#2 - Oxygen: Converting CO2 back to O2 with plants is one possibility, however, this may take awhile to get up and running. Power should be a nonissue for using filters similar to the space station. O2 can always be obtained from water but on the moon.... water isn't the best choice.
#3 - Speaking of water- transporting water up is one issue. Once you get enough, hopefully systems for purifying, using plants, etc can be used.
#4 - food - would require routine trips of food up until you got a large enough installation of plants. What would happen if you had a challenger disaster again and the people need foor?
#5 - sex and internet - not necessarily in that order? hmmm...
One only has to think of the biosphere and biosphere 2 to think of failed or partially failed experiments at doing something like a self contained area. - Biosphere 2
To quote the articel "The consumers say Microsoft unlawfully and willfully maintained a monopoly that artificially drove up the price of Windows 98. The company violated the state's 1976 Competition Law, the plaintiffs allege. That law says monopolies are illegal because they exclude competition and fix prices."
If you hate Microsoft or not you must simply reject this assertion that there was a monoply. How many choices do we know about for operating systems?
Were there individual components that you could buy to piece a computer together without those charges built in?
Lets use some common sense here...
Your wife may be a cardiologist, but I am a PA at the Mayo Clinic in the Cardiac Surgery division. The body most certainly can be alive while the brain is dead. The body being alive=oxygenated blood reaching the cells and profusing them allowing the to complete their normal homestatic mechanisms.
And NOOOO, a LVAD will not keep a dead heart alive. As I said, I work in cardiac surgery. A LVAD (left ventricular assist device) or RVAD or BiVAD will only help if the heart is still alive. The key word being ASSIST in "left ventricular assist device".
Now, if you wish to argue the definition of alive, but according the definition that we have used in this discussion, what he said was fairly correct.
But once you know the key know how are you sure it is the correct one out of an infinite set of key in an infinite set of universes that exists silmultaneously????
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oh PUHLEEAASSSEEE. If you are married, you shouldn't have anything to hide from your spouse. No pron, secret affairs etc etc. So there is no reason for you to be concerned with them seeing what you have typed, where you have went etc. Only someone who has something to hide would get in a big toot.
how big is your pron collection? or who are you secretly communicating with?
Not impressed by the music, ...
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What did you wear earplugs in addition to blinders when you went and saw that film????
The drum beats, the chanting choruses, singing strings all made for a palpable tense mood inspiring setting in the mountains of moria. the music was sickly sweet in hobbiton, and dark and apprehensive in the caves of moria, and mysterios and lovely with the elves.
"one dimensional script (basically just the book)." thats like saying a movie adaptation of gone with the wind, or war and peach was just one dimensional, it was just, you know, the book thats all!! DUHHHHH, could you try to hide your bias even a bit better???
Here we are talking about cell phones and some of the paranoid folks are worrying about brain cancer (although there is no statistical significant difference between cell phone users and non users) and I see the quote at the bottom of the page.
Arnold's Addendum: Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in rats.
made me laugh...
All thorough studies with this topic have demonstrated no statistical significant difference between the general population and those that use cell phones.
This is the standard JonKatz flame so no one else need do it. Its already done.
How naive does he think he is.
His cliches are becoming so laughable its hard to flame them.
Did we go see the same movie?
There we go I just eliminated 90% of the comments always made underneath these movie reviews. Now maybe there can be something substantive instead of mindless flaming?
As long as the cable companies as still connected to the same T1s and the same number of home users have the machines on connected to bearshare.
Making the cable modem faster may be nice sometimes i suppose. BUT this does not mean that max throughput of the Cable company will expand. All it means is that it will be EASIER for LESS users to saturate a Cable companies bandwidth. They would be stupid to upgrade their existing clients or future users to a technology that will cost them more money in transmission costs. They already gripe about usage the way it is. Do you really think they will willing make it easier to suck up more bandwidth?
I recently purchased both of these games, and what I refer to as the mad-wife-quotient is of the chart for both of these.
For those unfamiliar with the mad-wife-qoutient, its fairly intuitive. The better the game, the more time you play, the less time you spend with your wife and the MADDER she gets! =)
While some have complained about Wolfenstein being a bit too linear, the wide open areas are quite nice and breathtaking with the fogging effects.
I Just purchased my copy of Civ III last night at Sam's Club. I played from 6:30 to 2:30 this morning. Only on chieftan but having a blast as the greecians wiping the tech chart up. I'm a tech kind of guy. The barter system is absolutely cool, although I wished there was an easier way to get +nutrient resources on tundra (dream on i suppose.) then elk.
