Whale watchers have carefully vetted systems to look for unique markings. In humpback whales, it is the underside of the flukes. If I get a decent picture of the ventral flukes on a local whale, I email to our local whale watching experts (with GPS coordinates). On grey whales it is the left side of the dorsal fluke and upper back for some odd reason.
While nobody has actually proven the markings are unique, they seem to work pretty well for long term population studies. Easier than flipper prints.
That's actually pretty inexpensive for solid phase chemistry tests. I would wonder what the accuracy / repeatability of these things are. Still and all, how many times are you going to actually use this? Does it come with a free trial subscription to Hypochondriacs Anonymous?
No, it's 'not diagnostic' - it's 'only investigational' so they aren't trying to get FDA approval. Right. That ought to be amusing.
It's just the same solid phase chemistry that is used in our clinic analyzers. We have a bunch of little hand held units (which in the case of the Cue is replaced by the phone and app). The chemistry is well tested, if a bit spendy - we don't use these for most tests, usually as backup in case the big analyzer has a hissy fit or if we have to take it in the field or if you are doing really rapid testing.
So, it's really just a marketing campaign to see if they can get people to buy the cartridges and a legal campaign to see if they can outrun the FDA.
Goddamn, he did that, didn't he? Forgot about that cover until you mentioned it. Gave me the creeps during several college mescaline / psilocybin trips. Now I'll probably flashback on that all week.
Tundra is marginal for most crops. Tundra is typically a thin, acidic soil. Given a couple of hundred thousand years, it probably would pick up a bunch of new critters and plants and become more organically active, but most of us are not that patient.
Interestingly, according to the Wikipedia article, the plant really did well - as a test bed and proof of concept. It had major engineering issues, as test installations often have. A second plant with lessons-learned might have been successful.
It was decommissioned on time and at cost (other references).
Apparently there is one other reactor with the same technology slated to go online in 2021. So it appears that Thorium cycle plants are viable, just not particularly easy or inexpensive.
I'm not entirely sure I want the Panopticon to include what's at the end of my gun site. Yes, it would work in theory. No, it won't work in practice and Hell No, I don't want to deal with this nonsense.
How about I get an ankle bracelet strapped on me every time I take my shotgun out?
According to Wikipedia most current nickel deposits run around 1% ore purity. The plant comes out to about 1.8% nickel which is high enough grade but - you need thousand of tons of ore to make it commercially feasible. Thousands of tons of plant matter is one hell of a lot of bushes.
You didn't read the TFA but decided to look for an old article somewhere on the web? Look at the nice Wikipedia article. It shows that the disease is endemic to much of Africa and the Caribbean. I don't think the Caribbean borders on the Indian Ocean.
An overlap of HIV incidence (especially male:female infection ratios) and Schistosomiasis infection rates would have been nice, but not at all critical for the argument as it is not described as the sole reason for the unusual ratio.
Thinking about it further, there are certainly other STDs that do not have a 1:1 male:female infection ratio. Male and female anatomy and physiology is rather different which may lead to different rates of infection or entirely different disease courses. The interesting bit about TFA is that it is certainly reasonable to treat Schistosomiasis in it's own right. If you can decrease HIV infection as well, you get bonus points.
Problem is that, according to the TFA, there are plenty of OTHER reasons for the high incidence of female AIDS:
That rape, incest and domestic violence are rife in southern Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is worst. That syphilis and herpes are rampant. That impoverished, fatherless young women are forced to pay with sex for food, clothes, grades and even car rides.
Still, it sounds like it's reasonable and important to treat the disease schistosmiasis on the grounds that it has other chronic, serious issues. Do the longitudinal study to see if it brings down HIV infections. A potential two in one.
This. Come up with some makeup that screws up CCD cameras (different spectral characteristics?) and / or screws up the algorithms. Weave them into this year's fashion statement. Keep reiterating the process as the Panopticon tries to adjust. Extra points if it works to hide your own imperfections.
It's really not about the people on the plane. It never has been past the first few hours.
It's about a world wide industry that doesn't like expensive bits of it fall out of the sky for no reason. It's also not about the money. Hell, we could shut down an aircraft carrier battle group and feed the entire planet for a decade - don't look to humans to be rationale about that issue and don't try to conflate them.
TF Author is basically collating some information available on the web (we do that these days, you know). The original data that is attempting to refute INMARSAT's analysis is from two people (with blogs) which do have some expertise in the field:
So it should be straightforward to make sure that the math is right. That’s just what a group of analysts outside the investigation has been attempting to verify. The major players have been Michael Exner, founder of the American Mobile Satellite Corporation; Duncan Steel, a physicist and visiting scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center; and satellite technology consultant Tim Farrar. They’ve used flight and navigation software like STK, which allows you to chart and make precise calculations about flight scenarios like this one. On their blogs and in an ongoing email chain, they’ve been trying to piece together the clues about Flight 370 and make sense of Inmarsat’s analysis. What follows is an attempt to explain and assess their conclusions.
Yes, this is an appeal to authority, but this is also a popular, non scientific, non peer reviewed bit of journalism. I'm not expecting much more.
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Whale watchers have carefully vetted systems to look for unique markings. In humpback whales, it is the underside of the flukes. If I get a decent picture of the ventral flukes on a local whale, I email to our local whale watching experts (with GPS coordinates). On grey whales it is the left side of the dorsal fluke and upper back for some odd reason.
While nobody has actually proven the markings are unique, they seem to work pretty well for long term population studies. Easier than flipper prints.
These are definitely not the worms you are looking for.
I take it you don't do video?
That's actually pretty inexpensive for solid phase chemistry tests. I would wonder what the accuracy / repeatability of these things are. Still and all, how many times are you going to actually use this? Does it come with a free trial subscription to Hypochondriacs Anonymous?
