Your body might suffer from your brain not sleeping, for instance when you drive into a wall, but there is nothing in particular the body needs sleep (different than rest) for. From the perspective of your body, you sleeping is just a reduction in the amount of talking your brain does. That said, the body can handle lots of things the brain can't. Some desert mammals (goats, in particular) can let their body heat up way past what would be fatal for their brains, while using some nifty plumbing to keep their brains cool enough to survive.
Which is to say... before the government got involved, there was no market which dealt with carbon sequestration. Before the government got involved the market thought it was a great thing to significantly shift the chemistry of our atmosphere by burning lots of crap and dumping it in the air for everyone to breath.
If you're recording on your property, your own consent is implied. That law does make it illegal for someone else to record on your property without your or the targets' approval.
You will very likely get oranges if you wait long enough for the tree to mature. It is also likely that the oranges will not be of the same type that you bought in the store, representing segregations from the genetics found in the original parental tree.
Most everything in the produce department will contain viable seeds, which will then grow up to make viable plants. The fruits/etc of the plants you grow will likely not be the same to the produce you bought again because of genetic segregation. There are a few exceptions, like 'seedless' watermelons, which have an extremely low seed production. In these cases there is seed failure not because they are hybrids, but because they are hybrids with a triploid genome content. Theoretically this method could be applied to many plants, but pragmatic difficulties have limited the potential for this technique in many crop species.
At some point maybe, but 'modern' humans had a tendency to rapidly innovate/improve their technology while Neanderthals apparently did not. Early 'modern' humans also didn't build societies, instead only living in small family groups.
It's also not exactly without precedent. Years ago a lab mouse was found with the same phenotype. The lab mouse is much more useful for studies as we know much more about it's genome than this interesting wild species.
Generally you have to leave some sort of lightbulbs in the fixtures when you leave a place, as the bulbs are legally considered part of the fixtures and thus part of the home/apt. That said, I take my fluorescents and LEDs with me, replacing them with the cheap incandescents which where there when I moved in. It will be a pain if there are no available cheap bulbs for the purpose.
Modern wheat and rice are very short compared to the varieties in use before the Green Revolution. The height of the older strains allowed the plants to grow over the weeds. Modern farm chemicals did away with the weeds, which did improve yields. Without those weeds, the plants were now wasting much of their resources in growing tall. The Green Revolution, at least as I think of that term, came about when people realized the plants were wasting resources and that this waste could be reduced through directed breeding towards certain traits rather than just breeding for best yield in a generalized sense.
The heterosis, hybrid vigor, taken advantage of in corn is definitely part of the current high yields. And yes, this probably is best described as part of the Green Revolution as applied to corn. That said, modern corns are also far shorter than historic varieties, with less energy going to produce the stems and more to produce seeds. Theres a lot of factors which go into it.
Higher output in the context of what we eat, lower output in the context of 'wasted' stem material that we don't eat.
Fertilizers/etc have led to increases in overall productivity, but the biggest gains have been made through altering the development to reallocate resources to the product we use.
The whole point of the Green Revolution was to make our crop plants more efficient at making food for us. Total biological output from the crops has not increased.
The degree in my field is a really useful thing to have (as in higher pay-scale in industry or in academia), but it really depends on the field. My papers involve lots of math and programming, so I don't have to worry about any employers not understanding what I do.
If we think rabbits are important to keep around and they're going extinct everywhere else, yes. This is what's being done with Tasmanian Devils right now.
Analysis of the tumors suggests it was derived from a Schwann cell tumor. The transmission is mediated by the tendency for Tasmaninan Devils to bite each other on/around the head in their frequent and loud squabbles.
The few other observed transmissible cancers cover a range of mechanisms (venereal; mosquito).
Plant cells are unable to move about and so any cancer will be self-limiting. When the local tissue growth outstrips the food supply, the tissue dies and that is the end of the plant cancer. There are infectious plant cancers that are triggered by bacteria which hitch a ride inside things like aphids, as well as others which are triggered by the growth of fungus. In all cases it is another organism which is spreading and causing locally cancerous plant tissue to form.
There are plants which live as parasites in other plants, by growing their tissues through the host plants' tissues... but they had a long evolutionary history separate from their hosts to figure out ways to do this.
For Jupiter and Saturn, focus seems to be mainly on the moons which look to have ice-covered oceans. Nobody really knows what's going on in the clouds of the gas giants... aside from the expectation of a range of complex chemistries which produce the range of observed colors.
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Your body might suffer from your brain not sleeping, for instance when you drive into a wall, but there is nothing in particular the body needs sleep (different than rest) for. From the perspective of your body, you sleeping is just a reduction in the amount of talking your brain does. That said, the body can handle lots of things the brain can't. Some desert mammals (goats, in particular) can let their body heat up way past what would be fatal for their brains, while using some nifty plumbing to keep their brains cool enough to survive.
Which is to say... before the government got involved, there was no market which dealt with carbon sequestration. Before the government got involved the market thought it was a great thing to significantly shift the chemistry of our atmosphere by burning lots of crap and dumping it in the air for everyone to breath.
And this has next to nothing to do with the grad school experience in most programs, as classes/credits are only a factor the first couple of years.
I suspect part of the answer relates to time dilation. As a photon is traveling at the speed of light, from its perspective time has stopped.
If you're recording on your property, your own consent is implied. That law does make it illegal for someone else to record on your property without your or the targets' approval.
You will very likely get oranges if you wait long enough for the tree to mature. It is also likely that the oranges will not be of the same type that you bought in the store, representing segregations from the genetics found in the original parental tree.
Most everything in the produce department will contain viable seeds, which will then grow up to make viable plants. The fruits/etc of the plants you grow will likely not be the same to the produce you bought again because of genetic segregation. There are a few exceptions, like 'seedless' watermelons, which have an extremely low seed production. In these cases there is seed failure not because they are hybrids, but because they are hybrids with a triploid genome content. Theoretically this method could be applied to many plants, but pragmatic difficulties have limited the potential for this technique in many crop species.
A good article examining the reality of what you propose : http://blog.lib.umn.edu/efans/ygnews/2009/03/seed_savers_garden_a_demonstra.html
At some point maybe, but 'modern' humans had a tendency to rapidly innovate/improve their technology while Neanderthals apparently did not. Early 'modern' humans also didn't build societies, instead only living in small family groups.
We've already been avoiding Malthusian predictions for decades.
It's also not exactly without precedent. Years ago a lab mouse was found with the same phenotype. The lab mouse is much more useful for studies as we know much more about it's genome than this interesting wild species.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/08/11/1111056108.full.pdf
Generally you have to leave some sort of lightbulbs in the fixtures when you leave a place, as the bulbs are legally considered part of the fixtures and thus part of the home/apt. That said, I take my fluorescents and LEDs with me, replacing them with the cheap incandescents which where there when I moved in. It will be a pain if there are no available cheap bulbs for the purpose.
Modern wheat and rice are very short compared to the varieties in use before the Green Revolution. The height of the older strains allowed the plants to grow over the weeds. Modern farm chemicals did away with the weeds, which did improve yields. Without those weeds, the plants were now wasting much of their resources in growing tall. The Green Revolution, at least as I think of that term, came about when people realized the plants were wasting resources and that this waste could be reduced through directed breeding towards certain traits rather than just breeding for best yield in a generalized sense.
The heterosis, hybrid vigor, taken advantage of in corn is definitely part of the current high yields. And yes, this probably is best described as part of the Green Revolution as applied to corn. That said, modern corns are also far shorter than historic varieties, with less energy going to produce the stems and more to produce seeds. Theres a lot of factors which go into it.
Has this clarified my thinking?
Higher output in the context of what we eat, lower output in the context of 'wasted' stem material that we don't eat. Fertilizers/etc have led to increases in overall productivity, but the biggest gains have been made through altering the development to reallocate resources to the product we use.
The whole point of the Green Revolution was to make our crop plants more efficient at making food for us. Total biological output from the crops has not increased.
The Eskimo don't suffer from scurvy because they eat whale blubber raw. Until you cook whale blubber, it has plenty of vitamin C.
The degree in my field is a really useful thing to have (as in higher pay-scale in industry or in academia), but it really depends on the field. My papers involve lots of math and programming, so I don't have to worry about any employers not understanding what I do.
Given the low oxygen level of the environment, it is probably converted to CH4 rather than H2O and CO2.
If we think rabbits are important to keep around and they're going extinct everywhere else, yes. This is what's being done with Tasmanian Devils right now.
The IRS was once known for pulling this kind of crap all the time, rather than being the generally nice to work with organization you see today.
Analysis of the tumors suggests it was derived from a Schwann cell tumor. The transmission is mediated by the tendency for Tasmaninan Devils to bite each other on/around the head in their frequent and loud squabbles.
The few other observed transmissible cancers cover a range of mechanisms (venereal; mosquito).
The cancer mutations are definitely germline, for the cancer itself.
Plant cells are unable to move about and so any cancer will be self-limiting. When the local tissue growth outstrips the food supply, the tissue dies and that is the end of the plant cancer. There are infectious plant cancers that are triggered by bacteria which hitch a ride inside things like aphids, as well as others which are triggered by the growth of fungus. In all cases it is another organism which is spreading and causing locally cancerous plant tissue to form.
There are plants which live as parasites in other plants, by growing their tissues through the host plants' tissues... but they had a long evolutionary history separate from their hosts to figure out ways to do this.
If that happens, then it will also kill all but the most isolated of tribesman in the deeps of the Congo, Amazon, New Guinea, and Australian outback.
If you hadn't noticed, white people genetics has a tendency to get around.
What language? All of them.
Venus: coexistence of H2, O2, H2S, and SO2.
For Jupiter and Saturn, focus seems to be mainly on the moons which look to have ice-covered oceans. Nobody really knows what's going on in the clouds of the gas giants... aside from the expectation of a range of complex chemistries which produce the range of observed colors.
http://1heckofaguy.com/2006/11/06/the-giles-brindley-show-finale-presentation-is-not-really-everything/ might be of interest.