I think you're mixing up neuropathy with neuralgia.
diabetic neuropathy is actually not painful - people will go on with an ulcer on their foot for weeks and not know it. it gets to be pretty bad actually. the first sign of neuropathy is that you will have numbness or tingling.
neuralgia is painful. quite painful. people with trigeminal neuralgia come in complaining of quick lightning flashes of pain on their face.
actually, there was a long distance company that did this during the dot com bomb era. the company was called freeway and they gave you long distance for free for listening to advertisements. you got 2 minutes of free long distance for every thirty seconds block of ads that you listened to.
basically the company went under, but the idea allowed me to basically live without a phone card when i went to boarding school.
i dont think it would work, it was a bit annoying, and i just tended to not even listen to the ads, i would just keep holding down * to get to the next message.
I remember reading an article a long time ago (a few years back) when sandia was doing fusion research with this same machine, and they mentioned an X machine which was supposed to be even bigger and badder. the Z machine broke several records (heat produced and energy produced), and so the X machine should be even cooler. oh, in fact, they mention the X-1 here http://www.sandia.gov/media/z290.htm it's gonna be pretty ridiculous also, more pertinent info about the Z machine is at that article also. really cool
yes, proteins fold because of the relative polarities of the moieties of the nucleic acids. membranes are based on the micelle model, where hydrophobic pieces of the molecules try to stay together while the hydrophilic part tend to stay near the outside (so they can be more easily solvated by the water).
however, this article is not exactly talking about that. water in a natural biological setting has ALOT of dissolved gas in it. what this scientist did was just remove the gas from the water. in blood, which is basically a soln of water/plasma/ and blood cells (white and red). there is oxygen dissolved in the water. not ALL of the O2 is stuck to hemoglobin. case in point, when people get decompression sickness or the bends from being in a pressurized environment and suddenly removed from said environment, the gas that is dissolved (N2) in their blood is suddenly jolted out of soln because of the reduced pressure and collects in their joints. this leads to pain. alot of pain. so yes, there is gas freely moving around in biological systems.
what with my limited experience with gestures, in the game black and white, its kinda hard to get used to the motions, but after maybe an hour or so, it just becomes second nature. swirly motions are particularly hard, but once you do it so much, it just comes naturally... maybe you didnt practice long enough?:-)
but thats just me
i read about this in scientific american (or something like that) a few months back, i'm surprised alot of people are hearing about it now. in that article, there were mentions of using this material in satellites and other imaging machines for things that earlier had not been possible. so its kinda exciting, but i think it will only affect the areas that cost alot of money:-) i dont think that there are any mainstream uses for this stuff, but then again, i could be wrong.
well, if you had done a little more research, you would know that our bodies create neurons throughout our whole lifetime. It was just that the manufacture of these new neurons was VERY small, and that was why we didnt really know about them. but it is proven fact that they "regenerate."
well, i was watching the nightly news, or something, could have been a tv news show or something to that effect, i don't remember... anyways, they had a report on the y2k thing, and they said that it hadn't really done anything drastic. in addition to this, they had to bring up something stupid. they said that another potential problem could come up in 2038, and this was ALL based on the fact that systems were based on UNIX. this is basically a quote
how can the media be sooo unreasonably biased? i was kinda pissed that they could do such a piss poor job of reporting, but i guess thats just the way it goes.
just something i had to get off my chest and into the world
thats almost exactly what happened at my job as a tech support guy under a contractor. anyways, the whole pacbell dsl service is a certified mess, they are always down, and if you call to ask what happened, most of the time, the tech's will NOT know the answer. I feel sorry for anyone that subscribes to it, as it can be VERY VERY frustrating. I remember my worst case was when a business-man got dsl service from *bell and as a result of the router being down in his area, he was losing thousands of dollars on the hour. I could do nothing to help him out, and all i could do was apologize for teh crappy service. in the story, she makes the second tier of tech support (STAQ - second tier analyst queue) look like people who know more... but at my time there, most of the STAQ agents were simps (didnt know the difference between a router and a server)
i also know that pacbell is getting sued and has been sued several times in teh past because of their service, they REALLY need to fix things up
alright, end of my rant
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I think you're mixing up neuropathy with neuralgia.
diabetic neuropathy is actually not painful - people will go on with an ulcer on their foot for weeks and not know it. it gets to be pretty bad actually. the first sign of neuropathy is that you will have numbness or tingling.
neuralgia is painful. quite painful. people with trigeminal neuralgia come in complaining of quick lightning flashes of pain on their face.
actually, there was a long distance company that did this during the dot com bomb era.
the company was called freeway and they gave you long distance for free for listening to advertisements.
you got 2 minutes of free long distance for every thirty seconds block of ads that you listened to.
basically the company went under, but the idea allowed me to basically live without a phone card when i went to boarding school.
i dont think it would work, it was a bit annoying, and i just tended to not even listen to the ads, i would just keep holding down * to get to the next message.
I remember reading an article a long time ago (a few years back) when sandia was doing fusion research with this same machine, and they mentioned an X machine which was supposed to be even bigger and badder. the Z machine broke several records (heat produced and energy produced), and so the X machine should be even cooler. oh, in fact, they mention the X-1 here
http://www.sandia.gov/media/z290.htm
it's gonna be pretty ridiculous
also, more pertinent info about the Z machine is at that article also. really cool
methane is odorless
it is the stuff that is usually with methane that smells bad i.e. sulfates and such
oops
i meant moieties of the nucleotides. hehe
yes, proteins fold because of the relative polarities of the moieties of the nucleic acids. membranes are based on the micelle model, where hydrophobic pieces of the molecules try to stay together while the hydrophilic part tend to stay
near the outside (so they can be more easily solvated by the water).
however, this article is not exactly talking about that. water in a natural biological setting has ALOT of dissolved gas in it. what this scientist did was just remove the gas from the water. in blood, which is basically a soln of water/plasma/ and blood cells (white and red). there is oxygen dissolved in the water. not ALL of the O2 is stuck to hemoglobin. case in point, when people get decompression sickness or the bends from being in a pressurized environment and suddenly removed from said environment, the gas that is dissolved (N2) in their blood is suddenly jolted out of soln because of the reduced pressure and collects in their joints. this leads to pain. alot of pain.
so yes, there is gas freely moving around in biological systems.
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what with my limited experience with gestures, in the game black and white, its kinda hard to get used to the motions, but after maybe an hour or so, it just becomes second nature. swirly motions are particularly hard, but once you do it so much, it just comes naturally... maybe you didnt practice long enough? :-)
but thats just me
i read about this in scientific american (or something like that) a few months back, i'm surprised alot of people are hearing about it now. in that article, there were mentions of using this material in satellites and other imaging machines for things that earlier had not been possible. so its kinda exciting, but i think it will only affect the areas that cost alot of money :-) i dont think that there are any mainstream uses for this stuff, but then again, i could be wrong.
well, if you had done a little more research, you would know that our bodies create neurons throughout our whole lifetime. It was just that the manufacture of these new neurons was VERY small, and that was why we didnt really know about them. but it is proven fact that they "regenerate."
well, i was watching the nightly news, or something, could have been a tv news show or something to that effect, i don't remember... anyways, they had a report on the y2k thing, and they said that it hadn't really done anything drastic. in addition to this, they had to bring up something stupid. they said that another potential problem could come up in 2038, and this was ALL based on the fact that systems were based on UNIX. this is basically a quote how can the media be sooo unreasonably biased? i was kinda pissed that they could do such a piss poor job of reporting, but i guess thats just the way it goes. just something i had to get off my chest and into the world
thats almost exactly what happened at my job as a tech support guy under a contractor. anyways, the whole pacbell dsl service is a certified mess, they are always down, and if you call to ask what happened, most of the time, the tech's will NOT know the answer. I feel sorry for anyone that subscribes to it, as it can be VERY VERY frustrating. I remember my worst case was when a business-man got dsl service from *bell and as a result of the router being down in his area, he was losing thousands of dollars on the hour. I could do nothing to help him out, and all i could do was apologize for teh crappy service. in the story, she makes the second tier of tech support (STAQ - second tier analyst queue) look like people who know more... but at my time there, most of the STAQ agents were simps (didnt know the difference between a router and a server) i also know that pacbell is getting sued and has been sued several times in teh past because of their service, they REALLY need to fix things up alright, end of my rant
hmm, finding new ways of advertising will be harder than you think.