Because we can send robots there for half the cost, and the space saved in fuel, life support, and whatnot will allow them to carry much more in the way of instrumentation and tools.
Obviously, there's pretty much no scientific value in sending manned missions to the moon anymore, and there is a lot we can gain from meeting up with asteroids.
But it's a little sad, because it really is incredibly cool that we can put a man on the freaking moon, and I was rather looking forward to seeing them start doing it again.
Actually, because Americans are drinking so much bottled water, Fluoride exposure has decreased (resulting in increased cavities), so you would expect autism to do so too if they were related.
Sodium(0) catches fire/explodes on contact with water.
Sodium(I) is critical for sustaining life.
Just because Mercury is toxic, and organomercury compounds will kill you stone dead, doesn't mean every single compound with mercury in it isn't safe. Oxidation state and ligands make all the difference. Linking to "Mercury hazards" is meaningless.
The people who really believe this have already reacted to the study and shifted their rhetoric to blaming some unknown factor in the vaccine. Because this issue is very personal to them, and they've invested a lot of personal energy in blaming the doctors/scientists, they won't let it go at this.
Sadly, this diverts attention from actually doing reseach into real autism causes without some conspiracy-theory group breathing down your neck.
If you read biology journals, you'll see that just about every third or fourth paper consists of "we pureed some sea sponge in a blender and extracted this compound. And look, it kills cancer cells (*cough* and non-cancerous cells too *cough*)!"
The only thing different here is a somewhat deeper venue for collection.
(this isn't to say that it's not important scientific work, just that it's rather commonplace and rarely leads to much of anything)
Except that a talk and a paper are different beasts entirely. You add in little bits of flair like that, and people pay attention. Leave them out, and people fall asleep no matter how interesting your subject matter is.
It's fine to leave them out of a paper, because readers can always just go do something else for a while then come back.
Hence my statement that the problem must be addressed from a financial angle.
As for the USPS Form: you'll note the specific disclaimer that it offers no guarantee against the delivery of such mail--only possible prosecution--and the order will only protect you against one particular mailer or a small subclass of spam (since the broader list must only be observed by those sending sexually explicit material): essentially the equivalent of the simplest spam filters.
It's not at all like breaking into your house. It's exactly like sending fliers to you through the USPS.
You absolutely have the right to keep spam out of your email, but you don't have the right to prevent people from trying (absent a restraining order). Similarly, you're welcome to write "return to sender" on whatever mail you get, but if you get a post box the USPS will at least attempt to deliver it.
I hate the stuff too, but the problem has to be tackled from the point of view of regulating spammers for wasting resources, not simply for the act of sending unsolicited email. Otherwise you run into the problems of what is and isn't solicited (consider the "pre-established relationship" conditions that partially gut the do-not-call lists).
Huh? Bmore native here as well, and I've never felt unsafe. Baltimore is actually very safe so long as:
* You avoid certain parts (which are NOT the areas these cameras will be in).
* You don't get involved in the drug trade.
* You aren't a group of neo-nazis (incident from a while back).
1. Use somebody else's card. When you get one of those cards, they give you a couple copies. Friends will often just give them to you. 2. Get one online. Seriously. I don't have the time to find a link, but there was that guy campaigning to make himself the #1 consumer of some grocery chain by giving away stickers with his barcode on them.
Personally, I hate the things too (it's just such an obvious excuse to raise prices and track purchases), but don't have too much problem when the local store thinks it's my girlfriend who's loading up on beer.
The name "antibubbles" is a little dramatic--considering that this should be an expected result of mixing a bunch of air and a detergent. What is surprising--to me, anyway--is that beer would have anything in it capable of doing that.
Hey, I'm not saying that they aren't hurting along with everybody else, but the number and concentration around the greater Boston area still far outweighs most anywhere else in the country...
The concentration of geeks is sufficient to support a sci-fi/fantasy-only bookstore in Cambridge, so I'd say it's a pretty good choice. Add in the tons of biotech and IT startups scattered around 128, and you've pretty much got geek central.
It's just gene mapping via electrophoresis, rather than sequencing. The stuff to do it crudely is actually pretty simple and cheap.
All it gets you is a pattern of sites that the enzymes cut at, not a sequence. Still, this is how a lot of DNA work (particularly forensics) is done, and it's awesome enough for me to want one (even though I have ready access to the real stuff).
