So something in the atmosphere shields the earth from X-rays, as a plate of glass does the same on a television... how close can I get to the TV if Baywatch is on? Should I add another layer of glass? Is there a standard material that they use to protect astronaughts? Lead must be expensive to hoist into orbit.
In the labs at Berkeley exsists a strain of (I think) corn, an African variety that was engineered to be resistant to a certain virus that caused a famine in Africa by wiping out the crops. It's not being allowed to Africa because of 1) laws against such imports and 2) politics - the (perverse) thinking is that once they have abundant food, they'll want more than just food. The recent history in some regions is for nations to become jealous of eachothers' wealth, then warlords rise up and start wars. Altogether a sick mess, while the rest of the world is mostly worried about what color BWM to buy.
Agrostis tenuis: a wild species of grass in Wales. It grows at the opening of abandoned mine shafts in soil contaminated with heavy metals. Only a few feet away, in the ordinary soil, grows its ancestor, which cannot tolerate the toxic soil. Campbell, Biology 4th ed. p. 417.
I heard of a similar project that performed artificial selection on bacteria (probably E. coli), exposing them to increasing concentrations of organic phosphates (the deadly kind... as opposed to the harmless). With trillions and trillions of progeny, a lucky mutation would lead to a strain that literally eats it for lunch. It's misguided to say that an unlucky mutation would eat people for lunch. We have immune systems, antibiotics, the CDC, NIH, and thousands of university and private laboratories in case something goes wrong. And if something does, Hollywood can make a movie about it to smear the name of science, which they will do either way.
What will ever top the depth of "the Final Cut"? An internet album would be interesting, but it's a step down from praying for peace and sanity in the world. It's not like your average guerilla soldier or hateful politician would care about his work anyways. For that matter I'd say that your average shmuck has never bothered to listen to him either.
Whining that Roger Waters isn't as good w/out Pink Floyd is like saying some guy isn't as good without his ex-wife from 15 years ago. Leave the dude alone already!
"All you know about me's what I sold you, dumbf--, I sold out long before you ever even heard my name. I sold my soul to make a record... Now shut up and buy!" -Tool
At the risk of coming off as a quack, I'm considering doing my senior thesis on altered G biology (trust me, I'm not offtopic). I need to find some small or micro organisms and mate them, or simply perform an artificial selection with an asexual species under hypergravity. My method will be to centrifuge them for months, building to a crushing force and see how they adapt. (I promise I won't use and mammals or anything higher than a worm). As for sub-one-G forces, that'll be tricky without a space shuttle. I'm sure my school doesn't have one. If anyone from NASA reads this and is excited, please contact me. Or go ahead and steal my idea, that's the trendy thing to do these days.
Life exists on Jupiter's moons because we sent it there. "Clean rooms" do not keep _all_ microorganisms off of our space probes. Of course they could survive the journey there and maybe even start to reproduce.
Imagine putting evey one of your favorite songs on a disk and going driving, so you never have to change another stupid CD. This is one more step toward that goal. (I've done some research and still can't find any DVD car decks.)
I'm afraid that we are about to be if flagrant violation of galactic patent laws that give full rights of this technology exclusively to the alien civilization that lost a ship at Roswell. God I'm drunk.
Why must there be perfect symetry for a fusion reaction? It was shown that black holes need not have symetry to reach singularity, and the big bang was not symetrical (or else matter would never have clustered randomly and we wouldn't be here). My reasoning here is more philosophical than practical of course. Maybe there's no correlation between those events after all.
I remember my password, RHF4345_enternow_123, by repeating it loudly and writing it everywhere. My clients can feel safe knowing their personal information is secure with me.
At it's most extreme, what do you do when we have complete automation and total freetime with unlimited technical resources? You turn to the arts, which we technocrats often shun. When a true Holodeck is completed, then we can enguage in all the sex, life activity, and AD&D modules that we would have been doing if we weren't spending our time trying to simulate these things.
I remember I would sometimes not do homework in school rather than do it half-baked because "I forgot" seemed a better excuse than "I didn't study and I have no idea how to do the problems." Did they even try to make a Mac version? Nice of them to hold Apple in such esteem anyways.
Because of the evil "'net" (as we hip-in-the-know people call it) the very laws of physics and chemistry are changing all around us. *James Earl Jones voice* You think you know your computer, but do you REALLY? When Y2K comes, we will all become lunatics. Thank God Hollywood can say "I told you so..."
Where does the law draw the line between "you can't have what we advertized and you paid for" and "we are fraudulant criminals, equivalent to the psychics and infomercials as seen on TV"? Not trying to be mean or accusational; it's just irony.
I am one of those who can only appreciate the culture in sight and sound. We were required to read Neuromancer in college (Comparative Liturature) and I wrote a 3 page paper on it without reading the book (passed with a "C"!). Any new definition of the culture will require a new movie, a video consoule (not just a video game but a whole new system), and other media intense stuff. I thought the Mortal Kombat crowd was leading us for a while but they were just a fleeting thought, really. I think the culture has been struggling since the death of the concept album in the mid 1980s. Altogether, I hope that whatever comes next is a beautiful evolution. Trying to relive the days of D&D, Rush, Atari... it's all still there but the toys have gotten better for us. I'm only 23 and even I see that the kids are being spoiled these days.:)
Guess the jerks who hate Americans will make a stealth missle now. Better yet, walk right into our labs and take it from us like the Chinese already did.
Let's sneak some funny code into the Chinese-English version at the next summit. For example we could replace the code for "unclear" with the code for "nuclear", then watch the wackiness unfold!
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So something in the atmosphere shields the earth from X-rays, as a plate of glass does the same on a television... how close can I get to the TV if Baywatch is on? Should I add another layer of glass? Is there a standard material that they use to protect astronaughts? Lead must be expensive to hoist into orbit.
