising), scramble to find a show that uses a censored word as part of the title -CBS execs realize that the only way to make this even funnier is if they make the show based on, of all things, a twitter feed -Censorship advocates rebel in exactly the braindead way they said they would, execs and the rest of us get a good laugh and hopefully a few more people realize that there's no point in getting offended at words (or symbols standing in for words).
As Justin's dad's most recent quote, probably on this very topic: "They're offended? Fuck, shit, asshole, shitfuck; they're just words...Fine. Shitfuck isn't a word, but you get my point."
Seriously, I object to a show being based on a twitter post, but at least they picked the best one and did the title well. The rest of it might be a trainwreck, but it's off to a great start.
..whereby the can extract the stem cells within the dead children's brains, grow them as eternal cell culture and cell these renewing stem cell cultures to real researchers. If they were performing non-profit research, they could use whatever technique the wanted to... it's like a hobby.
Wow, I thought I was the only brain-extracting hobbyist out there. Good to know I'm not alone.
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The reality is that we live in a time where we're technically able to explain almost any common occurrence or effect. Sure, there's a lot of cutting-edge stuff like String Theory, and some dark corners in Astronomy, but as far as everyday life is concerned we have a pretty decent grip on what's going on.
You're clearly not a scientist. I'm a biologist, I find that in science, answers to questions almost always raise many new questions, they never wrap the whole field up nicely.
A nice and neat scientific explanation for the island's effects that doesn't raise more questions than it answers would seem cheap to me. Plus they had pretty much made that impossible with all the convolutions they introduced. And it would have to be pretty "cutting-edge stuff like String Theory" to fit the bill anyway. There was research on the island, but it would have been cheap for the scientists to have suddenly said "Oh, it's this element we've never run across before that bends time and has unique electromagnetic properties, case closed."
Let's just hope this phenomena of patents preventing stem-cell research becomes
::puts on sunglasses::
QUIESCENT!
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Well, all you true cell biologists out there appreciated that. Understood it a least. Look, it at least sorta made sense. Don't judge me!
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Mod up x1000. Why do people keep falling for this?
1. Mod points don't go that high. 2. We "keep falling for it" maybe because we don't really pay that much attention to who is making these TV shows. When I first saw Lost, my questions were all about "what's going on?" not "Who is the producer and what's his track record as to answering questions."
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So many questions I have went completely unanswered...The series offered closure on what happened eventually to everyone but no closure whatsoever as to what the island was and how its mechanations functioned -- even on a magical fantasy level.
Lost was primarily a character driven show by the end, and in my opinion a resolution for almost all the characters was exactly what I wanted.
As to the lack of a mechanism for the island, I guess it's like real life, where your "how does this work" questions are rarely answered. It would have been a little out of place, since Jacob had no scientific explanation for the place and the scientists who could have found a scientific explanation didn't have much luck explaining the island. Furthermore, they put so much mysticism into the island that anything like a scientific explanation would be a complete failure.
Questions about Walt
I'm guessing it's just that the child actor went through puberty. They couldn't show any of the intervening time using a now 20 something actor. I'm sure they wanted to wrap that up, they offered closure on more minor characters. And one of the last regular episodes seems to suggest that Michael's spirit can't leave the island because he died without atoning for murder, that's what Hurley said.
Also the lead writer had refuted the theory that everyone was dead, in purgatory, in heaven or in hell.
You're objecting to the lead writer lying about the end of the series? Would you have preferred he spoil it for everyone?
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I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
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How this differs from lucid dreaming?
Well, I'd predict that the first study suggested that people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that allowed people to actively influence or change their dream worlds – qualities suggestive of watching or controlling the action of a video-game character.
A second study tried to narrow down the uncertainties by examining dreams that participants experienced from the night before, and focused more on gamers. It found that lucid dreams were common, but that the gamers never had dream control over anything beyond their dream selves.
What's that you say? I just copied that from TFA? Well if you knew that was in TFA, why'd you ask?
