I didn't say anything about absorbing cellulose, fool. The cellulose has to be broken down in order to absord the carbs, fats, and protiens in plants. Idiot. Coward. Jackass.
Actually, natural carnivores have a much shorter digestive tract than a human, and don't absorb nearly the amounts of fats and cholestoral our very long digestive tracts absorb. Herbivores have longer digestive tracts to break down the cellulose, like a human.
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I know the whole article is a quote, but DAMN it's hard to read all that italics!
Thanks for posting it though, 'cause I wasn't going to register...
I do understand that the 'vacated niches' would allow more for the success of a surviving species. However, mutation is integral, if not the foundation of evolution.
Example: A species with a longer neck can more successfully get food (leaves) from higher branches, but something had to cause the longer neck in the first place.
I like Dawkin's definition of life : The non-random survival of random self-replicators.
In the random self-replication process, an absence of genetic mutation would not allow for any evolution to take place. Every 'child' would be just like the parent or parents.
I understand this is too little, too late for the one asking about scholarships, but this is advice for those with younger children who are thinking about the future...
My grandmother, when I was about 4 years old, put about $2000 in a government trust fund that accrued compound interest with no taxes. By the time I went to school when I was 18, it had grown to over $26,000. I thought she was so wise to think about the future that way. There were also options for me to use the money for either starting a business or purchasing a home, but I chose to go to school.
... forgot to mention my favorite part is when the launch and the G-force makes their faces stretch back... It looks like they did it with scotch tape... we all got a good laugh from that!
The movie Destination Moon was released in 1950, before anything on the Mars Institute's list, and tried to accurately show what a trip to the moon would be like. It is based on a novel by Heinlein, and he was also the technical director of the movie. Not a great movie, but very interesting since it was made 20 years before we actually went to the moon.
Yes, I imagine kids and floppy disks don't get along any better that when disks were 5.25" I actually did work in a school lab and kids would carry thier disks in their backpacks with no covers and wonder why they didn't work, even though they wiped all the cookie crumbs off with their bare hands...
I think the other mistake is saying that Zip drives sucked and then went to Hell??? WTF??? I have used Zips since they came out. I have an external Zip drive, one came standard in my Beige G3, and have a Zip drive for my Powerbook G3 (swaps out with the DVD) I also have a large stack of Zip disks. I've never had a failure once. Also, the company I worked for was heavily Mac based and all the Macs came with Zip drives and they always worked fine. I've never heard or heard of the 'click of death'
Not only that, but shortly after Zip came out, they were back-ordered for months!!! I would call Zip one of the most successful computer products of the end of the 20th century! Those things sold like hot cakes.
Did you ever see the commercial where the guy's flinging the Zip drive around by the cord and this other guy says 'Watcha doin'?" and the drive flinging guy says "backing up my hard drive." The Jaz wasn't bad either.
On the other hand, I never heard of the Clik Drive.
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It's called 'testosterone' and it probably has something to do with men dying earlier that women.
...why not Mars?
I didn't say anything about absorbing cellulose, fool. The cellulose has to be broken down in order to absord the carbs, fats, and protiens in plants. Idiot. Coward. Jackass.
Actually, natural carnivores have a much shorter digestive tract than a human, and don't absorb nearly the amounts of fats and cholestoral our very long digestive tracts absorb. Herbivores have longer digestive tracts to break down the cellulose, like a human.
I know the whole article is a quote, but DAMN it's hard to read all that italics!
Thanks for posting it though, 'cause I wasn't going to register...
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I'm not Unemployed, I make over $70,000 a year doing Flash programming, and that doesn't include the Freelance. HAHAHA
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I would combine them. I would create structures that incorporated Legos, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Erector Set, and plain wooden blocks.
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I do understand that the 'vacated niches' would allow more for the success of a surviving species. However, mutation is integral, if not the foundation of evolution.
Example: A species with a longer neck can more successfully get food (leaves) from higher branches, but something had to cause the longer neck in the first place.
I like Dawkin's definition of life : The non-random survival of random self-replicators.
In the random self-replication process, an absence of genetic mutation would not allow for any evolution to take place. Every 'child' would be just like the parent or parents.
Could it also be a factor in Evolution?
Increased exposure to radiation causing a period of increased mutations in the surviving species?
I hate Adobe's so-called "upgrades"
That is so true, everyone knows Bush has nothing to do with schools or education.
...and let me be the second.
I understand this is too little, too late for the one asking about scholarships, but this is advice for those with younger children who are thinking about the future...
My grandmother, when I was about 4 years old, put about $2000 in a government trust fund that accrued compound interest with no taxes. By the time I went to school when I was 18, it had grown to over $26,000. I thought she was so wise to think about the future that way. There were also options for me to use the money for either starting a business or purchasing a home, but I chose to go to school.
... forgot to mention my favorite part is when the launch and the G-force makes their faces stretch back... It looks like they did it with scotch tape... we all got a good laugh from that!
The movie Destination Moon was released in 1950, before anything on the Mars Institute's list, and tried to accurately show what a trip to the moon would be like. It is based on a novel by Heinlein, and he was also the technical director of the movie. Not a great movie, but very interesting since it was made 20 years before we actually went to the moon.
Yes, I imagine kids and floppy disks don't get along any better that when disks were 5.25" I actually did work in a school lab and kids would carry thier disks in their backpacks with no covers and wonder why they didn't work, even though they wiped all the cookie crumbs off with their bare hands...
After posting I just realized, "Oh, it was probably a Windows thing."
Did the Zip drives fail more on Windows? My only experience is Zip drives on Macs, and they always worked.
I think the other mistake is saying that Zip drives sucked and then went to Hell??? WTF??? I have used Zips since they came out. I have an external Zip drive, one came standard in my Beige G3, and have a Zip drive for my Powerbook G3 (swaps out with the DVD) I also have a large stack of Zip disks. I've never had a failure once. Also, the company I worked for was heavily Mac based and all the Macs came with Zip drives and they always worked fine. I've never heard or heard of the 'click of death'
Not only that, but shortly after Zip came out, they were back-ordered for months!!! I would call Zip one of the most successful computer products of the end of the 20th century! Those things sold like hot cakes.
Did you ever see the commercial where the guy's flinging the Zip drive around by the cord and this other guy says 'Watcha doin'?" and the drive flinging guy says "backing up my hard drive." The Jaz wasn't bad either.
On the other hand, I never heard of the Clik Drive.