Was the brother confined within a control space, so everything aside from microgravity and speed were the same?
Instead of being a pedantic douchenozzle why don't you go and read up on the NASA Twins Study itself and then come back here and report on everything that NASA did wrong?
The same boring, tiresome "research" has been done already.
Umm??? If it was already done then why did they repeat it? I certainly haven't heard of identical twins being tested like this before. Or is there some sort of astronaut pork barrel funding conspiracy I am not aware of?
OK, now what? You're gonna do it again, and again, and again, pretexting "science" when you know very well that you have your bags packed for Mars.
My bags are packed for my 3 hour drive home tomorrow, not for Mars.
Stop being a disingenuous fool. Funny how medical research usually involves animal models, you could get all your precious free-fall science from a mouse model as well. For a lot cheaper.
Yeah medical science uses animal models. But only when it is impractical or impossible or unethical to use humans. And even then animal models are only an approximation to humans. Once the animal model has run its course medical researchers turn to testing humans. So I posit that you are the one being disingenuous in saying that this research could be done cheaper with animals - because eventually they would have to send up a human in order to collect actual human data. In effect they have saved money by skipping a lot of unnecessary animal model approximations.
Oh but then you can't hero-worship Steve Austin, Astronaut, like you had on your grade-school lunch box.
Sorry, Stevo was a bit after my time in grade school. Nice try with the attempted ad-hom, but you failed in your basic research as to who I am.
You said you could do the same experiment in a submarine. So I'm calling you on the part where one of the subjects was in zero G for the duration.
All 7 billion of us will live and die right here.
Seriously? FFS you are questioning fundamental scientific research because it isn't going to produce something tangible right this very minute that is applicable to the entire population of Earth.?
At this point these space stunts are the equivalent of flagpole sitting.
What was not in TFS and IS important is that Scott's identical twin brother (a retired astronaut himself) remained on Earth all this time. So NASA is doing comparative studies between the two of them. This was no stunt but instead a carefully crafted experiment.
I'd might as well be voting for some third world dictator thug. At least Trump is not a criminal*. That's about what it boils down to.
Given Trump's predilection for Mussolini quotes, his bromance with Putin, advocacy of violence, desire to gut the 1st amendment and love of eminent domain, I'd be careful what you wish for.
*BTW Trump U cuts it awfully close to being an outright scam operation.
Another "messaging" app that somehow messages differently than regular text messages? Somehow, I doubt that their target market of dim-witted 10 year old kids is going to decide which phone OS's continue into the future.
In a lot of markets (EG South America) WhatsApp is used by the majority of mobile users due to the pricing of text messages vs pure data because most people in the world don't have unlimited text messages in their plans. So I think you need to revise your opinion of the WhatsApp target market to reflect that other people face situations different than your own and as such have different motivations to use things like WhatsApp.
I thought that McAfee's position wasn't so much 'pro unlock' as "Me and my hacker posse will hack the shit out of it!";
I thought McAfee's position was more along the lines of "Look at me! Look at me!" with the idea that he could say any old shit, get the attention he craves and then not have to deliver anything as no-one in their right mind would let him near that phone.
I was in Australia over Christmas with my brand spanking new USA based credit cards (from major bank and CC companies).. which have barely have chips in them. I was buying some stuff in a shop one day and handed over my credit card and the assistant took my card, looked at it, paused for a second and then finally said with an incredulous tone.. "Oh.. I have to swipe this, don't I".
Talk about an abject lesson in how backwards my CC was.
Comcast did this to me to hint that I needed to upgrade my cable modem - in order to better be able to upsell me on Xfinity. It got so annoying after a while that I finally did upgrade, but thats all I did.
And in all fairness to comcast, it only required a less than 10 minutes phone call with their tech support in order to get my new modem connected. No physical appointment needed.
I see that your thinking abilities have been compromised already. I said religion is poison of the mind, it is a toxin, like botulism.
I didn't say that all religious people will under all circumstances deny evolution specifically.
You initially proclaimed an absolute about religion. Now you are are saying "well I didn't mean all religious people". So what is it? Do you stand by your initial absolute statement? Or was that statement false and not so absolute?
His counter-example does nothing to show that religion was not responsible for people rejecting evolution.
