Of course, many fungi are multi-nucleic, and form connections between the cells, essentially turning the entire thing into a single cell. And fungi can be huge.
Well, for vertebrates it is more complex than that. Those lipids that line your cells? The ones that have just the right viscosity at the pressure you live at? How do they behave at depth?
How do lipids that are fluid enough to function within a single-celled organism at depth (>15,000 psi) behave when they are brought up to our measly ~14psi?
Interesting link. The rule for divers is usually to stay below 1.4 atm partial pressure of oxygen (and above 0.1)
And yet, there are only 2 medical conditions I know of where providing oxygen to the patient is not recommended.
1) In long-term bed-bound hospital patients with very weak respiration, providing supplemental oxygen can reduce the blood CO2 concentration (raising blood pH), which can block the respiration reflex, causing the patient to *stop* breathing. Outside of long-term hospital care of the elderly, this is unlikely to be a concern.
and 2), The patient is actively on fire. In this case, extinguish the fire, then administer oxygen.
I've seen accounts of using UV beacons for clandestine boat landings on the English Channel (transporting spies etc) on dark nights - only old people who'd had cataract surgery could see the UV beacon, and it was unlikely the enemy would have any such people on watch.
Don't forget underwater - it turns out that corals, cnidarians, lobsters, crabs, shrimp etc. flouresce, while most fish don't. Ongoing research suggests that some fish actually alter UV patterns to communicate.
I am going to pretend that all these nerds on/. are intentionally conflating seeing UV with seeing flourescence, (the visible-light glow observed in many objects when illuminated with UV,) because I would be very sad to find out so many failed basic science.
I spent a whole summer getting strange phone calls from guys asking for a girl... Eventually I caught on that she was meeting guys in clubs, and giving out a wrong number to lots of guys, telling them to call her later. Unfortunately, the number she made up turned out to be mine. The only way to put a stop to it was when I managed to figure out her real number, and telling it to any guy who tried to call her. I hope she didn't just pick some other number to give out, but at least I quit getting those calls.
I think the political debates ought to be preceded by an "academic decathlon" style competition, televised, and their scores commented on by smart people. At least one of the events should be "can you do your own taxes without an accountant," to make it clear that tax laws are too complicated. And rather than speaking/interviewing (we already know politicians can do that), there should be a practical skills competition - can they change a tire, build a treehouse, and balanace a checkbook?
But they are loaning us the dollars we are paying them with, and charging interest. As long as the interest rate they charge exceeds inflation, they'll still get paid.
What really needs to happen is they need to have to pay extra penalty, to be set aside to fight just the sort of thing they tried to do. Also, disbar or dismember the guilty attorneys.
It would probably be easier to get widespread testing and awareness worldwide than to get people to stop having sex. Easier, as in "just this side of impossible," as people are incredibly hard to educate.
Debt collectors and banks? They shouldn't be robocalling. Those situations are where they have a pre-existing relationship with the person being called, and aren't cold-calling anybody.
Robocalls are the telephone equivalent of spam. Why is it I can put a "No solicitors" sign on my door, but my phone must be subject to cold-calling from telemarketers, solicitations for "charities" and political groups, and any scammer who can operate a telephone? And they want to make it easier to bother lots of people at a time by allowing robocalling?
If anything, every telemarketing call should have to be hand-dialed, etc., no computer assistance. Think of the jobs that would be created.... Do it for the economy.
I wonder how soon the phone companies will work out a deal to let telemarketers call the phone customers, for a fee - because we know how much they care about the customers.
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Of course, many fungi are multi-nucleic, and form connections between the cells, essentially turning the entire thing into a single cell. And fungi can be huge.
Cadmium and Mercury. Then thallium. We don't want those floating around in the environment.
Well, for vertebrates it is more complex than that. Those lipids that line your cells? The ones that have just the right viscosity at the pressure you live at? How do they behave at depth?
How do lipids that are fluid enough to function within a single-celled organism at depth (>15,000 psi) behave when they are brought up to our measly ~14psi?
With some Presidents, it would not even be all that unreasonable to have caught him on film with the same dead hooker as everyone else...
Interesting link. The rule for divers is usually to stay below 1.4 atm partial pressure of oxygen (and above 0.1)
And yet, there are only 2 medical conditions I know of where providing oxygen to the patient is not recommended.
1) In long-term bed-bound hospital patients with very weak respiration, providing supplemental oxygen can reduce the blood CO2 concentration (raising blood pH), which can block the respiration reflex, causing the patient to *stop* breathing. Outside of long-term hospital care of the elderly, this is unlikely to be a concern.
and 2), The patient is actively on fire. In this case, extinguish the fire, then administer oxygen.
In this case, the voltage rounds up.
I wonder just how many of my fellow nerds submitted this same story?
The Even Larger Array?
From the article, there are no more dishes than before, and they aren't any bigger, they are just more sensetive. The "Just as Large Array"?
doesn't fighter plane seat angle have more to do with g-forces and blood movement? Or was that just something I read on the internet?
I've seen accounts of using UV beacons for clandestine boat landings on the English Channel (transporting spies etc) on dark nights - only old people who'd had cataract surgery could see the UV beacon, and it was unlikely the enemy would have any such people on watch.
So are the raptors looking for UV, or glow caused by UV?
Because most people can see the visible glow when certain materials are illuminated by UV.
Don't forget underwater - it turns out that corals, cnidarians, lobsters, crabs, shrimp etc. flouresce, while most fish don't. Ongoing research suggests that some fish actually alter UV patterns to communicate.
I am going to pretend that all these nerds on /. are intentionally conflating seeing UV with seeing flourescence, (the visible-light glow observed in many objects when illuminated with UV,) because I would be very sad to find out so many failed basic science.
So what you are saying is, it is a lot like hydrochloric acid?
I spent a whole summer getting strange phone calls from guys asking for a girl... Eventually I caught on that she was meeting guys in clubs, and giving out a wrong number to lots of guys, telling them to call her later. Unfortunately, the number she made up turned out to be mine. The only way to put a stop to it was when I managed to figure out her real number, and telling it to any guy who tried to call her. I hope she didn't just pick some other number to give out, but at least I quit getting those calls.
Your results may vary, usually by state law.
I think the political debates ought to be preceded by an "academic decathlon" style competition, televised, and their scores commented on by smart people. At least one of the events should be "can you do your own taxes without an accountant," to make it clear that tax laws are too complicated. And rather than speaking/interviewing (we already know politicians can do that), there should be a practical skills competition - can they change a tire, build a treehouse, and balanace a checkbook?
But they are loaning us the dollars we are paying them with, and charging interest. As long as the interest rate they charge exceeds inflation, they'll still get paid.
When the imprecision of the definition of the unit is exceeded by the imprecision of the experiment, we usually call that "not a problem."
By that standard, the Catholic Church should make me a saint, because I'm not the Devil.
I like where this is going.
East Texas Federal Court District already holds that nickname near and dear to it's heart.
Troll Bayou or Troll Hollow, perhaps, but I'm pretty sure "Trollhaven" is up for grabs.
What really needs to happen is they need to have to pay extra penalty, to be set aside to fight just the sort of thing they tried to do. Also, disbar or dismember the guilty attorneys.
It would probably be easier to get widespread testing and awareness worldwide than to get people to stop having sex. Easier, as in "just this side of impossible," as people are incredibly hard to educate.
Debt collectors and banks? They shouldn't be robocalling. Those situations are where they have a pre-existing relationship with the person being called, and aren't cold-calling anybody.
Robocalls are the telephone equivalent of spam. Why is it I can put a "No solicitors" sign on my door, but my phone must be subject to cold-calling from telemarketers, solicitations for "charities" and political groups, and any scammer who can operate a telephone? And they want to make it easier to bother lots of people at a time by allowing robocalling?
If anything, every telemarketing call should have to be hand-dialed, etc., no computer assistance. Think of the jobs that would be created.... Do it for the economy.
I wonder how soon the phone companies will work out a deal to let telemarketers call the phone customers, for a fee - because we know how much they care about the customers.
Depending on where you live, being unable to get on an airplane can be a severe limit on your liberty.
By America's rules, that isn't an act of war though.