The reason for this is probably because even the best probiotics hold maybe a dozen of the various things that populate the intestinal tract, while these pills, by virtue of being a direct sample, contain essentially ALL of the thousands of things that make up our intestinal flora.
I'd sure like to know what kind of progress, successful or otherwise they have made on the concept in the 10 years since then. Its an interesting idea to be sure.
there is also http://www.daskeyboard.com/ which claims its modern keys replicate the feel of buckling spring boards, and are available in loud, and not so loud. They also have a model with no markings on the keys, for the true elitist.
I doubt it. A balloon filled with a lifting gas will eventually reach an altitude where the atmosphere density outside the balloon is equal to the density of the lifting gas inside, and halt is rise. Think of a balloon full of air underwater, rises to the surface, then stops. In our case, the balloon is full of helium, and rises through a sea of mixed air until it reaches a point where helium would normally be floating on top of the atmosphere if it where not for solar wind stripping it off. (thats a little simplistic in describing where helium goes, but close enough for this situation) IIRC, Most balloons burst before this point, because the gas inside expands as the balloon rises and the pressure outside the balloon drops, and the balloon expands in volume until the material finally fails. Because there is little to no momentum across the globe, the balloon is never technically in orbit. and drops back down to earth. The only reason it does not land at point of launch is air currants, and the fact the earth rotates underneath it a little. The highest altitude balloon, as described in the summary, reached 173,900 feet (about 53 Kilometers) which is a little over 1/8th the distance to the ISS, which is in a rather low orbit because it had to be serviced by the space shuttle. Now, if you could somehow invent a balloon with infinite structural integrity, which would not burst, I *think* you could get a balloon out as far as 100 Kilometers, but at this stage, i'm completely guessing based on quick perusals of some atmosphere data online. At any rate, even at those altitudes, you would still be far to low to fall into an orbit without significant lateral acceleration, which means you are coming back down, that day. Seeing as electrostatic drives take weeks to produce any meaningful degree of acceleration, I don't see how you could reach escape velocity using a balloon and electrostatic drive.
It won't help the muscles, but it will help the bones apparently. Bone becomes brittle and light in null G over longish periods apparently, so the gravity spin is to make it so your still strong muscles (from the electroshock therapy while in stasis) don't snap your bones like twigs when you try to walk when you get to mars. In theory. Its still all just numbers on a spreadsheet at this point.
Turns out, that is probably a LOT harder than we'd imagine. You know the 'stationary' bike they use on the ISS to keep in shape? turns out, its attached to the station in all sorts of weird special ways to keep you from shaking the station to pieces/rotating the station due to the forces the spinning wheel/pedaling action causes. If a exercise bike in space is that bloody hard, imagine what a ship with a multi-person hamster wheel will be like to engineer.
Oh I agree, we're better off stopping Ebola dead in its tracks before it makes inroads in more places. I don't mean for anyone to underestimate the seriousness of the disease by any means. I was merely pointing out how to much of the coverage of Ebola is scaremongering bullshit, with not enough real information on how to protect yourself. As they said in the movie 'Contagion' "Wash your hands. Never touch your face." That goes a long long way towards keeping a non-airborne disease out of you and protecting everyone else. I might add to that list the following,
Don't lick any surface in a public place.
Don't use cash. Paper money holds pathogens like a sponge. If you have a credit/debit card, get a prepaid one and reload it as needed.
If your sick (with ANYTHING) stay home (don't go sharing that shit, we don't want it) Unless its hospital bad, then go to the hospital.
If you go to the hospital and get meds (antibiotics, antivirals, anything) TAKE THE ENTIRE PRESCRIBED DOSE.
that about covers it.
Just the other day, I thought to myself "How many viruses have we ever seen mutate to become airborne?"
So I checked. Now, its a little tough to google right now, because the top million or so results are news articles screaming that ebola will go airborne and kill us all, but I did manage to find some solid articles on the subject stemming from a more scientific standpoint, and a less "WE ALL GONNA DIE" clickbait standpoint.
What I learned is this:
In the 100 or so years we have been really studying viruses, we have seen a virus mutate and change its infection vector exactly ZERO times.
As it turns out, viruses are pretty specialized at what they do. Some, like the influenza virus, have nailed down the trait of surviving for long periods in aerosolized droplets of mucus that are so small that local air currents are more powerful than gravity, and have adapted to surviving in lung tissue very well. (airborne)
Others, like say, ebola, are adapted to surviving in the liver and blood, and can survive for a bit of time outside the body, in much larger volumes of bodily fluids. (not airborne) The ebola virus does build up in the lung tissue the way influenza does, nor does it have the specialized structures that allow it to move into the mucosal secretions of the lungs, the way influenza does. (all of which are needed to be a successful airborne virus)
Another thing influenza has going for it is that multiple variants of influenza can infect a single cell, and spawn forth a new variant of influenza. Apparently, this is not something ebola is capable of *at all* meaning it mutates at a much slower rate than influenza.
