Green Xenon

Absolutely not, I was clarifying your points and adding to them.

I'm convinced that the benefits of the hypothetical food product I discussed outweigh the drawbacks sufficiently that I'm willing to live off it.

True. However, I want to be as much in shape as possible. That's why I need my food product.

Food addiction, will power, and temptation are a trivial cause of obesity. It's the lack of healthy foods that cause one to compensate for an empty-stomach [or the sensation of such] by overeating the "junk food". I've stopped eating junk food and just started the induction phase of the Atkins diet. Two weeks ago I was 205 lbs. I'm now 195 lbs. My ideal body weight is around 140 lbs. I currently daydreaming of a hypothetical diet product to cure my own state of obesity that I desperately would like to live off of -- without eating anything else. This product that is vegan-friendly and has all the nutrients of vegetables, fruits, herbs, algae, seaweed, and other non-animal organisms that are necessary/beneficial for human health. It also contains beneficial and essential microbes [such as probiotics]. All the aforementioned are in amounts optimum for human health. This product is completely organic and free of any pesticides, synthetic ethylene and other man-made substances that compromise the heath of foods and their human consumers. In addition, no organisms used in the product are genetically-engineered or irradiated. Equally important is the environment used to grow these organisms is healthy, organic, and free of pollutants. This product may be extremely healthy to live off of. However, it will likely taste bad. To make this product consumable, an orogastric tube made of health-friendly, eco-friendly, non-abrasive material -- is included. An orogastric tube coats the entire mouth and throat all the way down to the stomach. This tube directly and safely transports the product into the consumer's stomach and can even do so in the complete absence of peristalsis. Prior to the making of this product, all proteins & fats are pre-digested completely, and the following substances are completely removed from the plants: 1. Any carbohydrate that raises blood sugar. These carbohydrates are bad for health. Soluble fibers [such as inulin] are not removed at all as they don't count as net carbs. Simple sugars and digestible starches are completely removed. Insoluble fibers [such as cellulose] are also completely removed as they don't offer much benefit other than to add bulk to the stools. 2. Unhealthy amino acids 3. Glycerol [which is unnecessary calories and can be produced by the body] 4. Saturated fatty acids [which contribute to atherosclerosis] 5. Trans fatty acids [which are far worse for health than saturated fatty acids] 6. Any other substance that is known not to be beneficial or necessary for health -- such as the caffeine in coffee/teas All organisms used in this product -- excluding tomatoes -- are raw. Tomatoes are boiled to bring out the lycopenes. To make the product healthier, bad minerals [such as lead and thallium] are completely removed [assuming any of them happen to somehow be in the product]. To decrease blood pressure, sodium and chloride are decreased [but not completely removed]. The sodium is decreased as much as can be without leading to symptoms of sodium deficiency. The chloride is decreased as much as possible without causing any serious symptoms of chloride deficiency -- the consumer should still be able to safely perform tasks taken for granted -- such as driving or operating machinery. The decrease in chloride will help balance out the acidity caused by ketosis. To help prevent kidney stones during ketosis, extra potassium ions are added to the product. The potassium is also alkaline and will further assist the body in keeping itself non-acidic during ketosis. In addition, the extra potassium is added because the body responds to chlorine deficiency by making the kidney excrete potassium. So more potassium must be consumed to make up for this loss. The product has drinking water added to it to make it easier to drink. This product is in small health-friendly, eco-friendly bottles. Five bottles per day should be consumed. The bottles are in a package and are of different sizes. The biggest bottle should be consumed in the morning. The smallest should be consumed in the evening. In between, are bottles of different sizes. Earlier in the day, the bigger bottles should be consumed and as the day progresses the smaller bottles should be consumed. This routine follows the saying eat breakfast link a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper -- except the food is divided into 5 smaller meals instead of 3 bigger meals. This is an extra benefit to diabetes patients. It is important to understand that this product will initially not satiate it's users. However, once ketosis kicks in, appetite will decrease and consumers will no longer feel the urge to eat. To summarize, the substances in the product are chopped and ground as finely as possible [tomatoes are boiled prior to this]. Second, the proteins/fats are pre-digested all the way down to their monomers [amino acids in the case of proteins, fatty acids & glycerol in the case of fats]. Third, the undesirable substances are removed. Fourth, good microbes, potassium ions, and drinking water are added. Finally, all the substances are blended together. There still will be fat in this product, it's just that they will be broken down to fatty acids [and the glycerol portions removed] prior to bottling. Many fatty acids are necessary and/or beneficial for health. They also assist in the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. If this product did exist it would greatly benefit obese patients. I just wish someone would start a company, get the company to make this theoretical product, and sell it to the general public at a reasonable price. Here is my question. I would like to live off this product and eat it in the aforementioned manner. Is there any hope? All I ask is to experience a complete healthy life that is totally free of any physical disability -- such as stroke, heart-attack, blindness, paralysis, etc. Please tell me I'm not asking for too much. Thanks, GX