No, he just heavily implies it by stating that religion kills off critical thinking. With the assumption that critical thinking is the hallmark required of people in order to understand and accept things like evolution. In turn I pointed out that many religious people accept evolution, so his premise that religion kills critical thinking is wrong, Or are you going to argue that religious people accepting evolution are doing so by taking it on faith alone and screw the science?
So, in a story about a particular topic, pointing out that a respondents generalization is false by supplying a specific counter example on that same topic is now considered a "gross mis-characterization"?
Sorry. I am not interested in your news letter and don't want to subscribe to it
but I think it is fair to treat all religions and supernatural belief systems, so called 'spirituality' as toxins that destroy thinking abilities in ways that may be even worse than simple narcotics.
Yes, namely, a standard run-of-the-mill computer monitor. You don't really need a television in this day and age, because everything* you might want to watch is available over the Internet.
*Note that the definition of "everything" is subjective and may also be location sensitive.
I think this is kinda of an insane position for Samsung to take. They need to find away to address the privacy concerns or make it possible for people to 'securely' disable the feature, like maybe be able to unplug the pickup mike!
Have you heard about Siri (Apple), Cortana (MS), Echo (Amazon) and whatever you call Googles technology (and Onstar's "always on")? What Samsung has done is nothing new. Perhaps they are actually better than the rest for actually being honest as to where the audio goes.
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Was the brother confined within a control space, so everything aside from microgravity and speed were the same?
Instead of being a pedantic douchenozzle why don't you go and read up on the NASA Twins Study itself and then come back here and report on everything that NASA did wrong?
The same boring, tiresome "research" has been done already.
Umm??? If it was already done then why did they repeat it? I certainly haven't heard of identical twins being tested like this before. Or is there some sort of astronaut pork barrel funding conspiracy I am not aware of?
OK, now what? You're gonna do it again, and again, and again, pretexting "science" when you know very well that you have your bags packed for Mars.
My bags are packed for my 3 hour drive home tomorrow, not for Mars.
Stop being a disingenuous fool. Funny how medical research usually involves animal models, you could get all your precious free-fall science from a mouse model as well. For a lot cheaper.
Yeah medical science uses animal models. But only when it is impractical or impossible or unethical to use humans. And even then animal models are only an approximation to humans. Once the animal model has run its course medical researchers turn to testing humans. So I posit that you are the one being disingenuous in saying that this research could be done cheaper with animals - because eventually they would have to send up a human in order to collect actual human data. In effect they have saved money by skipping a lot of unnecessary animal model approximations.
Oh but then you can't hero-worship Steve Austin, Astronaut, like you had on your grade-school lunch box.
Sorry, Stevo was a bit after my time in grade school. Nice try with the attempted ad-hom, but you failed in your basic research as to who I am.
How is that relevant to anyone?
You said you could do the same experiment in a submarine. So I'm calling you on the part where one of the subjects was in zero G for the duration.
All 7 billion of us will live and die right here.
Seriously? FFS you are questioning fundamental scientific research because it isn't going to produce something tangible right this very minute that is applicable to the entire population of Earth.?
I could also carefully craft the same experiment with a twin living in a submarine.
So you have an anti-gravity submarine just lying around somewhere that can be used for these experiments?
At this point these space stunts are the equivalent of flagpole sitting.
What was not in TFS and IS important is that Scott's identical twin brother (a retired astronaut himself) remained on Earth all this time. So NASA is doing comparative studies between the two of them. This was no stunt but instead a carefully crafted experiment.
Sure its not just pining for the fjords? Or maybe just stunned?
I'd might as well be voting for some third world dictator thug. At least Trump is not a criminal*. That's about what it boils down to.
Given Trump's predilection for Mussolini quotes, his bromance with Putin, advocacy of violence, desire to gut the 1st amendment and love of eminent domain, I'd be careful what you wish for.
*BTW Trump U cuts it awfully close to being an outright scam operation.
I don't blame him for winning on the terms forced upon him.
#Trump #Winning*
*Paging Charlie Sheen
Another "messaging" app that somehow messages differently than regular text messages? Somehow, I doubt that their target market of dim-witted 10 year old kids is going to decide which phone OS's continue into the future.