Moderators hold on to your Troll/Flamebait before actually reading with an open mind.
The scienctific community constanty evangelizes science, studies, theories etc that can be backed up. As someone in the medical community, studies related to those strike home with me so I'll use those as a stepping stone here. We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God in a DOUBLE BLIND, RANDOMIZED, and CONTROLLED experiments has a large (not 1 percent but on the orders of 25-50%) impact in a study (sure some studies didn't demonstrate it just like some studies have demonstrated that DiHydrogen Monoxide is dangerous). Simply doing a search in pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi? cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11584476&dopt=Abs tract) will turn up numerous examples from people to animals to bacteria.
With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT NOW THEY ARE BEING PRAYED FOR, is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.
That is all.
"You can choose to follow God, or you can choose to not follow him--but to say he does not exist is to ignore the evidence"
Um, excuse me but most people would think that the western digital drivers were the schiznit. In fact Gateway and Dell used those exclusively in a large percentage of their model lines for years. I owned at least 7-8 myself, and did work/assistance for users and saw at least 22 more. While personal experience != statistics, at least my sample is bigger than yours ! =)
First you can' judge her size or the gallblader size based on the size of the stomach in the pic. During LAPRASCOPIC (see below) surgery, you insert the instrument, place a surgical tie around it and then inject an inert gas to expand the abdomen as much as possible so that you can shine light on the area you are operating on.
Second. Your statement should have read "Gall bladder surgery is usually Laproscopic". Arthroscopy is using a laprascope to look at a joint (note: arthro = join. i.e. arthritis =joint inflamation). And yes, looking at that picture, it WAS laprascopic. I've assisted (i'm a surgical PA) on numerous laprascopic operations, and those look EXACTLY like the ones i've used. Nothing really unusual from the pic.
Satanists are what their name proclaims them to be. Followers of Satan. If it were not so, they wouldn't call themselves that. Have the balls to admit what you are.
And yes, Satanists do promote evil, because by definition God is pure, truth, love and good and Satan and what he stands for is about distorting God and trying to coopt God's authority. Who cares if you are aiming for a better life on earth for yourself. That sounds like a lot of greed to me that results in ignoring the less fortunate. With Christianity you can still prosper and share with/help the less fortunate.
It is a "pipe dream" to claim that Satanists don't believe in God. Thats like saying liberals don't believe in conservatives, that white's don't believe in blacks, that males don't believe in females, that overweight people don't believe in skinny people. It's also a "pipe dream" to ignore all the PROOF of creation by a higher being (God). As a doctor, it is incredibly obvious to me that the design of humans, biology, DNA and the whole earth is not random--far from it--it is designed and created by a loving God who cares for us and desires for us to have happy life and spend eternity with him in heaven. Don't try and tell me that by being a follower of Satan that you have promise of eternal life. I think I would throw my support with the side of good rather than evil.
Do you want to know why this will never happen? Three major reasons.
1)Time - a) most non-life-threatening bacterial infection will run their course in about a weeks time (except for chronic sinusitis, TB, chronic acne etc). Antibiotic use will still happen and be the best choice in these cases (instead of the nanotubes) because by the time you get one matched several days will have elapsed. Why? to target the nanotubes after a specific bacteria, you must first CULTURE IT! This takes minimum of a couple days culture and get enough of a sample to test your tubes on. By this time, with a 20 dollar prescription of amoxicillin, zithromycin, etc you could have knocked out most of the common infections
2)MONEY! - This will NEVER be less expensive than our generic / non-brand name antibiotics. If your child has Otitis media (ear infection), and they are wailing keeping you up at night would you rather wait for 2 days or more for that super nanotube that will kill them and pay a prohibitive price OR pay 20 bucks for an amoxicillin suspension that morning and get a good night's rest THAT night.
3)Location of infection - this sounds like this will really only be effective against sepsis/bacteremia (when the blood becomes colonized and bacteria start multipling in your own blood). One thing antibiotics are really good at is pervading the tissues not just the blood stream. If you have cellulitis (infection of skin that can rapidly progress) you need a antibiotic with good spectrum coverage and that will also be excreted/oozed out through the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues (say Augementin for example). They said nothing in this article about whether these nanotubes can migrate from the blood stream to the tissues. And what about an abcess for instance? Abcesses will have walled them selves of from the surrounding tissues with a cavity liner and it can be very difficult to get antibiotics to get there, i don't see how nanotubes would be any more effective.