No, it's 'not diagnostic' - it's 'only investigational' so they aren't trying to get FDA approval. Right. That ought to be amusing.
It's just the same solid phase chemistry that is used in our clinic analyzers. We have a bunch of little hand held units (which in the case of the Cue is replaced by the phone and app). The chemistry is well tested, if a bit spendy - we don't use these for most tests, usually as backup in case the big analyzer has a hissy fit or if we have to take it in the field or if you are doing really rapid testing.
So, it's really just a marketing campaign to see if they can get people to buy the cartridges and a legal campaign to see if they can outrun the FDA.
Goddamn, he did that, didn't he? Forgot about that cover until you mentioned it. Gave me the creeps during several college mescaline / psilocybin trips. Now I'll probably flashback on that all week.
Thanks.
A lot of his truly frightening monster designs were vaginal looking too.
"Life imitates art far more often than art imitates life"
Oscar Wilde
Being so close to water and all, the entire idea of an e-reader for naval sailors is preposterous.
This is not your bathtub. This is for the pros.
Yeah, which Bible? Which Koran?
The old standards are just like the new standards - so many to choose from!
Really? In a giant, grounded Faraday cage? Maybe for sonic, infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies, but RF doesn't travel much in water.
Tundra is marginal for most crops. Tundra is typically a thin, acidic soil. Given a couple of hundred thousand years, it probably would pick up a bunch of new critters and plants and become more organically active, but most of us are not that patient.
I suppose if you have enough compost to cover Canada and such.
You can have every politician on the North (and South) American Continents. It would be a pretty good start.
Maybe lawyers as a phase II project.
Orbital mechanics. It's why they call'em rocket scientists.
Interestingly, according to the Wikipedia article, the plant really did well - as a test bed and proof of concept. It had major engineering issues, as test installations often have. A second plant with lessons-learned might have been successful.
It was decommissioned on time and at cost (other references).
Apparently there is one other reactor with the same technology slated to go online in 2021. So it appears that Thorium cycle plants are viable, just not particularly easy or inexpensive.
I'm not entirely sure I want the Panopticon to include what's at the end of my gun site. Yes, it would work in theory. No, it won't work in practice and Hell No, I don't want to deal with this nonsense.
How about I get an ankle bracelet strapped on me every time I take my shotgun out?
And you think cell phones are bad...
According to Wikipedia most current nickel deposits run around 1% ore purity. The plant comes out to about 1.8% nickel which is high enough grade but - you need thousand of tons of ore to make it commercially feasible. Thousands of tons of plant matter is one hell of a lot of bushes.
You didn't read the TFA but decided to look for an old article somewhere on the web? Look at the nice Wikipedia article. It shows that the disease is endemic to much of Africa and the Caribbean. I don't think the Caribbean borders on the Indian Ocean.
An overlap of HIV incidence (especially male:female infection ratios) and Schistosomiasis infection rates would have been nice, but not at all critical for the argument as it is not described as the sole reason for the unusual ratio.
Thinking about it further, there are certainly other STDs that do not have a 1:1 male:female infection ratio. Male and female anatomy and physiology is rather different which may lead to different rates of infection or entirely different disease courses. The interesting bit about TFA is that it is certainly reasonable to treat Schistosomiasis in it's own right. If you can decrease HIV infection as well, you get bonus points.
Problem is that, according to the TFA, there are plenty of OTHER reasons for the high incidence of female AIDS:
That rape, incest and domestic violence are rife in southern Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is worst. That syphilis and herpes are rampant. That impoverished, fatherless young women are forced to pay with sex for food, clothes, grades and even car rides.
Still, it sounds like it's reasonable and important to treat the disease schistosmiasis on the grounds that it has other chronic, serious issues. Do the longitudinal study to see if it brings down HIV infections. A potential two in one.
This. Come up with some makeup that screws up CCD cameras (different spectral characteristics?) and / or screws up the algorithms. Weave them into this year's fashion statement. Keep reiterating the process as the Panopticon tries to adjust. Extra points if it works to hide your own imperfections.
Could be some real money here folks.
Come on. This is Slashdot. Nobody is going around wearing our faces. Not even us, if we could help it.
It's really not about the people on the plane. It never has been past the first few hours.
It's about a world wide industry that doesn't like expensive bits of it fall out of the sky for no reason. It's also not about the money. Hell, we could shut down an aircraft carrier battle group and feed the entire planet for a decade - don't look to humans to be rationale about that issue and don't try to conflate them.
Maybe YOU should take your meds. Or up the dose a bit.
TF Author is basically collating some information available on the web (we do that these days, you know). The original data that is attempting to refute INMARSAT's analysis is from two people (with blogs) which do have some expertise in the field:
So it should be straightforward to make sure that the math is right. That’s just what a group of analysts outside the investigation has been attempting to verify. The major players have been Michael Exner, founder of the American Mobile Satellite Corporation; Duncan Steel, a physicist and visiting scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center; and satellite technology consultant Tim Farrar. They’ve used flight and navigation software like STK, which allows you to chart and make precise calculations about flight scenarios like this one. On their blogs and in an ongoing email chain, they’ve been trying to piece together the clues about Flight 370 and make sense of Inmarsat’s analysis. What follows is an attempt to explain and assess their conclusions.
Yes, this is an appeal to authority, but this is also a popular, non scientific, non peer reviewed bit of journalism. I'm not expecting much more.
Yeah, that knock on your door is your mother.
Time for your meds.
Read this book (Planet of Slums) on how this is a world wide phenomena that is becoming increasingly intractable.
We're doomed.