1. You spend energy to compress air. Air heats up, heats up tank, tank cools back down to ambient temperature. Significant energy lost to waste heat.
2. You make your air-car go. Air decompresses, cools down a lot. Significant losses to efficiency. Problems with icing.
3. Your air car stops after half a mile. Your 6-person vehicle doesn't have enough compressed air tank space with current technology to approach the energy density of standard batteries, let alone hydrocarbon fuels.
4. *PROFIT*!
This article's content is gonna put a damper on my.com business plan where you threaten the governor with pictures of naked children torturing animals...
Not in my backyard,are you going to have a Quasar.
I heard one hypothesis of why there aren't a zillion alien civilizations out there is that every once in awhile, a Quasar toasts huge swaths of the universe.
This is not particularly new or interesting to researchers.
This kind of thing has been possible for more than 10 years. You didn't really need the full DNA sequence in order to make mice with the gene you want removed.
These so-called "Knock-Out Mice" have been around, and were bread-and-butter for PhD students looking for a thesis project. It was a gamble though:
Scenario 1. Your gene-deleted mouse actually lives and has a phenotype (characteristic of the organism) that is interesting and worth publishing a research article about. You get your PhD and get to go on with your non-well-paying career in research.
Scenario 2. Your gene-deleted mouse dies before they are born. You have just wasted 2-5 years of your life.
Scenario 3. Your gene-deleted mouse lives, but you can't find anything wrong with your mouse. Apparently, the gene you selected to delete is not important. You have just wasted 2-5 years of your life, but because you invested the time, you will probably waste another 2-5 more years.
Knocking out a gene in a mouse used to guarantee your a research paper. These days it's old, and not interesting unless the results are spectacular.
It's not bacteria that scares me, it's the viruses.
Not the wimpy computer kind, but the little-packet-of-protein-and-nucleic-acid kind.
Potential for lethality of viruses put bacteria, fungi, and other microbes to shame.
I once attended a lecture by Craig Venter, one of the two big honchos that was largely responsible for the Human Genome Project. He said that the similarity between humans was profound, and actually the similarity between chimps and humans was also extraordinary - to the point that you could just treat the chimpanzee as another human variant, at least in terms of DNA sequence.
So scientifically speaking, there's not much point in sequencing the whole Neandrathal genome, since it'll be 99.999% identical to what we've already got. However, it may be interesting to compare select regions between Homo sapiens and Neandrathals... This would be much cheaper and quicker than sequencing the whole thing...
But then again, there are a lot of DNA sequencer jockeys looking for more DNA to sequence. It's just that MY research grant funding agency wouldn't fund such work (not that I have one...)
Pros are strong, even at the lower levels. And the computer programs kind of suck.
I think there was one exhibition where Janice Kim, then 1-dan Korean pro, spotted GnuGo (3.2 or thereabouts) something like 25 stones. That's 25 stone handicap. She pulled off the win in the end.
1. Anti-toxin nanoparticles injected 2. Nanoparticles bind up toxin 3. Nanoparticles and toxins form crosslinked conjugates 4. Conjugates plug up small arteries 5. Patient dies of stroke, or renal failure, or etc.
To prevent the crosslinking, you'd have to make sure the nanoparticle would have to bind only 1 'toxin' molecule. You'd have to inject as many nanoparticles as there are molecules of what you want to get rid of, which doesn't sound fun.
.. if some Open Source types would write a decent, free sequence manipulation software. Something that could handle DNA and protein sequences and do some simple manipulations thereof.
The best piece of software I know that does this is Vector NTI, and that costs $7000. Imagine all the tax-payer supported NIH grant money going to stuff like that (along with MicroSoft stuff, but that's a whole 'nother problem..) If I ever get a reasonable NIH grant, I'm going to see if I can bribe someone to write the software for open source.
What should be open source and free beer free is the specialized software used by many researchers for processing DNA and Protein sequence information.
For instance, take the very nice software package Vector NTI. Does many things researchers want. Also costs $5000.
Instead of NIH (government science funding agency) money being spent many times (once per funded lab), what they should do is earmark some money to get programmers to write for free usage software like Vector NTI. It would cut down on the redundant purchase of software by many government-funded laboratories.
Don't even get me started on how much research money is being spent on Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat...
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it's slower than a reciprocating saw...
First it turns out that the Unicorn is North Korean, and now this. Bad day for South Korea.
