ok, the way I understand this procedure to work is this:
1. they take some of the patients T cells
2. they modify the cells, making them psycho cancer hunters, able to replicate like rabbits (paraphrasing)
3. the irradiate the patient, to murder the remaining T cells, so the fancy modified ones can work.
4. insert modified cells into patient, allow them to eat cancer.
now, i cant get past the pay-wall, but as a logical human being, i would assume that the next steps would be:
5. irradiate the patient, to kill the modified T cells.
6. Reintroduce the patients original unmodified (abet non cancerous) t cells. (which you saved from the batch you took to make the fancy cancer eating cells)
7. ?
8. Profit!
At least, it seems like that is what I would do. That is of course, assuming that the modified cells are not simply programed to go after only aberrant B cells in the marrow, leaving healthy marrow alone.
screw SETI, run folding@home and find the cure for cancer. We need that a little more than we need to stare at the sky, wishing someone would call from alpha centauri or some such place.
Ok , i amend my comment: Streaming *everything* can end.
sure, for live events and whatnot, streaming is ideal, but streaming a movie to a single user, I don't see the advantages.
My sentiments exactly. If you build a (vastly) faster internet, the hardware will be ready for it long before you actually have it to the customers doors. And yes. we do need it. Why? because the vast shift towards streaming all media content is going to murder the shit out of the current system. If a customer can download an entire HD movie in seconds, that frees up the network in general, instead of slowly moving the file over the course of an hour. The streaming model can die the death it deserves at that point.
i always wanted to try immersion cooling. finding the right non conductive liquid is the trick, as far as i can tell. That, and sealing all your connections. turns out, non conductive liquids seeping into your electrical contacts is not helpful.
I know its not on par with soldering parts on a video card, but I've taken to replacing screens in cell phones. Seems like almost no one these days realizes you can get a 10$ replacement screen, and turn your busted 300$ electric brick back into a phone with 10 minutes work. hell, you can even do iPhones (sure, it voids warranties, but if your doing it, it was probably already out anyways) The DIY/fix it tinkering spirit has largely been replaced with the 'buy a new one' spirit.
or you could just wash your face at least once per day with shampoo that is ideal for your hair type. works wonders for everyone i know who's tried it. Shampoo formulated for *your* hair (ie, thin, oily, dry, etc) tends to do wonders for your face.
you know, the hindenburg was an aberration. Hydrogen based airships had operated safely by the thousands up to that point, and many more operated safely after that. Everyone points at the hindenburg and screams 'HYDROGEN BAD!' but numerous studies have shown that, based on the rate the craft burned up at, hydrogen was not the primary cause of the incident. (hydrogen flashes off fast, the hindenburg took a rather long time to burn down).
as it turns out, if you are a single male flying one way, you pretty much ALWAYS get 'randomly' selected for extra screening. regardless of ethnic origins. whenever I fly on a 1 way ticket, i get 'randomly' selected.
should be able to. Shapeways says that they have printed turbines for mini jet engines for customers (from stainless steel) which work, so i can't see why they could not print your basic propeller.
I'd figured this out for myself like, 10 years ago, when 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' came out. sure, the people looked a little plastic, but the main thing that made them 'wrong' was the fact that they did not move right. for example, when you take a step on hard ground, the moment your foot impacts the ground, a very small shock wave is sent up your leg, across your torso, into your head, and right out the end of your hair. You barely feel it.
However, if something moves 'like' a human, and that shock wave does not happen, your brain instantly knows something is amiss. There are hundreds of thousands of nigh-invisible movements and tremors and vibrations that occur in the human body, doing the smallest of tasks, and because we are so attuned to what a human looks like, the absence of any of those movements screams 'fake' to our brains.
you design a portable cushion that can be deployed from the vehicle it has to catch, that can catch a Volkswagen dropped from ANY hight, and then call nasa. This rover is *huge* compared to previous rovers, dropping it *at all* is not an option.
just to throw a wrench in your colonization fantasies, did you know (and i learned this from a former NASA employee) that the astronauts who spent a year in orbit on the space station, pretty much to the man, are all ending up needing cataract surgery now? its from the radiation. Turns out, being in space for a year is REALLY bad for you long term, and the eyes are just the first to show it.
'if this single part of this entire system breaks, the whole thing is fubar. Also this part here, if IT breaks, the whole thing explodes. Or this part over here, if it falls off to soon? the whole thing crashes to the ground like a Volkswagen dropped off of a bridge.'
single point of failure.
you'd be wrong, i personally have been involved in the same sort of project (dark roof to light) in much more northerly latitudes, and even there, the benifit was, as you say, 'Obvious, and immediately noticeable'
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Because we see patterns where there are none. Weird right?
ok, the way I understand this procedure to work is this:
1. they take some of the patients T cells
2. they modify the cells, making them psycho cancer hunters, able to replicate like rabbits (paraphrasing)
3. the irradiate the patient, to murder the remaining T cells, so the fancy modified ones can work.
