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  1. beyond time immemorial on Fossilized Mosquito Has Blood-filled Abdomen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The real bottom line is that we should be searching for cold spots, like Antarctic caves, with relict animal DNA that might average -57C (-70F). Then let's see how many million years we can drive DNA recovery.

  2. still... on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's the women in my family who actually paint and do art, with architecture and science backgrounds. Nevertheless, guys still have Leonardo to claim.

  3. small is beautiful on Two-Laser Boron Fusion Lights the Way To Radiation-Free Energy · · Score: 2

    This experiment sounds like the first step in the practical small scale direction since Farnesworth's fusor was developed into a commercial neutron source for hospitals and oilwells.

  4. beyond scare tactics on 90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Whether there are any essential NRC actions that are impacted by NRC furloughs, this step is meant to terrorize and discomfit the population for political ends. The community organizer meets the Constitution's "enemies, foreign and domestic" phrase as well as high crimes and misdemeanors

  5. Re:tragedy of errors? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    It's a rental car. I've driven in DC twice, the triangular streets and decor are confusing, easy to miss planned turns.

  6. scared, the car in black on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Looks like she made a wrong turn, toward a "wide street" and missed seeing the short posts wide spaced, painted in a decorative dark rather than traffic safety colors. Confronted by the armed plain clothes guy in shorts on drivers side, and a flash mob of guns waving, she stepped on the gas and ran. DOA.

  7. tragedy of errors? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like all the shooting was police or Secret Service. Car impact, female with babe in a car with out of state plates, chased, and shot ?

    What if she was lost, confused and just made a wrong turn while talking on her cell phone, surprised by the barrier?
    Perhaps the true price of paranoia.

  8. govt shooters only? on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Sounds like all the shooting was police or Secret Service. Car impact, female with babe in car chased, and shot ?

  9. Re:drinking the kool aid or... on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    We will be among the 3-4% exempt from Obamacare. In the 1930s, a smart German who looked at the dangerous clown mesmerizing the hoi polloi might have moved overseas.

  10. Re:doesn't work, dangerous, cost freedom and fortu on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    A frequent post industrial, lack of real experimental science background to contradictory information. Or just a tightly closed mind. A self awarded Darwin award might come your way someday doing that.

  11. drinking the kool aid or... on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 2

    They/we may need medical insurance but this isn't it. Just because I'm dying of thirst in the desert doesn't mean that I am going to drink the glycol with water out of the radiator.
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    The problem is the medical system itself uses corrupted, ineffective and extraordinarily cost inefficient methods favored by certain suppliers e.g. the pharmaceuticals.

    I have a family member with stage IV cancer, once considered truly hopeless. Cost at this point is normally $1-2 million and certain death, usually gone 1-2 years ago. We used family science capabilities to identify, choose and use foreign, off-label and natural treatments. Some are not even allowed in the USA because, get this, they were not toxic enough for FDA approval !! Our cost to date? Under $40,000, alive and doing well several years later.

    How much is Obamacare worth to us? Nothing, wouldn't pay most bills, so actually a negative value, subsidizing insistently dangerous interference. Better to just pay cash.

  12. doesn't work, dangerous, cost freedom and fortunes on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 0

    The problem is the medical system itself uses ineffective and cost inefficient methods favored by certain suppliers e.g. the pharmaceuticals.

    I have a family member with stage IV cancer, once considered hopeless. Cost at this point is normally $1-2 million and certain death by 1-2 years ago. We used family science capabilities to identify, choose and use foreign, off-label and natural treatments. Some are not even allowed in the USA because, get this, they were not toxic enough for the FDA. Our cost to date? Under $40,000, alive and doing well several years later.

    How much is Obamacare worth to us? Nothing, wouldn't pay most bills, so actually a negative value, subsidizing insistently dangerous interference. Better to just pay cash.

  13. Re:Meh on Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We don't like b---s---. A this point, CAGW is a failed theory with numerous points of failure in model derivation, temperature data, experiemental phusics, applied control theory, simple academic corruption, etc. Personally, I'm getting ready for a bout of global cooling that will likely be more obvious toward 2020, when it kills more people.

    My degrees probably have more experimental content, math and science than yours.

  14. corporate socialist slime on What the Insurance Industry Thinks About Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies are all about collecting the highest premium and not paying claims. "Global warming" helps justify higher premiums, maybe create fear and uncertainty to buy mire insurance, and perhaps can help palm more claims off to the taxpayer in the occasional big event years.

  15. phaser ... done in days on Existing Drugs Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs · · Score: 2

    Our nurses would use several IV vitamin C infusions to "reset" the biofilm resistence in chronic UTI for amoxicillin reuse, as repeatedly shown for antibiotic resistance in culture tests. Cipro was a patient killer, much less the nastier expensive stuff.

  16. stuck keys on France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I just need to clean the freedom fries out of my keyboard more often.

  17. Phonetic suicide on France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU · · Score: 0

    French is already a seondary language in decline. Bye, bye.

  18. nuked... on US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead · · Score: 1

    Auto kill bots are an open invitation to other countries to develop nukes to ensure that they can enforce a demand to keep these things away from their country. Or else.

  19. Re:EBM/EBS are corrupt on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your thought

  20. EBM/EBS are corrupt on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 0, Troll

    "evidence based ----" has become a code phrase for corruption, political control in govt sponsored "science". Look at "climate science" which is rapidly sinking on the shoals of physics, statistics and total lack of prediction. Look at medicine, bankrupting the country with a lot more sick people. I can get a much better science based result plus a 98% cost discount myself. Atlas is shrugging.

  21. "tailgator" on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    At least one of us has an industrial research background that includes growing and killing exotic microorganisms. At least one of us has gold medals, trophies, scholarships and paid patents for their science work. At least one of us has had paid invitations to large pharmaceutical research and manufacturing facilities. At least one of us has clinical data on the subject at hand. You might learn to actually investigate things before you open your ignorant yap.

  22. Soviet peasants will understand... on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    ....that things just don't always work that way in government. Have a nice life.

  23. Ass-umptions Seem...ignorant on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: -1

    Read this booklet, get the intravenous supplies, some bottles of 1000 mg tablet ascorbic acid, and some 10,000-50,000 iu caps of vitamin D3, your family will do fine.

  24. problem solved,.... on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 0

    Read this book. Injectable sodium ascorbate

  25. Plan A on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Intravenous supplies for several 50-100 gram infusions of sodium ascorbate per person with a few mL of magnesium sulfate or choride, a little understood viricidal treatment.
    50,000 iu capsules of cholecalciferol for a week or two.

    Some have already dealt with uglier viruses in real 3rd world countries. See also, Curing the Incurable, by Thomas E Levy. I keep a few boxes of cheap 500 mg amoxicillin, too, in case of bacterial infections...