TFA also mentions that the researcher in question was focused on lucid dreams until she saw her son kissing an NES box.
I also find the mitochondrial situation to be pretty weird. I mean, even if you get past the weirdness of bacteria with their own genes living in and dividing in almost all of your cells, in many cases even releasing factors which convince your cells to commit suicide, there's a whole other layer of weirdness that they all came from your mother.
...so I see you did say "him" in there: sorry about the "/she" part.
I find this out 6 weeks late. When did having kids become like buying technology?
Ha ha, your kid's obsolete! He/she won't be able to run crysis 2!
(Kidding, congratulations!)
My sister's cat is going to feel pretty silly about gnawing through all of her umbilical cords and eating the placentas. Next time I'll be sure to let Mittens know about the stem cells.
To be fair, she probably thinks we're the silly ones for wasting all those tasty stem cells on our measly one-offspring litters.
There are quite a few things relating to circulation that don't happen until a few moments after birth (i.e. blood pressure, heart rate, heart valve changes). Perhaps a stem cell transference has something to do with that...
There are several valves in the embryo's heart (such as the foramen ovale) which allows a lot of the blood passing through the heart to avoid the lungs. A lot of the blood coming into the heart before birth is oxygenated from the umbilical cord, so it can get pumped right out without going to the lungs.
When the lungs become functional, pressure changes cause at least some of those valves to close immediately, so that the blood is now forced to go through the lungs before getting pumped back out to the body. These valves should close almost immediately to avoid deoxygenated blood being pumped out. That's really too quick to be directly affected by the stem cells. They -might- have something to do with later changes, where those valves permanently fuse shut, I don't know.
Pretty sure the Keanu mention was a reference to his performance in the Gibson-based "Johnny Mnemonic" movie, not to the Matrix.
Right, but I couldn't think up a "No keanu reeves" joke to make off of that particular Keanu Reeves film. I was going to try a bill and ted's joke, something along the lines of "He went back in time, or to hell, not to my future with necromancer movie" but thought this crowd might appreciate the matrix a little more.
No, my urethra does. Don't ask.
Do not try and appreciate the acting in the Matrix. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth: there IS no Keanu Reeves. He's a computer generated graphic.
SPAM coming from his ass? Literally?
Unless this chip had a wifi device and he were to put his hand (the one with the chip in it) up his own butt... no.
I will now be the first human being to have Linux installed ...
*puts Linux ISO on USB flash drive and drops his pants*
I would have just swallowed it. Your method of installation is a little more roundabout.
You could wear the chip as a necklace, tie it to a paper airplane, or just throw it and get the same results.
Oh God! You mean fashion, airspace security, and sports could be affected by this vulnerability as well?!?
I can't believe he wasn't already running antivirus software. My prince-albert USB drive running MSE has kept me virus free for years.
What happened to the hope, change and a new kind of politics?
We haven't started any new wars for a while. That's a change.
Anyway, are you critiquing Obama with that? You do realize that the guy they're writing to, the guy who wants net neutrality, is an Obama appointee (see the 3rd sentence in TFA). The 74 house democrats and 37 senate republicans? I can't read make out who signed their names to the house dem letter, but I'm going to assume that most of the 111 congressmen and women didn't actually run on the campaign of "hope, change and a new kind of politics."
If you were expecting one election to bring about hope, change, and a new kind of politics immediately without any resistance, you're even more of a delusional liberal loon than I am.
I'm more interested in Tanzania. I'm not quite sure what the scale on either direction is, but it looks like it's zero to... something... halfway through. What, did the first person in Tanzania get broadband in the middle of the month?
Anyway, cheers to all of us for being ahead of North Korea. At the end of the day, when we think our country has thoroughly embarrassed and disappointed us, we can still usually say "At least we're not in North Korea."
I mean, in some contexts. Having a deity for a dear leader, for example, we're still trailing...
The ???? was a grievous oversight, but what part of "Laughing at moral brigade idiots" isn't Profit!
it would be better to subtly taunt them to make complete fools of themselves
This may be what has happened, since after all, this group DID just make complete fools of themselves.