The net takeaway from all this is, while the chances of ebola mutating and becoming airborne are non zero, the actual odds of its occurrence are vanishingly small.
Long story short, viruses come in a lot of forms, and people are expecting the behavior of one to match up with the behavior of another, when in reality they are entirely different creatures. One article I read likened it to saying Cars fly, and Airplanes drive on the ground, where Ebola is a car, and Influenza is an Airplane. While the statement is not entirely false, because cars can fly short distances in special circumstances, and planes do taxi to the terminal, your not going to fly your Volkswagen to Paris from NY, and your not going to drive a boing 747 from Detroit to Houston on the highway. Specialized structures for specific purposes.
The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding (e.g. oozing from the gums, blood in the stools). Laboratory findings include low white blood cell and platelet counts and elevated liver enzymes.
Which is probably the most intelligent thing a politician has done this year. If a person has the time, money, skills, and tools to use a CNC mill to finish an AR lower, they probably are not in the violent crime lifestyle.
Like puddles, ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, oceans, and other large bodies of water? As viewed from the air, at some angles, those are blindingly bright.
This is fairly interesting news, but did we need SIX links to the same information on six different websites in the FIRST sentence of the summary? What that all about?
Thats the whole reason I came to this thread. To watch the "Anthropogenic Climate Change" crowd vs the "Global Warming is a Myth" crowd flame war. *munches popcorn* I stopped trying to reason with either side ages ago, now I just come to learn new and more interesting ways of insulting people.
That actually seems like a really good idea. (from my "Not a doctor" point of view anyways) You better email it to someone who actually cares enough to try it, instead of posting it here, where we jaded internet people will just call you names.
I usually just do my best to channel R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket, laced with the dredges of 4Chan and Bash.org, and see how long it takes for them to hang up under the verbal onslaught. Some of them last several paragraphs.
Of course, if you read the article, it says that the effects will be at worst serious radio interference, some high voltage alarms on sensitive equipment that has monitors, and some transformer damage if the storm lasts long enough, but mainly in the higher latitudes. Not exactly world ending.
Because that happens at all anymore. There is literally ONE store in my town that takes cards that does not have the "Customer Side" card swipe, not that it matters, because reading the name on the card does absolutely nothing if you have no ID to compare it to. You pretty much never hand your card to the cashier anymore, and none of them are trained to expect you to. Yeah, its a great idea "confirm they are the owner of the card" which means you need the actual credit card, their drivers license/ID card, and a deep sense of giving a shit. In reality, its "Get the customer out of the store so you can help the next one."
Actually, I suspect that this is more efficient than "toss it on the pad" simply because the variables are closely controlled. The watch goes onto the charger in a particular way, which means all the magnetic fields are aligned precisely allowing for as much optimization as is possible. Besides, this opens up a market for fancy stands to hold the end of the charger, allowing you to have a little holder on your nightstand that you put your watch on, letting it double as a bedside clock or whatever. trust me, there will be all sorts of hipster "hand crafted bamboo AppleWatch charging stands" within a month or so.
If you're to lazy to read that, here's the condensed version:
Most available "Body Cams" for cops use a system where the cop turns the camera on when responding to a call/situation via a double click on a single button on the device. (exactly when the cop is required to turn on the device is decided by department regulations) They can stop recording via the same input. The devices have no controls to erase data, and it is stored until the unit returns to base, at which time it uploads to a secure server run by the manufacturer of the device, which is essentially a digital evidence vault. In the vault, it can only be accessed by verified administrators, usually police chiefs. Now, you may say "well the cop can just turn off the recorder if they want to do something bad." Sure, and at that point, they would be violating department regulations, and subject the case to a lot MORE scrutiny. The online system logs who and when anyone accesses the video in the vault, and wether or not it is copied out of the vault. The point is, the infrastructure is already in place, with hardware available through at least 3 different companies, with extremely well thought out safeguards against the exact sort of asshattery everyone here is claiming will go on if cops are required to use body cams.
No mater what, going from a "this story versus that story" to "two stories, and some video" is an great step towards fair treatment and accurately administered justice.
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I wish I had not used up all my modpoints already, because this deserves an upvote.
The reason for this is probably because even the best probiotics hold maybe a dozen of the various things that populate the intestinal tract, while these pills, by virtue of being a direct sample, contain essentially ALL of the thousands of things that make up our intestinal flora.
I'd sure like to know what kind of progress, successful or otherwise they have made on the concept in the 10 years since then. Its an interesting idea to be sure.
