What I cant understand is why it has to be Wi-fi in a plane? I mean aren't you supposed to sit down all the time?
On an airliner WiFi wins over wired because:
Wires are heavy the few hundred meters of cable required hubs etc would weigh much more than a WiFi rig, every extra kilo costs fuel every time the plane flys. After fitting the WiFi hubs only users add weight (ie the adaptor cards)
WiFi is cheap to fit, just lob the boxes in and configure, wired installation would need to be done during a big refit and would require skilled fitters to string the wires (more cost!)
WiFi is cheap to remove (you really don't want deadweight on a airliner!)
I recall hearing that an 'airline' was playing with fuel numbers and found that if the crew did not wear shoes on their flights they could save $200,000/year in fuel, can anyone provide a source for that?
Well, all expeditions are equipped with their own satellite network links these days.
I would think that the cafe may be able to undercut the portable satellite network
equipment, expeditions would still need the equipment to cover their travel to the mountain etc
but once there [c|w]ould the cafe be cheaper?
Must we bring our instant communication, our invasive culture, to *every* place in the world?
It already is in every place in the world, all you need is a dish and a laptop to listen to it
People already climb Everest without (bottled) oxygen, perhaps the next Everest challange is doing it without email....
Its now.... 5 days since we left out iBooks at base..... starting to suffer web withdrawal symptoms. Caruthers point and clicks is getting particularly bad and had to ban him from the sleeping tent
Since they have somatic cells (ie normal cells not eggs or sperm) if they clone it into an elephant egg they will get an baby mammoth of the same gender and the original.
I really doubt that mammoth and elephant are more cross fertile that horse/donkey and the offspring will be sterile which means that the only way to perpetuate the species is by continued cloning.... However if the mammoth is male it could be possible to deactivate the 'male gene' (SRY in humans) and create a female mammoth.
I know a Song about that
(to Home on the Range)
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when she is grown,
My very own clone,
We'll be of the opposite sex.
Chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when we're alone,
Since her mind is my own,
She'll be thinking of nothing but sex.
As others have suggested it may be a fake... I'd be inclined towards it being at least a genuine fossil (once bitten;-) though the interpretation on it may be open to question.
There is a lot of interesting stuff comming out of China. It should be remembered that the famous National Geographic fake, actually contained two seperate significant
fossils
Your right about Nature, to me its more New Scientist article (I recall seeing a paper in
Biotechniques about encoding text in DNA some 5-6 years ago I think that was for copyright messages)
Mutation may not be too much of a problem as you could reconstruct the data by sequenceing many different strains of the bug (sort of bacterial TCP protocol if the packet is corrupted sequence a different strain)
What I'd like to know is what sort of data would you send? Encoding the data would be a bit of a fiddle.... but extracting the data would be a expensive, soul destroying project, reqireing late 20th early 21st centuary tech and if target decendants have that sort of tech there must be better ways of sending messages./P
Ha! Raelians can't read biology and think p53 is a new gene (first published 1984) that makes evolution impossible, cos its a DNA repair enzyme, which makes mutation and hence evolution impossible (1).
Which is true in that DNA repair exists and p53 is involved in it (although its more involved in getting cells to commit suicide if there feeling a bit precancerous), but it won't stop genes mutating as all it does is checks/corrects DNA base pairing sometimes correcting it the wrong way creating a new mutation
(1) under Evidence -> Science & Future -> Alt theorys of Evolution.... (F***ing frames)
PS Being involved in human gene nomenclature I feel duty bound to mention p53 approved symbol is TP53.
Biology is hard because Mother Nature is the most dirty hacker on the planet!
Imagine trying to unpick the code of a programmer who:-
does not know how to program, so just randomly diddles with the code (any code, the program, the compiler or the operating system she don't care) and uses whatevers just good enough.
who does not know about documenting, or version control
who's software testing is done by the users
and when she does reuse her code, its sometimes the result of two projects converging on the same solution.
For any computer type looking to get into bioinformatics. I will heavily reccomend you read Larry Gonick's
Cartoon Guide to Genetics as it goes from absolute basics to 1st year biology degree
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On an airliner WiFi wins over wired because:
Wires are heavy the few hundred meters of cable required hubs etc would weigh much more than a WiFi rig, every extra kilo costs fuel every time the plane flys. After fitting the WiFi hubs only users add weight (ie the adaptor cards)
WiFi is cheap to fit, just lob the boxes in and configure, wired installation would need to be done during a big refit and would require skilled fitters to string the wires (more cost!)
WiFi is cheap to remove (you really don't want deadweight on a airliner!)
