This is the first really useful explanation of the mechanism at work in what the paper authors are trying to describe. If only theoretical physicists and tech blog writers were so lucid in their writing.
Seriously, can't anyone at Tech Review spot the flaw here? A tube still has more than one dimension. Even if you managed to create a chain of single carbon atoms, you'd still have multiple dimensions, in that the atoms comprising the chain are not infinitely short and infinitely flat.
If you're going to start complaining about corporate donations to political parties/movements/PACs/etc, which is a perfectly valid complaint to have, you're also going to have to spread the blame around -- D or R, the parties are in bed with whomever has open pockets. One of many reasons I quite dislike American party politics.
A lot of things that people these days describe as "OMG how did they possibly do that it must be ALIENS!" are really only mysterious because people are shockingly ignorant of the basics of how the world works. Probably comes of sitting on their bums so much.
I was just stuck with my pedant hat on (one of the perils of being a professional translator / editor) when I happened to read your comment, and the capital-"V" Vegan caught my eye.
Incidentally, a friend found that keeping vegan was quite easy as his wife was keeping kosher, and apparently one of the kosher categories is essentially the same as vegan.
As a Vegan, why do you care at all what happens over 25 light years from home? And for that matter, how did you post on Slashdot from so far away? Clearly, Vegan technology must be vastly superior to ours to enable either interstellar travel, or time travel to 25 years in the past combined with interstellar web postings.
Perhaps we're discussing a different post? I'm responding with regard to EdIII's post, which includes:
Cool technology to be sure, but the people that are involved in it certainly don't seem to have humanity's interests at heart...
...I feel that not enough research is really conducted to determine if the GMO food they are producing is really healthy in the first place...
...I am greatly interested in GMO technology, but pursued correctly and safely...
Indeed, some of what EdIII says are statements of what he (?) believes to be facts, but all the examples above (which, in my reading anyway, are more the core of his intent) are clearly statements of opinion. Moreover, he doesn't seem to me to be saying that the tech itself is wrong (which would be Luddite-ish), but rather that it is being applied in potentially dangerous ways by potentially dangerous people.
From all I've read on research into spider silk, one of the key components that we continue to fail to reproduce is the physical spinning of the extracted protein mix. That's why goatmilk silk failed -- no spinning at all. And that's why silkworm spidersilk has achieved some level of useful production, since the silkworms do produce a fiber and not just the raw protein mixed up in a liquid, but also why it will probably fail to be stronger than regular spidersilk -- the spinning process most likely isn't what a spider would use to produce its strongest silk.
The GP is a statement of opinion, in which case the statement itself is all the citation needed. And saying "the tech looks quite promising, but we need more research" (which sounds to me like the GP's main point) does not a Luddite make.
Or was there something else you were reacting to? Maybe I've missed your point.
Another possible point to research is the apparent correlation between the spread of GMO soy in the US food chain and the rise in soy allergies. These allergies also seem to be restricted to the US population, from what little I've read about it.
Modern Japanese has only five vowel sounds: a like American English "father", i like Am Eng "eeek!", u like Am Eng "oo, that's cool", e like Am Eng "editor", and o as an unrounded "oh" sound, which doesn't happen so much in standard American English, but is awful close to Minnesotan English "oh sure".
Certain sound combinations don't exist in Japanese phonetics, such as du, di, tu, ti, si, f + anything other than u, anything with v, etc. Such sounds can be expressed in either of the two kana syllabaries (more below), but these are innovations to render sounds that have no inherent place in the Japanese language, and folks older than maybe 50 might not be able to pronounce them properly.
Words written in Japanese using the hiragana syllabary use the i for long e and i, the u for long o and u, and the a for long a. Romanizations of hiragana would thus either use a macron (horizontal bar; this post uses circumflexes instead of macrons since Slashdot eats the macron entities) over the long vowel or include the additional extending vowel.
Foreign words are generally written in Japanese using the katakana syllabary. Stressed syllables in English generally become lengthened vowels in Japanese, and long vowels in katakana are rendered using the nobashi (i.e. "lengthener" - that horizontal line that looks like the kanji for "one"). Romanizations of katakana thus either use a macron over the long vowel or just duplicate long vowels.
