Hydrogen burning into helium - 10 million years Helium burning into carbon and oxygen - 1 million years Carbon burning into neon, sodium, magnesium, and aluminum - 1,000 years Neon burning into magnesium - 3 years Oxygen burning into silicon, sulfur, argon, and calcium - 0.3 years Silicon burning into iron - 5 days
Catching a Type II Supernova in the shock breakout - Priceless
"Your pet doesn't want to break your heart and now he doesn't have to." Here is where the reality kicks in. We may be hearing a similar slogan very, very soon. The Financial Times informs us that the first commercial sale of a pet cloning deal has been made. A disabled woman from California, has decided to give the South Korean company RNL Bio, the contract to clone her recently deceased Pitbull Terrier named Booger. The woman has trouble walking, and besides the love she has for Booger, she also misses all the help the hound provided.
Scientists in the United States are preparing to send cells from Booger to Korea, where RNL Bio will assist a Seoul National University team, in placing these cells into surrogate mother dogs. If successful, Booger II will be born this coming October. So what will this second chance at life cost? Because the woman has agreed to make the event public, she has recieved a sale price of $50 000 USD. RNL Bio says the cost for anyone wanting to purchase the same procedure will be $150 000 USD. They are projecting the ability to clone 100 dogs next year, which will eventually lead to 500 per year.
The SNU team undertaking the project was responsible for creating Snuppy, the first cloned dog, in 2005. Some doubt surrounded the disclosure of this feat, as the team leader Hwang Woo-suk, was accused of falsifying research regarding the successful cloning of the first human stem cells. However, an investigation into the matter of Snuppy, proved that he was in fact a genuine clone.
So a $50 000 USD clone is possible as long as you are willing to "make the event public". And this was two or three months ago.
Doctor Zee is a child prodigy of about 12 years of age, and appears to be the most-intelligent being in the Fleet. His origin isn't explained, but he's soon introduced as a scientific "whiz" who has great influence over Commander Adama and the Council of Twelve. However, not everyone is comfortable with the young Zee having so much influence; Xavier expressed this in the pilot.
Zee convinces Adama not to attempt direct contact with humanity, because the nations of Earth aren't unified and are ill-equipped to resist the Cylons, who have been clandestinely following the Fleet. He's also unsure whether Earth's communication systems are Neutrino or Photon-based.
Zee is responsible for creating most (if not all) of the gizmos used throughout the series - for example, the invisibility screen, as well as the method of time travel first employed by the renegade Xavier. Zee is an expert on any topic about which he's consulted, including sociology, history and agriculture. Just after the pilot episode, he completes construction of an antigravity craft that resembles a UFO ("The Super Scouts, Parts 1 and 2").
This is how this Golden Shield will work: Chinese citizens will be watched around the clock through networked CCTV cameras and remote monitoring of computers. They will be listened to on their phone calls, monitored by digital voice-recognition technologies. Their Internet access will be aggressively limited through the country's notorious system of online controls known as the "Great Firewall." Their movements will be tracked through national ID cards with scannable computer chips and photos that are instantly uploaded to police databases and linked to their holder's personal data. This is the most important element of all: linking all these tools together in a massive, searchable database of names, photos, residency information, work history and biometric data. When Golden Shield is finished, there will be a photo in those databases for every person in China: 1.3 billion faces.// Like many other security executives I interviewed in China, Yao denies that a primary use of the technology he is selling is to hunt down political activists. "Ninety-five percent," he insists, "is just for regular safety."
In other words, we can find every political activist, dissident and extremist in China, using only five percent of our security/monitoring capacity. If this is just regular security, I think I prefer mine unleaded.
Once again a theory that supports the simple concept that there are probably no true statements containing absolutes such as "never", "forever", "allways", "infinite"
Description Your space craft is dangerously situated among fast moving asteroids in an asteroid belt that can destroy your ship on contact. Armed with a front mounted weapon and the ability to hyperspace, you fly through the debris, destroying each rock one piece at a time. Alien saucers visit the playfield from time to time with an eye towards destroying your ship
I don't care who you are or what's going on, if you chase me (for whatever reason) with a german shepard and a baseball bat, you are in so much trouble. Burning down your house would just be step one.