I recall hearing that an 'airline' was playing with fuel numbers and found that if the crew did not wear shoes on their flights they could save $200,000/year in fuel, can anyone provide a source for that?
I would think that the cafe may be able to undercut the portable satellite network equipment, expeditions would still need the equipment to cover their travel to the mountain etc but once there [c|w]ould the cafe be cheaper?
It already is in every place in the world, all you need is a dish and a laptop to listen to it
People already climb Everest without (bottled) oxygen, perhaps the next Everest challange is doing it without email....
Its now.... 5 days since we left out iBooks at base..... starting to suffer web withdrawal symptoms. Caruthers point and clicks is getting particularly bad and had to ban him from the sleeping tent
Perhaps only 100 climb, but how many visit? A very brief search got me 4 guided treks to Base Camp, it a tourist destination nowadays!
On top of that I think that the climbers will be more interested in downloading weather data (though the tourist will be sending their emails)
Since they have somatic cells (ie normal cells not eggs or sperm) if they clone it into an elephant egg they will get an baby mammoth of the same gender and the original.
I really doubt that mammoth and elephant are more cross fertile that horse/donkey and the offspring will be sterile which means that the only way to perpetuate the species is by continued cloning.... However if the mammoth is male it could be possible to deactivate the 'male gene' (SRY in humans) and create a female mammoth.
I know a Song about that
(to Home on the Range)
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when she is grown,
My very own clone,
We'll be of the opposite sex.
Chorus:
Clone, clone of my own,
With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when we're alone,
Since her mind is my own,
She'll be thinking of nothing but sex.
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As others have suggested it may be a fake... I'd be inclined towards it being at least a genuine fossil (once bitten ;-) though the interpretation on it may be open to question.
There is a lot of interesting stuff comming out of China. It should be remembered that the famous National Geographic fake, actually contained two seperate significant fossils
Iain Banks is of course not to be confused with that other chap, Iain M. Banks who does not do SF :->
Yesssssssssth, bud it may be the last comPUta I ever build.. hic!
The links given don't actually supply the reference to the paper. Its in Biochemistry
Biochemical Basis for the Biological Clock Morre, D. J.; Chueh, P.-J.; Pletcher, J.; Tang, X.; Wu, L.-Y.; Morre, D. M.; Biochemistry ; (Accelerated Article); 2002; 41(40); 11941-11945.
Your right about Nature, to me its more New Scientist article (I recall seeing a paper in Biotechniques about encoding text in DNA some 5-6 years ago I think that was for copyright messages)
Mutation may not be too much of a problem as you could reconstruct the data by sequenceing many different strains of the bug (sort of bacterial TCP protocol if the packet is corrupted sequence a different strain)
What I'd like to know is what sort of data would you send? Encoding the data would be a bit of a fiddle.... but extracting the data would be a expensive, soul destroying project, reqireing late 20th early 21st centuary tech and if target decendants have that sort of tech there must be better ways of sending messages./P
Ha! Raelians can't read biology and think p53 is a new gene (first published 1984) that makes evolution impossible, cos its a DNA repair enzyme, which makes mutation and hence evolution impossible (1).
Which is true in that DNA repair exists and p53 is involved in it (although its more involved in getting cells to commit suicide if there feeling a bit precancerous), but it won't stop genes mutating as all it does is checks/corrects DNA base pairing sometimes correcting it the wrong way creating a new mutation
(1) under Evidence -> Science & Future -> Alt theorys of Evolution.... (F***ing frames)
PS Being involved in human gene nomenclature I feel duty bound to mention p53 approved symbol is TP53.
I have a theory that computers are much more likely to play up when the user is stressed.
But how could you tell?
Whats the betting that Windows SPACE will adopt a standard StarTrek orbit that decays 12 hours after power failure?
Depends what there going to close your analog hole with
Will faster thinkers count as more than one person?
There are two sorts of people, thoes who divide people into two groups.
Biology is hard because Mother Nature is the most dirty hacker on the planet!
Imagine trying to unpick the code of a programmer who:-does not know how to program, so just randomly diddles with the code (any code, the program, the compiler or the operating system she don't care) and uses whatevers just good enough.
who does not know about documenting, or version control
who's software testing is done by the users
and when she does reuse her code, its sometimes the result of two projects converging on the same solution.
For any computer type looking to get into bioinformatics. I will heavily reccomend you read Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide to Genetics as it goes from absolute basics to 1st year biology degree
I had a good look but I couldn't find Hobbs End anywhere
Yeah, what's up with that? An offer you can't refuse.
More like an offer you can't understand
And there I was thinking it was to calculate how proteins fold... I wonder if its got enough power to do it?