Another issue that i can think about is people that are more likely to suffer from gout (buildup of urate crystals in the periphery and joints such as big toes, knees, and elbows. IF these nanotubes do leave the bloodstream to the tissue level, they may be comparable in size to urate crystals, so would they all buildup and cause a nano-gout reaction (instead of a urate-gout buildup)
Another example, Bactrim (aka TMP/SMZ (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole)) which wildly successful for bladder infections because it leaves the blood stream rapidly and concentrates in the bladder. Where are the nanotubes excreted at?
Do you want to know why this will never happen? Three major reasons.
1)Time - a) most non-life-threatening bacterial infection will run their course in about a weeks time (except for chronic sinusitis, TB, chronic acne etc). Antibiotic use will still happen and be the best choice in these cases (instead of the nanotubes) because by the time you get one matched several days will have elapsed. Why? to target the nanotubes after a specific bacteria, you must first CULTURE IT! This takes minimum of a couple days culture and get enough of a sample to test your tubes on. By this time, with a 20 dollar prescription of amoxicillin, zithromycin, etc you could have knocked out most of the common infections
2)MONEY! - This will NEVER be less expensive than our generic / non-brand name antibiotics. If your child has Otitis media (ear infection), and they are wailing keeping you up at night would you rather wait for 2 days or more for that super nanotube that will kill them and pay a prohibitive price OR pay 20 bucks for an amoxicillin suspension that morning and get a good night's rest THAT night.
3)Location of infection - this sounds like this will really only be effective against sepsis/bacteremia (when the blood becomes colonized and bacteria start multipling in your own blood). One thing antibiotics are really good at is pervading the tissues not just the blood stream. If you have cellulitis (infection of skin that can rapidly progress) you need a antibiotic with good spectrum coverage and that will also be excreted/oozed out through the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues (say Augementin for example). They said nothing in this article about whether these nanotubes can migrate from the blood stream to the tissues. And what about an abcess for instance? Abcesses will have walled them selves of from the surrounding tissues with a cavity liner and it can be very difficult to get antibiotics to get there, i don't see how nanotubes would be any more effective.
Another issue that i can think about is people that are more likely to suffer from gout (buildup of urate crystals in the periphery and joints such as big toes, knees, and elbows. IF these nanotubes do leave the bloodstream to the tissue level, they may be comparable in size to urate crystals, so would they all buildup and cause a nano-gout reaction (instead of a urate-gout buildup)
Another example, Bactrim (aka TMP/SMZ (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole)) which wildly successful for bladder infections because it leaves the blood stream rapidly and concentrates in the bladder. Where are the nanotubes excreted at?
You obviously overlooked that important word in my original post. "Significantly" which i even happened to type in all caps mind you (with shift not caps lock!).
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#2 - Oxygen: Converting CO2 back to O2 with plants is one possibility, however, this may take awhile to get up and running. Power should be a nonissue for using filters similar to the space station. O2 can always be obtained from water but on the moon.... water isn't the best choice.
#3 - Speaking of water- transporting water up is one issue. Once you get enough, hopefully systems for purifying, using plants, etc can be used.
#4 - food - would require routine trips of food up until you got a large enough installation of plants. What would happen if you had a challenger disaster again and the people need foor?
#5 - sex and internet - not necessarily in that order? hmmm...
One only has to think of the biosphere and biosphere 2 to think of failed or partially failed experiments at doing something like a self contained area. - Biosphere 2
is it just me or is that the twin towers in that first screen shot? a bit inappropriate eh?
If you hate Microsoft or not you must simply reject this assertion that there was a monoply. How many choices do we know about for operating systems? Were there individual components that you could buy to piece a computer together without those charges built in? Lets use some common sense here...
And NOOOO, a LVAD will not keep a dead heart alive. As I said, I work in cardiac surgery. A LVAD (left ventricular assist device) or RVAD or BiVAD will only help if the heart is still alive. The key word being ASSIST in "left ventricular assist device".
Now, if you wish to argue the definition of alive, but according the definition that we have used in this discussion, what he said was fairly correct.
But once you know the key know how are you sure it is the correct one out of an infinite set of key in an infinite set of universes that exists silmultaneously????
how big is your pron collection? or who are you secretly communicating with?
"one dimensional script (basically just the book)." thats like saying a movie adaptation of gone with the wind, or war and peach was just one dimensional, it was just, you know, the book thats all!! DUHHHHH, could you try to hide your bias even a bit better???