Terrorist boy: Do not try to understand the Terrorist. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Terrorist boy: There is no Terrorist. Neo: There is no Terrorist? Terrorist boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the Terrorist you understand, it is only yourself.
I personally haven't seen any Russian bride adverts all over the site, but...
"[The survey company] randomly selected 1,015 nationally representative adults... Although only 40 percent of the group was familiar with the term 'behavioral targeting,' most users were well aware of the practice. 57 percent reported that they weren't comfortable their activities [were being] tracked for advertising purposes, even if the information couldn't be tied to their names or real-life identities. Simultaneously, 72 percent of those surveyed said that they find online advertising annoying when the ads are not relevant to their needs..."
"It's not a frequency we can hear, let me turn up the volume."
LOL, they said that in Stargate ?
A C Clark's quote vis a vis technology / magic might be his most well known, but the following quote had me grinning ; (Of UFOs:) "They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth."
Strange in a way for a man who, on the other hand, wished to meet/communicate with ET.
Double standard? Is it because readers of fantasy books understand that it's fantasy, where readers of holy books take them (too)literally?
Well that and the lack of major wars over the one ring recently. What with the "hobbits" in Palau (sp?) and the "ogres" in Spain found recently one has to wonder, which is more fantastic ?
Slashdot Mirror
Hydrogen burning into helium - 10 million years
Helium burning into carbon and oxygen - 1 million years
Carbon burning into neon, sodium, magnesium, and aluminum - 1,000 years
Neon burning into magnesium - 3 years
Oxygen burning into silicon, sulfur, argon, and calcium - 0.3 years
Silicon burning into iron - 5 days
Catching a Type II Supernova in the shock breakout - Priceless
(copyleft MandyDaxon@BadAstronomy)
Four* digits? Wow, this site sure has grown during my trip to Middle Earth.
"Your pet doesn't want to break your heart and now he doesn't have to."
Here is where the reality kicks in. We may be hearing a similar slogan very, very soon. The Financial Times informs us that the first commercial sale of a pet cloning deal has been made. A disabled woman from California, has decided to give the South Korean company RNL Bio, the contract to clone her recently deceased Pitbull Terrier named Booger. The woman has trouble walking, and besides the love she has for Booger, she also misses all the help the hound provided.
Scientists in the United States are preparing to send cells from Booger to Korea, where RNL Bio will assist a Seoul National University team, in placing these cells into surrogate mother dogs. If successful, Booger II will be born this coming October. So what will this second chance at life cost? Because the woman has agreed to make the event public, she has recieved a sale price of $50 000 USD. RNL Bio says the cost for anyone wanting to purchase the same procedure will be $150 000 USD. They are projecting the ability to clone 100 dogs next year, which will eventually lead to 500 per year.
The SNU team undertaking the project was responsible for creating Snuppy, the first cloned dog, in 2005. Some doubt surrounded the disclosure of this feat, as the team leader Hwang Woo-suk, was accused of falsifying research regarding the successful cloning of the first human stem cells. However, an investigation into the matter of Snuppy, proved that he was in fact a genuine clone.
So a $50 000 USD clone is possible as long as you are willing to "make the event public".
And this was two or three months ago.
Doctor Zee is a child prodigy of about 12 years of age, and appears to be the most-intelligent being in the Fleet. His origin isn't explained, but he's soon introduced as a scientific "whiz" who has great influence over Commander Adama and the Council of Twelve. However, not everyone is comfortable with the young Zee having so much influence; Xavier expressed this in the pilot.
Zee convinces Adama not to attempt direct contact with humanity, because the nations of Earth aren't unified and are ill-equipped to resist the Cylons, who have been clandestinely following the Fleet. He's also unsure whether Earth's communication systems are Neutrino or Photon-based.
