Exactly this. Don't expect Nobel Prizes, expect interested and informed people. And likely only a few of them - this isn't something that you are going to find on Jersey Shore. Remember, amateurs do things because they want to.
You certainly could do classical E. coli or phage genetics. All you need is some growth media, pipettes and petri dishes. I'm not sure how that would translate into cutting edge research but it's doable.
You could potentially do some screening / growth requirements for some of the millions of new viruses that are floating about. These seem poorly characterized and again, it's rather classical microbiology.
But yes, modern molecular biology is going to be tough without an account at one of the many vendors of probes, etc.
One thing that does strike me is the sheer number of companies marketing sophisticated molecular probes / cell lines / antibiodies etc. In my day we had to make them de novo (and cut the glass for our gels and purify the acrylamide and make our own electricity....). If you had deep enough pockets, you could get pretty sophisticated very quickly.
They're in a pre-evacuation phase. Smoke on the horizon and all that. Not to worry, the local sheriff department will kick people out long before there is a problem. They've done this before. Like every year in the past decade.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
You don't need to do that. Airports have thousands of wetware annoy-o-trons running around all of the time.
I really don't think this is much of an issue. 24 hours of listening in on the generally inane conversation of the traveling public should drive anyone working on the project completely insane. A human being can stand only so much Kim Kardishan and Jersey Shore before it becomes unhinged.
(with the disaster spreading to nuclear reactors closer to Tokyo) this would have happened.
What possible mechanism could have caused that? Radioactive leaks aren't like an infectious disease, they don't cause distant power stations to become damaged.
Godzilla.
Remember the radioactive mutant monsters in Tokyo Bay,
While an exciting headline, certain to raise the blood pressure of the angst brigade, this isn't terribly newsworthy. Bubonic plague has been found in animals (mostly prairie dogs in Colorado) for decades and apparently is the sixth case of plague in Oregon since 1995. It's easy to treat with antibiotics. The hardest part is actually thinking that Yersinia pestis is the causative organism.
It is much easier to sue a private corporation than the government.
Not if the companies have a 'hold harmless' clause in their contracts - which they most certainly would. Remember, anybody can hire good lawyers if you've got the money.
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Although Judaism seems to have a temporary state of shame that offers the chance of redemption that might be considered "temporary hell-like".
I believe that is what New York City is for.
Gee. Sorry. You had to spend 5 minutes (if you're a slow reader) in an attempt to digest a complex, difficult problem.
tl;dr: back to watching TV for you.
Like no one has ever used shell companies or shady lawyers to obfuscate ownership. It is a hurdle, albeit not a terribly high one.
Exactly this. Don't expect Nobel Prizes, expect interested and informed people. And likely only a few of them - this isn't something that you are going to find on Jersey Shore. Remember, amateurs do things because they want to.
That's all that has to happen.
You certainly could do classical E. coli or phage genetics. All you need is some growth media, pipettes and petri dishes. I'm not sure how that would translate into cutting edge research but it's doable.
You could potentially do some screening / growth requirements for some of the millions of new viruses that are floating about. These seem poorly characterized and again, it's rather classical microbiology.
But yes, modern molecular biology is going to be tough without an account at one of the many vendors of probes, etc.
One thing that does strike me is the sheer number of companies marketing sophisticated molecular probes / cell lines / antibiodies etc. In my day we had to make them de novo (and cut the glass for our gels and purify the acrylamide and make our own electricity....). If you had deep enough pockets, you could get pretty sophisticated very quickly.
Ahh grasshopper. You must be new here.
I remember when it was 64K (sixty four thousand) for the OS. And we liked it.
Floppy disks.
300 baud modems.
80 x 25 character screens.
Patching Wordstar with a hex editor.
50 cent per gallon gasoline.
Bell bottoms.
Sex.
You kids don't realize how good things are.
Cut him some slack - Internal Modem is just a bit slow and behind the times. He can't help it.
You could have just flashed the phone line on him to shut him up.
I've got a better idea.
Let it burn.
Get new stuff. I hear the new MacBook Pro's are really neat.
They're in a pre-evacuation phase. Smoke on the horizon and all that. Not to worry, the local sheriff department will kick people out long before there is a problem. They've done this before. Like every year in the past decade.
That's OK, we just slashdotted it.
That'll teach em.
I'm not sure exactly what reaction that little interjection was supposed to elicit from the reader...
Probably something like this
And leave all of the Mountain Dew behind. When the fire hits, they will heat up, explode and smother the flames.
Take the hard disks and RUN!
Last time I was in a hotel with an in room safe, I was pretty sure that every employee in the hotel had access to it.
Not that I would expect them to steal anything, but I'd go for cheap and ugly as opposed to a MacAnything if I were worried about theft.
These Neanderthal artifacts, though, obviously involve nothing more than picking up a spray can and spraying it around his hand.
And who made the spray can? Mr. Homo Sapiens? They didn't even have bronze yet - no way they're going to make a steel can.
If Neanderthals and humans could mate and have fertile offspring, then why aren't they considered the same species?
Because 'species' is a loaded word.
The species problem
tl;dr - Complicated natural phenomena are hard to reduce to a single word.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
You don't need to do that. Airports have thousands of wetware annoy-o-trons running around all of the time.
I really don't think this is much of an issue. 24 hours of listening in on the generally inane conversation of the traveling public should drive anyone working on the project completely insane. A human being can stand only so much Kim Kardishan and Jersey Shore before it becomes unhinged.
(with the disaster spreading to nuclear reactors closer to Tokyo) this would have happened.
What possible mechanism could have caused that? Radioactive leaks aren't like an infectious disease, they don't cause distant power stations to become damaged.
Godzilla.
Remember the radioactive mutant monsters in Tokyo Bay,
While an exciting headline, certain to raise the blood pressure of the angst brigade, this isn't terribly newsworthy. Bubonic plague has been found in animals (mostly prairie dogs in Colorado) for decades and apparently is the sixth case of plague in Oregon since 1995. It's easy to treat with antibiotics. The hardest part is actually thinking that Yersinia pestis is the causative organism.
Bonus points for Monty Python addicts.
Mysterious ASCII (not unicode) letters play across the terminal as the dark hand of Slashcode messes up something else again.
Then there is Photoshop....
Israel has exactly ONE International airport and is the size of New Jersey.
IT DOESN'T SCALE.
OK, and for the rest of the country you suggest exactly what?
It is much easier to sue a private corporation than the government.
Not if the companies have a 'hold harmless' clause in their contracts - which they most certainly would. Remember, anybody can hire good lawyers if you've got the money.