Here we are talking about cell phones and some of the paranoid folks are worrying about brain cancer (although there is no statistical significant difference between cell phone users and non users) and I see the quote at the bottom of the page. Arnold's Addendum: Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in rats. made me laugh...
All thorough studies with this topic have demonstrated no statistical significant difference between the general population and those that use cell phones.
This is the standard JonKatz flame so no one else need do it. Its already done. How naive does he think he is. His cliches are becoming so laughable its hard to flame them. Did we go see the same movie? There we go I just eliminated 90% of the comments always made underneath these movie reviews. Now maybe there can be something substantive instead of mindless flaming?
Maybe if the female ones feed the males some hardees's food too (which Barry white has done comercials for) they'll be more in the mood?
Making the cable modem faster may be nice sometimes i suppose. BUT this does not mean that max throughput of the Cable company will expand. All it means is that it will be EASIER for LESS users to saturate a Cable companies bandwidth. They would be stupid to upgrade their existing clients or future users to a technology that will cost them more money in transmission costs. They already gripe about usage the way it is. Do you really think they will willing make it easier to suck up more bandwidth?
Granted that this is offtopic but can someone please answer this?
..." -- Dave Barry ""
""... the Mayo Clinic, named after its founder, Dr. Ted Clinic
was the quote at the bottom of the screen. Can you pleeeaaasee explain this. I'm failing to grasp the hidden meaning.
the picture of the results that ISNT IN JAPANESE.
For those unfamiliar with the mad-wife-qoutient, its fairly intuitive. The better the game, the more time you play, the less time you spend with your wife and the MADDER she gets! =)
While some have complained about Wolfenstein being a bit too linear, the wide open areas are quite nice and breathtaking with the fogging effects.
I Just purchased my copy of Civ III last night at Sam's Club. I played from 6:30 to 2:30 this morning. Only on chieftan but having a blast as the greecians wiping the tech chart up. I'm a tech kind of guy. The barter system is absolutely cool, although I wished there was an easier way to get +nutrient resources on tundra (dream on i suppose.) then elk.
2. Here's a link on how to run Linus on it
3. Knowing Microsoft they are going to try and control substrate or medium for the DNA proliferation inside.
Now take that and multiply it times your worst possible dream to get pixels the size of green peas across the wall in your 100" display.
The scienctific community constanty evangelizes science, studies, theories etc that can be backed up. As someone in the medical community, studies related to those strike home with me so I'll use those as a stepping stone here. We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God in a DOUBLE BLIND, RANDOMIZED, and CONTROLLED experiments has a large (not 1 percent but on the orders of 25-50%) impact in a study (sure some studies didn't demonstrate it just like some studies have demonstrated that DiHydrogen Monoxide is dangerous). Simply doing a search in pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi
With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT NOW THEY ARE BEING PRAYED FOR, is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.
That is all.
"You can choose to follow God, or you can choose to not follow him--but to say he does not exist is to ignore the evidence"
Um, excuse me but most people would think that the western digital drivers were the schiznit. In fact Gateway and Dell used those exclusively in a large percentage of their model lines for years. I owned at least 7-8 myself, and did work/assistance for users and saw at least 22 more. While personal experience != statistics, at least my sample is bigger than yours ! =)
Second. Your statement should have read "Gall bladder surgery is usually Laproscopic". Arthroscopy is using a laprascope to look at a joint (note: arthro = join. i.e. arthritis =joint inflamation). And yes, looking at that picture, it WAS laprascopic. I've assisted (i'm a surgical PA) on numerous laprascopic operations, and those look EXACTLY like the ones i've used. Nothing really unusual from the pic.
And yes, Satanists do promote evil, because by definition God is pure, truth, love and good and Satan and what he stands for is about distorting God and trying to coopt God's authority. Who cares if you are aiming for a better life on earth for yourself. That sounds like a lot of greed to me that results in ignoring the less fortunate. With Christianity you can still prosper and share with/help the less fortunate.
It is a "pipe dream" to claim that Satanists don't believe in God. Thats like saying liberals don't believe in conservatives, that white's don't believe in blacks, that males don't believe in females, that overweight people don't believe in skinny people. It's also a "pipe dream" to ignore all the PROOF of creation by a higher being (God). As a doctor, it is incredibly obvious to me that the design of humans, biology, DNA and the whole earth is not random--far from it--it is designed and created by a loving God who cares for us and desires for us to have happy life and spend eternity with him in heaven. Don't try and tell me that by being a follower of Satan that you have promise of eternal life. I think I would throw my support with the side of good rather than evil.
