you can develop really hard fists by doing series pushups on your knuckles everyday (provided you do it properly).
just as an example, i started practising kungfu to get back into shape, and at first i did pushups on my palms, then i gradually had to do it on my knuckles, and boy did those hurt at first!
later, i started doing knuckle pushups with jumping and landing on the knuckles.
now, i have to do jumping knuckle pushups going forward with each jump.
besides, there's tons of other examples of people adapting their bodies later on in life due to some accident or illness.
but if you want to direct your own adaptation, you have to adopt very specific daily habits.
I'm all for bat houses, but make sure you place it strategically so that your kids dont play near/with the bat guano. It can be toxic due to fungus/microorganisms contained in it.
I cant remember when a "the videogame made me do it" lawsuit won.
besides, the car industry has the means to buy the best lawyers of the land.
i have a space venture right here
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for 20$ only, I'll send a few grams of your ashes up in an Estes(http://www.estesrockets.com) powered rocket
I prefer this Sweedish method
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3473103.stm
Swedes offer freeze-dry burials The environmentally-conscientious could soon ensure they don't end up polluting the earth after they die, thanks to a company in Sweden. Concerns about the environmental impact of embalming fluids or cremation have led Promessa Organic to come up with a chilling alternative.
Their method involves freeze-drying the corpse in liquid nitrogen.
Sound vibrations then shatter the brittle remains into a powder that can be "returned to the ecological cycle".
Biologist and head of Promessa Organic Susanne Wiigh-Maesak said she hoped to promote environmental and existential awareness.
"Our ecological burial reduces environmental impact on some of our most important resources; our water, air and soil," she explains on her company website.
"At the same time it provides us with deeper insights regarding the ecological cycle, and greater understanding of and respect for life on earth."
Compost
After the freezing process, the odourless powdery remains are laid in a coffin made of corn starch and buried in a shallow grave.
Ms Wiigh-Maesak says the soil "turns the coffin and its contents into compost in about six months" which means relatives can then plant a bush or tree on the spot.
The method is based upon preserving the body in a biological form after death, while avoiding harmful embalming fluid Susanne Wiigh-Maesak, Promessa Organic
"The compost formed can then be taken up by the plant... The plant stands as a symbol of the person, and we understand where the body went," she said. Ms Wiigh-Maesak says she would very much like to become a white rhododendron.
The company has applied for a patent on her method in 35 countries.
Ms Wiigh-Maesak said the authorities in Joenkoeping, 328 km (204 miles) south-west of Stockholm, were ready to start operating its first freeze-drying facility in the next couple of years.
The head of cemetery administration in Joenkoeping said younger people were keen on the idea as "green burials" are becoming popular in Sweden.
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all sorts of minerals are found in meteorites.
besides, everything gets recycled and churned in the Earth's core eventually anyway, where stuff gets transmuted into whathaveyou under immense pressure, heat, magnetism and radioactivity.
this leads me to a slightly offtopic idea... why dont we bury all our radioactive garbage deep into a subduction tectonic plate, near a subduction zone?
I have a better target
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fit my space coffin with one of those ion engine with extra fuel and aim it on the center of our galaxy.
with a bit of luck, i should be able eventually to go through our supermassive blackhole.
my particles will be crushed where no one's particles have been crushed before!
Magnetic wood could be a major plank in the battle against noisy cellphone users. The high-tech material absorbs microwave radio signals, making it impossible to use a mobile phone in any room lined with it. Or a radio for that matter. So theatres and restaurants, for example, can stop people using cellphones on their premises without resorting to signal jammers.
The anti-cellphone sandwich These are illegal in some countries, including the US, Britain and Australia. Jammers also cause wider problems because their signals can spill out of the building they are covering, interfering with other people's calls.
The magnetic wood - so called because it is packed with minute magnetic particles - is the brainchild of Hideo Oka and a team of electronics engineers at Iwate University in Morioka, northern Japan. They chose wood as their preferred blocking material because it offers more natural, aesthetic options for interior design. Oka hopes that it will soon be possible to buy the novel wood panelling by the metre at your local hardware store.
While normal wood is transparent to radio waves, Oka's blocks them because it contains fine particles of a magnetic material called nickel-zinc ferrite. When an electromagnetic wave hits the ferrite particles, the magnetic part of the wave is absorbed.
Bluetooth frequencies
The team looked at four different ways of making wood absorb radio waves before hitting on the best one. The first was simply wood coated with a ferrite powder. The others were made by mixing ferrite powder with cider wood powder and pressing it into boards, or impregnating the wood with particles, or sandwiching wood pulp containing ferrite powder between two thin wooden panels.
Oka tested each wood in turn by putting collars of each material over a short antenna that broadcasts radio waves at the typical GSM mobile phone frequencies of 900 megahertz and 1.8 gigahertz.
The antenna can also broadcast at frequencies up to 2.5 gigahertz, which covers the range commonly used for wireless networks like Bluetooth and the emerging IEEE 802.11 standard, better known as Wi-Fi. A receiver measured the strength of the radio waves transmitted through the material.
