Medicine has known this for a long time and has very successfully used sound for status information. Most ICU's are a dreadfully loud place with Beeps, pings, whistles, etc. But everybody always comes running whenever the ventolator alarm or EKG alarm go off BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! OH Crap!!!!
I can take care of other people and divert my attention to other things as opposed to staring at a screen. Very useful for multitasking.
Pioneer 6 was placed in a Sun orbit at 74 million miles...it's closer to the Sun than Earth is.
Maybe you're thinking of the
Pioneer 10 which achieved solar system escape velocity and is approx 7 BILLION miles from earth
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black..heheh
Well, actually we don't, but I bet alot of people would buy it - maybe just so they could convert from a dual boot sys to a Linux only. It would save some headaches. It would probably have to be VERY straightfoward/easy to use. Once people get sucked into the system they tend to fool around with it and then they'll learn Linux.
Personally, I think that computer games were responsible for the success of the home PC and made them ubiquitous.
Can't find it - am I blind or did my install go wacky?
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Yep - I'm confirming it - it's true. I read about twenty of his postings and they received on average 5 to 10 replies, usually for some kind of hyperbolic remark, or poor comparison. Unfortunately the above poster chose to rename the above guy kiss-the-d**k instead of his real name and got modded down.
Just an off-topic thought. Are there any provisions for limiting the number of posts for consistently troll or flamebait posters so as to decrease the noise? Maybe limit them to 1 -2 posts per week until the consistently post a few comments above zero? Just a thought.
Sugars and microscopic particles will also trigger the immune system. Most bacteria have a sugar coat which our cells/antibodies react to.
Microscopic particles can also cause an immune reaction - asbestos, carbon fiber (from artificial ligaments), certain metals (nickle allergy is quite common)
About the only thing that you said which was basically correct was that "markers" and "killers" exist in the immune system. This is overly simplistic too, since many cell types and proteins (antibodies, compliment proteins, cytokines) exist and work in conjunction.
Everything else is basically wrong
1 Antibiotics do not disable your immune system - they either are bacterioCIDAL (kill bacteria - NOT human cells), or else they are bacterioSTATIC (they stop the bacter from growing, so that our own immune system can rev up and kill them)
2 The capitalist system producing a poor immune system is a non-sequitar Infection used to be the top six or seven causes of death before modern antibiotics were introduced. Since their introduction infectious death remains around number 10 and average life expectancy has doubled
3 As far as a billion "markers" being released in 10 seconds- not true. An allergic reaction can take place that fast to a PREVIOUSLY EXPOSED antigen, but no markers are released in that time frame that are specific to that antigen.
A normal immune reaction takes about a week to sucessfully produce a specif antibody to a antigen (an immune producing substance, i.e. a foreign protein/sugar) for the first time, there after further exposures will take about a day.
I can't teach you immunology in a few paragraphs. Get a BASIC immuno text and learn about B and T cells, antibodies and compliment proteins.
Let's get a few things straight
1 Bacteria only go with the bloodflow, they cant swim fast enought to go against the stream... Have you ever seen a science movie where you see the red blood cells go whizzing by?.. Pretty fast - you can barely see them, yet when you look in a reguklar microscope you can easily track the bacteria... Bacteria can cruise around in your lymphatic system, but that's another issue.
2 The idea is to deliver a locally high concentration of a drug, or radioactive isotope to a specific area of the body, so that the systemic effects are lessened. The most comononly used methods used are
1 direct injection
2 make the drug/isotope "sticky" - hook it up to a part of an engineered antibody, or use chemical trapping, etc. This way it goes thru the whole body and winds up concentrating in the desired area.
3 Make the drug active inly in certain areas.
In order to use these little subs, some sort of steering system (chemotaxis) needs to be added on, or else they need to be made sticky so that they grab onto the site when they pass it by. Traveling outside the blood stream is probably out of the question, since the bacteria would have to fight their way thru every cell layer/membrane.
I don't see how adding a little propellor gives you any advantage.
I'm not intending this to be Microsoft bashing, BUT
that wouldn't be a bad business strategy by a competitor. Incur a cost on a free product! One of Linux's selling points is that it is free. Placing a cost on it will definetely decrease peoples willingness to experiment with Linux. I know that one of the factors why I tried out Linux was that it was free.
But they would be killed by my nano-tech pet dragonfly or wasp. Better yet a minnie stealth or tomcat fighter plane shooting down all the bugs in my apartment or around me when I go outside in the summer.
"House, can you send the stealth bomber into my room - there's a mosquito in here."
[RODGER, WILCO......TARGET ACQUIRED....DESTROYED.....ANALYZING....99.98% CONFIDENCE TARGET WAS BIOLOGICAL....RETURNING TO BASE]
The amount of data/images/info generated by the Hubble 'scope has been incredible. It has also been invaluable for generating a "WOW" response from the general public and raising interest/funds in NASA. If this doesn't cost too much, then it should be funded....seems like the most bang for the buck. Funding shouldn't be too hard to get.. the public is kinda familar with Hubble and that usually makes things easier. The money spent there generates something real for them (Ooh,pretty star picture) and is there easier for them to allow/want funding for it, as opposed to something more abstract/obstruse like most basic science research.
By the way...does NASA have any ideas/plans for a linked array of visable telescopes...multiple small telescopes all linked so that they act as a super large telescope?
I'm just amazed that a manufactured substance is cheaper than wood...granted you have to chop down the tree, but still the idea of it.
Lately, I've seen another ubiquitous item formerly made of a natural substance that is now made of plastic...cups at fast food chains.
I don't know about you, but I prefer the idea of a wooden pencil eventually decomposing - nature knows what to do with it, as opposed to the plastic stuff....This trend will eventually catch up with us when all the garbage dumps are full.
Adult humans have about 5 liters ~ 1 gallon+1pint
By volume 40% RBCs, 60% Plasma (fluid)
Function of blood
transportation of 1)gas,2)nutients, 3) wastes, 4)hormones,5) regulate acid/base balance
What's in blood
1 Red Blood Cells (RBC -erythrocytes) - primary function= gas exchange and also have soluable enz for glycolysis (producing ATP which cells use for fuel)
2) White blood cells (WBC - leukocytes) regulate immune system
3) Platelets - function in blood coagulation
4)Plasma the fluidy part of blood - 90% water, 9% organics, 1% ions
Plasma proteins
1) maintain oncotic pressure (albumin) - i.e help to maintain the fluid in the veins/arteries via osmosis
2) contain proteins for the clotting cascade (fibrinogen)
3) proteins used in the immune system (immunoglobulins)
Probable prime uses for artificial blood
1 Circulatory shock (i.e. trauma - leg cut off)
maintain perfusion of vital organs (heart/brain/kidneys) with oxygen and provide volume to maintain pressure. Nutrients can be provided by glucose IV
2 Bloody operations (orthopaedic/cardiovascular/liver transplants) - temporary volume replacement will serve to provide oxygenation and pressure to vital organs
Problems - depending on how much blood is lost, 1)coagulation problems can occur - i.e.people stop clotting and start bleeding everywhere (intestines )mucous membranes), small scrapes). Basically act like hemopheliacs.. Rectified by plasma and platelet transfusions, not terribly urgent, but should be done soon.
2) immune system depletion - possible short term increase in infection rate
3)nutritional - cell starvation -as long as glucose is provided for food, vital organs should be ok, most/all tissues can make their own ATP
I'm sure there are a host of other problems foreseeable, But the possiblity of an EMT/paramedic dropping an IV into some banged up guy in a MVA and keeping their pressure/oxygenation up will be a tremendous lifesaver.
As far as total volume replacement by artificial blood goes, as long as they keep some glucose in the mix and the stuff doesn't gunk up the kidneys/lungs/gut, I could somebody staying alive for a few hours. A crapload of hormonal problems will probably kick in and do something nasty though.
Not uncommon at all in the Biotech/Pharm areas. And while it is not formalized in the basic science research field, there is a tacit understanding of what shouldn't leave the lab. As long as you do what you feel is morally/ethically corect, then lawsuits shouldn't be a problem in the future (although I guess that depends on your starting point)..
A couple of times I've had to re-invent the wheel because of some proprietary/new technique which wasn't known outside of that lab. It can be a slippery slope, so be cognizent of what you carry over to the next job.
You could build a bunch of these frictionless springy gates to filter out low energy atoms/molecules and use the momentum imparted to the gate to hit the trapped higher energy atoms inside your gate, giving them back SOME of their lost energy.
For those who don't know Maxwell (18th cent Scott. physicist/thermodynamicist? did he also do the electromagnetic wave thingy too -sorry it' been about 15 years since I took p chem/quantum chem)
I vote for biologics - they've been doing this sort of stuff for a billion years and are pretty good at it. We need some sort of gas spewing microbe that can either use sunlight(not such a good source on Mars) or chemical (bacteria/algae are pretty good at finding things to eat Sulphur eating volcanic/ocean microbes, the ones in my dark refridgerator!) fuel. The bacteria/alga can be genengineered to produce a certain ratio of O2/CO2 (we need those greenhouse gases to heat the place up!) Evereybody needs H2O - this will be a problem because some sort of reducing agent will be needed i.e. H2S (which the green sulphur bact can use to make WATER)... There should be plenty of water on the polar ice caps, but I'm not too sure about the equator. Anybody else have any ideas?
I usually prefer corn on the cob or maybe some grain to make bread. Biologics are the most efficient way to do something like this. They've perfected their strategies over a billion years
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Medicine has known this for a long time and has very successfully used sound for status information. Most ICU's are a dreadfully loud place with Beeps, pings, whistles, etc. But everybody always comes running whenever the ventolator alarm or EKG alarm go off BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! OH Crap!!!!
I can take care of other people and divert my attention to other things as opposed to staring at a screen. Very useful for multitasking.
Pioneer 6 was placed in a Sun orbit at 74 million miles...it's closer to the Sun than Earth is.
Maybe you're thinking of the
Pioneer 10 which achieved solar system escape velocity and is approx 7 BILLION miles from earth
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black..heheh
Well, actually we don't, but I bet alot of people would buy it - maybe just so they could convert from a dual boot sys to a Linux only. It would save some headaches. It would probably have to be VERY straightfoward/easy to use. Once people get sucked into the system they tend to fool around with it and then they'll learn Linux.
Personally, I think that computer games were responsible for the success of the home PC and made them ubiquitous.
Weird, worked for me too
everything is fine now
..Thanks
This version is Fast! and looks good too, however
Where is the URL bar? I looked under view, prefs
Can't find it - am I blind or did my install go wacky?
Yep - I'm confirming it - it's true. I read about twenty of his postings and they received on average 5 to 10 replies, usually for some kind of hyperbolic remark, or poor comparison. Unfortunately the above poster chose to rename the above guy kiss-the-d**k instead of his real name and got modded down.
Just an off-topic thought. Are there any provisions for limiting the number of posts for consistently troll or flamebait posters so as to decrease the noise? Maybe limit them to 1 -2 posts per week until the consistently post a few comments above zero? Just a thought.
His whole paragraph is basically wrong. He lacks basic immunology knowlege and concepts.
And to boot al of his comments are modded up to 2 which doesn't make sense to me either.
See my other post for a reasonable explanation of what might happen and what is wrong with his (roman_mir) explanation.
Sugars and microscopic particles will also trigger the immune system. Most bacteria have a sugar coat which our cells/antibodies react to.
Microscopic particles can also cause an immune reaction - asbestos, carbon fiber (from artificial ligaments), certain metals (nickle allergy is quite common)
About the only thing that you said which was basically correct was that "markers" and "killers" exist in the immune system. This is overly simplistic too, since many cell types and proteins (antibodies, compliment proteins, cytokines) exist and work in conjunction.
Everything else is basically wrong
1 Antibiotics do not disable your immune system - they either are bacterioCIDAL (kill bacteria - NOT human cells), or else they are bacterioSTATIC (they stop the bacter from growing, so that our own immune system can rev up and kill them)
2 The capitalist system producing a poor immune system is a non-sequitar Infection used to be the top six or seven causes of death before modern antibiotics were introduced. Since their introduction infectious death remains around number 10 and average life expectancy has doubled
3 As far as a billion "markers" being released in 10 seconds- not true. An allergic reaction can take place that fast to a PREVIOUSLY EXPOSED antigen, but no markers are released in that time frame that are specific to that antigen.
A normal immune reaction takes about a week to sucessfully produce a specif antibody to a antigen (an immune producing substance, i.e. a foreign protein/sugar) for the first time, there after further exposures will take about a day.
I can't teach you immunology in a few paragraphs. Get a BASIC immuno text and learn about B and T cells, antibodies and compliment proteins.
1 Bacteria only go with the bloodflow, they cant swim fast enought to go against the stream... Have you ever seen a science movie where you see the red blood cells go whizzing by?.. Pretty fast - you can barely see them, yet when you look in a reguklar microscope you can easily track the bacteria... Bacteria can cruise around in your lymphatic system, but that's another issue.
2 The idea is to deliver a locally high concentration of a drug, or radioactive isotope to a specific area of the body, so that the systemic effects are lessened. The most comononly used methods used are
1 direct injection
2 make the drug/isotope "sticky" - hook it up to a part of an engineered antibody, or use chemical trapping, etc. This way it goes thru the whole body and winds up concentrating in the desired area.
3 Make the drug active inly in certain areas.
In order to use these little subs, some sort of steering system (chemotaxis) needs to be added on, or else they need to be made sticky so that they grab onto the site when they pass it by. Traveling outside the blood stream is probably out of the question, since the bacteria would have to fight their way thru every cell layer/membrane.
I don't see how adding a little propellor gives you any advantage.
These motors will never be strong enough or fast enough to go "upstream" in the blood. This will only go downstream.
I'm not intending this to be Microsoft bashing, BUT that wouldn't be a bad business strategy by a competitor. Incur a cost on a free product! One of Linux's selling points is that it is free. Placing a cost on it will definetely decrease peoples willingness to experiment with Linux. I know that one of the factors why I tried out Linux was that it was free.
DNA has these 4 bases GCAT RNA contains GCA and U P is shorthand for Proline, an amino acid
But they would be killed by my nano-tech pet dragonfly or wasp. Better yet a minnie stealth or tomcat fighter plane shooting down all the bugs in my apartment or around me when I go outside in the summer.
"House, can you send the stealth bomber into my room - there's a mosquito in here."
[RODGER, WILCO......TARGET ACQUIRED....DESTROYED.....ANALYZING....99.98% CONFIDENCE TARGET WAS BIOLOGICAL....RETURNING TO BASE]
"Thanks house, lights out and G'night!"
Geosynch orbit height, if I remember from high school phys was about 6 earth radii which is about
....22,500 miles
sound right?
Sucessful launch...YEAH BABY!! click here Nasa shuttle site
The amount of data/images/info generated by the Hubble 'scope has been incredible. It has also been invaluable for generating a "WOW" response from the general public and raising interest/funds in NASA. If this doesn't cost too much, then it should be funded....seems like the most bang for the buck. Funding shouldn't be too hard to get.. the public is kinda familar with Hubble and that usually makes things easier. The money spent there generates something real for them (Ooh,pretty star picture) and is there easier for them to allow/want funding for it, as opposed to something more abstract/obstruse like most basic science research.
By the way...does NASA have any ideas/plans for a linked array of visable telescopes...multiple small telescopes all linked so that they act as a super large telescope?
I'm just amazed that a manufactured substance is cheaper than wood...granted you have to chop down the tree, but still the idea of it.
Lately, I've seen another ubiquitous item formerly made of a natural substance that is now made of plastic...cups at fast food chains.
I don't know about you, but I prefer the idea of a wooden pencil eventually decomposing - nature knows what to do with it, as opposed to the plastic stuff....This trend will eventually catch up with us when all the garbage dumps are full.
Adult humans have about 5 liters ~ 1 gallon+1pint
By volume 40% RBCs, 60% Plasma (fluid)
Function of blood
transportation of 1)gas,2)nutients, 3) wastes, 4)hormones,5) regulate acid/base balance
What's in blood
1 Red Blood Cells (RBC -erythrocytes) - primary function= gas exchange and also have soluable enz for glycolysis (producing ATP which cells use for fuel)
2) White blood cells (WBC - leukocytes) regulate immune system
3) Platelets - function in blood coagulation
4)Plasma the fluidy part of blood - 90% water, 9% organics, 1% ions
Plasma proteins
1) maintain oncotic pressure (albumin) - i.e help to maintain the fluid in the veins/arteries via osmosis
2) contain proteins for the clotting cascade (fibrinogen)
3) proteins used in the immune system (immunoglobulins)
Probable prime uses for artificial blood
1 Circulatory shock (i.e. trauma - leg cut off)
maintain perfusion of vital organs (heart/brain/kidneys) with oxygen and provide volume to maintain pressure. Nutrients can be provided by glucose IV
2 Bloody operations (orthopaedic/cardiovascular/liver transplants) - temporary volume replacement will serve to provide oxygenation and pressure to vital organs
Problems - depending on how much blood is lost, 1)coagulation problems can occur - i.e.people stop clotting and start bleeding everywhere (intestines )mucous membranes), small scrapes). Basically act like hemopheliacs.. Rectified by plasma and platelet transfusions, not terribly urgent, but should be done soon.
2) immune system depletion - possible short term increase in infection rate
3)nutritional - cell starvation -as long as glucose is provided for food, vital organs should be ok, most/all tissues can make their own ATP
I'm sure there are a host of other problems foreseeable, But the possiblity of an EMT/paramedic dropping an IV into some banged up guy in a MVA and keeping their pressure/oxygenation up will be a tremendous lifesaver.
As far as total volume replacement by artificial blood goes, as long as they keep some glucose in the mix and the stuff doesn't gunk up the kidneys/lungs/gut, I could somebody staying alive for a few hours. A crapload of hormonal problems will probably kick in and do something nasty though.
Just my 200 cents worth....
The mouse would still have 1 or more balls for the force feed back and use optical part for tracking
Not uncommon at all in the Biotech/Pharm areas. And while it is not formalized in the basic science research field, there is a tacit understanding of what shouldn't leave the lab. As long as you do what you feel is morally/ethically corect, then lawsuits shouldn't be a problem in the future (although I guess that depends on your starting point)..
A couple of times I've had to re-invent the wheel because of some proprietary/new technique which wasn't known outside of that lab. It can be a slippery slope, so be cognizent of what you carry over to the next job.
You could build a bunch of these frictionless springy gates to filter out low energy atoms/molecules and use the momentum imparted to the gate to hit the trapped higher energy atoms inside your gate, giving them back SOME of their lost energy.
For those who don't know Maxwell (18th cent Scott. physicist/thermodynamicist? did he also do the electromagnetic wave thingy too -sorry it' been about 15 years since I took p chem/quantum chem)
I know that Outlook Express has had alot of viruses. Probably some of the spammed e-mail came from addresses stolen from other peoples accounts
I vote for biologics - they've been doing this sort of stuff for a billion years and are pretty good at it.
We need some sort of gas spewing microbe that can either use sunlight(not such a good source on Mars) or chemical (bacteria/algae are pretty good at finding things to eat Sulphur eating volcanic/ocean microbes, the ones in my dark refridgerator!) fuel. The bacteria/alga can be genengineered to produce a certain ratio of O2/CO2 (we need those greenhouse gases to heat the place up!)
Evereybody needs H2O - this will be a problem because some sort of reducing agent will be needed i.e. H2S (which the green sulphur bact can use to make WATER)... There should be plenty of water on the polar ice caps, but I'm not too sure about the equator.
Anybody else have any ideas?
I usually prefer corn on the cob or maybe some grain to make bread. Biologics are the most efficient way to do something like this. They've perfected their strategies over a billion years