This is the most important reason why cloning of humans is completely unacceptable.
"cloning mammals by nuclear transfer is still highly inefficient, with Dolly the only lamb that survived to adulthood from 277 attempts"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep))
Is the company that does the cloning being open about this aspect of the procedure? If they are trying to pretend that they can evaluate the embryos created by nuclear transfer and only bring the least damaged ones to term, they are making a preposterous claim. The problem of evaluating a DNA sequence for all possible DNA damage is fantastically complicated, probably formally undecidable in the Alan Turning's terminology.
How many copies of these treasured pets are living a few pain-racked days in a laboratory?
Charles Kittel, Herbert Kromer, Thermal Physics Consise, a small set of problems, at least look at every one
Hans Ohanian, Gravitation and Spacetime Could prevent you from boggling at Misner, Thorne and Wheeler
Stephane Mallat, A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing Thorough, a math processor here told us that the demand for rigor could invariably be handled by saying "Lebesgue limit theorem."
Cornelius Lanczos, The Variational Principles of Mechanics (a paperback from Dover books) Classic introduction to the calculus of variations and analytic mechanics
Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics The first edition, before they threw in all the microprocessor stuff, is focused on what experimental physicists need to know.
At least three previous space probes used ion engines. JAXA launched Hayabusa, now returning a sample of a asteroid to earth, The European Space Agency launched SMART-1, a lunar orbiter and NASA built Deep Space One.
http://www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/ http://www. vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H4340103 Representa tive F. James Sensenbrenner, Republican Congressman from Wisconsin
http://www.wexler.house.gov/ http://www.vote-sm art.org/bio.php?can_id=BC040489 Representative Robert Wexler, Democratic Congressman from Florida
http://www.house.gov/miketurner/ http://www.vot e-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=MOH52826 Representativ e Michael R. Turner, Republican Congressman from Ohio
http://www.house.gov/portman/ http://www.vote-s mart.org/bio.php?can_id=H3021103 Robert J. Portman, Republican Congressman from Ohio
http://www.house.gov/delahunt/ http://www.vote- smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BC042391 Representative William D. Delahunt, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts
By distributing Linux while asserting an IP claim that violates the terms of the General Public License, SCO has opened itself to claims from every programmer who ever contributed to Linux. They have broken the contract that allows them to distribute the work of thousands of writers of code. They are trying to steal the work of these thousands of authors. The relevant part of the General Public License:
"You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. . . . You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License."
Any beam of electromagnetic radiation will spread out a little bit due to diffraction. This is a bigger problem will microwaves than, say, laser beams because longer wavelengths result in greater diffraction.
Also, the receiving antenna will re-radiate a certain amount of energy. It would be physically impossible to avoid at least some human exposure to microwaves in the vicinity of this project.
Although the bill was passed unanimously, the names of eleven sponsors are listed by thomas.loc.gov
The house bill, HR 2281, was sponsored by Howard Coble and had nine cosponsors:
Rep Berman, Howard L. 2/11/1998 Rep Bono, Mary 6/5/1998 Rep Bono, Sonny 9/26/1997 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. 7/29/1997 Rep Frank, Barney 7/29/1997 Rep Hyde, Henry J. 7/29/1997 Rep McCollum, Bill 1/27/1998 Rep Paxon, Bill 6/5/1998 Rep Pickering, Charles 6/22/1998
The senate bill was S. 2037 and was sponsored by Orrin Hatch.
The flask in which "sonoluminescent fusion" is supposedly taking place is constantly irradiated with 14 Mev neutrons during the experiment. This explains why tritium is observed - neutrons can transmute deuterium into tritium.
It also explains why 2.45 Mev neutrons, which Teleyarkhan claims are the byproduct of the fusion of Hydrogen-2 into Helium-3, are seen coming out of the flask. They are simply 14 Mev neutrons which have slowed down by bouncing off various nuclei.
