Rabbits? Deer? Any grazing animal has about the same effect when the pressures of predation are lifted. In the united States people thought that killing off the wolves would help native deer populations in the southwest. The then hunted the wolves, then the deer population exploded so quickly that they grazed a grassland so hard it became a desert. (Okay, so Man's hand can be seen in this too...)
My main point is that humans aren't much different than other animals, just that we can (although we usually don't practice it) weight the consequences of our actions, and maybe just maybe act in a way that benefits something besides just ourselves.
And if we don't? Well, there will still be an environment. Something will learn to thrive in whatever we leave behind. Oxygen was fatal to most primordial organisms. The first photosynthetic bacteria didn't create oxygen to later burn sugars... they created oxygen in order to kill other organisms that would try to feed on them. Life adapted, and oxygen became half of the new standard in storing energy.
Actually, CFCs are made in nature. There are types of seaweed which make them as a poison to prevent animals from eating them. Oh... and they are found along the shores of antarctica. I don't have the paper here, but I have a reference to it at home.
Close. Reproductive fitness is based on how many of your offspring eventually become reproductive. To do that, the offspring must SURVIVE to that age. A seaweed which releases millions of gametes, of which only three or four survive to reproduction is no more fit than a mammal which rears and cares for three or four offspring in its lifetime.
Yeah... tense game. Imagine playing it late night on a 21" monitor, getting really into the game. Your friend then sneaks up behind you, reaches over and grabs your face like a facehugger. Eeeeek!
Very far. The reason that you bring the fuel is to make energy. What are you going to power this electrical device with? You'd be better off directly powering the airplane with the electricity.
Well, the new pathogen will only become a big problem if all of the crops are homogenous. If you have two fields of the purple tater next to each other and one gets infected, chances are the next one will too. And the next one. And the next. But if you have this purple tater in one field, with a pleasant orange one in the next that has a different sort of resistances, the blight may not spread. It's all about variety, although you probably knew that.
To reduce the ethical arguments, and some elements of distastefulness... wouldn't it be possible to engineer plants as to grow organs, inside of a fruitlike appendage? The skin of the "fruit" would hold in the necessary moisture, while the plant could be engineered to provide nutrients to a germ cell that is placed inside of the fruit???
The "fruit" could then be harvested without even killing the plant, or even "picked" during the surgery to maximize freshness.
It would take a little more work, since plants are a little different that people, but...
For convienence of cooking rice, rice steamers work really well. My old Thai roomate had one... really convienent. I believe just add same volume of rice and water, plug it in and close the lid. The chord was even retractable for EASY storage. Or, just cook your rice in bulk. Put the extra in the fridge, and throw it in the microwave with a little water (or other liquid for more taste), turn it on for... a minute or two. Done. Beans and Corn work to complete the protein... canned products are convienent, although slightly less flavor, and possibly slightly less nutrients...
I-Mac keyboards are great... if you do not really type. The size of the keys makes touch typing painful and difficult. However, the small footprint *DOES* make them fit much nicer on most desks.
I'll take your word on methane being a horrible greenhouse gas. Methane is produced naturally by fermentation, in wetlands, farmlands, etc. So, *NOT* using methane as a fuel, and thereby converting it into different compounds, H20 and C02, would create HIGHER concentrations of methane in the atmosphere, not lower. Using methane as a fuel would *DECREASE* the Greenhouse effect, not increase it.
The new thing about this is the *AMOUNT* of Hydrogen that they are getting out of it. Previously we have only been able to get tiny amounts. Now, a reasonable amount can be extracted.
Actually, fevers are an intended effect that your body creates. The enzymes in white blood cells work more efficiently under higher temperature, and the enzymes in most intruding microorganisms work less efficiently under higher temperatures. So, an organism that raises the temperature upon invasion is more likely to survive.
Not that I'm an expert in military technology, but It i'm sure that they would have a low-pass filter incorporated into the design. Basically, if the signal for some part is *OVER* a certain strength, it doesn't get passed through.
Why should it be legal for someone to threaten a person's life in a public forum? Here is an example: Jose Martin is a regular caller on Daily Talk Radio. Soon John Doe disagrees with something that Jose says, and always follows up with calls of "I will kill Jose Martin." I would hope that the police would get involved with this... I would think that if John Doe was only prevented from calling the radio station during that show for one year, John would be getting off light.
(All names and references in the preceding post are fictional. Any similarities with real people or events are accidental.)
I have a USR Courier I-Modem, and after playing with it for a while, I eventually found that the init string was incorrect. Dont know if they use the same at commands, but for what it's worth, here's the init string I came up with: AT&d2&f1*P=0*D0=1 Also, oftentimes you have to specify when you are dialing to dial both numbers, such as: ATDT5557600 & 5557600 if 5557600 is the number of your ISP.
A way to prevent that? How about a video camera, like is already installed on most ATMs. I'm sure that it would seem suspicious if you were caught on film holding someone's head up to the eyeball scanner.
People do not have an obligation to give anything that they make away.
An accountant has no obligation to *GIVE* away the money that he saves, an architect has no obligation to *GIVE* away the buildings that he designs, and a computer programmer has no obligation to *GIVE* away the programs or source code that they write.
All of these people have spent a great deal of time and effort in learning and perfecting their trade, and then making their masterpiece. If they wish to sell it, that is their right. If they should so choose to give it away out of pride of their work, or simple kind-heartedness, then they can be lauded for this gesture. If they wish to keep it in mothballs hidden in their attic, no matter how much of a waste that may be, that is the right of the person who created it, or of whomever those rights may be sold to.
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Rabbits? Deer? Any grazing animal has about the same effect when the pressures of predation are lifted. In the united States people thought that killing off the wolves would help native deer populations in the southwest. The then hunted the wolves, then the deer population exploded so quickly that they grazed a grassland so hard it became a desert. (Okay, so Man's hand can be seen in this too...)
My main point is that humans aren't much different than other animals, just that we can (although we usually don't practice it) weight the consequences of our actions, and maybe just maybe act in a way that benefits something besides just ourselves.
And if we don't? Well, there will still be an environment. Something will learn to thrive in whatever we leave behind. Oxygen was fatal to most primordial organisms. The first photosynthetic bacteria didn't create oxygen to later burn sugars... they created oxygen in order to kill other organisms that would try to feed on them. Life adapted, and oxygen became half of the new standard in storing energy.
Not free beer, they get paid beer in exchange for doing work: cleaning up the toxins.
Actually, CFCs are made in nature. There are types of seaweed which make them as a poison to prevent animals from eating them. Oh... and they are found along the shores of antarctica. I don't have the paper here, but I have a reference to it at home.
Close. Reproductive fitness is based on how many of your offspring eventually become reproductive. To do that, the offspring must SURVIVE to that age. A seaweed which releases millions of gametes, of which only three or four survive to reproduction is no more fit than a mammal which rears and cares for three or four offspring in its lifetime.
Yeah... tense game. Imagine playing it late night on a 21" monitor, getting really into the game. Your friend then sneaks up behind you, reaches over and grabs your face like a facehugger. Eeeeek!
Very far. The reason that you bring the fuel is to make energy. What are you going to power this electrical device with? You'd be better off directly powering the airplane with the electricity.
Well, the new pathogen will only become a big problem if all of the crops are homogenous. If you have two fields of the purple tater next to each other and one gets infected, chances are the next one will too. And the next one. And the next. But if you have this purple tater in one field, with a pleasant orange one in the next that has a different sort of resistances, the blight may not spread. It's all about variety, although you probably knew that.
To reduce the ethical arguments, and some elements of distastefulness... wouldn't it be possible to engineer plants as to grow organs, inside of a fruitlike appendage? The skin of the "fruit" would hold in the necessary moisture, while the plant could be engineered to provide nutrients to a germ cell that is placed inside of the fruit???
The "fruit" could then be harvested without even killing the plant, or even "picked" during the surgery to maximize freshness.
It would take a little more work, since plants are a little different that people, but...
The windows key isn't necessarily the best way to shutdown windows... Try Alt-F4.
For convienence of cooking rice, rice steamers work really well. My old Thai roomate had one... really convienent. I believe just add same volume of rice and water, plug it in and close the lid. The chord was even retractable for EASY storage. Or, just cook your rice in bulk. Put the extra in the fridge, and throw it in the microwave with a little water (or other liquid for more taste), turn it on for... a minute or two. Done. Beans and Corn work to complete the protein... canned products are convienent, although slightly less flavor, and possibly slightly less nutrients...
I-Mac keyboards are great... if you do not really type. The size of the keys makes touch typing painful and difficult. However, the small footprint *DOES* make them fit much nicer on most desks.
I'll take your word on methane being a horrible greenhouse gas. Methane is produced naturally by fermentation, in wetlands, farmlands, etc. So, *NOT* using methane as a fuel, and thereby converting it into different compounds, H20 and C02, would create HIGHER concentrations of methane in the atmosphere, not lower. Using methane as a fuel would *DECREASE* the Greenhouse effect, not increase it.
The new thing about this is the *AMOUNT* of Hydrogen that they are getting out of it. Previously we have only been able to get tiny amounts. Now, a reasonable amount can be extracted.
It looks like the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Actually, fevers are an intended effect that your body creates. The enzymes in white blood cells work more efficiently under higher temperature, and the enzymes in most intruding microorganisms work less efficiently under higher temperatures. So, an organism that raises the temperature upon invasion is more likely to survive.
Not that I'm an expert in military technology, but It i'm sure that they would have a low-pass filter incorporated into the design. Basically, if the signal for some part is *OVER* a certain strength, it doesn't get passed through.
(All names and references in the preceding post are fictional. Any similarities with real people or events are accidental.)
I have a USR Courier I-Modem, and after playing with it for a while, I eventually found that the init string was incorrect. Dont know if they use the same at commands, but for what it's worth, here's the init string I came up with: AT&d2&f1*P=0*D0=1 Also, oftentimes you have to specify when you are dialing to dial both numbers, such as: ATDT5557600 & 5557600 if 5557600 is the number of your ISP.
A way to prevent that? How about a video camera, like is already installed on most ATMs. I'm sure that it would seem suspicious if you were caught on film holding someone's head up to the eyeball scanner.
Not necessarilly, they are just assuming that there are enough people of sub-rock IQ to make some money off of it. Now ethics on the other hand...
People do not have an obligation to give anything that they make away.
An accountant has no obligation to *GIVE* away the money that he saves, an architect has no obligation to *GIVE* away the buildings that he designs, and a computer programmer has no obligation to *GIVE* away the programs or source code that they write.
All of these people have spent a great deal of time and effort in learning and perfecting their trade, and then making their masterpiece. If they wish to sell it, that is their right. If they should so choose to give it away out of pride of their work, or simple kind-heartedness, then they can be lauded for this gesture. If they wish to keep it in mothballs hidden in their attic, no matter how much of a waste that may be, that is the right of the person who created it, or of whomever those rights may be sold to.