I don't think you have your timeline right. The Nauhatl didn't arrive in Tenochtitlan until well after the start of city-state abandonment in the Mayan Regions.
A more likely scenario to me seems that the high priests promised that they could bring back the rains if they were able to give enough blood and living hearts to the Gods. Eventually, the people would rebel against this bloody treatment, and, after slaughtering the priest class for the lying mass murderers they were, abandon the temple complex cities.
Make all the comparisons to modern day "environmentalists" you like. Many of them will be true. They aren't lying when they say they are lead by the spirit of Maya.
Buckyballs are also "basically the same stuff". The point is that nanotubes can't be produced in a continuous process, while graphene can, and graphene has better properties.
That's dumb because you would have to have rockets at the ends of the tethers to muscle through the atmosphere, AND on the center of the thing to keep it at the correct orbit. A space elevator is self correcting, in addition to the potential to be self powering, with a strong enough ribbon (ie you can clamp that "climber" to the ribbon, and just let the ribbon out like a cowboy lets out a lasso). This will allow for return trips, or the ribbon can be rolled up and cut to form the seed ribbon for another space elevator, either on Earth or another planet.
I still don't understand why everyone thinks the space elevator will be made out of carbon nanotubes rather than graphene, which is orders of magnitude easier, simpler, and cheaper to produce on a massive scale, such that it can be made in a continuous process. Of course, the fact it is stiffer and has a higher tensile strength doesn't hurt either.
Science is a method of thinking. Nothing more, nothing less. One can hypothesize about some hidden almighty creator all they want and still think scientifically. They just have to acknowledge that their caprice is not backed up by any evidence, and is not falsifiable. But so what? String Theory isn't yet falsifiable either. The existence of Troy was not falsifiable for a long time. Until it was found.
There will be two types of cell lines. One is extracted from living animals, and the other is extracted through butchering. The latter will provide a great deal more meat more cheaply (as these cells can only divide so many times).
So it depends on where you want to draw the line. If you don't mind taking, say, 1/1000th of the life of a cow to eat a burger every week for the rest of your life, then it is fine either way. If you don't want any part of a dead animal on your hands, then you will have to go with the more expensive extraction method.
Of course, if you don't want ANY part in any animal death, you should know that pretty much everything you use has animal parts in it somewhere. Hell, tires are black because of carbon black sourced from charred animal carcasses.
Note he didn't take any property. It's more like he made copies of some files from their filing cabinet, or took a picture of the inside of their building.
The worst thing he could be charged with is the electronic equivalent of B&E. Of course, this being Slashdot, I didn't read the article, and just glanced at the summary, so I'm not sure if that is what happened or not.
Salt water is more than sufficient. No need to put acidic juices that are full of sugar up there to irritate your sinuses even more than they are already.
Boy, aren't you a little bitch. I invite you to insult him to the face of the several hundred people who's lower limbs he has saved when other doctors said they needed to be amputated.
What the fuck is wrong with you? People who believe in evidence based medicine are not to be trusted? What are you, a fucking witch doctor?
The police and prosecutors are part of the executive branch of the government.
Also, I question the premise that any of the modern democracies are actually still "democracies". I might go on to claim that they are actually all democratic fascist regimes, likely soon to be simple fascist regimes. This is a part of that journey. You know, the purge of the intellectuals.
I'm not sure Western carbon footprint has anything to do with deforestation. We don't get our carbon from rainforests, we get it from under the ground.
You appear to have conflated two separate issues that both happen to fall under the umbrella of "environmentalism". Same situation is where some people don't know the difference between the hole in the ozone layer and global warming.
Did YOU read them? Beyond the first one, which is five years old? If you are only going to read one, read the article from Popular Science. The only thing it lacks is FDA approval, and that is in process, if it hasn't already been cleared (the old friend working on this moved to the other side of the country to do so, so I don't talk to him very often anymore.
I mentioned somewhere in this thread that an old friend of mine is working on taking phage therapy mainstream in the US.
