Yes I know the difference between the different forms, just happened to make a typo when deleting a large part of my comment and left the wrong "there". It's funny to see the grammar/spelling police get all excited.
Hey I've been a scientist type geek my whole life - grammar has never been my forte, and no they don't teach it in med. school. I typically leave the proofreading up my wife and openoffice in my research papers.
1) transuranic waste is heavy! 2) Don't you think that firing thousands! of rocekts into space might generate more pollution than the problem 3 Holy cow is that gonna be expensive.
Thee needs to e an earth-bound solution such as vitrification (turning into inert glass) or fire a liner accelerator at it to change it into stuff with a shorter halflife.
The best place in the world to go if you have a weird problem is a universityhospital for a medical school. There you will find all sorts of specialists, who colect al the "zebra" cases from the surrounding 200 miles and treat them, 'cause no one else knows how to. Almost every medical school I know will take any pt, reguadless of insurance, on an emergency basis, and run the appropriate tests.
I am a surgeon, and I don't like the sound of his lung/chest complaints at all. The address for the school is..UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, 501 N. Columbia Rd, Grand Forks, ND 58203 Phone:(701)777-5046
I wouldn't waste time with community doctors, they probably are in WAY over there heads, or might not even recognize the seriousness of the situaton.
I'm seeing Slashdot user numbers in the 350k range. If roughly 50% of these are Democrats, then 1 dollar each will pay for the recount. I donated $20. Let's do our civic duty
It seems pretty obvious to me that they will need to do a several month long completely closed dry run. Plants can make some pretty funky compounds - they engage in chemical warfare with eachother - that's where we get the starting base compound for our chemotherapy drugs, and other medicines.
Anyway, it'll be kind of a drag being locked up on earth for a few months in a small closed environment - but I wouldn't trust relying on plants any other way.
I'm a surgeon and see plenty of people much heavy than that who can take stressful situations (surgery!) As far as the stress of lift-off it's greatly exagerated. I'm not trying to sell obesity- but astronauts are so vigorously trained, that I bet you can get overweight, cardiovascular in shape people to easily withstand liftoff.
The amount of weight saved this way is significant, and yes I know the water and O2 are important - but these will be recycled.
Kinda hard to really think about this. Yeah I guess it could be a life, but then alot of things could be considered that too. I used to work in a lab where we had immortalized cell lines from people to study a heart disease - you take their white cells and mix them with a type of cancer cell which produces a cell that keeps living. - A lot of these people were dead, but I had in my refridgerator a little piece of them still living. It kinda freaked me out for a few days when I realized this, but after a while I realized that it wasn't much diffferent than a piece of hair that had fallen out, or some blood that had leaked out of some cut.
My point is that as long as we keep the clones somewhat small - say less than 1024 cells, I have no moral problem with disposing them - that I'm not killing anything. Yes this has a HUGE grey area, but I think that a reasonable compromise can be reached.
One way to more effieciently store food for the journey is to have fat astronauts. A pound of fat contains about 3500 kcals of energy - roughly a day and a half energy supply for an average weight male. So a 75 pound overweight astronaut would have roughly 120 days of stored, packed on food - or 25% of the trips food requirements (About 2 tons!!!). It is a MUCH, more efficient way to store "food" weight for the journey.
Yes this does appear to sound quite funny, but I think that this is very doable, without much of a health risk at all to the astronauts.
If you want to get a PhD level job that uses your chem PhD, then try a pharmaceutical job - the best spot for those is to move to New Jersey, wherealmost ALL the major pharm companies are. I think that you can get a job around 60-100k with that.
If you're better qualified for another aspect of chemistry, like photo chem, plastics or inorganic - then I don't know. You should be able to do OK You are not limited to academia with a chem PhD - it's VERY hireable.
offer the prize for making a working ethanol (or bio diesel)production plant that has a lower cost of energy than say a 30 dollar barrel of crude oil. As far as fuel cells go, I guess adding fuel cell tech to efficiently use ethanol, would be useful.
Just beacuse we've heard how Kim Jong Il II, the leader of N. Korea, while playing golf for the FIRST time, shot around 5 (FIVE!!!) holes in one for a total score of around 38 UNDER PAR, doesn't mean that we shouldn't believe anything that they say.
Go to parties - have your male friends bring their women friends from work and vise versa - that way you avoid the whole "Don't sh*t where you eat" thing. Join a band - that's good for a number or two per show you play out. This worked very well for me. The success of Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett and Ric Ocasek should provide enough incentive. Adult education classes - Don't take ANYTHING geek related - that's why you're having trouble in the first place. Take art history - it'll make you more well rounded. Practice makes perfect, after MANY failures you'll find out what works for you. Always hit on the best looking women in the place - women like confidence. You'll get shot down, but do you really care what some stranger thinks - you shouldn't, so get over it and don't be embarrassed.
Make it a rule that you attempt to get a number EVERYTIME you go out at night - no excuses. Even if she's only a 5 or 6, she may have friends who are a 8,9 or a 10 that you can meet later on if you stay friends. Work out your moves on the low stress situation with the 5 or 6 so that when it really counts, you'll be ok. Have fun!
I go to a theater to see movies beacuse it's a social event - you interact with other people in a way. The social experience obviously depends on the theater, and movie that you go to. I generally try to see movies where people tend to be film buffs, for lack of a beter phrase.
People in the audience may get an oblique joke that the writer/director has made, which you might not necessarilly catch, and so on.
I saw American Psycho with a friend at a local 12-plex in a theater where nearly everyone did not have a great familarity with the english language, or that they were poorly educated. For those of you who haven't read the book, it's hillarious, and somewhat gruesome, and the audience only saw the movie as some slasher flick. It was kind of weird being the only 2 people in a nearly full theater, that got the jokes.
Anyway, my point is that going out to see the movies is a social event, people react in ways that you might not, which usually adds to the experience, If you're the type of person whos whole experience is RUINED by someones cell phone ringing once, then don't go if you're that uptight. If you're the type of person who enjoys hearing the pithy comment during some film which unexpectedly turns out to be realy bad, then go out and enjoy - you'll get more out of it then sitting home all alone. I like being in the audince of a 1000 people who go nuts when Yoda jumped around like the Tazmanian Devil, it's just fun.
I work in the medical field, and plenty of sites for reading X-rays, checking patient labs seem to be only usuable by IE(active-X issues, etc). It's the only reason I keep Windows on my Linux boxes.
Anyone still using LIme iwre - I've found it to be quite good at finding MP3s. It seems to work quite well, with a LARGE database and user pool. It has a nice easy to use GUI and is available on MS-windows, Linux and possibly MACs.
Any specific reason why anyone isn't using LimeWIre?
I use JMP-IN its a GUI stats package which does all sorts of stuff. It's made by the folks over at SAS who are well known for their industrial strength stats packages. JMP covers everything from Students T tests, ANOVA, Kaplan-Meier survival curves thru non-parametric analysis and more. Very easy to use, and alot of function, all with a easy to use GUI interface, and nice looking graphical outputs. Accepts Excel spreadsheets and more. I got it with an accademic discount for about $70 US. I use it for medical statistics for publication.
Once they have built the smaller prototype, they can scale up with the "duplo" style blocks. They've always seemed like Legos, but for kids w/ "special" needs..
Anyway, I thought I was the only one who caught that. I'm not sure if I like it or not
What if the continent of Australia goes on a drinking binge and decides to take the elevator into space. Would this tend to slow doen the Earth and cause longer days?
Waksman was a professor at Rutgers, New Jersey, where he discovered the mycin (streptomycin,actinomycin) class of drugs and their effectiveness against TB. Streptomycin has been listed as one of the top ten inventions that has shaped the world (itnearly erradicated TB from the world back in the 30's 40's) Waksman bio.
He spent nearly all of his education and adult working period at Rutgers, New Jersey, except for a small period 1-3 years, where he went to U. Cal. Nearly all of his important work was done in NJ
Nukes generate a characteristic light flash, shock wave and also have an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP). From this our satellites can tell you what type of nuke it is, how powerful, where the nuke material came from, etc. I just met a guy who takes care of the satellites that are responsible for monitoring the nuke test ban treaty.
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Yes I know the difference between the different forms, just happened to make a typo when deleting a large part of my comment and left the wrong "there". It's funny to see the grammar/spelling police get all excited.
Hey I've been a scientist type geek my whole life - grammar has never been my forte, and no they don't teach it in med. school. I typically leave the proofreading up my wife and openoffice in my research papers.
2) Don't you think that firing thousands! of rocekts into space might generate more pollution than the problem
3 Holy cow is that gonna be expensive.
Thee needs to e an earth-bound solution such as vitrification (turning into inert glass) or fire a liner accelerator at it to change it into stuff with a shorter halflife.
The best place in the world to go if you have a weird problem is a universityhospital for a medical school. There you will find all sorts of specialists, who colect al the "zebra" cases from the surrounding 200 miles and treat them, 'cause no one else knows how to. Almost every medical school I know will take any pt, reguadless of insurance, on an emergency basis, and run the appropriate tests.
I am a surgeon, and I don't like the sound of his lung/chest complaints at all. The address for the school is..UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, 501 N. Columbia Rd, Grand Forks, ND 58203
Phone:(701)777-5046
I wouldn't waste time with community doctors, they probably are in WAY over there heads, or might not even recognize the seriousness of the situaton.
I'm seeing Slashdot user numbers in the 350k range. If roughly 50% of these are Democrats, then 1 dollar each will pay for the recount. I donated $20.
Let's do our civic duty
A Beowolf cluster of Beowolf clusters....
ARRRGGGHHHH PEOPLE'S HEADS ARE EXPLODING!!!
Now you know that there's some engineer with acces to this thing thinking how he can jump to the front of SETI@HOME.
Anyway, it'll be kind of a drag being locked up on earth for a few months in a small closed environment - but I wouldn't trust relying on plants any other way.
I'm a surgeon and see plenty of people much heavy than that who can take stressful situations (surgery!) As far as the stress of lift-off it's greatly exagerated. I'm not trying to sell obesity- but astronauts are so vigorously trained, that I bet you can get overweight, cardiovascular in shape people to easily withstand liftoff.
The amount of weight saved this way is significant, and yes I know the water and O2 are important - but these will be recycled.
My point is that as long as we keep the clones somewhat small - say less than 1024 cells, I have no moral problem with disposing them - that I'm not killing anything. Yes this has a HUGE grey area, but I think that a reasonable compromise can be reached.
Let the flame/holy wars begin...
Yes this does appear to sound quite funny, but I think that this is very doable, without much of a health risk at all to the astronauts.
If you're better qualified for another aspect of chemistry, like photo chem, plastics or inorganic - then I don't know. You should be able to do OK
You are not limited to academia with a chem PhD - it's VERY hireable.
offer the prize for making a working ethanol (or bio diesel)production plant that has a lower cost of energy than say a 30 dollar barrel of crude oil. As far as fuel cells go, I guess adding fuel cell tech to efficiently use ethanol, would be useful.
Just beacuse we've heard how Kim Jong Il II, the leader of N. Korea, while playing golf for the FIRST time, shot around 5 (FIVE!!!) holes in one for a total score of around 38 UNDER PAR, doesn't mean that we shouldn't believe anything that they say.
Go to parties - have your male friends bring their women friends from work and vise versa - that way you avoid the whole "Don't sh*t where you eat" thing.
Join a band - that's good for a number or two per show you play out. This worked very well for me. The success of Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett and Ric Ocasek should provide enough incentive.
Adult education classes - Don't take ANYTHING geek related - that's why you're having trouble in the first place. Take art history - it'll make you more well rounded.
Practice makes perfect, after MANY failures you'll find out what works for you. Always hit on the best looking women in the place - women like confidence. You'll get shot down, but do you really care what some stranger thinks - you shouldn't, so get over it and don't be embarrassed.
Make it a rule that you attempt to get a number EVERYTIME you go out at night - no excuses. Even if she's only a 5 or 6, she may have friends who are a 8,9 or a 10 that you can meet later on if you stay friends. Work out your moves on the low stress situation with the 5 or 6 so that when it really counts, you'll be ok.
Have fun!
On my own machines the Linux seems lil' faster, but that's anecdotal evidence.
People in the audience may get an oblique joke that the writer/director has made, which you might not necessarilly catch, and so on.
I saw American Psycho with a friend at a local 12-plex in a theater where nearly everyone did not have a great familarity with the english language, or that they were poorly educated. For those of you who haven't read the book, it's hillarious, and somewhat gruesome, and the audience only saw the movie as some slasher flick. It was kind of weird being the only 2 people in a nearly full theater, that got the jokes.
Anyway, my point is that going out to see the movies is a social event, people react in ways that you might not, which usually adds to the experience, If you're the type of person whos whole experience is RUINED by someones cell phone ringing once, then don't go if you're that uptight. If you're the type of person who enjoys hearing the pithy comment during some film which unexpectedly turns out to be realy bad, then go out and enjoy - you'll get more out of it then sitting home all alone. I like being in the audince of a 1000 people who go nuts when Yoda jumped around like the Tazmanian Devil, it's just fun.
If you press R2s red button his top pops open and that's where you drop your trash. The Blue button compacts it.
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I work in the medical field, and plenty of sites for reading X-rays, checking patient labs seem to be only usuable by IE(active-X issues, etc). It's the only reason I keep Windows on my Linux boxes.
Any specific reason why anyone isn't using LimeWIre?
I use JMP-IN its a GUI stats package which does all sorts of stuff. It's made by the folks over at SAS who are well known for their industrial strength stats packages. JMP covers everything from Students T tests, ANOVA, Kaplan-Meier survival curves thru non-parametric analysis and more. Very easy to use, and alot of function, all with a easy to use GUI interface, and nice looking graphical outputs. Accepts Excel spreadsheets and more. I got it with an accademic discount for about $70 US. I use it for medical statistics for publication.
Once they have built the smaller prototype, they can scale up with the "duplo" style blocks. They've always seemed like Legos, but for kids w/ "special" needs..
Anyway, I thought I was the only one who caught that. I'm not sure if I like it or not
What if the continent of Australia goes on a drinking binge and decides to take the elevator into space. Would this tend to slow doen the Earth and cause longer days?
Waksman was a professor at Rutgers, New Jersey, where he discovered the mycin (streptomycin,actinomycin) class of drugs and their effectiveness against TB. Streptomycin has been listed as one of the top ten inventions that has shaped the world (itnearly erradicated TB from the world back in the 30's 40's) Waksman bio.
He spent nearly all of his education and adult working period at Rutgers, New Jersey, except for a small period 1-3 years, where he went to U. Cal. Nearly all of his important work was done in NJ
a ks man-bio.html
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1952/w
Nukes generate a characteristic light flash, shock wave and also have an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP). From this our satellites can tell you what type of nuke it is, how powerful, where the nuke material came from, etc. I just met a guy who takes care of the satellites that are responsible for monitoring the nuke test ban treaty.