"A more unusual toxin is coprine, a disulfiram-like compound which is harmless unless ingested within a few days of ingesting alcohol. It inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme required for breaking down alcohol. Thus the symptoms of toxicity are similar to being "hung over" -- flushing, headache, nausea, palpitations, and in severe cases, trouble breathing."
There are medicines that have the same effect, and are used to that end.
Ok, I'll narrow my focus. People willingly pay big money for bottled water that comes from the exact same municipal source as flows free from their faucet. Seriously, many of the bottled waters sold in the US are from "Municipal Sources" - that means you might be drinking NYC water in Virginia, possibly complete with the copepods that live in it.
Often images on the label show mountains, snow or other bodies of water. For example, the label design on Aquafina (from Pepsi) gives me the feeling of mountains and snow; implying that Aquafina may be from a mountain spring, rather than bottled at Pepsi plants using processed municipal water. Coke’s Dasani, also one of the leading bottled water brands is processed municipal water with added minerals. Many gallon jug waters are also from municipal sources.
He compared it to Coca Cola coming out of the faucet for free, so why would someone willingly pay for a Coke?
People willingly pay for water, for Pete's sake, which does come out of a faucet for free. Sometimes it's perception (bottled water seems to taste better), sometimes it's convenience (I'm at an airshow and it's 100 degrees).
It sounds like Mr. WB CEO has no idea what people want or are willing to spend money on.
The environment around stems cells is important to how the cells they create develop - unless you have quite a selection of niches, I'm afraid you'll get a homogeneous mass of muscle cells with little differentiation like that in real beef. More power to them, but it's gotta be like Matrix steak - it's gotta taste and feel like the real thing before I'll choose it.
Funny you mention that. A friend of mine just started taking Colchicine [ColSys (tm)] for elevated uric acid in the blood. I'm old enough to remember an episode of "Quincy" where it was being marketed as a plant growth stimulant for pot and killing pot-smoking kids left and right. Apparently it's used on plants to induce polyploidy.
Interesting quote:
Colchicine's ability to induce polyploidy can be also exploited to render infertile hybrids fertile, for example in breeding triticale (x Triticosecale) from wheat (Triticum spp.) and rye (Secale cereale). Wheat is typically tetraploid and rye diploid, with their triploid hybrid infertile; treatment of triploid triticale with colchicine gives fertile hexaploid triticale.
I've run into that definition before. People in New Jersey (or at least the part I was familiar with) called ground beef 'chop meat' and other cuts of beef 'meat'. So when someone from there says they don't eat meat, they sometimes mean beef specifically.
I remember this guy telling me he didn't eat meat. I saw him munching on fish one day, and his statement was "Fish ain't meat!". My reply was, "It had parents, didn't it?" Then I got the whole "only beef is meat" speech.
Texture will be the biggest hurdle for anything that doesn't resemble ground beef. The muscle fiber structures contribute quite a bit to the whole experience.
Radio Shack has Parallax Ping Modules in stores around here. I was absolutely flabbergasted to see them after so many years of RS being useless for the experimenter.
You clearly don't get the magnitude of the problem. All of your spare parts would be fried, too. Importation and distribution of food would be impossible at the levels that would be required. The only vehicles that would even start would be those without 'black boxes' to control the timing and fuel injection - any car after about 1974 would be dead. City water would stop flowing. We're talking mayhem. Have you read "Lucifer's Hammer"? We're talking that sort of devastation on a national level. Look around you - see every power distribution transformer? See every device that has integrated circuits or even discrete thin-film transistors inside? GONE. Dead. Useless, even if you had power to run it.
Until all the fresh and canned food is eaten and the city dwelling hordes descent on the country folk looking for food (who don't have any either, but that's where food comes from, right?). You don't think people are going to take slow starvation/dehydration stoically and without a fight, do you? The sheer numbers are against any possibility of a small minority defending society against a starving majority.
Really? You haven't seen the pictures of looting and mayhem that happens in big cities during power outages or natural disasters? That sort of 'preserving society' happens when their football team loses!
Then they'd work on restoring the internet so that you could tweet about WWIII
Nice ad hominem.
