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  1. Re:Antibacterial phage therapy is 80% effective on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 1
  2. Antibacterial phage therapy is 80% effective on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    Bacteriophages are being used to cure such infections in one of polish hospitals. For example MRSA is being cured in 80% of cases.
    Therapy is safe and cheap:
    http://www.aite.wroclaw.pl/pha...

    If you know anyone who is struggling with some nasty staph-like infection, then please inform about this therapy availability. This information might save people lives.

    Why you are not going to see such treatments in USA?? Phages are not patentable, so no way to earn hard cash here.

  3. Did you try some experimental therapy? on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 0

    Sorry to read about your illness. Did you try to find some experimental therapy? Like this one: http://www.zapcancer.org/

  4. Re:units on Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea · · Score: 2, Informative

    "By the end of the 20th century, most countries used the Celsius scale rather than the Fahrenheit scale. Fahrenheit remains the official scale for the following countries: the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau, and the United States and associated territories (Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands)."
    Yep. Archaic or just retarded?

  5. Dr Stoyan Sarg predicted this in his BSM-SG theory on First Observations of Short-lived Pear-shaped Atomic Nuclei · · Score: 2

    Dr. Stoyan Sarg already predicted such atomic nuclei shape in his "Basic Structures of Matter - Supergravitation Unified Theory":
    http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/ground-breaking-new-book-offers-scientific-reasoning-for-cold-fusion-energy-248341.htm

    BTW here is a better article from Physics World:
    http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/may/08/nuclear-physics-goes-pear-shaped

  6. Kickstarter description should be much shorter on David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot · · Score: 1

    For me it would be enough to be just "I'm David Braben, please give me your money"

  7. Nope. Edwin Hubble didn't believed in Big Bang on New Study Shows Universe Still Expanding On Schedule · · Score: 1

    Edwin Hubble was very sceptical about, so called "Big Bang" theory and claimed that there might be different explanation of redshift effect which he observed.

    ``Astronomer Edwin P. Hubble says that after a six-year study, evidence does not support what we now call the Big Bang theory, according to the Associated Press. “The universe probably is not exploding but is a quiet, peaceful place and possibly just about infinite in size.''''

    Check this paper too:
    http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.2485v2.pdf

  8. L2 is occupied on NASA Mulling Earth-Moon L2 Point for Mars Staging Station · · Score: 1

    ESA Planck space observatory is stationing there already, so buzz off NASA!!

  9. RTG is VERY costly on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    I think somewhere around $60M per piece, maybe even more given very limited availablity of plutonium-238. USA already ceased production of it::
    http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/09/11/senate-energy-bill-includes-no-pu-238-funding/
    PU-238 can only be bought from Russians (as it was done in case of Curiosity power source):
    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/08/mars_rover_curiosity_its_plutonium_power_comes_courtesy_of_soviet_nukes_.single.html
    Hovewer RTG will be producing heat and 100-200 W of electricity for 100 years.

    I would say something like this is needed:
    http://pesn.com/2012/08/22/9602166_Existence_of_1200_C_E-Cat_Test_Report_Confirmed/

  10. Just stupid first impression... on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    Well. Initially I thought that this article is about Palestinian kids which are expected to construct rockets instead of attending the school.

  11. Re:Why to involve T-cells? There are better ways.. on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 1

    Isn't T-cells a part of Adaptive immune system?:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system

    As far as I know T-cells are not playing any role in GIFT therapy about which I've described above.

  12. Why to involve T-cells? There are better ways... on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dr Zheng Cui (Wake Forest University of Medicine in North Carolina) discovered that human innate immune system is very effective at killing a wide range of cancer cells. About 15-40% of human population is naturally cancer resistant. Granulocytes kill 97% of injected cancer cells within 24 hours.
    The most important discovery is that such cancer resistance can be transferred via simple blood transfusion. Here are some articles:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7003019.stm
    http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/12/granulocyte-infusion-therapy-spreading-into-clinics-beyond-the-us.php

    Few human patient clinical trials are in progress right now:
    http://www.bmscti.org/cancerpatients.htm
    http://liftcancertreatmenttrial.com/scientific-background/previous-studies-in-humans
    http://www.novacellsinstitute.com/

    And there are some exciting news about patients with 'cancer in full remission':
    http://www.novacellsinstitute.com/articles/Beating%20Cancer%20-%20New%20Form%20of%20Immune%20Therapy%20is%20Working%20-%20for%20NOVA%20CELLS%20website.pdf

  13. Phage therapy helps in 80% of infections on DARPA Requests Replacement To Antibiotics · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bacteriophages are being used to cure such infections in one of polish hospitals. For example MRSA is being cured in 80% of cases.
    Therapy is safe and cheap:
    http://www.aite.wroclaw.pl/phages/phages.html

    Why you are not going to see such treatments in your country?? Phages are not patentable, so no way to earn hard cash here.

  14. With Rossi "Cold Fusion" device? Why not? on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1
  15. Rossi Cold Fusion reactors available in 2012 on A New Class of Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Well, what about Cold Fusion reactors??
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/nuclear-future-beyond-japan/
    http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece

    Rossi and Defcalion Technologies are currently constructing 1MW fusion reactor in Greece.
    They say it will be ready in October this year and production of 20kW market ready devices should start in 2012.

    New factory in Xanthi (100mln euros investment) is expected to manufacture 300.000 such devices per year:
    http://translate.google.pl/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=el&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.energypress.gr%2Fportal%2Fresource%2FcontentObject%2Fid%2Fe7cf318d-06b8-414a-8183-54af3baf5897

    Cost of 1kWh energy production is expected to be within US cent range.

  16. Vaccine against influenza A is already AVAILABLE on Swine Flu Genetics Suggest a Vaccine Is Possible · · Score: 1

    The vaccine ACAM-FLU-A, made by Acambis, should give lifelong protection against all strains of influenza A - the cause of pandemics. It can protect against swine flu (H1N1), avian flu (H5N1) and all other known strains of type A.
    Introducing something like this will mean eradication of flu because vaccine targets region of influenza virus which is common for all its types and doesn't change when virus is mutating.
    Right now the second phase of clinical testing is performed, first phase has been finished successfully (90% of vaccinated people developed antibodies against flu virus).

    See article:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7171118.stm

    There is one strange thing related to this vaccine. In September 2008 Sanofi Pasteur which is one of the biggest vaccine producing companies in the word has acquired Acambis.

    Read this:
    http://198.73.159.214/sanofi-pasteur2/ImageServlet?imageCode=23340&siteCode=SP_CORP

    Wonder if this is connected somehow to development of universal vaccine. Selling of seasonal flu vaccines is main source of income for Sanofi Pasteur, maybe they do not want to introduce ACAM-FLU-A into market because it will mean less money for them? Guess if any such money is worth 500 000 deaths due to influenza every year.

    /Z

  17. Re:This is a-posteriori explanation of GP-B issue on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Heim's theory (not mine) also predicts very accurately masses and lifetimes of many elementary particles. The predicted masses were claimed to have been derived by Heim using only 4 parameters:
    h (Planck's Constant), G (Gravitational constant), vacuum permittivity and permeability.

    Calculations are so simple that you can perform them using Java interpreter of your web browser: Heim Calculator
    There is no other theory which is capable of doing such thing.

    Do you think it could be possible to achieve such accuracy by playing with only number of dimensions 6, 8 or 12?
    Don't think it is possible.

    /Joss

  18. Re:This is a-posteriori explanation of GP-B issue on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 4, Informative

    This "gravitational effect" is regarding Lense-Thirring effect of GR due to rotation of mass, not the mas itself. /Joss

  19. Re:This is a-posteriori explanation of GP-B issue on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is correct link to ariv paper of Dr Martin Tajmar:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3806

    /Joss

  20. This is a-posteriori explanation of GP-B issue on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Martin Tajmar also posits an a-posteriori explanation for the anomalous data from Gravity Probe B based upon Cooper-pair mass in Niobium superconductors in: arxiv.org/abs/0707.3806
    Heim Theory predicted such effects in 1950s already. Droscher & Hauser have suggested mechanism based on Heim Theory which was a-priori prediction as commented in the cover story of New Scientist Jan 2006, 3 months before Tajmar's announcement on the ESA homepage.

    Here is the latest paper from Droscher & Hauser which gives explanation for outcome of both Tajmar and GP-B experiments.

    Personally I like this part:
    Numerous experiments by Tajmar et al. were carried out since 2003, and first published in 2006 report on the generation of gravitomagnetic (spacetime twisting) and gravity-like fields (acceleration) in the laboratory. The gravitational effects measured were about 18-20 orders of magnitude larger than predicted by the Lense-Thirring effect of GR. In other words, the rotating niobium ring, having a mass of some 100 grams as utilized by Tajmar et al., produces a gravitational effect similar to the mass of a a white dwarf.

