Well, I am actually from Australia, and my brother works in a lab that primarily does genetic research. I sent him the text of the ABC story a few minutes ago, and here is a snip from his response...
"However, a lot of the work I am doing at the moment is on SOCS 1, 2 and 3 except I have moved on from mice onto enlarging, well lets say, certain human organs. "
I work for a company that designs offshore oil & gas platforms. There is an increasing number of floating, semi-mobile platforms out there, and some of them are reaching end of field life in the next 5 years or so.
Maybe someone with some (fairly serious!) capital could use something like an old platform, FPSO, etc. Power generation (large amounts of), accomodation, and so on are already there, as well as communications hardware. I know for a fact that an FPSO in the Timor sea that we built has guys sitting out there surfing the net right now!
Just a thought.... actually, maybe someone could use the same technology we use for FPSO's (sorry, floating production, storage & offtake) and convert an old tanker? No point in solving the same problems twice.
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Well, I am actually from Australia, and my brother works in a lab that primarily does genetic research. I sent him the text of the ABC story a few minutes ago, and here is a snip from his response ...
"However, a lot of the work I am doing at the moment is on SOCS 1, 2 and 3
except I have moved on from mice onto enlarging, well lets say, certain human
organs. "
Yay, at last something useful from this research!
I work for a company that designs offshore oil & gas platforms. There is an increasing number of floating, semi-mobile platforms out there, and some of them are reaching end of field life in the next 5 years or so.
.... actually, maybe someone could use the same technology we use for FPSO's (sorry, floating production, storage & offtake) and convert an old tanker? No point in solving the same problems twice.
Maybe someone with some (fairly serious!) capital could use something like an old platform, FPSO, etc. Power generation (large amounts of), accomodation, and so on are already there, as well as communications hardware. I know for a fact that an FPSO in the Timor sea that we built has guys sitting out there surfing the net right now!
Just a thought