Well basically any carbohydrate would be good evidence of life, however cellulose just happens to be very stable. (Think cotton shirts, cows chewing cud, and metamucil.)
Actually creating monolayers of organic molecules reduces the surface tension of water.
Water with its strong tendency to hydrogen bond has a greater surface tension than that of an eight carbon simple alcohol. These alcohols form monolayers by hydrogen bonding with the water molecules. The hydrophobicity of their carbon chained tails creates an excess surface concentration, which at a great enough concentration forms a monolayer.
I guess whoever did this study failed their first ecology course in college.
Almost every ecology teacher beats several key things into your heads. 1. Survival of the fittest
in other words an individual does not do something for the benifit of the species, mainly due to the fact that doing so diverts energy that could be used to producing more young so that their genes survive. The individual will do things to benifit their genes, but not for unrelated individuals of the same species. Social species do have some altruistic behaviours, but their communities are generally made up of individuals that are related. However these altruistic behaviors do not include suicide.
2. The lynx and Hare.
Classic example of what is going on with the lemmings here. As the hare population increases there is more food for the lynx, thus more offspring are produced. As the lynx population increases there are fewer hare to eat and the lynx population declines, and so on.
So this study on lemmings is not surprising, actually I'm quite shocked that someone didn't figure it out sooner.
Whether you like it/them or not, Microsoft's software products do, um, tangible things.
I'm not sure MS's products do tangible things, why is it when I sneeze around any computer running MS ME that it crashes. This is INTANGABLE to my brain that a OS could be made so poorly that if i disrupt the speed of the air around the computer with a sneeze, it crashes. Or maybe it doesn't like me, I'm bad mojo or something.
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Umm.. M&Ms are make of MILK chocolate. Last time I checked, milk isn't made in petri dishes.
...anything you say or DNA will be held against you in a court of law.
No you have to sign an EULA
Bin Laden sent us that software that we totally pirated. We swear.
for Hello Kitty?
Well basically any carbohydrate would be good evidence of life, however cellulose just happens to be very stable. (Think cotton shirts, cows chewing cud, and metamucil.)
Actually creating monolayers of organic molecules reduces the surface tension of water.
Water with its strong tendency to hydrogen bond has a greater surface tension than that of an eight carbon simple alcohol. These alcohols form monolayers by hydrogen bonding with the water molecules. The hydrophobicity of their carbon chained tails creates an excess surface concentration, which at a great enough concentration forms a monolayer.
I guess whoever did this study failed their first ecology course in college.
Almost every ecology teacher beats several key things into your heads.
1. Survival of the fittest
in other words an individual does not do something for the benifit of the species, mainly due to the fact that doing so diverts energy that could be used to producing more young so that their genes survive. The individual will do things to benifit their genes, but not for unrelated individuals of the same species. Social species do have some altruistic behaviours, but their communities are generally made up of individuals that are related. However these altruistic behaviors do not include suicide.
2. The lynx and Hare.
Classic example of what is going on with the lemmings here. As the hare population increases there is more food for the lynx, thus more offspring are produced. As the lynx population increases there are fewer hare to eat and the lynx population declines, and so on.
So this study on lemmings is not surprising, actually I'm quite shocked that someone didn't figure it out sooner.
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"And if you think he's missed something, let him know."
nope i think that says it all
Whether you like it/them or not, Microsoft's software products do, um, tangible things.
I'm not sure MS's products do tangible things, why is it when I sneeze around any computer running MS ME that it crashes. This is INTANGABLE to my brain that a OS could be made so poorly that if i disrupt the speed of the air around the computer with a sneeze, it crashes. Or maybe it doesn't like me, I'm bad mojo or something.
Its not that they are so BIG that you can't ignore them, its that they are compensating for their lack of size with big guns
no its not that their employees are stupid... its just that they're all laywers