Actually, with one 'normal' and one 'deviant' allele, the tetrachromatic woman's sons would have a 50/50 chance of being colour blind. A woman with two deficient alleles would actually be colour blind; her sons would be colour blind and her daughters tetrachromats.
Although the condition is not universally acknowledged, some women are reported to have four colour receptors in their retina, rather than the regular three. The condition is analogous to male colour blindness (now called colour deficiency since you can be colour deficient and 20/20). Since women have a backup of the gene (the allele is X-linked, thus why males predominate colour blindness), they can see blue, green, reddish-orange and red.
Search Wikipedia for 'tetrachromatism' for more info.
You are misunderstanding how the banking system works.
You put $100 in the bank. You now have $0, bank has $100.
Total money: $100
The bank loans $90 and holds $10.
Total money: $100
This $90 is deposited and $81 loaned out. Bank 1: $10. Bank 2: $9. You: $0. Person A: $0. Person B: $81.
Total money: $100
The problem comes when the two depositors decide they want their money back, and the banks don't have enough reserves to pay out. This condition is called insolvency (liabilities exceeding assets), and trading while insolvent is a serious corporate offense, especially for a bank. Part of the trigger for the 1928 stock crash was a rush on deposits, the banks had loaned too much money for margin stocks, and when they tried to reclaim it, the assets were worthless.
The magic here is that the amount of energy released in the first reaction actually exceeds the amount of energy it takes to reform the bond in the second reaction. Small difference, but it is there.
You're an idiot. The reactions are exactly opposite, and release/consume exactly the same amount of energy.
You're either deliberately misinforming, or an idiot. Either way, time for some correction.
Fission reactions do not require high temperatures, the fission reaction produces heat and this heat is what is used in a fission reactor to heat water (or other coolant, some use liquid sodium/potassium alloys). This 'hot' (radiated) coolant then goes through a heat exchanger to 'cold' water, producing steam to drive a turbine.
If you got a fuel rod a tens of millions of degrees (assuming for a moment that anything could be solid at that temperature) and put it into water, it would explode. Fuel rods are kept in the spent fuel pool to cool down from operating temperatures of several hundred degrees, and to allow short half-life byproducts to dissipate before disposal/reprocessing.
Capacitors store their energy in a charge difference between the two plates, with an insulator in between. A capacitor's, um, capacity is affected by the surface area of the plates, the separation between them and permitivity of the insulator between them.
Since the capacitor's charge is stored at the contact between the conducting and insulating parts, the benefit of this nanotube idea is that having a 'forest' of nanotubes poking out of the electrode will greatly boost the contact area, in the same way a heatsink's fins increase its own ability to dissipate heat.
Then you shouldn't be confusing them with molecular vibrational spectroscopy. The article clearly states that this technology is looking at molecular rotational energy levels intermediate between infrared and microwave.
To clarify, this is why a new antibiotic 'family' is so sought after. A new mode of action can completely step around existing resistance.
PS. I believe Vancomycin (the current drug of last resort for MRSA) attacks bacterial protein synthesis. It also causes renal cytotoxicity (kidney damage) and has a narrow theraputic range (the difference between the minimum effective and maximum safe dose).
Since resistance to these antibiotics is so prevalent, feeding them to cattle really doesn't matter. Resistance to one antibiotic does not trigger resistance to another.
I beg to differ. Many families of antibiotics share the same core mode of action, with only a few side-chains different. E.g. the original Penicillin and modern Methicillin are both beta-lactam antibiotics, which attack bacterial cell walls (more specifically, the enzyme that assembles them). Penicillin resistance is due to the bacteria producing a new enzyme (beta-lactamase) which safely inactivates the antibiotic. Current Methicillin resistance has developed gradually, as each new variant of Penicillin is introduced, the enzyme mutates to accomodate it.
If two antibiotics are similar enough, resistance developed against one can confer resistance against the other. Agricultural use of Avoparcin is widely believed to have led to the development of Vancomycin Resistant Enterrococcus (VRE),
As to only one survivor, I would doubt that. The whole point of crucifixion is that it is a degrading, painful, and long way to die. Records exist of strong men (eg. deserting soldiers) lasting up to three days on the cross before dying.
Most Christians don't subscribe to the idea that only Christ was ever crucified. The Bible itself states that two criminals were crucified alongside Jesus and that crucifixion was a relatively common punishment. The uniqueness was in Christ himself, not in the exact means of death. Go troll somewhere else.
Cancer is a condition of abnormal cell division and growth, not some anaerobic chemical reaction. The cancerous cells have the same metabolic requirement for OXYGEN that normal cells do. OK, sure, they could rely on glycolysis and not use blood oxygen, but rapidly dividing cells use more energy than glycolysis can reasonably provide.
Take your "omg the evil drug companies invented disease so they could gouge us" conspiriacy theories and shove them where the sun don't shine.
until now, you had two options: electric heaters that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand
Here in Australia, many people use off-peak gas hot water. A gas burner runs at times of lower gas demand (when e.g. gas cooking for dinner is not happening) and a tank holds the hot water. Is this practice uncommon in the US or is the submitter just an idiot? (Note: both options may be valid)
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Actually, with one 'normal' and one 'deviant' allele, the tetrachromatic woman's sons would have a 50/50 chance of being colour blind. A woman with two deficient alleles would actually be colour blind; her sons would be colour blind and her daughters tetrachromats.