1. You spend energy to compress air. Air heats up, heats up tank, tank cools back down to ambient temperature. Significant energy lost to waste heat. 2. You make your air-car go. Air decompresses, cools down a lot. Significant losses to efficiency. Problems with icing. 3. Your air car stops after half a mile. Your 6-person vehicle doesn't have enough compressed air tank space with current technology to approach the energy density of standard batteries, let alone hydrocarbon fuels. 4. *PROFIT*!
Hard to beat the efficiency of a normal bicycle when it comes to wheeled transport...
This article's content is gonna put a damper on my .com business plan where you threaten the governor with pictures of naked children torturing animals...
self-heating coffee can heats YOU!
Not in my backyard,are you going to have a Quasar.
I heard one hypothesis of why there aren't a zillion alien civilizations out there is that every once in awhile, a Quasar toasts huge swaths of the universe.
This is not particularly new or interesting to researchers. This kind of thing has been possible for more than 10 years. You didn't really need the full DNA sequence in order to make mice with the gene you want removed. These so-called "Knock-Out Mice" have been around, and were bread-and-butter for PhD students looking for a thesis project. It was a gamble though: Scenario 1. Your gene-deleted mouse actually lives and has a phenotype (characteristic of the organism) that is interesting and worth publishing a research article about. You get your PhD and get to go on with your non-well-paying career in research. Scenario 2. Your gene-deleted mouse dies before they are born. You have just wasted 2-5 years of your life. Scenario 3. Your gene-deleted mouse lives, but you can't find anything wrong with your mouse. Apparently, the gene you selected to delete is not important. You have just wasted 2-5 years of your life, but because you invested the time, you will probably waste another 2-5 more years. Knocking out a gene in a mouse used to guarantee your a research paper. These days it's old, and not interesting unless the results are spectacular.
Does this article deal with the origins of eukaryotic cells? Or multicellular organisms? Because they are two different issues.
It's not bacteria that scares me, it's the viruses. Not the wimpy computer kind, but the little-packet-of-protein-and-nucleic-acid kind. Potential for lethality of viruses put bacteria, fungi, and other microbes to shame.
.. and thus, in our dimension, Skynet is foiled.
best... spam-blocker... EVER!
I once attended a lecture by Craig Venter, one of the two big honchos that was largely responsible for the Human Genome Project. He said that the similarity between humans was profound, and actually the similarity between chimps and humans was also extraordinary - to the point that you could just treat the chimpanzee as another human variant, at least in terms of DNA sequence. So scientifically speaking, there's not much point in sequencing the whole Neandrathal genome, since it'll be 99.999% identical to what we've already got. However, it may be interesting to compare select regions between Homo sapiens and Neandrathals... This would be much cheaper and quicker than sequencing the whole thing... But then again, there are a lot of DNA sequencer jockeys looking for more DNA to sequence. It's just that MY research grant funding agency wouldn't fund such work (not that I have one...)
Pros are strong, even at the lower levels. And the computer programs kind of suck.
I think there was one exhibition where Janice Kim, then 1-dan Korean pro, spotted GnuGo (3.2 or thereabouts) something like 25 stones. That's 25 stone handicap. She pulled off the win in the end.
Anyhow, Tartrate is probably Jie Li.
1. Anti-toxin nanoparticles injected
2. Nanoparticles bind up toxin
3. Nanoparticles and toxins form crosslinked conjugates
4. Conjugates plug up small arteries
5. Patient dies of stroke, or renal failure, or etc.
To prevent the crosslinking, you'd have to make sure the nanoparticle would have to bind only 1 'toxin' molecule. You'd have to inject as many nanoparticles as there are molecules of what you want to get rid of, which doesn't sound fun.
Seems that there are at least four of these robot vacuum cleaners... Who do we get to test them head-to-head?
Now, is someone could produce a video of McBride pretending to be Darth Maul...
.. if some Open Source types would write a decent, free sequence manipulation software. Something that could handle DNA and protein sequences and do some simple manipulations thereof. The best piece of software I know that does this is Vector NTI, and that costs $7000. Imagine all the tax-payer supported NIH grant money going to stuff like that (along with MicroSoft stuff, but that's a whole 'nother problem..) If I ever get a reasonable NIH grant, I'm going to see if I can bribe someone to write the software for open source.
What should be open source and free beer free is the specialized software used by many researchers for processing DNA and Protein sequence information. For instance, take the very nice software package Vector NTI. Does many things researchers want. Also costs $5000. Instead of NIH (government science funding agency) money being spent many times (once per funded lab), what they should do is earmark some money to get programmers to write for free usage software like Vector NTI. It would cut down on the redundant purchase of software by many government-funded laboratories. Don't even get me started on how much research money is being spent on Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat...