what is going to prevent people from just hooking up one of those cans of compressed air to a hose and using that any time the car wants to test them?
These breath tests seem a little too easy to beat if you don't have someone there monitoring them.
what's even worse is that we already complain about people using cell phones while driving, how may accidents will be caused by people blowing through a tube till they are blue in the face while driving?
The only way I could even see this being possible is if we stole a little enginuity from plants. Humans are not able to turn fat directly into the sugar they need to survive (the reason why you can't just starve yourself thin), but plants can.
If someone collect a reasonable set of genes necessary to impliment this metabolic short cut, and then devise a method to insert these genes into the genome (probably of the mitochondria). then we could have soldiers who would rarely have to eat. You would just charge the grunts up with tons of pizza, donuts, and crisco before sending them out to battle. They may be a little fat and out of shape when the step on the battle field, but as they fight they will burn it all off by starving themselves.
I see this project as only taking about 50 years, maybe 100 if things don't go too smoothly.
A slightly more realistic goal may be to have soldiers wear beltpacks filled with a glucose solution and a needle inserted into a convenient vein. probably wouldn't last 5 days, and you'd have to worry about infection and carrying all the liquid weight, but it might be worth it to have an unholy army that could march relentlessly for days on end and then fight without tiring for extended periods of time once the got there.
i was surprised to find that this is IGF-1 addition, it would have made more sense and been more impressive had it been a myostatin knockout construct.
This is the gene that generates freakishly large cattle and mice.
I can't wait till i can find an excuse to clone this into the flu virion so that everyone goes to be feeling like hell and wakes up packing 50 lbs. more muscle.
just as a public service to the scrawny and desperate out there, wait for the gene therapy construct, paying for myostatin blockers at GNC doesn't work.
well if that is the argument, then impact of crushing a million micro-organisms and distrupting the natural habitat done by harvesters walking to the point where the collect the microgram of bacteria is much more likely to send us into a spiralling black hole of death.
I'll be sure not to sneeze today so that I don't set off a chain reaction that results in a sahran sand storm that kills millions.
Any one who thinks that taking a shovel and bucket to antartica to collect organisms growing in the ice and snow is an econoically viable option is insane. The pin head sized colony of bacteria that they bring back to start production sized cultures in controlled fermeters will never affect the environment.
I will preface this by saying that I am not an IT guy, I am working on my PhD in cell biology.
but, what i see from the people around me is that the people that get out and get good jobs knew that they wanted an industry job while they were in school and worked to make themselves marketable before graduating.
If you do get your PhD, do things like get a fellowship that requires an internship in industry, develop small freeware or shareware applications in your free time, pick a research topic that is important to the industry now, or could be when you graduate.
If you focus only on the academic requirements and just getting published then you are just working toward an academic research position.
whether or not the PhD will actually get you truck loads more money or access to more prestigious positions is an unknown to me and probably depends a lot on what the market will be like when you graduate. But if i was going to be handed a patheticly small paycheck and be verbaly berated everyday, i'd prefer they called me dr. while they did it.
Punkin' Chunkin' festival in delware around Halloween every year. Get to see pneumatic cannons launch pumpkins close to a mile and marvel at the physics behind the Centrifugal devices.
Gives new meaning to BFG!
I am filing a patent on all Slashdot posts beginning with a vowel, and i'm making it retroactive to yesterday when i thought of the idea, so, looking down the list it appears that several of you are in violation. I will soon be sending a letter to your ISP stating that you are actively violating copywrite and patent law. I will then sue everyone for their life savings.
thank you, that is all
I for one am not concerned about the wild population of zebra fish (if there is even one). And more often than not the manufacturing of the introduced gene (pigmentation, pesticide,...) comes at a price and often that price is reproduction.
tell you what, i'll buy a bunch of these fish and hurl them into the gulf of mexico, and if you or anyone you know ever catch one in the future (much less stumble upon a thriving school) i'll buy you a coke.
The zebra fish genome is almost sequenced and annotation is coming along everyday. how about we hook up these genes along with others like YFP and luciferase to various promoters.
A fish would be green when happy, yellow when hungry, glow in the dark while sleeping and red when thinking of killing you as you tap on the glass and make stupid fish faces at it.
depends on what you mean by accessed...
true much of the genome is non coding, but there are promoters and terminators and binding sites and even stretches of dna in which the sequence is not important, but the length is in order to accomidate looping back and other various things.
i would wager that it would be impossible to lose the so called 90% junk DNA and still have a functioning entity. (but who knows, i'd be willing to try, any volunteers to loose 90% of your genetic information?)
random mutation occurs a lot more frequently than you would expect. considering a mutation rate of one in a million, there would be multiple mutations every time a cell divides given the hundreds of millions of basepairs.
these mutations will only be passed to progeny if they occur in the germ line, but they do happen.
so you are correct in that evolution was probably not the most correct term to use, but you are wrong in assuming that mutations do not occur every time a cell divides.
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what is going to prevent people from just hooking up one of those cans of compressed air to a hose and using that any time the car wants to test them?
These breath tests seem a little too easy to beat if you don't have someone there monitoring them.
what's even worse is that we already complain about people using cell phones while driving, how may accidents will be caused by people blowing through a tube till they are blue in the face while driving?
The only way I could even see this being possible is if we stole a little enginuity from plants. Humans are not able to turn fat directly into the sugar they need to survive (the reason why you can't just starve yourself thin), but plants can.
If someone collect a reasonable set of genes necessary to impliment this metabolic short cut, and then devise a method to insert these genes into the genome (probably of the mitochondria). then we could have soldiers who would rarely have to eat. You would just charge the grunts up with tons of pizza, donuts, and crisco before sending them out to battle. They may be a little fat and out of shape when the step on the battle field, but as they fight they will burn it all off by starving themselves.
I see this project as only taking about 50 years, maybe 100 if things don't go too smoothly.
A slightly more realistic goal may be to have soldiers wear beltpacks filled with a glucose solution and a needle inserted into a convenient vein. probably wouldn't last 5 days, and you'd have to worry about infection and carrying all the liquid weight, but it might be worth it to have an unholy army that could march relentlessly for days on end and then fight without tiring for extended periods of time once the got there.
it's already happened.
i was surprised to find that this is IGF-1 addition, it would have made more sense and been more impressive had it been a myostatin knockout construct.
This is the gene that generates freakishly large cattle and mice.
I can't wait till i can find an excuse to clone this into the flu virion so that everyone goes to be feeling like hell and wakes up packing 50 lbs. more muscle.
just as a public service to the scrawny and desperate out there, wait for the gene therapy construct, paying for myostatin blockers at GNC doesn't work.
I saw an ad for this last year. Seems that best games for the mac are:
4.apple puzzle game
3.breakout
2.super breakout
1.Photoshop
Happy gaming
well if that is the argument, then impact of crushing a million micro-organisms and distrupting the natural habitat done by harvesters walking to the point where the collect the microgram of bacteria is much more likely to send us into a spiralling black hole of death. I'll be sure not to sneeze today so that I don't set off a chain reaction that results in a sahran sand storm that kills millions.
Any one who thinks that taking a shovel and bucket to antartica to collect organisms growing in the ice and snow is an econoically viable option is insane. The pin head sized colony of bacteria that they bring back to start production sized cultures in controlled fermeters will never affect the environment.
I will preface this by saying that I am not an IT guy, I am working on my PhD in cell biology.
but, what i see from the people around me is that the people that get out and get good jobs knew that they wanted an industry job while they were in school and worked to make themselves marketable before graduating.
If you do get your PhD, do things like get a fellowship that requires an internship in industry, develop small freeware or shareware applications in your free time, pick a research topic that is important to the industry now, or could be when you graduate.
If you focus only on the academic requirements and just getting published then you are just working toward an academic research position.
whether or not the PhD will actually get you truck loads more money or access to more prestigious positions is an unknown to me and probably depends a lot on what the market will be like when you graduate. But if i was going to be handed a patheticly small paycheck and be verbaly berated everyday, i'd prefer they called me dr. while they did it.
Punkin' Chunkin' festival in delware around Halloween every year. Get to see pneumatic cannons launch pumpkins close to a mile and marvel at the physics behind the Centrifugal devices. Gives new meaning to BFG!
I am filing a patent on all Slashdot posts beginning with a vowel, and i'm making it retroactive to yesterday when i thought of the idea, so, looking down the list it appears that several of you are in violation. I will soon be sending a letter to your ISP stating that you are actively violating copywrite and patent law. I will then sue everyone for their life savings. thank you, that is all
I for one am not concerned about the wild population of zebra fish (if there is even one). And more often than not the manufacturing of the introduced gene (pigmentation, pesticide, ...) comes at a price and often that price is reproduction.
tell you what, i'll buy a bunch of these fish and hurl them into the gulf of mexico, and if you or anyone you know ever catch one in the future (much less stumble upon a thriving school) i'll buy you a coke.
The zebra fish genome is almost sequenced and annotation is coming along everyday. how about we hook up these genes along with others like YFP and luciferase to various promoters. A fish would be green when happy, yellow when hungry, glow in the dark while sleeping and red when thinking of killing you as you tap on the glass and make stupid fish faces at it.
depends on what you mean by accessed... true much of the genome is non coding, but there are promoters and terminators and binding sites and even stretches of dna in which the sequence is not important, but the length is in order to accomidate looping back and other various things. i would wager that it would be impossible to lose the so called 90% junk DNA and still have a functioning entity. (but who knows, i'd be willing to try, any volunteers to loose 90% of your genetic information?)
everything in the body should be able to be determined simply by monitoring the levels of alcohol dehydrogenase in the liver.
are you one of those raliens?
random mutation occurs a lot more frequently than you would expect. considering a mutation rate of one in a million, there would be multiple mutations every time a cell divides given the hundreds of millions of basepairs. these mutations will only be passed to progeny if they occur in the germ line, but they do happen. so you are correct in that evolution was probably not the most correct term to use, but you are wrong in assuming that mutations do not occur every time a cell divides.
IBM's project is called BlueGene
there are random mutations every time a cell divides, it's called evolution.