It is not a toxin per se. These are antifreeze proteins. They might trigger allergic reactions, but they are not toxic as such, nor do they produce toxic byproducts.
But i don't think preventing ice crystal damage would be the major problem for cryogenic suspension. Cryosleep would essentially shut down the electrophysiological processes in the brain, and I don't see a way to "reboot" the brain properly once it is shut down. There's a lot more to this than antifreeze compounds.
BAAAD idea! Really bad idea. Sending Darl and a bunch of lawyers to outer space? What if they meet intelligent life out there??? Would you want those guys to be our ambassadors?????
The aliens wrath will be terrible, their retribution swift.
No conservation of momentum here, dude. We are talking about inelastic collisions. So, energy is conserved and you have to subtract the deformation energy the bike takes from the total kinetic energy to get the kinetic energy and thus the new speed of the biker. Will still be faster than the bike, though.
Additionally, if you pull a high-g turn in an aircraft, the turn will most likely be coordinated - so the g-forces are pulling you in a direction you percieve as down. Even with these electrodes, you won't feel out of balance. They could, though, be useful to detect uncoordinated turns - so you could compensate bad rudder positions by your feeling. Great enough!
does that book have a 'vault dweller' character a crazy nuclear powered car and 2 headed brahmin?
Well, not exactly. It depicts a largely destroyed society, pulling itself from the rubble of an atomic holocaust, burning books and scientists, who, according to popular believe, caused the whole mess. Meanwhile, some strange monks try to preserve knowledge from the pre-war times, without really knowing what it means - using electronic blueprints for liturgic art, for example. As time goes by, we see the scientific mind rising again, society restructuring itself, finally leading to the next nuclear war. Give it a try, it's worth it!
Whoa, phuck! That NMRView process hung itself again... Well, eat that, bastard!!! Frags -9 process with rocket launcher. Anyone else got problems?? Heh!?! Thought so.
But... if I start to petition my representative for a law placing upper bounds on the fractal dimension of voting districts... I'm quite sure I will end up in a nice cosy room with plushy walls and sedative shots every 6 hours...
Nice... BUT it's flawed - the concepts "exothermic" and "endothermic" do only apply to reactions or transitions, respectively, not to systems or states. As hell is a system, the joke does not really work.
Hereby aspiring for the physicochemico-nazi price of the year...
Geez... it's more simple for a trained mathematician: Put a small circular cage somewhere in africa, so that it does not contain an elephant - which should be easy. Then, point to the encircled area and declare it as "outside".
I fail to see how you find deeper characters in fantasy - but that may be just my lack of knowledge of the genre. However, if you want to read science fiction with interesting, deep and developing characters, give Philip K. Dick, John Barnes or Ian M. Banks a try - you won't regret it.
Green fluorescing fish may affect native algae populations
How exactly would that happen? Being a biochemist myself, I don't see a plausible cause for that scenario.
there are probably also antibiotic drug resistance genes used during the cloning process
Especially for the construction of GFP transgenes, you don't have to resort to antibiotic selection. Simply transfect a cell line with a retroviral vector containing GFP and screen for positive transfections using a cell sorter with fluorescence detection (compare, for example this article). Or, to be further on the safe side, use direct DNA injection into oocytes and thereby abolish the need to use retroviruses (summarized in the same paper as above).
Minor correction - prions resist the standard autoclaving procedure, which is 121C for 20 min. Rising temperature to 136C for 60 min will inactivate prions quite efficiently. It more and more turns out that prions aren't nearly as stable as initially thought, they are even partly digested by proteases. The point is, they are stable enough that some of them can make it through the digestive tract.
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I'd say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be really sure.
So, from what kind of future do you think he is coming? That "planet of the apes" kind?
prepare to be assimilated!
But i don't think preventing ice crystal damage would be the major problem for cryogenic suspension. Cryosleep would essentially shut down the electrophysiological processes in the brain, and I don't see a way to "reboot" the brain properly once it is shut down. There's a lot more to this than antifreeze compounds.
The aliens wrath will be terrible, their retribution swift.
No conservation of momentum here, dude. We are talking about inelastic collisions. So, energy is conserved and you have to subtract the deformation energy the bike takes from the total kinetic energy to get the kinetic energy and thus the new speed of the biker. Will still be faster than the bike, though.
Additionally, if you pull a high-g turn in an aircraft, the turn will most likely be coordinated - so the g-forces are pulling you in a direction you percieve as down. Even with these electrodes, you won't feel out of balance. They could, though, be useful to detect uncoordinated turns - so you could compensate bad rudder positions by your feeling. Great enough!
The cliffs of depression, dude. Go play some Zork!
Hope that doesn't mean its life expectancy measured in seconds... Or in whichever strange unit you imperial types measure time nowadays.
does that book have a 'vault dweller' character a crazy nuclear powered car and 2 headed brahmin?
Well, not exactly. It depicts a largely destroyed society, pulling itself from the rubble of an atomic holocaust, burning books and scientists, who, according to popular believe, caused the whole mess. Meanwhile, some strange monks try to preserve knowledge from the pre-war times, without really knowing what it means - using electronic blueprints for liturgic art, for example. As time goes by, we see the scientific mind rising again, society restructuring itself, finally leading to the next nuclear war. Give it a try, it's worth it!
Whoa, phuck! That NMRView process hung itself again... Well, eat that, bastard!!! Frags -9 process with rocket launcher. Anyone else got problems?? Heh!?! Thought so.
Now you got me interested... I never played Fallout, but I definitely loved "A canticle for Leibowitz". Do you know if the game is still available?
But... if I start to petition my representative for a law placing upper bounds on the fractal dimension of voting districts... I'm quite sure I will end up in a nice cosy room with plushy walls and sedative shots every 6 hours...
Young padawan, much to learn you have. Precipitate, it is, precipitate!
GO AWAY! GO AWAY! I haven't heard that one before. You owe me a keyboard.
Hereby aspiring for the physicochemico-nazi price of the year...
I don't even want to know what your sig says...
Heisenberg might have been here.
Geez... it's more simple for a trained mathematician: Put a small circular cage somewhere in africa, so that it does not contain an elephant - which should be easy. Then, point to the encircled area and declare it as "outside".
I fail to see how you find deeper characters in fantasy - but that may be just my lack of knowledge of the genre. However, if you want to read science fiction with interesting, deep and developing characters, give Philip K. Dick, John Barnes or Ian M. Banks a try - you won't regret it.
Hey! There's three of us! Maybe it's time to start some self-help group... Anonymous Tax-addicts... No, doesn't sound well.
How exactly would that happen? Being a biochemist myself, I don't see a plausible cause for that scenario.
there are probably also antibiotic drug resistance genes used during the cloning process
Especially for the construction of GFP transgenes, you don't have to resort to antibiotic selection. Simply transfect a cell line with a retroviral vector containing GFP and screen for positive transfections using a cell sorter with fluorescence detection (compare, for example this article). Or, to be further on the safe side, use direct DNA injection into oocytes and thereby abolish the need to use retroviruses (summarized in the same paper as above).
Minor correction - prions resist the standard autoclaving procedure, which is 121C for 20 min. Rising temperature to 136C for 60 min will inactivate prions quite efficiently. It more and more turns out that prions aren't nearly as stable as initially thought, they are even partly digested by proteases. The point is, they are stable enough that some of them can make it through the digestive tract.
Now you have officially proven that iPods are eeevil... iPod users, sit down, stay calm, and wait for the Holy Inquisition to knock down your doors!
Geez... how else would you protect yourself from their probes???