4. insert modified cells into patient, allow them to eat cancer.
now, i cant get past the pay-wall, but as a logical human being, i would assume that the next steps would be:
5. irradiate the patient, to kill the modified T cells.
6. Reintroduce the patients original unmodified (abet non cancerous) t cells. (which you saved from the batch you took to make the fancy cancer eating cells)
7. ?
8. Profit!
At least, it seems like that is what I would do. That is of course, assuming that the modified cells are not simply programed to go after only aberrant B cells in the marrow, leaving healthy marrow alone.
this was on the news weeks ago. hell, there's an XKCD about it. http://xkcd.com/938/ it was on SLASHDOT weeks before THAT. repost much?
screw SETI, run folding@home and find the cure for cancer. We need that a little more than we need to stare at the sky, wishing someone would call from alpha centauri or some such place.
Bravo. You sir, have eloquently said what many many people have attempted to say, unsuccessfully, in far more words.
i agree, +5 funny. The speak and spell thing made me laugh.
Ok , i amend my comment: Streaming *everything* can end. sure, for live events and whatnot, streaming is ideal, but streaming a movie to a single user, I don't see the advantages.
is a Turing test valid if the human is an idiot?
My sentiments exactly. If you build a (vastly) faster internet, the hardware will be ready for it long before you actually have it to the customers doors. And yes. we do need it. Why? because the vast shift towards streaming all media content is going to murder the shit out of the current system. If a customer can download an entire HD movie in seconds, that frees up the network in general, instead of slowly moving the file over the course of an hour. The streaming model can die the death it deserves at that point.
i always wanted to try immersion cooling. finding the right non conductive liquid is the trick, as far as i can tell. That, and sealing all your connections. turns out, non conductive liquids seeping into your electrical contacts is not helpful.
I know its not on par with soldering parts on a video card, but I've taken to replacing screens in cell phones. Seems like almost no one these days realizes you can get a 10$ replacement screen, and turn your busted 300$ electric brick back into a phone with 10 minutes work. hell, you can even do iPhones (sure, it voids warranties, but if your doing it, it was probably already out anyways) The DIY/fix it tinkering spirit has largely been replaced with the 'buy a new one' spirit.
or you could just wash your face at least once per day with shampoo that is ideal for your hair type. works wonders for everyone i know who's tried it. Shampoo formulated for *your* hair (ie, thin, oily, dry, etc) tends to do wonders for your face.
you know, the hindenburg was an aberration. Hydrogen based airships had operated safely by the thousands up to that point, and many more operated safely after that. Everyone points at the hindenburg and screams 'HYDROGEN BAD!' but numerous studies have shown that, based on the rate the craft burned up at, hydrogen was not the primary cause of the incident. (hydrogen flashes off fast, the hindenburg took a rather long time to burn down).
as it turns out, if you are a single male flying one way, you pretty much ALWAYS get 'randomly' selected for extra screening. regardless of ethnic origins. whenever I fly on a 1 way ticket, i get 'randomly' selected.
and what we are doing to our planet, now, has an impact on the entire galaxy?
exactly. My first thought reading this is 'Someone seriously thinks we are tearing shit up THAT bad?'
should be able to. Shapeways says that they have printed turbines for mini jet engines for customers (from stainless steel) which work, so i can't see why they could not print your basic propeller.
what if i only close one eye, and spin 2 times instead of 4?
I'd figured this out for myself like, 10 years ago, when 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' came out. sure, the people looked a little plastic, but the main thing that made them 'wrong' was the fact that they did not move right. for example, when you take a step on hard ground, the moment your foot impacts the ground, a very small shock wave is sent up your leg, across your torso, into your head, and right out the end of your hair. You barely feel it.
However, if something moves 'like' a human, and that shock wave does not happen, your brain instantly knows something is amiss. There are hundreds of thousands of nigh-invisible movements and tremors and vibrations that occur in the human body, doing the smallest of tasks, and because we are so attuned to what a human looks like, the absence of any of those movements screams 'fake' to our brains.
you design a portable cushion that can be deployed from the vehicle it has to catch, that can catch a Volkswagen dropped from ANY hight, and then call nasa. This rover is *huge* compared to previous rovers, dropping it *at all* is not an option.
just to throw a wrench in your colonization fantasies, did you know (and i learned this from a former NASA employee) that the astronauts who spent a year in orbit on the space station, pretty much to the man, are all ending up needing cataract surgery now? its from the radiation. Turns out, being in space for a year is REALLY bad for you long term, and the eyes are just the first to show it.
'if this single part of this entire system breaks, the whole thing is fubar. Also this part here, if IT breaks, the whole thing explodes. Or this part over here, if it falls off to soon? the whole thing crashes to the ground like a Volkswagen dropped off of a bridge.' single point of failure.
you'd be wrong, i personally have been involved in the same sort of project (dark roof to light) in much more northerly latitudes, and even there, the benifit was, as you say, 'Obvious, and immediately noticeable'
mod this man up, because he actually knows the answer, and explained it in a non-asshat way.
you gotta watch the video. You've probably never seen a man so happy to put a razor to his face.