It will come down to a question of his credibility, like a trial of magic vs science. He'll probably get the O.J. jury and walk away with $97 million.
I nominate the three (or four) dudes in the X-Files. You know the guys.
In the labs at Berkeley exsists a strain of (I think) corn, an African variety that was engineered to be resistant to a certain virus that caused a famine in Africa by wiping out the crops. It's not being allowed to Africa because of 1) laws against such imports and 2) politics - the (perverse) thinking is that once they have abundant food, they'll want more than just food. The recent history in some regions is for nations to become jealous of eachothers' wealth, then warlords rise up and start wars. Altogether a sick mess, while the rest of the world is mostly worried about what color BWM to buy.
Agrostis tenuis: a wild species of grass in Wales. It grows at the opening of abandoned mine shafts in soil contaminated with heavy metals. Only a few feet away, in the ordinary soil, grows its ancestor, which cannot tolerate the toxic soil.
Campbell, Biology 4th ed. p. 417.
I heard of a similar project that performed artificial selection on bacteria (probably E. coli), exposing them to increasing concentrations of organic phosphates (the deadly kind... as opposed to the harmless). With trillions and trillions of progeny, a lucky mutation would lead to a strain that literally eats it for lunch. It's misguided to say that an unlucky mutation would eat people for lunch. We have immune systems, antibiotics, the CDC, NIH, and thousands of university and private laboratories in case something goes wrong. And if something does, Hollywood can make a movie about it to smear the name of science, which they will do either way.
What will ever top the depth of "the Final Cut"? An internet album would be interesting, but it's a step down from praying for peace and sanity in the world. It's not like your average guerilla soldier or hateful politician would care about his work anyways. For that matter I'd say that your average shmuck has never bothered to listen to him either.
Whining that Roger Waters isn't as good w/out Pink Floyd is like saying some guy isn't as good without his ex-wife from 15 years ago. Leave the dude alone already!
"All you know about me's what I sold you, dumbf--, I sold out long before you ever even heard my name. I sold my soul to make a record... Now shut up and buy!" -Tool
At the risk of coming off as a quack, I'm considering doing my senior thesis on altered G biology (trust me, I'm not offtopic). I need to find some small or micro organisms and mate them, or simply perform an artificial selection with an asexual species under hypergravity. My method will be to centrifuge them for months, building to a crushing force and see how they adapt. (I promise I won't use and mammals or anything higher than a worm). As for sub-one-G forces, that'll be tricky without a space shuttle. I'm sure my school doesn't have one. If anyone from NASA reads this and is excited, please contact me. Or go ahead and steal my idea, that's the trendy thing to do these days.
Life exists on Jupiter's moons because we sent it there. "Clean rooms" do not keep _all_ microorganisms off of our space probes. Of course they could survive the journey there and maybe even start to reproduce.
Imagine putting evey one of your favorite songs on a disk and going driving, so you never have to change another stupid CD. This is one more step toward that goal. (I've done some research and still can't find any DVD car decks.)
I'm afraid that we are about to be if flagrant violation of galactic patent laws that give full rights of this technology exclusively to the alien civilization that lost a ship at Roswell. God I'm drunk.
Why must there be perfect symetry for a fusion reaction? It was shown that black holes need not have symetry to reach singularity, and the big bang was not symetrical (or else matter would never have clustered randomly and we wouldn't be here). My reasoning here is more philosophical than practical of course. Maybe there's no correlation between those events after all.
I remember my password, RHF4345_enternow_123, by repeating it loudly and writing it everywhere. My clients can feel safe knowing their personal information is secure with me.
At it's most extreme, what do you do when we have complete automation and total freetime with unlimited technical resources? You turn to the arts, which we technocrats often shun. When a true Holodeck is completed, then we can enguage in all the sex, life activity, and AD&D modules that we would have been doing if we weren't spending our time trying to simulate these things.
I remember I would sometimes not do homework in school rather than do it half-baked because "I forgot" seemed a better excuse than "I didn't study and I have no idea how to do the problems." Did they even try to make a Mac version? Nice of them to hold Apple in such esteem anyways.
Because of the evil "'net" (as we hip-in-the-know people call it) the very laws of physics and chemistry are changing all around us. *James Earl Jones voice* You think you know your computer, but do you REALLY? When Y2K comes, we will all become lunatics. Thank God Hollywood can say "I told you so..."
Where does the law draw the line between "you can't have what we advertized and you paid for" and "we are fraudulant criminals, equivalent to the psychics and infomercials as seen on TV"? Not trying to be mean or accusational; it's just irony.
Voice say "Go bed. Stand up. Scream loud!" Voice explain logical C++ solution. No listen music. Voices only.
I am one of those who can only appreciate the culture in sight and sound. We were required to read Neuromancer in college (Comparative Liturature) and I wrote a 3 page paper on it without reading the book (passed with a "C"!). Any new definition of the culture will require a new movie, a video consoule (not just a video game but a whole new system), and other media intense stuff. I thought the Mortal Kombat crowd was leading us for a while but they were just a fleeting thought, really. I think the culture has been struggling since the death of the concept album in the mid 1980s. Altogether, I hope that whatever comes next is a beautiful evolution. Trying to relive the days of D&D, Rush, Atari... it's all still there but the toys have gotten better for us. I'm only 23 and even I see that the kids are being spoiled these days. :)
Guess the jerks who hate Americans will make a stealth missle now. Better yet, walk right into our labs and take it from us like the Chinese already did.
Let's sneak some funny code into the Chinese-English version at the next summit. For example we could replace the code for "unclear" with the code for "nuclear", then watch the wackiness unfold!