Search Wikipedia for 'tetrachromatism' for more info.
Given that this hypothetical conversation was recorded in 2002, the pertinent question would be "What WTC are you talking about?"
Uno. Dos. Tres.
You put $100 in the bank. You now have $0, bank has $100.
Total money: $100
The bank loans $90 and holds $10.
Total money: $100
This $90 is deposited and $81 loaned out. Bank 1: $10. Bank 2: $9. You: $0. Person A: $0. Person B: $81.
Total money: $100
The problem comes when the two depositors decide they want their money back, and the banks don't have enough reserves to pay out. This condition is called insolvency (liabilities exceeding assets), and trading while insolvent is a serious corporate offense, especially for a bank. Part of the trigger for the 1928 stock crash was a rush on deposits, the banks had loaned too much money for margin stocks, and when they tried to reclaim it, the assets were worthless.
Hydrogen peroxide is H2O2. 2*H20 is two molecules of water.
The ability to destroy a small town is insignificant, next to the power of the force.
You're an idiot. The reactions are exactly opposite, and release/consume exactly the same amount of energy.
Why, yes, I AM a chemist. Why do you ask?
Nyer, nyer. Pwnt.
Fission reactions do not require high temperatures, the fission reaction produces heat and this heat is what is used in a fission reactor to heat water (or other coolant, some use liquid sodium/potassium alloys). This 'hot' (radiated) coolant then goes through a heat exchanger to 'cold' water, producing steam to drive a turbine.
If you got a fuel rod a tens of millions of degrees (assuming for a moment that anything could be solid at that temperature) and put it into water, it would explode. Fuel rods are kept in the spent fuel pool to cool down from operating temperatures of several hundred degrees, and to allow short half-life byproducts to dissipate before disposal/reprocessing.
Pot, I believe you know Kettle?
Since the capacitor's charge is stored at the contact between the conducting and insulating parts, the benefit of this nanotube idea is that having a 'forest' of nanotubes poking out of the electrode will greatly boost the contact area, in the same way a heatsink's fins increase its own ability to dissipate heat.
Then you shouldn't be confusing them with molecular vibrational spectroscopy. The article clearly states that this technology is looking at molecular rotational energy levels intermediate between infrared and microwave.
To clarify, this is why a new antibiotic 'family' is so sought after. A new mode of action can completely step around existing resistance. PS. I believe Vancomycin (the current drug of last resort for MRSA) attacks bacterial protein synthesis. It also causes renal cytotoxicity (kidney damage) and has a narrow theraputic range (the difference between the minimum effective and maximum safe dose).
I beg to differ. Many families of antibiotics share the same core mode of action, with only a few side-chains different. E.g. the original Penicillin and modern Methicillin are both beta-lactam antibiotics, which attack bacterial cell walls (more specifically, the enzyme that assembles them). Penicillin resistance is due to the bacteria producing a new enzyme (beta-lactamase) which safely inactivates the antibiotic. Current Methicillin resistance has developed gradually, as each new variant of Penicillin is introduced, the enzyme mutates to accomodate it.
If two antibiotics are similar enough, resistance developed against one can confer resistance against the other. Agricultural use of Avoparcin is widely believed to have led to the development of Vancomycin Resistant Enterrococcus (VRE),
As to only one survivor, I would doubt that. The whole point of crucifixion is that it is a degrading, painful, and long way to die. Records exist of strong men (eg. deserting soldiers) lasting up to three days on the cross before dying.
Most Christians don't subscribe to the idea that only Christ was ever crucified. The Bible itself states that two criminals were crucified alongside Jesus and that crucifixion was a relatively common punishment. The uniqueness was in Christ himself, not in the exact means of death. Go troll somewhere else.
Good thing my tinfoil hat is waterproof. Let's see those alien rain bugs infest my brain now!
If you can't Google it, then it doesn't exist. :)
Cancer is a condition of abnormal cell division and growth, not some anaerobic chemical reaction. The cancerous cells have the same metabolic requirement for OXYGEN that normal cells do. OK, sure, they could rely on glycolysis and not use blood oxygen, but rapidly dividing cells use more energy than glycolysis can reasonably provide.
Take your "omg the evil drug companies invented disease so they could gouge us" conspiriacy theories and shove them where the sun don't shine.
You can be an extroverted misanthropist, but it is more commonly associated with introversion.
Here in Australia, many people use off-peak gas hot water. A gas burner runs at times of lower gas demand (when e.g. gas cooking for dinner is not happening) and a tank holds the hot water. Is this practice uncommon in the US or is the submitter just an idiot? (Note: both options may be valid)
We will now wait for the circular logic of organic chemistry to melt the brains of the physics students.
In Soviet Russia, dead people laugh at YOU!
Did we get invaded? I hadn't noticed.