Supposedly, the Cherry Red keys are the closest to the model M keys. Hopefully someone who has tried them can chime in.
there is also http://www.daskeyboard.com/ which claims its modern keys replicate the feel of buckling spring boards, and are available in loud, and not so loud. They also have a model with no markings on the keys, for the true elitist.
I doubt it. A balloon filled with a lifting gas will eventually reach an altitude where the atmosphere density outside the balloon is equal to the density of the lifting gas inside, and halt is rise. Think of a balloon full of air underwater, rises to the surface, then stops. In our case, the balloon is full of helium, and rises through a sea of mixed air until it reaches a point where helium would normally be floating on top of the atmosphere if it where not for solar wind stripping it off. (thats a little simplistic in describing where helium goes, but close enough for this situation) IIRC, Most balloons burst before this point, because the gas inside expands as the balloon rises and the pressure outside the balloon drops, and the balloon expands in volume until the material finally fails. Because there is little to no momentum across the globe, the balloon is never technically in orbit. and drops back down to earth. The only reason it does not land at point of launch is air currants, and the fact the earth rotates underneath it a little. The highest altitude balloon, as described in the summary, reached 173,900 feet (about 53 Kilometers) which is a little over 1/8th the distance to the ISS, which is in a rather low orbit because it had to be serviced by the space shuttle. Now, if you could somehow invent a balloon with infinite structural integrity, which would not burst, I *think* you could get a balloon out as far as 100 Kilometers, but at this stage, i'm completely guessing based on quick perusals of some atmosphere data online. At any rate, even at those altitudes, you would still be far to low to fall into an orbit without significant lateral acceleration, which means you are coming back down, that day. Seeing as electrostatic drives take weeks to produce any meaningful degree of acceleration, I don't see how you could reach escape velocity using a balloon and electrostatic drive.
It won't help the muscles, but it will help the bones apparently. Bone becomes brittle and light in null G over longish periods apparently, so the gravity spin is to make it so your still strong muscles (from the electroshock therapy while in stasis) don't snap your bones like twigs when you try to walk when you get to mars. In theory. Its still all just numbers on a spreadsheet at this point.
Turns out, that is probably a LOT harder than we'd imagine. You know the 'stationary' bike they use on the ISS to keep in shape? turns out, its attached to the station in all sorts of weird special ways to keep you from shaking the station to pieces/rotating the station due to the forces the spinning wheel/pedaling action causes. If a exercise bike in space is that bloody hard, imagine what a ship with a multi-person hamster wheel will be like to engineer.
Oh I agree, we're better off stopping Ebola dead in its tracks before it makes inroads in more places. I don't mean for anyone to underestimate the seriousness of the disease by any means. I was merely pointing out how to much of the coverage of Ebola is scaremongering bullshit, with not enough real information on how to protect yourself. As they said in the movie 'Contagion' "Wash your hands. Never touch your face." That goes a long long way towards keeping a non-airborne disease out of you and protecting everyone else. I might add to that list the following,
Don't lick any surface in a public place.
Don't use cash. Paper money holds pathogens like a sponge. If you have a credit/debit card, get a prepaid one and reload it as needed.
If your sick (with ANYTHING) stay home (don't go sharing that shit, we don't want it) Unless its hospital bad, then go to the hospital. If you go to the hospital and get meds (antibiotics, antivirals, anything) TAKE THE ENTIRE PRESCRIBED DOSE.
that about covers it.
Because its been stuffed down someones pants. Its a commonly known fact that all bribe money has been grundled.
"if it goes airborne"
Just the other day, I thought to myself "How many viruses have we ever seen mutate to become airborne?"
So I checked. Now, its a little tough to google right now, because the top million or so results are news articles screaming that ebola will go airborne and kill us all, but I did manage to find some solid articles on the subject stemming from a more scientific standpoint, and a less "WE ALL GONNA DIE" clickbait standpoint.
What I learned is this:
In the 100 or so years we have been really studying viruses, we have seen a virus mutate and change its infection vector exactly ZERO times.
As it turns out, viruses are pretty specialized at what they do. Some, like the influenza virus, have nailed down the trait of surviving for long periods in aerosolized droplets of mucus that are so small that local air currents are more powerful than gravity, and have adapted to surviving in lung tissue very well. (airborne)
Others, like say, ebola, are adapted to surviving in the liver and blood, and can survive for a bit of time outside the body, in much larger volumes of bodily fluids. (not airborne) The ebola virus does build up in the lung tissue the way influenza does, nor does it have the specialized structures that allow it to move into the mucosal secretions of the lungs, the way influenza does. (all of which are needed to be a successful airborne virus)
Another thing influenza has going for it is that multiple variants of influenza can infect a single cell, and spawn forth a new variant of influenza. Apparently, this is not something ebola is capable of *at all* meaning it mutates at a much slower rate than influenza.