In a lot of markets (EG South America) WhatsApp is used by the majority of mobile users due to the pricing of text messages vs pure data because most people in the world don't have unlimited text messages in their plans. So I think you need to revise your opinion of the WhatsApp target market to reflect that other people face situations different than your own and as such have different motivations to use things like WhatsApp.
Guess us old-timers will finally find out where the goatse guy is hiding out. :(
He's probably sharing a house with tub girl
I thought that McAfee's position wasn't so much 'pro unlock' as "Me and my hacker posse will hack the shit out of it!";
I thought McAfee's position was more along the lines of "Look at me! Look at me!" with the idea that he could say any old shit, get the attention he craves and then not have to deliver anything as no-one in their right mind would let him near that phone.
So the wired link doesn't like my ad-blocker. So I said to myself "screw them" and went and found another link.
Virgin Galactic to unveil new spaceship
Yes it does have horrible auto play video that comes with an ad at the start, but I'd rather sit through that than be treated like Wired treats me.
why hit a "drum" when you can simply program a computer and fully synthesize it?
Why program a computer to synthesize it when you can just sample it?
I want one BAD!
I know, it's been done before!
I'd think that for the price of an Organ you could get a lot more than one iPhone
I was in Australia over Christmas with my brand spanking new USA based credit cards (from major bank and CC companies) .. which have barely have chips in them. I was buying some stuff in a shop one day and handed over my credit card and the assistant took my card, looked at it, paused for a second and then finally said with an incredulous tone .. "Oh .. I have to swipe this, don't I".
Talk about an abject lesson in how backwards my CC was.
using HTML/ HTTP injections to serve notices.
Comcast did this to me to hint that I needed to upgrade my cable modem - in order to better be able to upsell me on Xfinity. It got so annoying after a while that I finally did upgrade, but thats all I did.
And in all fairness to comcast, it only required a less than 10 minutes phone call with their tech support in order to get my new modem connected. No physical appointment needed.
A patch for Android that makes all phones think they are in Russia!
All your phone are belong to us?
I see that your thinking abilities have been compromised already. I said religion is poison of the mind, it is a toxin, like botulism.
I didn't say that all religious people will under all circumstances deny evolution specifically.
You initially proclaimed an absolute about religion. Now you are are saying "well I didn't mean all religious people". So what is it? Do you stand by your initial absolute statement? Or was that statement false and not so absolute?
His counter-example does nothing to show that religion was not responsible for people rejecting evolution.
No, he just heavily implies it by stating that religion kills off critical thinking. With the assumption that critical thinking is the hallmark required of people in order to understand and accept things like evolution. In turn I pointed out that many religious people accept evolution, so his premise that religion kills critical thinking is wrong, Or are you going to argue that religious people accepting evolution are doing so by taking it on faith alone and screw the science?
So, in a story about a particular topic, pointing out that a respondents generalization is false by supplying a specific counter example on that same topic is now considered a "gross mis-characterization"?
Sorry. I am not interested in your news letter and don't want to subscribe to it
but I think it is fair to treat all religions and supernatural belief systems, so called 'spirituality' as toxins that destroy thinking abilities in ways that may be even worse than simple narcotics.
You do know that many proponents of different religions actually accept evolution don't you? Acceptance of evolution by religious groups.
Your gross generalization is more indicative of the poisoning of your own mind than of anything else.
It was an originally a science fiction story called The Twonky, later made into a movie of the same name.
I tried watching that movie last week and gave up on it half way through. And its not often that I give up on watching bad TV
Yes, namely, a standard run-of-the-mill computer monitor. You don't really need a television in this day and age, because everything* you might want to watch is available over the Internet.
*Note that the definition of "everything" is subjective and may also be location sensitive.
I think this is kinda of an insane position for Samsung to take. They need to find away to address the privacy concerns or make it possible for people to 'securely' disable the feature, like maybe be able to unplug the pickup mike!
Have you heard about Siri (Apple), Cortana (MS), Echo (Amazon) and whatever you call Googles technology (and Onstar's "always on")? What Samsung has done is nothing new. Perhaps they are actually better than the rest for actually being honest as to where the audio goes.
University of Rochester Body heat triggers shape change in new type of polymer
The real source even has video