Well, bear in mind that the majority of nuclear waste is not fuel. It's water, metal, gloves, etc that have been irradiated to the point of being unsafe, but aren't really useful for anything.
Which isn't to say that it's a major health or security concern, but it's not quite so rosy a picture as you paint.
You most certainly can get an energy boost from a system like this. Think of it this way: there's some amount of energy available for use after entropy takes its cut (free energy, to be exact). Now, an efficient system pumps 100% of that into doing work (you still can't get perpetual motion because this is energy AFTER you've lost some to entropy). An inefficient system uses 50% of that, and radiates the other 50% away. This is just an attempt to recapture some of that 50% that you're just throwing away.
Entropy doesn't come into it, except to say that you can't get all the energy you lost to heat back, as you'll lose some of that to entropy as well, but it's still better than nothing.
This seems a monumentally bad idea. Even if you accept a need for weaponized biologicals (the logical extension of this), they don't do you any good unless you have a way to immunize your own guys.
To say nothing of the fact that we're practically giving North Korea the ability to wipe out our entire mouse population in one fell swoop. What will we do without the mice, dammit?
If you eat anything even approaching a reasonable diet, you don't need vitamin tablets (barring things like anemia). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if people let themselves or their children eat crappier diets because they're "making up for it" with a pill.
(and yes, I do survive on chips and McD's $1 cheese sticks. Bite me)
The full name would have been NMRI--the "imaging" part being what's different from the NMR you runn on compounds. So in the lab it still is--and always has been--NMR.
Well, if you know much about NMR, you'll realize that it's completely non-intuitive that it could be used to scan *stuff*.
NMR is best with purified compounds at very low concentrations: add in too many different things or too much, and you'll swamp out all the useful information. Given that, it would seem to be about the worst technology for scanning bodies. Even in retrospect--where many brilliant insights seem trivial--coming up with MRI is still not obvious.
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Because we can send robots there for half the cost, and the space saved in fuel, life support, and whatnot will allow them to carry much more in the way of instrumentation and tools.
Obviously, there's pretty much no scientific value in sending manned missions to the moon anymore, and there is a lot we can gain from meeting up with asteroids.
But it's a little sad, because it really is incredibly cool that we can put a man on the freaking moon, and I was rather looking forward to seeing them start doing it again.
"One business-class ticket for the Crazy Train, please."
"Coming right up, sir. Enjoy your trip."
Actually, because Americans are drinking so much bottled water, Fluoride exposure has decreased (resulting in increased cavities), so you would expect autism to do so too if they were related.
Sodium(0) catches fire/explodes on contact with water.
Sodium(I) is critical for sustaining life.
Just because Mercury is toxic, and organomercury compounds will kill you stone dead, doesn't mean every single compound with mercury in it isn't safe. Oxidation state and ligands make all the difference. Linking to "Mercury hazards" is meaningless.
The people who really believe this have already reacted to the study and shifted their rhetoric to blaming some unknown factor in the vaccine. Because this issue is very personal to them, and they've invested a lot of personal energy in blaming the doctors/scientists, they won't let it go at this. Sadly, this diverts attention from actually doing reseach into real autism causes without some conspiracy-theory group breathing down your neck.
If you read biology journals, you'll see that just about every third or fourth paper consists of "we pureed some sea sponge in a blender and extracted this compound. And look, it kills cancer cells (*cough* and non-cancerous cells too *cough*)!" The only thing different here is a somewhat deeper venue for collection. (this isn't to say that it's not important scientific work, just that it's rather commonplace and rarely leads to much of anything)
Except that a talk and a paper are different beasts entirely. You add in little bits of flair like that, and people pay attention. Leave them out, and people fall asleep no matter how interesting your subject matter is.
It's fine to leave them out of a paper, because readers can always just go do something else for a while then come back.
Hence my statement that the problem must be addressed from a financial angle.
As for the USPS Form: you'll note the specific disclaimer that it offers no guarantee against the delivery of such mail--only possible prosecution--and the order will only protect you against one particular mailer or a small subclass of spam (since the broader list must only be observed by those sending sexually explicit material): essentially the equivalent of the simplest spam filters.
It's not at all like breaking into your house. It's exactly like sending fliers to you through the USPS.