The design of the Wright brothers' first plane was actually a sophisticated answer to the problem: how could they learn how to fly without killing themselves in the process. The normal "inherently stable" modern aircraft has a major problem for someone who is going to learn, on his own, how to control it, all the while flying at very low altitudes. If the nose momentarily points too high, airflow separates from the wing, the plane "stalls," then the nose drops suddenly and the plane dives. At low altitudes, this can be deadly.
The Wright brothers knew about this kind of accident. The first man to successfully build hang gliders, Otto Lilienthal, had died that way.
The Wright brothers also had a wind tunnel and could make very good measurements of the stall properties of various airfoils. By using a canard airfoil that stalled before the main wing, they designed an aircraft whose nose would remain high during a stall. (There was a Scientific American article years ago that described all this)
The methodical sons of a presbyterian minister, they were no daredevils. They found a very clever way to get some flying experience while limiting the dangers they were exposed to.
These virus writers are doing a public service. Serious problems with our communications infrastructure might not be fixed if it weren't for them.
Imagine what could happen if the first exploits of these security flaws came, not piecemeal from a scattering of amateurs, but rather from some adversary who could call on the services of numbers of technically proficient individuals. A hostile government say, or a terrorist movement that drew in disaffected persons in many countries. What if the vast majority of business users had no idea of how vulnerable they were until the system suffered a massive failure?
There is an enormous learning process going. People are finding out the hard way, what they would never otherwise have the time to focus on: computers can fail, for very subtle reasons, and we are more dependent on them every day.
Isn't there something inherently nonsensical about giving EVERYONE test preparation training, of the sort offered by Kaplan and other services? The only point of such training is to give someone an advantage over other students.
One of the saddest stories in the work of the educational critic Jonathan Kozol, concerns the high school in a poverty stricken area of New Jersey that had gotten into trouble because low scores in the state testing program. It was decided that the entire curriculum of the high school would be devoted to test preparation. Year after year, entire classes would be devoted to drill in vocabulary lists. Teachers who none too sure about analogies themselves would conduct nonsensical discussions about them with students paralyzed with boredom. It is precisely the more intelligent students who must have found this environment the most deadly.
There have been studies that should that success in school, or high grades, does not correlate very well with success in life. Training for test taking replaces education that might create interests, lead to understanding, and motivate students with "education" that is of no ultimate value.
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You pass laws than essentially make private investments subject to public control. Don't be surprised if there is less investment in infrastructure.
This is the most important reason why cloning of humans is completely unacceptable.
"cloning mammals by nuclear transfer is still highly inefficient, with Dolly the only lamb that survived to adulthood from 277 attempts"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep))
Is the company that does the cloning being open about this aspect of the procedure? If they are trying to pretend that they can evaluate the embryos created by nuclear transfer and only bring the least damaged ones to term, they are making a preposterous claim. The problem of evaluating a DNA sequence for all possible DNA damage is fantastically complicated, probably formally undecidable in the Alan Turning's terminology.
How many copies of these treasured pets are living a few pain-racked days in a laboratory?
Charles Kittel, Herbert Kromer, Thermal Physics
Consise, a small set of problems, at least look at every one
Hans Ohanian, Gravitation and Spacetime
Could prevent you from boggling at Misner, Thorne and Wheeler
Stephane Mallat, A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing
Thorough, a math processor here told us that the demand for rigor could invariably be handled by saying "Lebesgue limit theorem."
Cornelius Lanczos, The Variational Principles of Mechanics (a paperback from Dover books)
Classic introduction to the calculus of variations and analytic mechanics
Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics
The first edition, before they threw in all the microprocessor stuff, is focused on what experimental physicists need to know.
One of the grand old men of analog chip design, Bob Pease, has written a column for years that you can read on the web.
http://www.elecdesign.com/Departments/DepartmentID/6/6.html
http://www.national.com/rap/
At least three previous space probes used ion engines. JAXA launched Hayabusa, now returning a sample of a asteroid to earth, The European Space Agency launched SMART-1, a lunar orbiter and NASA built Deep Space One.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
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A proposal to use an air-launched booster, possibly the SpaceX Falcon V, to launch an Apollo-type four man capsule that can reach the ISS.