Even if a man abstains from sex and does not masturbate, he is no more likely to rape women than a man who regularly has consensual sex. As I've exhaustively stated, sexual violence -- just like any form of violence -- has nothing to do with sexual urges. Any sexual activity outside of consenting-adults [who are not drugged or drunk] is automatically sexual violence. As you rightly state, the absence of sexual activity does not have any ill effects on health. Sort of OT but research shows, that sexual violence can physically-damage the brain if the victim is a child. This is because molestation is extremely stressful to the mind and the mind is in the brain. Extreme psychological distress can cause physiological changes in the brain that can be measured via EEGs and brain scans -- including seizures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse#Neurological_damage http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4898/m1/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf

Anger-retaliation rapists are not at all motivated by lust. They want to get even with society because they feel society treats young girls better than young boys. So in revenge, they molest young girls. The average anger-retaliation rapist is himself a victim of child-rape and wants to punish society for not showing him the same sympathy -- that he believes -- it would should a female victim of pedophilia. This type of rapist believes that a boy who is molested, will likely be bullied by his peers, while a girl in the same situation would receive sympathy from her peers. He develops the perception that the same men/boys who ruined his childhood are the same men/boys who really care about girls. He then harbors a passionate hatred for minor girls and the males who protect them. He is also jealous of minor girls because he thinks society favors them. This boy feels that the only way to retaliate against the "macho man" culture is to rape and kill young girls. So that is pretty much what he grows up to do. I've taken psychology classes, so I would know this.

Rape has nothing to do with sexual urges. It's all about the urge to harm someone. Rape is like a beating, only much worse. Both are driven by the desire to hurt. Nothing sexual about it. There are also many cases of women molesting girls. It's very common in Africa, for women to mutilate the genitals of young girls. The reason for this practice is to keep girls "modest" or some such BS. I think pedophiles of either gender deserve life in the general population of prison -- let nature take it's course and give the taxpayers a break. Bubba hates "short eyes". When children are concerned, same-sex rape is as prevalent as opposite-sex rape.

Hi: I'm about to lose it. I absolutely HATE the taste/smell of most healthy vegetables but I NEED to eat them for my physical health. I have a VitaMix blender that chopped these veggies into their molecular level. However, I still need to drink it to get it into my stomach -- this resulting NOXIOUS flavors cause me to vomit and make me extremely discouraged from maintaining a healthy diet. There is only one way to get this nasty-yet-healthy concoction into my system without suffering and that is to use and orogastric tube. An orogastric tube is a device goes into the mouth, and down the throat and finally into the stomach. This enables liquids to enter the stomach via the tube without me tasting or smelling them -- even in the absence of peristalsis. Just where the $@## can I purchase an orogastric tube from?! I've googled like crazy, and there is NO place that I could find that sells such a miracle product. Thanks so much, GX

Even in this case, the fact the he drunkens her means he has the urge to misuse his power over her. Obviously, any abuse of power is harmful. Once again, this, like most rapes are perpetrated by a guy that the girl knows and trusts and in a private area. Giving someone an agent that will cause them to "consent" to sex, is a form of violence and is also driven by the want to dominate the significant other. There are 4 prime type of rapists that have been classified: 1. Power-reassurance rapists 2. Power-assertive rapists 3. Anger-retaliation rapists 4. Anger-excitation rapists The first type of rapist feels weak and wants to "reassure" himself of his masculinity by overpowering women. This type of rapist often targets older women who he feels are have some power over him. The second type of rapist rapes in an attempt to dominate others. Will usually attack women around his age. The third type of rapists wants revenge against society. He was likely molested as a child and when he reported it, his peers teased and beat him up and often attacked him with anti-gay and anti-transgender slurs. This rapist feels that society favors young girls over young boys. He thinks that the same people who ruined his childhood are the same people who have a soft spot for small girls. He is aware that even the tough guys in prison hate sex-offenders. This type rapist often has long had his suicide planned out and thus feels he has nothing to lose by retaliating against society. Often has the mentality of the boys who pulled of the Columbine tragedy. He wants to hurt male bullies by hurting girls. His targets are often any girl below 18 years of age because that is what will cause the most public outrage. He usually kills the girls he rapes to make it impossible for them to perceive any sympathy society would provide them. So why doesn't he just kill the girls as opposed to raping them? He is aware that society considers raping a girl MUCH worse of an act than just killing her. Murderers are given a lot more respect than rapists. His goal is to cause society as much frustration and anger as society causes him. The fourth type of rapist is the most despicable. He often rapes transgender women and other social outcasts. He gains pleasure from causing any and all types of harm to his victims -- including rape. He may also attack elderly women and pre-adolescent boys. Often a gang-rapist. Pedophiles will find any excuse to molest children. "Consensual" or not, pedophiles clearly *do* intend to harm children. In many parts of the non-western world -- pedophilia is used by schoolteachers to make students suffer. It's their way "disciplining" the children. The northwestern frontier of Pakistan comes to mind. In that country, homosexuality among consenting adults is punishable by death -- yet is is perfectly-acceptable for a grown man to publicly molest a pre-pubescent boy. Actually many of the nations run by fundamentalists, it is considered a matter of pride for a man to being in a sexual relationship with a small boy.