I don't think you understand how dependent the military is on civilian infrastructure. Every single military base around here (and there are quite a few in VA) is more than slightly dependent on the civilian power grid, water grid, food delivery chain, etc. The average military base would be unable to perform the basic tasks of keeping their soldiers warm (or cool) and fed once the MREs ran out , much less prepare for war given a total collapse of the civilian infrastructure.
When a simple hurricane damages a single large transformer that takes a month to replace and keeps thousands out of power, imagine all of the large transformers on just the eastern seaboard getting fried at the same time. Chaos. Utter chaos. The national guard and the military would have their hands full with domestic duties, and they'd be just as affected as the rest of us.
It's not only the electronics, but the whole electrical grid that's at risk.
...that takes a lot more than sprinkling five or six devices across the country and calling it done.
You're assuming that infrastructure must be destroyed by direct blast effects. It would be a lot simpler, take fewer warheads, and cause less fallout to pop a few airbursts and take out all of the enemy's infrastructure by EMP. A single very large detonation 300 miles over Kansas would affect the whole continental US as well as wail on any satellites within line-of-sight of the detonation.
I like the old sign for a local farm cooperative better - Southern States. They changed it to a more gentle, non-Nazi sign recently. If that image doesn't work, there's a tiny one at the bottom of this page.
Quasars in the northern hemisphere seemed to have a slightly smaller value for alpha, while those in the northern hemisphere tended to have a slightly higher value.
Schrodinger's Quasars? Both larger/smaller in the Northern Hemisphere?
There have been several known instances of rocks of non-trivial size passing closer to the earth than the geostationary sats, and in some cases inside the GPS sat constellation.
NPR had a report this morning about countries paying mothers to have kids because of declining fertility rates. It was all in the name of economics and not having your country die out. Silly Jingoism!
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You don't automatically die, but you might want to.
"A more unusual toxin is coprine, a disulfiram-like compound which is harmless unless ingested within a few days of ingesting alcohol. It inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme required for breaking down alcohol. Thus the symptoms of toxicity are similar to being "hung over" -- flushing, headache, nausea, palpitations, and in severe cases, trouble breathing."
There are medicines that have the same effect, and are used to that end.
Is this an antenna farm, or an array of mirrors?
These looks like a bunch of buildings that have been bombed.
Anyone recognize the street layout in the original picture? DC? London?
Ok, I'll narrow my focus. People willingly pay big money for bottled water that comes from the exact same municipal source as flows free from their faucet. Seriously, many of the bottled waters sold in the US are from "Municipal Sources" - that means you might be drinking NYC water in Virginia, possibly complete with the copepods that live in it.
From this article, emphasis mine:
Often images on the label show mountains, snow or other bodies of water. For example, the label design on Aquafina (from Pepsi) gives me the feeling of mountains and snow; implying that Aquafina may be from a mountain spring, rather than bottled at Pepsi plants using processed municipal water. Coke’s Dasani, also one of the leading bottled water brands is processed municipal water with added minerals. Many gallon jug waters are also from municipal sources.
He compared it to Coca Cola coming out of the faucet for free, so why would someone willingly pay for a Coke?
People willingly pay for water, for Pete's sake, which does come out of a faucet for free. Sometimes it's perception (bottled water seems to taste better), sometimes it's convenience (I'm at an airshow and it's 100 degrees).
It sounds like Mr. WB CEO has no idea what people want or are willing to spend money on.
The environment around stems cells is important to how the cells they create develop - unless you have quite a selection of niches, I'm afraid you'll get a homogeneous mass of muscle cells with little differentiation like that in real beef. More power to them, but it's gotta be like Matrix steak - it's gotta taste and feel like the real thing before I'll choose it.
Funny you mention that. A friend of mine just started taking Colchicine [ColSys (tm)] for elevated uric acid in the blood. I'm old enough to remember an episode of "Quincy" where it was being marketed as a plant growth stimulant for pot and killing pot-smoking kids left and right. Apparently it's used on plants to induce polyploidy.
Interesting quote:
Colchicine's ability to induce polyploidy can be also exploited to render infertile hybrids fertile, for example in breeding triticale (x Triticosecale) from wheat (Triticum spp.) and rye (Secale cereale). Wheat is typically tetraploid and rye diploid, with their triploid hybrid infertile; treatment of triploid triticale with colchicine gives fertile hexaploid triticale.
I've run into that definition before. People in New Jersey (or at least the part I was familiar with) called ground beef 'chop meat' and other cuts of beef 'meat'. So when someone from there says they don't eat meat, they sometimes mean beef specifically.
I remember this guy telling me he didn't eat meat. I saw him munching on fish one day, and his statement was "Fish ain't meat!". My reply was, "It had parents, didn't it?" Then I got the whole "only beef is meat" speech.
Texture will be the biggest hurdle for anything that doesn't resemble ground beef. The muscle fiber structures contribute quite a bit to the whole experience.
Don't forget that if they "file first" on YOUR idea, you're violating their patent!
Actually, scientists are still trying to figure out how bats can do what they do, as well as they do.
Because the ones that can't "do what they do as well as they do" died off? :-)
Radio Shack has Parallax Ping Modules in stores around here. I was absolutely flabbergasted to see them after so many years of RS being useless for the experimenter.
You clearly don't get the magnitude of the problem. All of your spare parts would be fried, too. Importation and distribution of food would be impossible at the levels that would be required. The only vehicles that would even start would be those without 'black boxes' to control the timing and fuel injection - any car after about 1974 would be dead. City water would stop flowing. We're talking mayhem. Have you read "Lucifer's Hammer"? We're talking that sort of devastation on a national level. Look around you - see every power distribution transformer? See every device that has integrated circuits or even discrete thin-film transistors inside? GONE. Dead. Useless, even if you had power to run it.
Until all the fresh and canned food is eaten and the city dwelling hordes descent on the country folk looking for food (who don't have any either, but that's where food comes from, right?). You don't think people are going to take slow starvation/dehydration stoically and without a fight, do you? The sheer numbers are against any possibility of a small minority defending society against a starving majority.
I hope the tests probably don't test for cocaine itself but its metabolites. Thus raw coke on currency wouldn't trigger a false positive.
I will definitely agree with you on this point.
Really? You haven't seen the pictures of looting and mayhem that happens in big cities during power outages or natural disasters? That sort of 'preserving society' happens when their football team loses!
Then they'd work on restoring the internet so that you could tweet about WWIII
Nice ad hominem.
I don't think you understand how dependent the military is on civilian infrastructure. Every single military base around here (and there are quite a few in VA) is more than slightly dependent on the civilian power grid, water grid, food delivery chain, etc. The average military base would be unable to perform the basic tasks of keeping their soldiers warm (or cool) and fed once the MREs ran out , much less prepare for war given a total collapse of the civilian infrastructure.
When a simple hurricane damages a single large transformer that takes a month to replace and keeps thousands out of power, imagine all of the large transformers on just the eastern seaboard getting fried at the same time. Chaos. Utter chaos. The national guard and the military would have their hands full with domestic duties, and they'd be just as affected as the rest of us.
It's not only the electronics, but the whole electrical grid that's at risk.
...that takes a lot more than sprinkling five or six devices across the country and calling it done.
You're assuming that infrastructure must be destroyed by direct blast effects. It would be a lot simpler, take fewer warheads, and cause less fallout to pop a few airbursts and take out all of the enemy's infrastructure by EMP. A single very large detonation 300 miles over Kansas would affect the whole continental US as well as wail on any satellites within line-of-sight of the detonation.
I like the old sign for a local farm cooperative better - Southern States. They changed it to a more gentle, non-Nazi sign recently. If that image doesn't work, there's a tiny one at the bottom of this page.
Quasars in the northern hemisphere seemed to have a slightly smaller value for alpha, while those in the northern hemisphere tended to have a slightly higher value.
Schrodinger's Quasars? Both larger/smaller in the Northern Hemisphere?
There have been several known instances of rocks of non-trivial size passing closer to the earth than the geostationary sats, and in some cases inside the GPS sat constellation.
This one missed us by 1 Earth radius.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca?type=NEO&hmax=all&sort=dist&sdir=ASC&tlim=past&dmax=5LD&max_rows=500&action=Display+Table&show=1
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news142.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_asteroids#Asteroids
Or in boolean logic (NOT p) OR q.
NPR had a report this morning about countries paying mothers to have kids because of declining fertility rates. It was all in the name of economics and not having your country die out. Silly Jingoism!
They had tails of deer jumping these electrified fences.
You built fences that would rip the tails off of deer that attempted to jump over them? How cruel!
Oh, you meant tales. Nevermind.