The bill is sponsored by three Republicans and two Democrats. Their names can be found at:
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By distributing Linux while asserting an IP claim that violates the terms of the General Public License, SCO has opened itself to claims from every programmer who ever contributed to Linux. They have broken the contract that allows them to distribute the work of thousands of writers of code. They are trying to steal the work of these thousands of authors. The relevant part of the General Public License:
"You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. . . . You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License."
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Any beam of electromagnetic radiation will spread out a little bit due to diffraction. This is a bigger problem will microwaves than, say, laser beams because longer wavelengths result in greater diffraction.
Also, the receiving antenna will re-radiate a certain amount of energy. It would be physically impossible to avoid at least some human exposure to microwaves in the vicinity of this project.
Although the bill was passed unanimously, the names of eleven sponsors are listed by thomas.loc.gov
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The house bill, HR 2281, was sponsored by Howard Coble and had nine cosponsors:
Rep Berman, Howard L. 2/11/1998
Rep Bono, Mary 6/5/1998
Rep Bono, Sonny 9/26/1997
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. 7/29/1997
Rep Frank, Barney 7/29/1997
Rep Hyde, Henry J. 7/29/1997
Rep McCollum, Bill 1/27/1998
Rep Paxon, Bill 6/5/1998
Rep Pickering, Charles 6/22/1998
The senate bill was S. 2037 and was sponsored by Orrin Hatch.
Bill summaries can be found at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:HR
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:S.
It also explains why 2.45 Mev neutrons, which Teleyarkhan claims are the byproduct of the fusion of Hydrogen-2 into Helium-3, are seen coming out of the flask. They are simply 14 Mev neutrons which have slowed down by bouncing off various nuclei.
The design of the Wright brothers' first plane was actually a sophisticated answer to the problem: how could they learn how to fly without killing themselves in the process. The normal "inherently stable" modern aircraft has a major problem for someone who is going to learn, on his own, how to control it, all the while flying at very low altitudes. If the nose momentarily points too high, airflow separates from the wing, the plane "stalls," then the nose drops suddenly and the plane dives. At low altitudes, this can be deadly.
The Wright brothers knew about this kind of accident. The first man to successfully build hang gliders, Otto Lilienthal, had died that way.
The Wright brothers also had a wind tunnel and could make very good measurements of the stall properties of various airfoils. By using a canard airfoil that stalled before the main wing, they designed an aircraft whose nose would remain high during a stall. (There was a Scientific American article years ago that described all this)
The methodical sons of a presbyterian minister, they were no daredevils. They found a very clever way to get some flying experience while limiting the dangers they were exposed to.
These virus writers are doing a public service. Serious problems with our communications infrastructure might not be fixed if it weren't for them.
Imagine what could happen if the first exploits of these security flaws came, not piecemeal from a scattering of amateurs, but rather from some adversary who could call on the services of numbers of technically proficient individuals. A hostile government say, or a terrorist movement that drew in disaffected persons in many countries. What if the vast majority of business users had no idea of how vulnerable they were until the system suffered a massive failure?
There is an enormous learning process going. People are finding out the hard way, what they would never otherwise have the time to focus on: computers can fail, for very subtle reasons, and we are more dependent on them every day.
Isn't there something inherently nonsensical about giving EVERYONE test preparation training, of the sort offered by Kaplan and other services? The only point of such training is to give someone an advantage over other students. One of the saddest stories in the work of the educational critic Jonathan Kozol, concerns the high school in a poverty stricken area of New Jersey that had gotten into trouble because low scores in the state testing program. It was decided that the entire curriculum of the high school would be devoted to test preparation. Year after year, entire classes would be devoted to drill in vocabulary lists. Teachers who none too sure about analogies themselves would conduct nonsensical discussions about them with students paralyzed with boredom. It is precisely the more intelligent students who must have found this environment the most deadly. There have been studies that should that success in school, or high grades, does not correlate very well with success in life. Training for test taking replaces education that might create interests, lead to understanding, and motivate students with "education" that is of no ultimate value.