Sexual violence has nothing to do with sexual urges. Rape and molestation and driven by the desire to cause harm -- not act on sex drive. People have this stupid delusion that rape occurs in the open city and that sex-starved eve-teasers will forms gangs and rape random stranger young girls. A woman is most likely to be raped by a man she knows and trusts -- boyfriend, family friend, acquaintance, etc. -- and this is most likely to take place in private area where there are few or no witnesses. Again, the perpetrator rapes the girl because he wants to harm her, not because he is sexually-attracted to her. The idea that "stranger rape" is a grave concern is complete bull. If I were female, I'd stay in public places as much as possible -- night and day -- and AVOID being in relationships with men. A public place full of male strangers is the safest place for a young woman, this is where she is LEAST likely to be sexually-abused. A sex-predator doesn't have to be sexually-excited to make victims. In addition, a sex-offender doesn't need genitals to molest his victims. Even an emasculated eunuch is fully-capable of raping women and children. Take any sex-offender, castrate him, and completely rid him of his sex drive and testosterone. He is just as dangerous. If anything, emasculating a rapist makes him more hazardous because he might try to take revenge against the system by raping and killing young women. How often must I repeat -- "rape is an act of *violence* not *sex*" I will also add, pedophiles molest children not out of sexual interest but to cause harm to those children. It just so happens that pedophiles are sexually-attracted to kids. Most adults -- who are not pedophiles -- would innately find it extremely disgusting to even think of making sexual contact with children. This "pedophobia" is totally-natural and instinctive. Pedophiles, on the other hand, do not experience this innate disgust -- this is what makes it so easy for a pedophile to harm children via sexual abuse. Once again, the pedophile molests children for the sake of causing them harm. An adult who is not a pedophile, will feel eviscerated at the thought of sexually-abusing children. If this non-pedophile adult is cold-hearted, he may harm children via non-sexual abuse but not even in his most appalling nightmare would he make advances towards kids. These are called "anger-retaliation rapists"

Hi: I am aware the average age at which long-term retention of memories is 3. What the earliest age known at which a person has had long-term memories that were retained in adulthood [i.e. something similar to the Guiness Book of Records for earliest memory]? I seem to be able to remember things that happened when I was 2 years old and slightly earlier. I am now 27 years old. I used to live in Stamford, Connecticut. I really like the house in Stamford, Connecticut. It was on 263 Strawberry Hill Avenue. I lived in that house for the 1st 2.5 years of my life. I was born on 10-22-83. It was my favorite house. But I wasn't in that house for the entire first 2.5 years. I had gone to India in '86 from January to July. I could differentiate Stamford and India from each other. I can remember returning from India to Connecticut. I recall feeling a sigh of relief after I came back to Stamford. After I came back we only stayed in the Stamford house for 3 days [well, my parents think it was 3 days! For me it felt much longer, even though I loved the Stamford house!] before moving to a borough called "Queens" in New York. I recall begging to go back to Stamford after we move to Queens. My family is Indian. There are some Indian songs that they played that remind me of the house in Stamford, Connecticut. When listening to those songs, I actally feel like I am in that house again! It is just so amazing and real. I can remember seeing one of my aunts in the hospital. This was when my aunt was giving birth to her son in September of '85. I obviously didn't know why she was in the hospital but I do remember her lying on a bed. I can remember her being very uncomfortable. This memory has been confirmed by my parents as the day my aunt gave birth to her son. During this, I was a month less than 2 years of age! Scientifically [at least in current research] what determines how early long-term memory starts, whether these memories are retained, and how long they are retained? Thanks, Green Xenon

Yes

Has bituminous coal ever been used to directly fuel radiant heaters? If so, was the burning bituminous coal the direct emitter of the IR?

The possibility that a lower temperature flame will emit more intense radiant heat than a higher temperature flame is one of the many things that I find interesting.

Lets say's it is measured this way. Would the bituminous coal flame emit more radiant heat than the methane flame?

Hi: Does a bituminous coal flame emit more thermal radiation than a methane flame of the same size? Thanks, GX

Call me crazy but I believe in using bio-engineered bacteria for almost any purpose in mind -- from cleaning oil spills, to treating atherosclerosis, to telecommunications. After I graduate from college I plan to do lab research in bacteriology. I'm hoping to bio-engineer the smallest type of bacterium that fits all of the following categories: 1. Facilitative Aerobic [can use oxygen but does not need it] 2. Not gram-negative 3. Free of endotoxins [such as LPS] and exotoxins [such as botulinum] 4. Non-pathogenic 5. Non-allergenic Instead of wasting electric power for computations, why not take a more green approach by using a biofilm-based chip made of cells of the aforementioned type of bacteria? This chip would contain bacterial cells that are connected to each other to made a solid colony.

Okay, lets change the question a bit. What would happen if all the keratin molecules in my stratum corneum, hair and nails were to become as hydrophilic as possible? Would I be at increased risk of infection or dehydration? Sorry for my persistence on this topic, I just find hypothetical science to be very interesting.

Hi: Has anyone read news similar to this?: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer As a lover of bacteria, I'd like a PC whose circuits are made of them. When can I expect such a PC to enter the commercial market -- if it ever does? Is it practical to make an OPL3 FM synthesizer chip out of bioengineered bacteria? OPL3 is my favorite MIDI synthesizer. Thanks, Green Xenon

If there are x number of asynchronous peripheral processing units operating at 1 Hz, then is it possible to obtain an effective frequency of x Hz by using all their 1 Hz signals? This is what I'm attempting to accomplish. Also, if x number of bits have their own cache, wouldn't the ultimate result be a cache of x bits? In this hypothetical PC, each processing unit is fixed to 1 bit per cycle. Brainiac processors rely on more bits-per-cycle to obtain a higher effective processing speed. Speed-demon processors rely on a higher processor frequency to obtain a higher effective processing speed. It is important to understand that more Hz doesn't necessarily equate to faster processing.

Okay let's leave out the hydrophobic part. What if the keratin molecules *only* in/on my stratum-corneum, hair, and nails were just completely-lipophilic without necessarily being any more hydrophobic than they currently are? What symptoms would I experience? Sorry for my persistence on this topic, I just find hypothetical science to be extremely interesting. Is there a way to make the keratin molecules -- only in/on my stratum-corneum, hair and nails -- completely lipophilic without interfering with hydrophobicity?

Checked the link. Not really what I expected. I was thinking that this hypothetical PC would have a 1-bit, 1 Hz, asynchronous processing unit for each bit of information that is being "processed". In addition, each of those bits would have their own 1-bit solid-state RAM.

Hi: I'm thinking of a computer that does not need a central processing unit. Instead it uses multiple asynchronous peripheral processing units. Does such a PC exist? Can Windows run on it? Thanks, Green Xenon

Can bacteria be bioengineered to capture and digest viruses, viroids, and prions?

A lipophile will readily mix with any greasy substance -- such as butter or vaseline. If the grease is liquid -- such as vegetable oil or liquid paraffin, the lipophile will dissolve in it. I think it would be fun if all the keratins in/on my body -- such as the stratum corneum, hair, and nails were to take on such a characteristic while maintaining their water-proof qualities. A lipophile is to grease, what a hydrophile -- such as salt -- is to water. If my keratins were lipophilic and I were to massage butter on my skin, hair, and nails and subsequently bathe in a tub of warm water -- this would cause my keratins to mix with the butterfat and float to the top of the tub. How pleasurable life would be if keratins were complete lipophiles. If I wanted to cut my nails, I would simply dip them in mineral oil. If I wanted a haircut, all I would need to do is smear butter on my scalp. What would be the drawbacks if the keratins in/on my body were complete lipophiles? Dehydration and infection would be unlikely because my keratins would still as water-proof as they are now. Is there any known way to make all my keratin molecules completely lipophilic? Perhaps with the use of certain enzymes?