As for links, there are quite a few. Forgive me if you can't see them all, as I am at a terminal in a university right now, so lots of things are available to me for free:
There are many papers out there. You can google "phage therapy" and probably come up with many more.
And to answer your question, it is out of the "good idea" stage, and is now moving out of the "FDA approval" stage and into the clinic. I don't know if you can get it just yet, but if you can't, it won't be long. You just have to find some place that does it.
No, an abscess is a biofilm that has entered the tissue. Their properties are very similar, the difference is the level of severity. Think plaque on teeth (biofilm) versus severe cavity or tooth abscess. The later is caused by the former.
The current standard of care in the case of chronic infections like that is draining followed by debreedment (dead and dying tissue is removed--very gross if you've ever seen it done) for those doctors who are trained in dealing with biofilms. Sadly many are not.
If you or anyone you know has a wound that won't heal, or has a long term illness that is accompanied by repeated infections, you probably have a biofilm problem. Do a google search to find doctors who know how to deal with such problems. Randy Wolcott of Lubbock, TX is probably the best in the world. His clinic can probably direct you to someone nearby if you are having issues. It might be worth a plane trip to come for treatment. He has saved a lot of people's limbs that other doctors had given up on.
I'm not a doctor, but I don't think viral infections last that long, and fungal disease is quite separate, and would be very VERY messy. If the doctors can't tell the difference between an infection and an allergy, then they must be voodoo witch doctors.
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I don't think you have your timeline right. The Nauhatl didn't arrive in Tenochtitlan until well after the start of city-state abandonment in the Mayan Regions.
A more likely scenario to me seems that the high priests promised that they could bring back the rains if they were able to give enough blood and living hearts to the Gods. Eventually, the people would rebel against this bloody treatment, and, after slaughtering the priest class for the lying mass murderers they were, abandon the temple complex cities.
Make all the comparisons to modern day "environmentalists" you like. Many of them will be true. They aren't lying when they say they are lead by the spirit of Maya.
Oil is running up because of the multiple trillions of dollars dumped into world currency markets by central banks over the last two months.
Oil priced in gold is steady, and BELOW AVERAGE for the last100+ years.
That is a separate issue, now isn't it?
Buckyballs are also "basically the same stuff". The point is that nanotubes can't be produced in a continuous process, while graphene can, and graphene has better properties.
That's dumb because you would have to have rockets at the ends of the tethers to muscle through the atmosphere, AND on the center of the thing to keep it at the correct orbit. A space elevator is self correcting, in addition to the potential to be self powering, with a strong enough ribbon (ie you can clamp that "climber" to the ribbon, and just let the ribbon out like a cowboy lets out a lasso). This will allow for return trips, or the ribbon can be rolled up and cut to form the seed ribbon for another space elevator, either on Earth or another planet.
I still don't understand why everyone thinks the space elevator will be made out of carbon nanotubes rather than graphene, which is orders of magnitude easier, simpler, and cheaper to produce on a massive scale, such that it can be made in a continuous process. Of course, the fact it is stiffer and has a higher tensile strength doesn't hurt either.
Science doesn't "say" anything. Stop anthropomorphizing things.
Science is a method of thinking. Nothing more, nothing less. One can hypothesize about some hidden almighty creator all they want and still think scientifically. They just have to acknowledge that their caprice is not backed up by any evidence, and is not falsifiable. But so what? String Theory isn't yet falsifiable either. The existence of Troy was not falsifiable for a long time. Until it was found.
Note that I am an atheist.
Geico learned the consequences of that the hard way.
You are making the assumption that they won't ban both.
Brand new? Buddhism is 600 years older than Christianity.
There will be two types of cell lines. One is extracted from living animals, and the other is extracted through butchering. The latter will provide a great deal more meat more cheaply (as these cells can only divide so many times).
So it depends on where you want to draw the line. If you don't mind taking, say, 1/1000th of the life of a cow to eat a burger every week for the rest of your life, then it is fine either way. If you don't want any part of a dead animal on your hands, then you will have to go with the more expensive extraction method.