    /Joss

  21. Re:Matter and Energy...or not? on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    The observations of Edwin Hubble in 1929 suggested that distant galaxies were all apparently moving away from us, so that many scientists came to accept that the universe was expanding. These scientists however did not include Hubble himself. While the metric expansion of space reading of Hubble's 1929 observations is viewed today by most scientists as the correct reading of the data, Hubble wrote six years later:

    QUOTE (E. Hubble)
    "... if redshift are not primarily due to velocity shift ... the velocity-distance relation is linear, the distribution of the nebula is uniform, there is no evidence of expansion, no trace of curvature, no restriction of the time scale ... and we find ourselves in the presence of one of the principle of nature that is still unknown to us today ... whereas, if redshifts are velocity shifts which measure the rate of expansion, the expanding models are definitely inconsistent with the observations that have been made ... expanding models are a forced interpretation of the observational results"

    - E. Hubble, Ap. J., 84, 517, 1936

    and

    QUOTE (E.Hubble)
    "[If the redshifts are a Doppler shift] ... the observations as they stand lead to the anomaly of a closed universe, curiously small and dense, and, it may be added, suspiciously young. On the other hand, if redshifts are not Doppler effects, these anomalies disappear and the region observed appears as a small, homogeneous, but insignificant portion of a universe extended indefinitely both in space and time."

    - E. Hubble, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 97, 506, 1937

    Mistake is the assumption that cosmic red shift is due to Doppler effect.
    Existence of gravitational constant means that light is red-shifted due to repulsive gravity effect on very large distances.

    Even Einstein himself apparently has been fooled by "expanding universe" idea and didn't finished his works based on cosmological constant. Maybe this is a reason why he didn't succeed with his general relativity theory: due to misconception.

    Today I'm convinced that "expanding universe" is one of biggest mistakes which Physics has ever made. That's why we hear this constant mumbling about "dark energy" and "dark mass":

    /Z

  22. Re:Matter and Energy...or not? on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Heim Theory got Simple explanation for that. Every field got "field mass" associated with it:
    http://www.engon.de/protosimplex/posdzech/px_g_gravi1e.htm

    Because of equivalence of mass and energy Heim says there must also exist a field mass of the field energy of each field. However in case of gravitational field this results in a secondary (very weak) additional gravitative source because a field mass possesses its own gravitational field.
    In a volume V0 there is mass which may be distributed in any kind. This mass is producing a gravitation effect, as it can be described with Newton's approximation. Now Heim says that to the energy of this gravitational field corresponds its own field mass. This field mass again produces a second additionally gravitational field which is very weak. Again this field possesses its own field mass which produces a field. So you receive an infinite series, which however converges very fast against a calculable limit value.
    The whole description results in a short mathematical description for a corrected gravitation law, which corresponds with Newton's gravitation law within the observable area of space. However for very large distances it will provide completely different results. As you can see in the illustration below for very long distances gravitation will produce a weak repulsing force which will only exist if a mass is moving toward the center of the gravitational field. Among other things the phenomenon of the cosmic red shift can be explained now as a gravitational effect.


    /Joss

  23. Re:We have much to learn on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    Exactly like you have written, there already exist explanation for this:
    http://www.engon.de/protosimplex/posdzech/px_g_gravi1e.htm

    Read more here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
    /Joss

  24. Heim Theory predicted and explained this on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: -1, Troll

    This anomaly is not due to mysterious "dark energy", simply "mainstream" understanding of gravity is not complete.
    Heim Theory predicted and explained this in 1950s:

    http://www.engon.de/protosimplex/posdzech/px_g_gravi1e.htm
    Read more here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
    /Joss

  25. Funny. This Java script doesn't need supercomputer on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Use Heim Mass Calculator to easily compute masses of proton, neutron, electron and a lot of other particles as well, with a great precision (relative errors less then 0.00001) when comparing with most precise laboratory measurements available. The only hardware you need is Java in your browser.

    This algorithm is based on 50-year old equations of Burkhard Heim thanks to his beautiful theory. Notice that it include computation of neutrino mass which was found in recent years. When Heim was working on his theory almost all scientist were sure that neutrino is massless. The only input which this algorithm needs is a bunch of well known constants: h (Planck's Constant), G (Gravitational constant), vacuum permittivity and vacuum permeability.

    Our current "mainstream" (hate this word) theory known as Standard Model is full of inconsistencies which are forcing scientists to constantly mumble about "dark mass" and "dark energy" stuff.
    It remembers me about Enrico Fermi's comment "Beautiful theory, wrong universe". Does it apply here?

    /Z