Japanese is a moraic language rather than a stressed language. This is a very foreign concept for English: a mora is a unit of time in speaking, rather than volume or pitch. Where English uses stress, with the speaker's voice increasing and decreasing in volume and (to a lesser extent) pitch, Japanese uses morae (or moras), with a vowel (or stop) taking a set amount of time. Much as certain words in English are differentiated by stress (such as "record" as a noun versus "record" as a verb), many more word pairs in Japanese are differentiated by how many morae they include. The word shugo has two morae and means "(grammatical) subject", while shûgô has four morae and means "gathering, assembly". The word jiko has two morae and means "accident", while jikkô has four morae and means "execution, carrying something out". The word judô has three morae and means "passive", while jûdô has four morae and means "flexible way", or more more familiarly, the martial art that's also an Olympic event.
Putting all this together, "rape seed" simply transliterated into katakana (as foreign words would be) and then transliterated back into rômaji ("Roman characters", i.e. the alphabet) would come out as either rêpu shîdo or reepu shiido.
And that's all for today's Beginner Japanese lesson!:)
Canola was originally naturally bred from rapeseed in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur R. Stefansson in the early 1970s, but it has a very different nutritional profile in addition to much less erucic acid. The name "canola" was derived from "Canadian oil, low acid" in 1978. A product known as LEAR (for low erucic acid rapeseed) derived from cross-breeding of multiple lines of Brassica juncea is also referred to as canola oil and is considered safe for consumption.
For clarity's sake and to make sure we're all using agreed vocabulary here, GM = genetically modified = developed using recombinant technology that splices in DNA from other species, families, phyla, even kingdoms. Naturally bred = developed using traditional cross-breeding of variants of the same or very close species, usually (but not always) producing viable (fertile) offspring.
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This is the first really useful explanation of the mechanism at work in what the paper authors are trying to describe. If only theoretical physicists and tech blog writers were so lucid in their writing.
Cheers,
The bogon.
Seriously, can't anyone at Tech Review spot the flaw here? A tube still has more than one dimension. Even if you managed to create a chain of single carbon atoms, you'd still have multiple dimensions, in that the atoms comprising the chain are not infinitely short and infinitely flat.
Bah. Sensationalist nonsense non-news.
Points to you both! (... if I had them.) Much laughter. Thank you for lightening my day!
Cheers,
Points to you both! (... if I had them.) Much laughter. Thank you for lightening my day!
Cheers,
If you're going to start complaining about corporate donations to political parties/movements/PACs/etc, which is a perfectly valid complaint to have, you're also going to have to spread the blame around -- D or R, the parties are in bed with whomever has open pockets. One of many reasons I quite dislike American party politics.
Cheers,
Malkovich,
Indeed. The tech is *so* simple that Wally Wallingford of Flint, Michigan is building his own Stonehenge (more of a Concretehenge, really) almost single-handedly, just using wood forms, levers, and clever balancing to move these huge multi-ton blocks about.
A lot of things that people these days describe as "OMG how did they possibly do that it must be ALIENS!" are really only mysterious because people are shockingly ignorant of the basics of how the world works. Probably comes of sitting on their bums so much.
Cheers,
I was just stuck with my pedant hat on (one of the perils of being a professional translator / editor) when I happened to read your comment, and the capital-"V" Vegan caught my eye.
Incidentally, a friend found that keeping vegan was quite easy as his wife was keeping kosher, and apparently one of the kosher categories is essentially the same as vegan.
Cheers,
... even when it's not Burrito Day in the caf.
... no, wait, never mind. I thought you said dickhead, in which case it would be the other way around.
8-P
Cheers,
As a Vegan, why do you care at all what happens over 25 light years from home? And for that matter, how did you post on Slashdot from so far away? Clearly, Vegan technology must be vastly superior to ours to enable either interstellar travel, or time travel to 25 years in the past combined with interstellar web postings.
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Oh, you meant little-"v" vegan. My bad. Carry on.
A bit like the clarinet, only bigger and louder. Interesting idea...
Taking off my bad-pun-pedant hat, that word you were looking for is exorbitant.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Cheers,
Ah, but for mod points...
Cheers,
PCs will be obsolete when I can have a chip implanted in my brain.
Will you go for Ponch, or Jon?
Cheers,
Imagine all the people, living in harmony...
Cheers,
The new, improved! Fapple!
Yah, I'd want a different social media website too. And a shower. Yech.