Of course, if you don't want ANY part in any animal death, you should know that pretty much everything you use has animal parts in it somewhere. Hell, tires are black because of carbon black sourced from charred animal carcasses.
We like to think of our friends across the pond as being progressive. Sadly, this assumption becomes more and more invalid with each passing day.
Note he didn't take any property. It's more like he made copies of some files from their filing cabinet, or took a picture of the inside of their building.
The worst thing he could be charged with is the electronic equivalent of B&E. Of course, this being Slashdot, I didn't read the article, and just glanced at the summary, so I'm not sure if that is what happened or not.
Sugar+biofilm=bad idea.
Salt water is more than sufficient. No need to put acidic juices that are full of sugar up there to irritate your sinuses even more than they are already.
Hydrating, not hydrogenating. This is mucus, not vegetable oil.
Boy, aren't you a little bitch. I invite you to insult him to the face of the several hundred people who's lower limbs he has saved when other doctors said they needed to be amputated.
What the fuck is wrong with you? People who believe in evidence based medicine are not to be trusted? What are you, a fucking witch doctor?
The police and prosecutors are part of the executive branch of the government.
Also, I question the premise that any of the modern democracies are actually still "democracies". I might go on to claim that they are actually all democratic fascist regimes, likely soon to be simple fascist regimes. This is a part of that journey. You know, the purge of the intellectuals.
I'm not sure Western carbon footprint has anything to do with deforestation. We don't get our carbon from rainforests, we get it from under the ground.
You appear to have conflated two separate issues that both happen to fall under the umbrella of "environmentalism". Same situation is where some people don't know the difference between the hole in the ozone layer and global warming.
Did YOU read them? Beyond the first one, which is five years old? If you are only going to read one, read the article from Popular Science. The only thing it lacks is FDA approval, and that is in process, if it hasn't already been cleared (the old friend working on this moved to the other side of the country to do so, so I don't talk to him very often anymore.
Watch now as all your scientists flee to avoid being the next to be targeted for being wrong.
Sure, maybe they should lose their jobs, or government grants even, but PRISON!?
It's not killing bacteria, unless you are pouring the boiling water into your nose. It is probably just rehydrating the mucus.
I mentioned somewhere in this thread that an old friend of mine is working on taking phage therapy mainstream in the US.
As for links, there are quite a few. Forgive me if you can't see them all, as I am at a terminal in a university right now, so lots of things are available to me for free:
http://ramsites.net/~mhickson/1934.pdf
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/51637351_Bacteriophage_therapy_potential_uses_in_the_control_of_antibiotic-resistant_pathogens
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-03/next-phage
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jamp.2008.0701
There are many papers out there. You can google "phage therapy" and probably come up with many more.
And to answer your question, it is out of the "good idea" stage, and is now moving out of the "FDA approval" stage and into the clinic. I don't know if you can get it just yet, but if you can't, it won't be long. You just have to find some place that does it.
No, an abscess is a biofilm that has entered the tissue. Their properties are very similar, the difference is the level of severity. Think plaque on teeth (biofilm) versus severe cavity or tooth abscess. The later is caused by the former.
The current standard of care in the case of chronic infections like that is draining followed by debreedment (dead and dying tissue is removed--very gross if you've ever seen it done) for those doctors who are trained in dealing with biofilms. Sadly many are not.
If you or anyone you know has a wound that won't heal, or has a long term illness that is accompanied by repeated infections, you probably have a biofilm problem. Do a google search to find doctors who know how to deal with such problems. Randy Wolcott of Lubbock, TX is probably the best in the world. His clinic can probably direct you to someone nearby if you are having issues. It might be worth a plane trip to come for treatment. He has saved a lot of people's limbs that other doctors had given up on.
Exactly. You simply take a culture and evolve the cure in the clinic. Takes a couple of days.
I'm not a doctor, but I don't think viral infections last that long, and fungal disease is quite separate, and would be very VERY messy. If the doctors can't tell the difference between an infection and an allergy, then they must be voodoo witch doctors.