The net takeaway from all this is, while the chances of ebola mutating and becoming airborne are non zero, the actual odds of its occurrence are vanishingly small.
Long story short, viruses come in a lot of forms, and people are expecting the behavior of one to match up with the behavior of another, when in reality they are entirely different creatures. One article I read likened it to saying Cars fly, and Airplanes drive on the ground, where Ebola is a car, and Influenza is an Airplane. While the statement is not entirely false, because cars can fly short distances in special circumstances, and planes do taxi to the terminal, your not going to fly your Volkswagen to Paris from NY, and your not going to drive a boing 747 from Detroit to Houston on the highway. Specialized structures for specific purposes.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre...
Symptoms of Ebola virus disease
The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding (e.g. oozing from the gums, blood in the stools). Laboratory findings include low white blood cell and platelet counts and elevated liver enzymes.
Or, launch terminal, navigate to the application support folder, and see if the file is there. You know, like a real man.
Which is probably the most intelligent thing a politician has done this year. If a person has the time, money, skills, and tools to use a CNC mill to finish an AR lower, they probably are not in the violent crime lifestyle.
http://news.nationalgeographic...
This is the battery you need. To bad its the size of a Mcdonalds franchise with extra large playplace.
Like puddles, ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, oceans, and other large bodies of water? As viewed from the air, at some angles, those are blindingly bright.
This is fairly interesting news, but did we need SIX links to the same information on six different websites in the FIRST sentence of the summary? What that all about?
Thats the whole reason I came to this thread. To watch the "Anthropogenic Climate Change" crowd vs the "Global Warming is a Myth" crowd flame war. *munches popcorn* I stopped trying to reason with either side ages ago, now I just come to learn new and more interesting ways of insulting people.
That actually seems like a really good idea. (from my "Not a doctor" point of view anyways) You better email it to someone who actually cares enough to try it, instead of posting it here, where we jaded internet people will just call you names.
I usually just do my best to channel R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket, laced with the dredges of 4Chan and Bash.org, and see how long it takes for them to hang up under the verbal onslaught. Some of them last several paragraphs.
Of course, if you read the article, it says that the effects will be at worst serious radio interference, some high voltage alarms on sensitive equipment that has monitors, and some transformer damage if the storm lasts long enough, but mainly in the higher latitudes. Not exactly world ending.
Because that happens at all anymore. There is literally ONE store in my town that takes cards that does not have the "Customer Side" card swipe, not that it matters, because reading the name on the card does absolutely nothing if you have no ID to compare it to. You pretty much never hand your card to the cashier anymore, and none of them are trained to expect you to. Yeah, its a great idea "confirm they are the owner of the card" which means you need the actual credit card, their drivers license/ID card, and a deep sense of giving a shit. In reality, its "Get the customer out of the store so you can help the next one."
Actually, I suspect that this is more efficient than "toss it on the pad" simply because the variables are closely controlled. The watch goes onto the charger in a particular way, which means all the magnetic fields are aligned precisely allowing for as much optimization as is possible. Besides, this opens up a market for fancy stands to hold the end of the charger, allowing you to have a little holder on your nightstand that you put your watch on, letting it double as a bedside clock or whatever. trust me, there will be all sorts of hipster "hand crafted bamboo AppleWatch charging stands" within a month or so.
Ok, stop being a dipshit and look some stuff up. here's a good starting point:
http://www.thewire.com/nationa...
If you're to lazy to read that, here's the condensed version: Most available "Body Cams" for cops use a system where the cop turns the camera on when responding to a call/situation via a double click on a single button on the device. (exactly when the cop is required to turn on the device is decided by department regulations) They can stop recording via the same input. The devices have no controls to erase data, and it is stored until the unit returns to base, at which time it uploads to a secure server run by the manufacturer of the device, which is essentially a digital evidence vault. In the vault, it can only be accessed by verified administrators, usually police chiefs. Now, you may say "well the cop can just turn off the recorder if they want to do something bad." Sure, and at that point, they would be violating department regulations, and subject the case to a lot MORE scrutiny. The online system logs who and when anyone accesses the video in the vault, and wether or not it is copied out of the vault. The point is, the infrastructure is already in place, with hardware available through at least 3 different companies, with extremely well thought out safeguards against the exact sort of asshattery everyone here is claiming will go on if cops are required to use body cams.
No mater what, going from a "this story versus that story" to "two stories, and some video" is an great step towards fair treatment and accurately administered justice.
Its hard to represent negative numbers in this sort of graph.