Of course, which makes it even funnier when I catch all my British friends over here saying "I'm traveling to Europe for my holidays". They don't even notice until some American expat like myself points this out...
So, after reading the article and some of the explanations here, I really think I grasp what they're getting at. However, I think the the whole "ansible", wizard or whatever FTL communication is confusing some people, including myself. Can the paradox still be explained without comunication during the FTL travel? Because the way the FTL concept is explained (a "bubble of spacetime") it doesn't sound like this lends itself to communication between bubbles. Even they cannot communicate at all during FTL, are they paradoxes still present? If they stop for a second to communicate by old fashioned light beams, does this "fix" the problem by putting them (however briefly) in the same inertial frame of reference?
As for chickenpox, at least half of all people 85 and older will have reactivation of herpes zoster, resulting in neuraglia (commonly known as "shingles"). Having shingles is a miserable existence. This can now be largely prevented by immunizations, also of those who have had chickenpox as a child.
http://www.ok.gov/health/documents/shinglesadult.pdf
Maybe a plant biologist could weigh in here but I wonder if this diversification couldn't lead to different parts of the plant being more or less resistant to various pests? I mean, these trees get pretty old so it seems like a good way to ensure survival of the whole tree since some parts of it may have resistance. Also, if the tree is hermaphroditic (sorry, I don't know enough about cottonwood to know) the resistant parts could cross-fertilize, resulting in seeds potentially even more resistant, right? Would be interesting to see if they are different enough to eliminate self-incompatibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incompatibility_in_plants
The fingerprint reader at my local video store failed miserably and they had to give me a regular PIN. I do rock climb a lot in the summer and my fingerprints sort of wear off. What about people like me? Can't you bank there?
While it's certainly not a bad idea, I'm not even sure if acid-free paper is needed, newspapers are now routinely used to date excavated garbage, they remain readable for up to 50 years http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/biodegradable.htm, obviously without any special care (they were in the trash, after all).
Tax rates are misleading since what is considered income varies between the countries (I know what I'm talking about, as an American in the EU, I regularly file both kinds of taxes).
For example, health insurance in Germany is mandatory and 1/2 of the costs are deducted from your salary (employer pays the other half). Since it is mandatory, it would be counted as a tax in the table you link to. In the US, your health insurance is often (not always, I know) a fringe benefit, meaning it is hidden income. Your reported income looks lower, as do the tax rates. Also state and city taxes may not be properly reflected in the averages.
From the wikipedia page on "Demographics of the US":
As of 2012, the United States has a total resident population of 312,884,000, making it the third most populous country in the world.[1] It is a very urbanized population, with 82% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2008 (the worldwide urban rate is 50.5%[2]). This leaves vast expanses of the country nearly uninhabited.[3]
The people "in the middle of nowhere" would continue to need long range cars. It's just that US cities are designed on the premise that everyone drives (i.e, no sidewalks or bike paths) and highly decentralized shopping and so on which makes you perceive (admittedly possibly correctly for you) that this is not feasible.
Actually we have an "old" Illumina (same manufacturer) and get bulk discounts on the consumables so a dedicated lab running the machine day and night might still be a better ROI.
Engineering changes in DNA is done a the single cell cell (i.e. stem cells and fertilized eggs), not in a fully developed organism with tens of trillions of cells.
That's why no one has cured cancer with genetic engineering, you have to fix every single tumor cell.
So the engineering would have to occur between generations, i.e., in his children, not in him.
My local video store requires a fingerprint to borrow a DVD. As you may have guessed from my username, I love rock climbing. After about a dozen attempts to scan ANY finger, they gave up and generated a code for me...
As was already pointed out, nearby stars with travel times in the years to decades would be enough.
I agree that this is a job for government. All the really big projects in the past (pyramids, cathedrals, Great Walls) were the result of government or religious (usually equivalent to government back then) entities throughout history. Some of them took hundreds of years to complete.
Here in Europe, gasoline costs twice what it does in the US (which is only one reason why people tend to have smaller cars). I therefore suspect the extra costs may easily be amortized within the lifetime of the batteries, at least here.
I used to own a Prius and although I didn't always reach the claimed mileage, the agreement between claimed and actual mileage was, in fact, better than I got with other (non-hybrid) cars.
There are already companies that produce human serum albumin in yeast or the milk of cows at gram/liter rates as a marketed products. I have trouble imagining that this costs more than extracting it from tons of rice.
IANAP (I am not a physicist) rather only a lowly geneticist. However, one question for someone that sounds like he understands the physics involved here:
I'll accept your assertion at face value that a rock containing spores could be ejected in such a way that some hardy spores could survive.
Now tell me this: This rock has to have the right amount of energy to reach Europa. Does it get blasted to bits upon impact and incinerate our little friends?
The seeding hypothesis purported here sounds like the rock smashes through 20 km of ice to reach liquid water, where, presumably, conditions will allow the bugs to reproduce, etc (although maybe the tectonics of Europa would suck in rocks on its surface, allowing rapid access to liquid water?)
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Of course, which makes it even funnier when I catch all my British friends over here saying "I'm traveling to Europe for my holidays". They don't even notice until some American expat like myself points this out...
So, after reading the article and some of the explanations here, I really think I grasp what they're getting at. However, I think the the whole "ansible", wizard or whatever FTL communication is confusing some people, including myself. Can the paradox still be explained without comunication during the FTL travel? Because the way the FTL concept is explained (a "bubble of spacetime") it doesn't sound like this lends itself to communication between bubbles. Even they cannot communicate at all during FTL, are they paradoxes still present? If they stop for a second to communicate by old fashioned light beams, does this "fix" the problem by putting them (however briefly) in the same inertial frame of reference?
