11-27-2007, 07:02 PM | #321 |
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Yes, one should be careful of discarding persons with defects...especially those of size now...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/sc...in&oref=slogin We no longer need sacrifice persons as embryos to stem cell research. Now that is cool.
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11-27-2007, 09:11 PM | #322 |
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11-28-2007, 01:08 AM | #323 | |
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More or less "invisible" genetic defects, or those that don't manifest themselves until way beyond the age at which humans reproduce, have always existed. But that is not true for everything. Children simply didn't survive long enough to reproduce with many of the genetic problems we are able to overcome today. And they pass these problems down to their children and increase their likelyhood in the general population. And this ties in deeply with medicine. Most of the solutions we have today for keeping people alive are simply trial and error. We don't know why they really work, and the idea of truely being able to understand the human system in a way that lets us address one issue without leading to countless side effects we do not understand is not ten to twenty years away. It is centuries off, and may in fact be impossible. Humans are a symbiosis of individual living entities that make us what we are. Not just one simple "machine" that we can understand. I'm not saying that we should do anything about it. Just merely stating that medicine is cancelling out natural selection to an extent that there will eventually be no "selection" at all.
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11-29-2007, 10:39 PM | #326 |
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You guys have got to see this!
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11-30-2007, 12:30 AM | #327 | |
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11-30-2007, 12:31 AM | #328 | |
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That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May |
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12-09-2007, 12:34 AM | #329 |
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Here's a funny little video. Apparently the octopi had started doing this in response to people, whenever a diver entered the water! Nifty little critters, aint they?
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12-09-2007, 06:52 AM | #330 | |
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12-10-2007, 06:53 PM | #331 |
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An idea...
Would it be possible to destroy nuclear waste with superconcentrated focused sunligt in laser-form? |
12-10-2007, 07:24 PM | #332 |
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I'm not an expert and I fear my knowledge of lasers come squarely out of the sci-fi region so I don't even know what modernday lasers are capable of.
But even hypothetical lasers would leave some residue. And it isn't really the material of the waste that matters, it's the actual radiation and that's made of different particals than matter. I'd hazard a guess and doubt it's a feasible solution to the nuclear waste problem. But I like the idea.
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12-10-2007, 08:16 PM | #333 | |
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12-11-2007, 04:28 AM | #334 |
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Oh, yeah! Ive got all the Dirk Pitt books!
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12-11-2007, 05:56 AM | #335 |
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Oh, was that his latest plot? I've only read one or two of the Dirk Pitt books.
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12-11-2007, 06:07 AM | #336 |
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It was in his Dirk Pitt book Sahara from 1992. The movie totally trashed the story - with that utter laughing idiot Matthew McConaughey.
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12-11-2007, 07:20 AM | #337 |
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And did the sunlight-powered laser-thingy work in the book?
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12-11-2007, 12:02 PM | #338 |
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Pretty much. But there was a whole big plot that I wont give away here because you oughta read the books. Seriously, they're good. Ask GW.
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12-11-2007, 05:05 PM | #339 |
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I think it pretty much did
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