Ferrite sandwich
In the end, Oka found that ferrite sandwiched between thin sheets of wood performed best. Further tests showed that a 4-millimetre-thick sandwich absorbed the most microwave radiation, cutting the wave's power by 97 per cent. Increasing the thickness of the outer wooden sheets of the sandwich increased the frequency of radio waves that the shield would absorb.
The wood-based shields could be used to make doors and walls for rooms or even entire buildings where mobile phones simply won't work. While the prospect of being forcefully cut off might horrify some cellphone addicts, Oka says theatre-goers and restaurant customers might appreciate the silence.
Panels that absorb radio waves could also help with a problem emerging in Japanese cities, where many homes are being fitted with wireless computing networks. If several networks are set up close together, they can interfere with each other. The new panels could divide up the house into different areas, allowing several networks can operate close by.
Oka believes he can make the wood cheap enough for it to be viable. And he now hopes to cut the cost still further by making the panels from recycled magnetic materials and waste wood.
what do you mean? AT&T GSM phones act like jammers or act like they're jammed?
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exactly.
I'm a cellphone-only user (ie no landline at home), and when I'm in public, my conversations are usually limited to "ok yea yea meet you there".
And I am still as annoyed as any non-cell-user by those inane loud cell-users who talk about the frickin weather or verbally abuse whoever they're talking to on the phone in ultra-crowded places, such as the bus at rush-hour.
I suppose 99.9% everyone in here agrees with me, so this is just a rant and none of the people who actually annoy me and others will read this, but it feels good to say it nonetheless!:)
and the launch site to go back home could be set up at the top... nearly 3 times as high as the Everest summit...
less gravity to escape, less fuel to burn.
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body conditioning is not limited to young people.
you can develop really hard fists by doing series pushups on your knuckles everyday (provided you do it properly).
just as an example, i started practising kungfu to get back into shape, and at first i did pushups on my palms, then i gradually had to do it on my knuckles, and boy did those hurt at first!
later, i started doing knuckle pushups with jumping and landing on the knuckles.
now, i have to do jumping knuckle pushups going forward with each jump.
besides, there's tons of other examples of people adapting their bodies later on in life due to some accident or illness.
but if you want to direct your own adaptation, you have to adopt very specific daily habits.
doesnt work with grocery store and pizza fliers.
i'm tempted to start collecting my mail and leave the spam in the box til the postman has to empty the crap out himself.
I'm all for bat houses, but make sure you place it strategically so that your kids dont play near/with the bat guano. It can be toxic due to fungus/microorganisms contained in it.
It makes good fertilizer tho.
i still get snail-mail spam in my snail-mailbox, even though it costs money to the sender.
and it's delivered by the mailman, along with my regular mail too, even though i have a "no-fliers" sticker on my box!
the postman can consider himself lucky he comes by while i'm at work, otherwise i'd shove a bayesian filter up his...
IF we had a permanent base on the moon AND a lunar-based telescope, we'd have exposures of up to two weeks long!
BUT if Bush's plan is only a political game to win votes in Florida and Texas, we might as well try to make NASA change its mind on Hubble.
I cant remember when a "the videogame made me do it" lawsuit won.
besides, the car industry has the means to buy the best lawyers of the land.
for 20$ only, I'll send a few grams of your ashes up in an Estes(http://www.estesrockets.com) powered rocket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3473103.stm
Swedes offer freeze-dry burials
The environmentally-conscientious could soon ensure they don't end up polluting the earth after they die, thanks to a company in Sweden.
Concerns about the environmental impact of embalming fluids or cremation have led Promessa Organic to come up with a chilling alternative.
Their method involves freeze-drying the corpse in liquid nitrogen.
Sound vibrations then shatter the brittle remains into a powder that can be "returned to the ecological cycle".
Biologist and head of Promessa Organic Susanne Wiigh-Maesak said she hoped to promote environmental and existential awareness.
"Our ecological burial reduces environmental impact on some of our most important resources; our water, air and soil," she explains on her company website.
"At the same time it provides us with deeper insights regarding the ecological cycle, and greater understanding of and respect for life on earth."
Compost
After the freezing process, the odourless powdery remains are laid in a coffin made of corn starch and buried in a shallow grave.
Ms Wiigh-Maesak says the soil "turns the coffin and its contents into compost in about six months" which means relatives can then plant a bush or tree on the spot.
The method is based upon preserving the body in a biological form after death, while avoiding harmful embalming fluid
Susanne Wiigh-Maesak,
Promessa Organic
"The compost formed can then be taken up by the plant... The plant stands as a symbol of the person, and we understand where the body went," she said.
Ms Wiigh-Maesak says she would very much like to become a white rhododendron.
The company has applied for a patent on her method in 35 countries.
Ms Wiigh-Maesak said the authorities in Joenkoeping, 328 km (204 miles) south-west of Stockholm, were ready to start operating its first freeze-drying facility in the next couple of years.
The head of cemetery administration in Joenkoeping said younger people were keen on the idea as "green burials" are becoming popular in Sweden.
all sorts of minerals are found in meteorites.
besides, everything gets recycled and churned in the Earth's core eventually anyway, where stuff gets transmuted into whathaveyou under immense pressure, heat, magnetism and radioactivity.
this leads me to a slightly offtopic idea... why dont we bury all our radioactive garbage deep into a subduction tectonic plate, near a subduction zone?
fit my space coffin with one of those ion engine with extra fuel and aim it on the center of our galaxy.
with a bit of luck, i should be able eventually to go through our supermassive blackhole.
my particles will be crushed where no one's particles have been crushed before!
continue to pop penis enhancement pills than face the embarassment of asking my doctor about penis-lenghtening surgery... ;)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 92461
Magnetic wood blocks mobile phone signals
11:00 27 June 02
Magnetic wood could be a major plank in the battle against noisy cellphone users. The high-tech material absorbs microwave radio signals, making it impossible to use a mobile phone in any room lined with it. Or a radio for that matter. So theatres and restaurants, for example, can stop people using cellphones on their premises without resorting to signal jammers.
The anti-cellphone sandwich
These are illegal in some countries, including the US, Britain and Australia. Jammers also cause wider problems because their signals can spill out of the building they are covering, interfering with other people's calls.
The magnetic wood - so called because it is packed with minute magnetic particles - is the brainchild of Hideo Oka and a team of electronics engineers at Iwate University in Morioka, northern Japan. They chose wood as their preferred blocking material because it offers more natural, aesthetic options for interior design. Oka hopes that it will soon be possible to buy the novel wood panelling by the metre at your local hardware store.
While normal wood is transparent to radio waves, Oka's blocks them because it contains fine particles of a magnetic material called nickel-zinc ferrite. When an electromagnetic wave hits the ferrite particles, the magnetic part of the wave is absorbed.
Bluetooth frequencies
The team looked at four different ways of making wood absorb radio waves before hitting on the best one. The first was simply wood coated with a ferrite powder. The others were made by mixing ferrite powder with cider wood powder and pressing it into boards, or impregnating the wood with particles, or sandwiching wood pulp containing ferrite powder between two thin wooden panels.
Oka tested each wood in turn by putting collars of each material over a short antenna that broadcasts radio waves at the typical GSM mobile phone frequencies of 900 megahertz and 1.8 gigahertz.
The antenna can also broadcast at frequencies up to 2.5 gigahertz, which covers the range commonly used for wireless networks like Bluetooth and the emerging IEEE 802.11 standard, better known as Wi-Fi. A receiver measured the strength of the radio waves transmitted through the material.
Ferrite sandwich
In the end, Oka found that ferrite sandwiched between thin sheets of wood performed best. Further tests showed that a 4-millimetre-thick sandwich absorbed the most microwave radiation, cutting the wave's power by 97 per cent. Increasing the thickness of the outer wooden sheets of the sandwich increased the frequency of radio waves that the shield would absorb.
The wood-based shields could be used to make doors and walls for rooms or even entire buildings where mobile phones simply won't work. While the prospect of being forcefully cut off might horrify some cellphone addicts, Oka says theatre-goers and restaurant customers might appreciate the silence.
Panels that absorb radio waves could also help with a problem emerging in Japanese cities, where many homes are being fitted with wireless computing networks. If several networks are set up close together, they can interfere with each other. The new panels could divide up the house into different areas, allowing several networks can operate close by.
Oka believes he can make the wood cheap enough for it to be viable. And he now hopes to cut the cost still further by making the panels from recycled magnetic materials and waste wood.
what do you mean? AT&T GSM phones act like jammers or act like they're jammed?
exactly.
:)
I'm a cellphone-only user (ie no landline at home), and when I'm in public, my conversations are usually limited to "ok yea yea meet you there".
And I am still as annoyed as any non-cell-user by those inane loud cell-users who talk about the frickin weather or verbally abuse whoever they're talking to on the phone in ultra-crowded places, such as the bus at rush-hour.
I suppose 99.9% everyone in here agrees with me, so this is just a rant and none of the people who actually annoy me and others will read this, but it feels good to say it nonetheless!
good short film, except for the ending... pretty silly if you ask me
is a diamond freak
she loves diamonds so much she s got at least one on every finger.
so when the Wired article mentionned earlier in this thread came out, i printed it and handed her a copy.
she said "whoa, if diamonds get cheaper, that means i'll be able to buy more!"
this is from someone who told me she doesnt care where diamonds come from, child labor, bloody rebels, or not.
it's a dead volcano
and IIRC Mars is not geologically active...
err slow down and stop? aerobraking? parachute?
for the RETURN TO EARTH VEHICLE????
plenty of atmosphere on Earth, last time I checked...
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as opposed to a carbon dioxide atmosphere below?
also, less atmosphere = less friction for the return vehicle.
and the launch site to go back home could be set up at the top... nearly 3 times as high as the Everest summit... less gravity to escape, less fuel to burn.
That'd be a great place to set up a base, wouldnt it?
i have yet to witness an orbital strike or a nuke... which is good IMO, unless I'm the one pushing the Button.
Think of all the people without an SO, you insensitive clod!
At least all the single geeks wont feel lonely this weekend... they're gonna have one fraggedly bloody valentine! YEA!
I dont think you can pull people out of their vehicles like in GTA3 though...