You absolutely have the right to keep spam out of your email, but you don't have the right to prevent people from trying (absent a restraining order). Similarly, you're welcome to write "return to sender" on whatever mail you get, but if you get a post box the USPS will at least attempt to deliver it.
I hate the stuff too, but the problem has to be tackled from the point of view of regulating spammers for wasting resources, not simply for the act of sending unsolicited email. Otherwise you run into the problems of what is and isn't solicited (consider the "pre-established relationship" conditions that partially gut the do-not-call lists).
Huh? Bmore native here as well, and I've never felt unsafe. Baltimore is actually very safe so long as:
* You avoid certain parts (which are NOT the areas these cameras will be in).
* You don't get involved in the drug trade.
* You aren't a group of neo-nazis (incident from a while back).
Well, there's a few things you can do:
1. Use somebody else's card. When you get one of those cards, they give you a couple copies. Friends will often just give them to you.
2. Get one online. Seriously. I don't have the time to find a link, but there was that guy campaigning to make himself the #1 consumer of some grocery chain by giving away stickers with his barcode on them.
Personally, I hate the things too (it's just such an obvious excuse to raise prices and track purchases), but don't have too much problem when the local store thinks it's my girlfriend who's loading up on beer.
1. Humans are smart. If they get their leg stuck in a ditch, they use their arm to get it out.
2. Humans don't have a communications delay from their brain to tell them how to react to information.
3. It's damn cool.
The name "antibubbles" is a little dramatic--considering that this should be an expected result of mixing a bunch of air and a detergent. What is surprising--to me, anyway--is that beer would have anything in it capable of doing that.
Hey, I'm not saying that they aren't hurting along with everybody else, but the number and concentration around the greater Boston area still far outweighs most anywhere else in the country...
The concentration of geeks is sufficient to support a sci-fi/fantasy-only bookstore in Cambridge, so I'd say it's a pretty good choice. Add in the tons of biotech and IT startups scattered around 128, and you've pretty much got geek central.
It's just gene mapping via electrophoresis, rather than sequencing. The stuff to do it crudely is actually pretty simple and cheap.
All it gets you is a pattern of sites that the enzymes cut at, not a sequence. Still, this is how a lot of DNA work (particularly forensics) is done, and it's awesome enough for me to want one (even though I have ready access to the real stuff).
Well, bear in mind that the majority of nuclear waste is not fuel. It's water, metal, gloves, etc that have been irradiated to the point of being unsafe, but aren't really useful for anything.
Which isn't to say that it's a major health or security concern, but it's not quite so rosy a picture as you paint.
You most certainly can get an energy boost from a system like this. Think of it this way: there's some amount of energy available for use after entropy takes its cut (free energy, to be exact). Now, an efficient system pumps 100% of that into doing work (you still can't get perpetual motion because this is energy AFTER you've lost some to entropy). An inefficient system uses 50% of that, and radiates the other 50% away. This is just an attempt to recapture some of that 50% that you're just throwing away.
Entropy doesn't come into it, except to say that you can't get all the energy you lost to heat back, as you'll lose some of that to entropy as well, but it's still better than nothing.
This seems a monumentally bad idea. Even if you accept a need for weaponized biologicals (the logical extension of this), they don't do you any good unless you have a way to immunize your own guys.
To say nothing of the fact that we're practically giving North Korea the ability to wipe out our entire mouse population in one fell swoop. What will we do without the mice, dammit?
If you eat anything even approaching a reasonable diet, you don't need vitamin tablets (barring things like anemia). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if people let themselves or their children eat crappier diets because they're "making up for it" with a pill.
(and yes, I do survive on chips and McD's $1 cheese sticks. Bite me)
So it won't be good for laptops. Big deal.
Besides, I could swear there's some trend in technology making things smaller as time goes by, but maybe that's just the drugs talking...
And if you want to be really anal, 1.0079.
:)
The full name would have been NMRI--the "imaging" part being what's different from the NMR you runn on compounds. So in the lab it still is--and always has been--NMR.
Well, if you know much about NMR, you'll realize that it's completely non-intuitive that it could be used to scan *stuff*.
NMR is best with purified compounds at very low concentrations: add in too many different things or too much, and you'll swamp out all the useful information. Given that, it would seem to be about the worst technology for scanning bodies. Even in retrospect--where many brilliant insights seem trivial--coming up with MRI is still not obvious.