I'm hoping this is what happened
-CBS execs try to decide what shows to put on the air next, cause they're scraping the bottom of the barrel
-Out of the blue, this idiot group approaches them and pre-emptively warns that if they were to make a show with an obviously censored word in the title, they'll protest it.
-CBS execs find this hilarious (and realize an opportunity for free slashvertising), scramble to find a show that uses a censored word as part of the title
-CBS execs realize that the only way to make this even funnier is if they make the show based on, of all things, a twitter feed
-Censorship advocates rebel in exactly the braindead way they said they would, execs and the rest of us get a good laugh and hopefully a few more people realize that there's no point in getting offended at words (or symbols standing in for words).
As Justin's dad's most recent quote, probably on this very topic: "They're offended? Fuck, shit, asshole, shitfuck; they're just words...Fine. Shitfuck isn't a word, but you get my point."
Seriously, I object to a show being based on a twitter post, but at least they picked the best one and did the title well. The rest of it might be a trainwreck, but it's off to a great start.
..whereby the can extract the stem cells within the dead children's brains, grow them as eternal cell culture and cell these renewing stem cell cultures to real researchers. If they were performing non-profit research, they could use whatever technique the wanted to ... it's like a hobby.
Wow, I thought I was the only brain-extracting hobbyist out there. Good to know I'm not alone.
The reality is that we live in a time where we're technically able to explain almost any common occurrence or effect. Sure, there's a lot of cutting-edge stuff like String Theory, and some dark corners in Astronomy, but as far as everyday life is concerned we have a pretty decent grip on what's going on.
You're clearly not a scientist. I'm a biologist, I find that in science, answers to questions almost always raise many new questions, they never wrap the whole field up nicely.
A nice and neat scientific explanation for the island's effects that doesn't raise more questions than it answers would seem cheap to me. Plus they had pretty much made that impossible with all the convolutions they introduced. And it would have to be pretty "cutting-edge stuff like String Theory" to fit the bill anyway. There was research on the island, but it would have been cheap for the scientists to have suddenly said "Oh, it's this element we've never run across before that bends time and has unique electromagnetic properties, case closed."
You had me at "laser chopsticks".
So you could say it was the optical tweezers that caught your eyes.
Let's just hope this phenomena of patents preventing stem-cell research becomes
QUIESCENT!
Well, all you true cell biologists out there appreciated that. Understood it a least. Look, it at least sorta made sense. Don't judge me!
Mod up x1000. Why do people keep falling for this?
1. Mod points don't go that high.
2. We "keep falling for it" maybe because we don't really pay that much attention to who is making these TV shows. When I first saw Lost, my questions were all about "what's going on?" not "Who is the producer and what's his track record as to answering questions."
So many questions I have went completely unanswered...The series offered closure on what happened eventually to everyone but no closure whatsoever as to what the island was and how its mechanations functioned -- even on a magical fantasy level.
Lost was primarily a character driven show by the end, and in my opinion a resolution for almost all the characters was exactly what I wanted.
As to the lack of a mechanism for the island, I guess it's like real life, where your "how does this work" questions are rarely answered. It would have been a little out of place, since Jacob had no scientific explanation for the place and the scientists who could have found a scientific explanation didn't have much luck explaining the island. Furthermore, they put so much mysticism into the island that anything like a scientific explanation would be a complete failure.
Questions about Walt
I'm guessing it's just that the child actor went through puberty. They couldn't show any of the intervening time using a now 20 something actor. I'm sure they wanted to wrap that up, they offered closure on more minor characters. And one of the last regular episodes seems to suggest that Michael's spirit can't leave the island because he died without atoning for murder, that's what Hurley said.
Also the lead writer had refuted the theory that everyone was dead, in purgatory, in heaven or in hell.
You're objecting to the lead writer lying about the end of the series? Would you have preferred he spoil it for everyone?
You mean the Major-General's song from pirates of penzance.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical