We're a lot closer to swine than most would imagine, pigskin has been used for xenografts for human burn victims and of course pig heart valves have been implanted into people. Rumor even has it that we taste about the same, ever heard the saying, "humans, the other pork" or the term long-pig?
What you'll get is human cells, with mitochondria from rabbits and contaminated with rabbit proteins, these things are called chimeras. The theists would considered a manufactured chimera an abomination, and researchers would consider it contaminated and unsuitable.
they do, dry-ice and ice seriously jam up the compressors and lines but air is 0.0380% CO2 and 80% N2, the nitrogen is over 2000 times more abundant. I can easily make a machine to take the CO2 out of the atmosphere, but I seriously believe that the energy used to run the machine would make more CO2 than we'd get out of the air, I also suspect using the solar energy it would take to run the machine would be saving more CO2 by replacing a fossil fuel rather than running the machine
if we could find out that we could actually pull out of air more CO2 then we emit That's actually the million dollar question. It's easy to get the CO2 out of a concentrated waste stream economically; some companies actually burn natural gas just to get the CO2 to sell. The problem is getting the concentration up from 380 ppm to something useful and doing it economically. The traditionally technique was to pass the gas through an alkaline oxide such as lye(NaOH), KOH or LiOH but getting the metal to release the carbonate is expensive. Another set of Idea s involved compression and fractionation schemes of various types, none of them actually seem like they would be practical.
If we can get the initial concentration up to economic levels, then we could use the CO2 to replace commercial CO2 from mineral sources and just dump the rest into the oceans. Ships could sail over deep trenches , make ice torpedoes, fill them with CO2 and just drop them to the bottom. The torpedoes would sink into the muck, and any CO2 leaking out would stay liquid due to the cold and pressure and on the bottom due to the density!
But while those ideas are feasible, they'll never match the economic advantages of biomass.
Firstly FTL communication maybe possible; I specifically remember it was discovered that particle/anti-particle pairs annihilate simultaneously even when separated by great distances, so it should be possible to set up a Rube Goldberg contraption emitting complimentary particles in opposite direction, after the particles arrival constrained by C, instantaneous communications would then be possible!
So does the money get shot into solar orbit or something? The money the USG spends on Defense or even oppretations in Iraq really aren't any different the spending the money on Arecibo, other than what it's spent on. Government spending is Government spending, the money goes into accounts, gets re-spend on other things. The money spent generates profits for companies and income for people and this gets taxed which again gives the government more money to spend.
and part of the cease fire agreement was that Iraq destroy and document the destruction of the WMD, and that did not happen. The most damning thing in my opinion is we didn't find any chemical agents, after being in the business I can state that any country with that much chemical protective equipment is going to have at least lab quantities of common chemical weapons for quality control testing.
I'm been using Smarty templateing engine recently and I have to say that the break even point for using templates Vs. "sprinkling some PHP in HTML" has almost hit bottom! Getting the code out of the page lets the programmer actually see what he's doing and think more about doing things the right way.
OK, Ok, ok, I'd have thought that the maybe his belly-button would fall off! would have tipped everyone off that I was joking, by responding to what he said rather than what he obviously meant, but not everyone seems to have gotten it; so I'll be serious for a moment. to create what seems now to be a viable virus that nobody has ever seen before. sorry but that's what they are, viruses in the wild pick-up bits and pieces of DNA^RNA and that makes them different and sometimes unique; at some point in time every virus was never seen before. I'm not saying they can be frivolous about safety but these guys were using level 3 bio-security (where the lower level 2 is actually required by excepted protocols) and testing with cultured cells; it's not like they made the virus then squirted them up the noses and went home to kiss the wife and hug the kids or anything like that.
There are countries that suspect that US Defense contractors have place backdoors in equipment supplied or purchased by foreign governments.After the USS Liberty, I'd expect it.
That's no fun, can't we pretend that it's enough of an oblate spheroid, and there's supposed to be whole cities on the inside, surely that would be enough asymmetry to explode a few space aliens for the hollow earthers. Beside all of those aliens use anti-gravity drives on their space ships, how else could they nullify the ships mass and accelerate past the speed of light, that alone has to cause a few asymmetries.
no actually a virus is a bit of genetic code that hijacks a living host cell to make new viruses; when that genetic info get stuck into the host cell's chromosome it's locked up unable to turn on and can't make new viruses (it may do other things which make be good, bad or neutral). A virus normally sits inside the cell after entering through a receptor site, leaving it's protein coat outside. The immune system often recognizes the discarded protein coats and attach killing the viruses and the infected cell; sometimes the immune system doesn't recognize the infected cells and they sit dormant until the virus get turned on and is replicated until the host cell bursts releasing new viruses.
I hereby nominate that we use the more tradition cartographers method of labeling unknown areas with "Thar be Sea monster here", it also tends to scare away the noobys and peasants
Cool cool cool, I'll have to remember that for the next time I'm harassing a Hollow Earther, maybe if I play around with the equations enough, I could get the "people living in the center to explode due to "tidal" forces!
how can it be alien, it was taken out of the HUMAN GENOME, it's part of us! Hell if they Genetically Engineered a person without who knows maybe his belly-button would fall off!
Google is a publicly traded company that specializes in collecting, indexing, storage, and recognizing obscure relationships in information, the CIA is a government agency that does pretty much the same thing. Not to long ago the administration was excoriated over mis-interpreted intel estimates, so a collaboration on where their interests intersect seems natural. Perhaps the CIA is interested in what China doesn't want it's citizens to know.
well we certainly know that former employees always speak glowingly about their former employers unless they are throughly evil, it's just who's version of who that evil that gets confusing.
it might upset the people in.tm - Turkmenistan. I would like it if the registrants in a gTLD were required to have incorporated in multiple countries else be relegated to their cc's and move the.gov and.mil into cc's as well, but I also know it will never happen. That alone might placate a lot of the calls for a more international governance of the internet.
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We're a lot closer to swine than most would imagine, pigskin has been used for xenografts for human burn victims and of course pig heart valves have been implanted into people. Rumor even has it that we taste about the same, ever heard the saying, "humans, the other pork" or the term long-pig?
What you'll get is human cells, with mitochondria from rabbits and contaminated with rabbit proteins, these things are called chimeras. The theists would considered a manufactured chimera an abomination, and researchers would consider it contaminated and unsuitable.
So am I, get the firefox 2, it has spell check. Works great for a first deployment too.
they do, dry-ice and ice seriously jam up the compressors and lines but air is 0.0380% CO2 and 80% N2, the nitrogen is over 2000 times more abundant. I can easily make a machine to take the CO2 out of the atmosphere, but I seriously believe that the energy used to run the machine would make more CO2 than we'd get out of the air, I also suspect using the solar energy it would take to run the machine would be saving more CO2 by replacing a fossil fuel rather than running the machine
if we could find out that we could actually pull out of air more CO2 then we emit
That's actually the million dollar question. It's easy to get the CO2 out of a concentrated waste stream economically; some companies actually burn natural gas just to get the CO2 to sell.
The problem is getting the concentration up from 380 ppm to something useful and doing it economically. The traditionally technique was to pass the gas through an alkaline oxide such as lye(NaOH), KOH or LiOH but getting the metal to release the carbonate is expensive. Another set of Idea s involved compression and fractionation schemes of various types, none of them actually seem like they would be practical.
If we can get the initial concentration up to economic levels, then we could use the CO2 to replace commercial CO2 from mineral sources and just dump the rest into the oceans. Ships could sail over deep trenches , make ice torpedoes, fill them with CO2 and just drop them to the bottom. The torpedoes would sink into the muck, and any CO2 leaking out would stay liquid due to the cold and pressure and on the bottom due to the density!
But while those ideas are feasible, they'll never match the economic advantages of biomass.
You know the Vikings used to have farms on Greenland, now it's pretty much all permafrost. That means that thing were much warmers back in the 1400's.
Firstly FTL communication maybe possible; I specifically remember it was discovered that particle/anti-particle pairs annihilate simultaneously even when separated by great distances, so it should be possible to set up a Rube Goldberg contraption emitting complimentary particles in opposite direction, after the particles arrival constrained by C, instantaneous communications would then be possible!
pity, 12M a years is chump change in the bigger scheme of things.
So does the money get shot into solar orbit or something? The money the USG spends on Defense or even oppretations in Iraq really aren't any different the spending the money on Arecibo, other than what it's spent on. Government spending is Government spending, the money goes into accounts, gets re-spend on other things. The money spent generates profits for companies and income for people and this gets taxed which again gives the government more money to spend.
and part of the cease fire agreement was that Iraq destroy and document the destruction of the WMD, and that did not happen. The most damning thing in my opinion is we didn't find any chemical agents, after being in the business I can state that any country with that much chemical protective equipment is going to have at least lab quantities of common chemical weapons for quality control testing.
I'm been using Smarty templateing engine recently and I have to say that the break even point for using templates Vs. "sprinkling some PHP in HTML" has almost hit bottom! Getting the code out of the page lets the programmer actually see what he's doing and think more about doing things the right way.
OK, Ok, ok, I'd have thought that the maybe his belly-button would fall off! would have tipped everyone off that I was joking, by responding to what he said rather than what he obviously meant, but not everyone seems to have gotten it; so I'll be serious for a moment. to create what seems now to be a viable virus that nobody has ever seen before. sorry but that's what they are, viruses in the wild pick-up bits and pieces of DNA^RNA and that makes them different and sometimes unique; at some point in time every virus was never seen before. I'm not saying they can be frivolous about safety but these guys were using level 3 bio-security (where the lower level 2 is actually required by excepted protocols) and testing with cultured cells; it's not like they made the virus then squirted them up the noses and went home to kiss the wife and hug the kids or anything like that.
There are countries that suspect that US Defense contractors have place backdoors in equipment supplied or purchased by foreign governments.After the USS Liberty, I'd expect it.
Maybe DOD should just use Xboxes then. That should be stripped down enough. I have seen some companies using windowsCE on the desktop too.
Only in Chicago.
That's no fun, can't we pretend that it's enough of an oblate spheroid, and there's supposed to be whole cities on the inside, surely that would be enough asymmetry to explode a few space aliens for the hollow earthers. Beside all of those aliens use anti-gravity drives on their space ships, how else could they nullify the ships mass and accelerate past the speed of light, that alone has to cause a few asymmetries.
no actually a virus is a bit of genetic code that hijacks a living host cell to make new viruses; when that genetic info get stuck into the host cell's chromosome it's locked up unable to turn on and can't make new viruses (it may do other things which make be good, bad or neutral). A virus normally sits inside the cell after entering through a receptor site, leaving it's protein coat outside. The immune system often recognizes the discarded protein coats and attach killing the viruses and the infected cell; sometimes the immune system doesn't recognize the infected cells and they sit dormant until the virus get turned on and is replicated until the host cell bursts releasing new viruses.
I hereby nominate that we use the more tradition cartographers method of labeling unknown areas with "Thar be Sea monster here", it also tends to scare away the noobys and peasants
Cool cool cool, I'll have to remember that for the next time I'm harassing a Hollow Earther, maybe if I play around with the equations enough, I could get the "people living in the center to explode due to "tidal" forces!
how can it be alien, it was taken out of the HUMAN GENOME, it's part of us! Hell if they Genetically Engineered a person without who knows maybe his belly-button would fall off!
Google is a publicly traded company that specializes in collecting, indexing, storage, and recognizing obscure relationships in information, the CIA is a government agency that does pretty much the same thing. Not to long ago the administration was excoriated over mis-interpreted intel estimates, so a collaboration on where their interests intersect seems natural. Perhaps the CIA is interested in what China doesn't want it's citizens to know.
well we certainly know that former employees always speak glowingly about their former employers unless they are throughly evil, it's just who's version of who that evil that gets confusing.
Don't you just hate those big beach ball
it might upset the people in .tm - Turkmenistan. I would like it if the registrants in a gTLD were required to have incorporated in multiple countries else be relegated to their cc's and move the .gov and .mil into cc's as well, but I also know it will never happen. That alone might placate a lot of the calls for a more international governance of the internet.
KUDOs, not only one of your best bad analogys but a first post to boot and pertains to the topic, I'm AWE STRUCK