You could test the effects of certain substances on lifespan of C. Elegans, fruitflies, mice, etc. There's way too little interest from the big guys testing whether substances extend lifespan.
Why stop at the latter half of the 20th c ?
If you take the policies from the 1800s you will find that they were much to the Right of today's politics.
A lot of history is cyclical...
Interestingly processing that raw data without making adjustments for the vagaries of the data collection process produces substantially the same answer as the processed data does.
But we only have their word for it. The code that generated this result was not released.
Yes, I am being hard-nosed about this. And I can wish upon a star with the best of them. But unless we have another super-major upheaval in our current understanding of Physics on the scale of what happened 100 or so years ago (unlikely), we're wasting our time entertaining fantasies of cheap and easy interstellar travel.
Well, sure, interstellar travel may be unlikely, and you'd be willing to bet $1 million on it. But would you be willing to bet the future of humanity on it, or is a little caution in order ?
With the effort -- and time -- it would take them to get here, it would be far easier for them to terraform a planet much closer to themselves -- probably within their own stellar system.
You made 2 assumptions there.
1. We don't know that stable terraforming is even possible. Or perhaps only a few planets can be terraformed.
Actually, there's a pretty good argument to be made that ketosis is the normal state for a human body.
The body happily generates the necessary glucose from protein/fat.
Actually, you've got things switched.
It's Fat which is the primary fuel. However, most of the world has been using the secondary fuel(carbs) as the primary, which causes problems.
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Hi Dave, I sense you're in a bad mood. Would you like me to cheer you up ? *Thump*Thump*Thump*
another "favorite" is chlorine trifluoride which is hypergolic with lots of things including ordinarily benign materials such as sand!
Don't forget the engineers!
You could test the effects of certain substances on lifespan of C. Elegans, fruitflies, mice, etc. There's way too little interest from the big guys testing whether substances extend lifespan.
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21310
http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/index.php?pagename=what_you_can_do
You are wrong about the rice, but it's cool.
Well, just so you know, you will only have to give up the wheat. Rice, vodka are fine. Beer may or may not be a problem.
Would you be willing to give it up, if it meant your neuralgia went away ?
Just saying it's worth a shot. Cheers.
IANAMD, but here's my 2c. Have you been tested for celiac ? Might be worth checking out a gluten-free diet anyway. Good luck.
Why stop at the latter half of the 20th c ? If you take the policies from the 1800s you will find that they were much to the Right of today's politics. A lot of history is cyclical ...
The key phrase there is actually "hide the decline".
That's awesome. I'd mod you funny/insightful if I had any mod points.
Interestingly processing that raw data without making adjustments for the vagaries of the data collection process produces substantially the same answer as the processed data does.
But we only have their word for it. The code that generated this result was not released.
Yes, I am being hard-nosed about this. And I can wish upon a star with the best of them. But unless we have another super-major upheaval in our current understanding of Physics on the scale of what happened 100 or so years ago (unlikely), we're wasting our time entertaining fantasies of cheap and easy interstellar travel.
Well, sure, interstellar travel may be unlikely, and you'd be willing to bet $1 million on it. But would you be willing to bet the future of humanity on it, or is a little caution in order ?
With the effort -- and time -- it would take them to get here, it would be far easier for them to terraform a planet much closer to themselves -- probably within their own stellar system.
You made 2 assumptions there.
1. We don't know that stable terraforming is even possible. Or perhaps only a few planets can be terraformed.
2. Space travel may be comparatively cheap.
This is not true anymore. There may be other issues though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics#Preservation_injury
You're making too many assumptions, considering we know zero, zip, nada about them. So, no need to hide, but no need to shout either.
What is so special that earth has that they wont find billions of on the way here ?
Habitable planet. No terraforming required.
You can. It's called cryonics. It's open ended, but it's a better bet than disposing of your body.
It would make perfect sense to take the "defenders" (us) out before harvesting the resources in the rest of the system.
Some people have photosensitive epilepsy. Not saying that it's the cause here, but it's a possibility.
It's probably not that hard. You could probably get a faecal transplant if you really wanted to.
They're more of a patent threat, I suspect.
Of course they do. Don't they have a law mandating French in France ?
Sorry.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20219526
The rats which had 12 hr access to a 8% solution of HFCS got fatter than rats which had 12 hr access to 10% solution of sucrose.
This was even though they ingested fewer calories from the HFCS solution.
Carbs are a supplementary source of fuel. Which is why you have large stores of fat, so you don't need to be tied to a regular timetable of meals ...
Actually, there's a pretty good argument to be made that ketosis is the normal state for a human body. The body happily generates the necessary glucose from protein/fat.
Actually, you've got things switched. It's Fat which is the primary fuel. However, most of the world has been using the secondary fuel(carbs) as the primary, which causes problems.