1)Time - a) most non-life-threatening bacterial infection will run their course in about a weeks time (except for chronic sinusitis, TB, chronic acne etc). Antibiotic use will still happen and be the best choice in these cases (instead of the nanotubes) because by the time you get one matched several days will have elapsed. Why? to target the nanotubes after a specific bacteria, you must first CULTURE IT! This takes minimum of a couple days culture and get enough of a sample to test your tubes on. By this time, with a 20 dollar prescription of amoxicillin, zithromycin, etc you could have knocked out most of the common infections
2)MONEY! - This will NEVER be less expensive than our generic / non-brand name antibiotics. If your child has Otitis media (ear infection), and they are wailing keeping you up at night would you rather wait for 2 days or more for that super nanotube that will kill them and pay a prohibitive price OR pay 20 bucks for an amoxicillin suspension that morning and get a good night's rest THAT night.
3)Location of infection - this sounds like this will really only be effective against sepsis/bacteremia (when the blood becomes colonized and bacteria start multipling in your own blood). One thing antibiotics are really good at is pervading the tissues not just the blood stream. If you have cellulitis (infection of skin that can rapidly progress) you need a antibiotic with good spectrum coverage and that will also be excreted/oozed out through the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues (say Augementin for example). They said nothing in this article about whether these nanotubes can migrate from the blood stream to the tissues. And what about an abcess for instance? Abcesses will have walled them selves of from the surrounding tissues with a cavity liner and it can be very difficult to get antibiotics to get there, i don't see how nanotubes would be any more effective.
Another issue that i can think about is people that are more likely to suffer from gout (buildup of urate crystals in the periphery and joints such as big toes, knees, and elbows. IF these nanotubes do leave the bloodstream to the tissue level, they may be comparable in size to urate crystals, so would they all buildup and cause a nano-gout reaction (instead of a urate-gout buildup)
Another example, Bactrim (aka TMP/SMZ (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole)) which wildly successful for bladder infections because it leaves the blood stream rapidly and concentrates in the bladder. Where are the nanotubes excreted at?
1)Time - a) most non-life-threatening bacterial infection will run their course in about a weeks time (except for chronic sinusitis, TB, chronic acne etc). Antibiotic use will still happen and be the best choice in these cases (instead of the nanotubes) because by the time you get one matched several days will have elapsed. Why? to target the nanotubes after a specific bacteria, you must first CULTURE IT! This takes minimum of a couple days culture and get enough of a sample to test your tubes on. By this time, with a 20 dollar prescription of amoxicillin, zithromycin, etc you could have knocked out most of the common infections
2)MONEY! - This will NEVER be less expensive than our generic / non-brand name antibiotics. If your child has Otitis media (ear infection), and they are wailing keeping you up at night would you rather wait for 2 days or more for that super nanotube that will kill them and pay a prohibitive price OR pay 20 bucks for an amoxicillin suspension that morning and get a good night's rest THAT night. 3)Location of infection - this sounds like this will really only be effective against sepsis/bacteremia (when the blood becomes colonized and bacteria start multipling in your own blood). One thing antibiotics are really good at is pervading the tissues not just the blood stream. If you have cellulitis (infection of skin that can rapidly progress) you need a antibiotic with good spectrum coverage and that will also be excreted/oozed out through the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues (say Augementin for example). They said nothing in this article about whether these nanotubes can migrate from the blood stream to the tissues. And what about an abcess for instance? Abcesses will have walled them selves of from the surrounding tissues with a cavity liner and it can be very difficult to get antibiotics to get there, i don't see how nanotubes would be any more effective.
Another issue that i can think about is people that are more likely to suffer from gout (buildup of urate crystals in the periphery and joints such as big toes, knees, and elbows. IF these nanotubes do leave the bloodstream to the tissue level, they may be comparable in size to urate crystals, so would they all buildup and cause a nano-gout reaction (instead of a urate-gout buildup)
Another example, Bactrim (aka TMP/SMZ (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole)) which wildly successful for bladder infections because it leaves the blood stream rapidly and concentrates in the bladder. Where are the nanotubes excreted at?
the hot air generated from the hot water caused an updraft trying to suck cool air in from low....
You obviously overlooked that important word in my original post. "Significantly" which i even happened to type in all caps mind you (with shift not caps lock!).