As for chickenpox, at least half of all people 85 and older will have reactivation of herpes zoster, resulting in neuraglia (commonly known as "shingles"). Having shingles is a miserable existence. This can now be largely prevented by immunizations, also of those who have had chickenpox as a child. http://www.ok.gov/health/documents/shinglesadult.pdf
Maybe a plant biologist could weigh in here but I wonder if this diversification couldn't lead to different parts of the plant being more or less resistant to various pests? I mean, these trees get pretty old so it seems like a good way to ensure survival of the whole tree since some parts of it may have resistance. Also, if the tree is hermaphroditic (sorry, I don't know enough about cottonwood to know) the resistant parts could cross-fertilize, resulting in seeds potentially even more resistant, right? Would be interesting to see if they are different enough to eliminate self-incompatibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incompatibility_in_plants
The fingerprint reader at my local video store failed miserably and they had to give me a regular PIN. I do rock climb a lot in the summer and my fingerprints sort of wear off. What about people like me? Can't you bank there?
Thank you for perfectly describing last week's work.
While it's certainly not a bad idea, I'm not even sure if acid-free paper is needed, newspapers are now routinely used to date excavated garbage, they remain readable for up to 50 years http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/biodegradable.htm, obviously without any special care (they were in the trash, after all).
Sorry but the BCG vaccine doesn't work in most adults and there's a lot of work going on to find out why (here's a recent paper with a possible hint:
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/myvu/news/2009/05/21/study-of-ineffective-tb-vaccine-may-lead-to-new-vaccines.80590/
and therefore treating the disease when it appears becomes crucial.
Tax rates are misleading since what is considered income varies between the countries (I know what I'm talking about, as an American in the EU, I regularly file both kinds of taxes).
For example, health insurance in Germany is mandatory and 1/2 of the costs are deducted from your salary (employer pays the other half). Since it is mandatory, it would be counted as a tax in the table you link to. In the US, your health insurance is often (not always, I know) a fringe benefit, meaning it is hidden income. Your reported income looks lower, as do the tax rates. Also state and city taxes may not be properly reflected in the averages.
That is an urban myth (pun intended).
From the wikipedia page on "Demographics of the US":
As of 2012, the United States has a total resident population of 312,884,000, making it the third most populous country in the world.[1] It is a very urbanized population, with 82% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2008 (the worldwide urban rate is 50.5%[2]). This leaves vast expanses of the country nearly uninhabited.[3]
The people "in the middle of nowhere" would continue to need long range cars. It's just that US cities are designed on the premise that everyone drives (i.e, no sidewalks or bike paths) and highly decentralized shopping and so on which makes you perceive (admittedly possibly correctly for you) that this is not feasible.
Funny that no one in the US every seems to consider trains, buses and other forms of public transportation as an option to maintain mobility.
Actually, probably the best use of these machines will be to sequence tumor DNA to determine the best treatment option.
For example, is your melanoma response to RAF inhibitors?
Such work is going on at the NIH NGS paper (PDF) and, in this case, the more data to correlate responses with, the better.
Of course, not really something for your average doctor.
Actually we have an "old" Illumina (same manufacturer) and get bulk discounts on the consumables so a dedicated lab running the machine day and night might still be a better ROI.
Engineering changes in DNA is done a the single cell cell (i.e. stem cells and fertilized eggs), not in a fully developed organism with tens of trillions of cells.
That's why no one has cured cancer with genetic engineering, you have to fix every single tumor cell.
So the engineering would have to occur between generations, i.e., in his children, not in him.
Not to mention that it wouldn't hurt if you doctor was a trained geneticist...
Sorry, I meant each and every finger of course...
My local video store requires a fingerprint to borrow a DVD. As you may have guessed from my username, I love rock climbing. After about a dozen attempts to scan ANY finger, they gave up and generated a code for me ...
As was already pointed out, nearby stars with travel times in the years to decades would be enough.
I agree that this is a job for government. All the really big projects in the past (pyramids, cathedrals, Great Walls) were the result of government or religious (usually equivalent to government back then) entities throughout history. Some of them took hundreds of years to complete.
Here in Europe, gasoline costs twice what it does in the US (which is only one reason why people tend to have smaller cars). I therefore suspect the extra costs may easily be amortized within the lifetime of the batteries, at least here. I used to own a Prius and although I didn't always reach the claimed mileage, the agreement between claimed and actual mileage was, in fact, better than I got with other (non-hybrid) cars.
Here's a paper on it (sorry pdf):
http://www.ip.mpg.de/shared/data/pdf/german_inventor_compensation_230106_dp_lmu.pdf
It certainly encourages innovation, IMHO here (and no, I am not German but I do live and invent here).
There are already companies that produce human serum albumin in yeast or the milk of cows at gram/liter rates as a marketed products. I have trouble imagining that this costs more than extracting it from tons of rice.
The honest ones are seeking asylum in the US.
Anyone remember Mexico's bravest woman?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisol_Valles_Garcia
IANAP (I am not a physicist) rather only a lowly geneticist. However, one question for someone that sounds like he understands the physics involved here:
I'll accept your assertion at face value that a rock containing spores could be ejected in such a way that some hardy spores could survive.
Now tell me this: This rock has to have the right amount of energy to reach Europa. Does it get blasted to bits upon impact and incinerate our little friends? The seeding hypothesis purported here sounds like the rock smashes through 20 km of ice to reach liquid water, where, presumably, conditions will allow the bugs to reproduce, etc (although maybe the tectonics of Europa would suck in rocks on its surface, allowing rapid access to liquid water?)
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