Zee is responsible for creating most (if not all) of the gizmos used throughout the series - for example, the invisibility screen, as well as the method of time travel first employed by the renegade Xavier. Zee is an expert on any topic about which he's consulted, including sociology, history and agriculture. Just after the pilot episode, he completes construction of an antigravity craft that resembles a UFO ("The Super Scouts, Parts 1 and 2").
from the article;
//
This is how this Golden Shield will work: Chinese citizens will be watched around the clock through networked CCTV cameras and remote monitoring of computers. They will be listened to on their phone calls, monitored by digital voice-recognition technologies. Their Internet access will be aggressively limited through the country's notorious system of online controls known as the "Great Firewall." Their movements will be tracked through national ID cards with scannable computer chips and photos that are instantly uploaded to police databases and linked to their holder's personal data. This is the most important element of all: linking all these tools together in a massive, searchable database of names, photos, residency information, work history and biometric data. When Golden Shield is finished, there will be a photo in those databases for every person in China: 1.3 billion faces.
Like many other security executives I interviewed in China, Yao denies that a primary use of the technology he is selling is to hunt down political activists. "Ninety-five percent," he insists, "is just for regular safety."
In other words, we can find every political activist, dissident and extremist in China,
using only five percent of our security/monitoring capacity.
If this is just regular security, I think I prefer mine unleaded.
Once again a theory that supports the simple concept that there are probably no true statements containing absolutes such as "never", "forever", "allways", "infinite"
I'd like to see the same test done to Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines.
Description
Your space craft is dangerously situated among fast moving asteroids in an asteroid belt that can destroy your ship on contact. Armed with a front mounted weapon and the ability to hyperspace, you fly through the debris, destroying each rock one piece at a time. Alien saucers visit the playfield from time to time with an eye towards destroying your ship
Really, I've asked everybody, and NOBODY considers themselves a terrorist ;)
Surely you jest ?
I don't care who you are or what's going on, if you chase me (for whatever reason)
with a german shepard and a baseball bat, you are in so much trouble.
Burning down your house would just be step one.
cheers
Promising starts, interesting ideas, and a chronic failure to finish.
That's funny, every girlfriend I had made the same comparison with me.
There, fixed that for you
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
This link
Do Not Click
"The Crash Entity"
Yes, get involved in the Tibetan resistance movement, because
they would be like totally "atheistic"
Terrorist boy: Do not try to understand the Terrorist. That's impossible. Instead...
only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Terrorist boy: There is no Terrorist.
Neo: There is no Terrorist?
Terrorist boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the Terrorist you understand, it is only yourself.
I personally haven't seen any Russian bride adverts all over the site, but ...
"[The survey company] randomly selected 1,015 nationally representative adults... Although only 40 percent of the group was familiar with the term 'behavioral targeting,' most users were well aware of the practice. 57 percent reported that they weren't comfortable their activities [were being] tracked for advertising purposes, even if the information couldn't be tied to their names or real-life identities. Simultaneously, 72 percent of those surveyed said that they find online advertising annoying when the ads are not relevant to their needs..."
Such as WOW, Slashdot and black holes ?
No, it's actually the new two seater Sciros, with a forward mounted dual lazer...
I predict
Without a doubt
Better a smoked salmon
Then a toasted troll
Held up on our shoulders
Of course trusting no one doesn't mean you should trust two.
It means you should trust zero.
Know ye not the Codex of Infinite Ones and Zeroes, knave?
Soylent Green
Bon appetite
"It's not a frequency we can hear, let me turn up the volume."
LOL, they said that in Stargate ?
A C Clark's quote vis a vis technology / magic might be his most well known,
but the following quote had me grinning ;
(Of UFOs:) "They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth."
Strange in a way for a man who, on the other hand, wished to meet/communicate with ET.
Double standard? Is it because readers of fantasy books understand that it's fantasy, where readers of holy books take them (too)literally?
Well that and the lack of major wars over the one ring recently.
What with the "hobbits" in Palau (sp?) and the "ogres" in Spain
found recently one has to wonder, which is more fantastic ?
what do you think should go on his tombstone?
;)
"One game to rule them all,
One game to find them,
One game to bring them all,
And in the dorkness bind them."
sounds fitting somehow
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=75qXUfp4wtw/
obviously...