I'm more curious how he got to Vega. Or are the Vegans imported?
Cheers,
What if Kelly is not in a vehicle?
Cheers,
Perhaps we're discussing a different post? I'm responding with regard to EdIII's post, which includes:
Indeed, some of what EdIII says are statements of what he (?) believes to be facts, but all the examples above (which, in my reading anyway, are more the core of his intent) are clearly statements of opinion. Moreover, he doesn't seem to me to be saying that the tech itself is wrong (which would be Luddite-ish), but rather that it is being applied in potentially dangerous ways by potentially dangerous people.
But that's just my interpretation.
Cheers,
From all I've read on research into spider silk, one of the key components that we continue to fail to reproduce is the physical spinning of the extracted protein mix. That's why goatmilk silk failed -- no spinning at all. And that's why silkworm spidersilk has achieved some level of useful production, since the silkworms do produce a fiber and not just the raw protein mixed up in a liquid, but also why it will probably fail to be stronger than regular spidersilk -- the spinning process most likely isn't what a spider would use to produce its strongest silk.
Cheers,
The GP is a statement of opinion, in which case the statement itself is all the citation needed. And saying "the tech looks quite promising, but we need more research" (which sounds to me like the GP's main point) does not a Luddite make.
Or was there something else you were reacting to? Maybe I've missed your point.
Cheers,
Another possible point to research is the apparent correlation between the spread of GMO soy in the US food chain and the rise in soy allergies. These allergies also seem to be restricted to the US population, from what little I've read about it.
Cheers,
Modern Japanese has only five vowel sounds: a like American English "father", i like Am Eng "eeek!", u like Am Eng "oo, that's cool", e like Am Eng "editor", and o as an unrounded "oh" sound, which doesn't happen so much in standard American English, but is awful close to Minnesotan English "oh sure".
Certain sound combinations don't exist in Japanese phonetics, such as du, di, tu, ti, si, f + anything other than u, anything with v, etc. Such sounds can be expressed in either of the two kana syllabaries (more below), but these are innovations to render sounds that have no inherent place in the Japanese language, and folks older than maybe 50 might not be able to pronounce them properly.
Words written in Japanese using the hiragana syllabary use the i for long e and i, the u for long o and u, and the a for long a. Romanizations of hiragana would thus either use a macron (horizontal bar; this post uses circumflexes instead of macrons since Slashdot eats the macron entities) over the long vowel or include the additional extending vowel.
Foreign words are generally written in Japanese using the katakana syllabary. Stressed syllables in English generally become lengthened vowels in Japanese, and long vowels in katakana are rendered using the nobashi (i.e. "lengthener" - that horizontal line that looks like the kanji for "one"). Romanizations of katakana thus either use a macron over the long vowel or just duplicate long vowels.
Japanese is a moraic language rather than a stressed language. This is a very foreign concept for English: a mora is a unit of time in speaking, rather than volume or pitch. Where English uses stress, with the speaker's voice increasing and decreasing in volume and (to a lesser extent) pitch, Japanese uses morae (or moras), with a vowel (or stop) taking a set amount of time. Much as certain words in English are differentiated by stress (such as "record" as a noun versus "record" as a verb), many more word pairs in Japanese are differentiated by how many morae they include. The word shugo has two morae and means "(grammatical) subject", while shûgô has four morae and means "gathering, assembly". The word jiko has two morae and means "accident", while jikkô has four morae and means "execution, carrying something out". The word judô has three morae and means "passive", while jûdô has four morae and means "flexible way", or more more familiarly, the martial art that's also an Olympic event.
Putting all this together, "rape seed" simply transliterated into katakana (as foreign words would be) and then transliterated back into rômaji ("Roman characters", i.e. the alphabet) would come out as either rêpu shîdo or reepu shiido.
And that's all for today's Beginner Japanese lesson! :)
Cheers,
For clarity's sake and to make sure we're all using agreed vocabulary here, GM = genetically modified = developed using recombinant technology that splices in DNA from other species, families, phyla, even kingdoms. Naturally bred = developed using traditional cross-breeding of variants of the same or very close species, usually (but not always) producing viable (fertile) offspring.
Cheers,
I realize you meant "tensile strength", but my brain produced some pretty weird imagery from my initial mis-parsing of this as "tonsils strength". :)
Cheers,