Steph

hmm... well' date=' herme did say the period in a paragraph. he might have meant that.

 

either way, i believe what i said still holds -- both one and two spaces after full-stops, and one or no lines (i.e. one or two line breaks/returns) are acceptable, as long as you're consistant throughout the document.

 

novels almost exclusively use one line break and an indent to seperate paragraphs (i.e., no blank lines) to save space. maybe their reasoning with full-stops/spaces is similar (tho i doubt it makes that much difference).[/quote']

 

I use one space... and well I just found out that two spaces is widely used. now if it makes a difference in a novel, I think it would be visible . I could see you adding a page or two just with that.

I know for certain that wild mushrooms were fed to dogs 1`st before any of the "Tribe" (for want`s of a better word) ate any' date=' wait 24 hours and if the dog`s ok, then they`re safe.

I assume that it would be safe to extrapolate from that practice that it`s an extension of copying other animals and eating what they ate.

 

crude but effective, for the most part.[/quote']

 

 

That seems about right. But I'd say not only animals but other humans. if your father dies after eating a little red thing, chances are you won't try and eat the thing too.

Personally, what puzzles me is the reverse of that question. Who the hell is the first sick mind who thought about drinking milk from a cow?

said the spider to the fly....... aka bill gates. hehe

 

For the rest of you.....you CANT TAKE BOTH!....

 

Bee

then I'll use the new one. Really, its more logical. I mean, what can go wrong? the only thing that can happen is it not opening. The old one could, not open, rip apart, the cords can tear, it might just be inefficient, etc.

I seriously thought that a bleeding madras was some sort of artifact spewing red liquid.

Seriously though, is it so hard to find one?

Bat's didn't beat super in a hand to hand fight' date=' he beat him by using his vast monetary resource to obtain the kryptonite with which he weakened him. He would need to take similar measures to beat Spidy (tech-gear wise).

 

But you know how the superman thing often goes.

-superman confronts foe

-superman is trounced either by some kryptonite or someone more powerful than he expected

-superman finds a way to get rid of the kryp. or goes into a bezerker rage and just pounds the meathead.

 

Not all the time mind you, but often enough. Too often for such a demi-god in my opinion.[/quote']

 

You're right about Superman and Batman... batman would need to take similar measures to beat spidey... the thing is, he can, and would.

I'd take them both because, yes, I'm just that mean.

My thoughts exactly!

I'd try to the new 'chute first though as I personnally find that more reliable. (Then I'd sell the old one on ebay )

For Xavier's Sake, everyone[/i'] beats superman.

Everyone? in a hand to hand fight?

it would be fine' date=' trust me, I`ve done it with ants, spiders and flies (in plastic containers so they couldn`t fly away) non of them died or even got injured in anyway noticable. I`ve even done Rocket launches with insect payloads a few of those DID die though.

discounting the Rockets however, the plain Drop was from 120 feet up onto tarmac, the ants were done in handfulls so as not to lose the landing point, maybe 120 foot wasn`t high enough, but yes, all those we saw lived perfectly [/quote']

 

flies in plastic containers survived... How big were then containers?

Batman beat Superman...

'nuff said

It is absent in humans, marsupials, lagomorphs, and hyaenas, amongst others.

So its not all mammals except humans... but the original question remains... if apes have it, why not humans? I read that it is necessary in situations where animals copulate rapidly. maybe the fact that humans were scarce populations and weren't on as much pressure to mate with as many women as possible was a reason?

Shops and other various teenage hangouts have devised a really god damn annoying way to keep unwanted adolescents away. A high pitched whine audible only to people under 25. There's a link to the sound at the bottom of the article.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/04/04/mosquito_sound_wave_feature.shtml

My ears hurt!

mmm... does that mean that when i turn 25 i'll suddenly lose the ability to hear high pitched noise? Interesting. maybe it'll be due to too much hanging out in dance clubs (as someone pointed out earlier).

Pretty good answer...

here is a link to immunobiology 5th edition (pubmed) and i think it's free.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=imm.TOC&depth=10

Canary.. funny.

 

I believe such a medication that would tamper with the metabolic pathways would have to cost a user a certain amount of money. You'll have to add in costs of going to a gym and burning the weight through diet versus the medication.

 

Going to a gym can cost about $700.00+ USD a year. Going on a diet can be expensive in itself; food for a specialized diet is costy. Such an event occured during the awakening of the Atkin's nutritional approach; eggs went up about $0.10 USD.

 

I assume you could charge lots of money for such a "magic bullet." Totaling in the money of going to a gym' date=' one could assume such a pill would cost $130+ USD.

 

If you were to total in the number of United States American citizens (with about 60% overweight and 35% obsese?), which is about 200 million adults (I think), you would gain well over a billion dollars. However, that money would have to be spread against production costs, legality problems, and so forth.

 

I would assume you could make over $250 million when you are done. But let us say that you allow overseas markets into your diabolical eugenics plan of a skinny persons' world. You would make over $1 billion.

 

There are about seven billion humans on Terra now? With $100 USD a pop, there should be a chance to make over a billion in U.S. currency.

 

Many variables can still be plugged in. This is if a person only buys the pill once.

People can gain about a pound of weight a day. If the pill helps someone lose 30 pounds, then he or she will probably buy a pill every 30 days.[/quote']

 

that's assuming everyone on the planet needs such a pill...

on the other hand, if you can make the pill to be taken monthly, you have a very good product on your hands!

so it wouldnt surprise me if you started to see black people with red hair and freckles,

I've seen this... I'm not entirely certain it was due to genetics though... The environment (i'm thinking about food) can have an effect too no?

Holy cow I suck:-p ! I can't get past level 4! I'll try this again later... thanks for the info Steph.

took me about three months to get where i'm at... (level 61)... and level 4 is the first "true" level.

umm that site spawns a plethora of windows. at level 2. i don't know if its a bug or not. so umm. i'm not gonna bother.

Yea... I guess its the onmouseover that's not well coded since it keeps taking input even as you press ok... it happens on level 2 and a level around 10... but... those two should be simple enough that you don't have to linger...

oh and one thing i learned the hard way... save your Username/passwords and URLs...

Someone probably posted this already... but I couldn't find it...so

http://www.notpron.com

riddle website... the point is... getting to the higher level by ANY means necessary. most of my friends gave up before level 10 (there are more than a hundred levels).

Heck yeah man. Who is more entertaining: Human or mouse?

 

Mouse.

 

Which costs more to feed? Human.

So what should we do? Kill the humans.

 

I think that mice are actually becoming more intelligent than humans. I have has this one mouse in my kitchen for the past few month and I swear that sucker has gymnastic skills. Do humans have gymnastic skills? No.

 

I mean mice have more potential to pull off skillful moves' date=' they are more cunning. They have more sense.

 

Unlike people who can't figure out that their girlfriend is goona cheat on them, mice are pimp.

 

Don't kill mice. Kill humans.[/quote']

 

exactly... mice have found a way to eat reproduce tremendously with no effort at all... research!

 

really though... is there an alternative that provides no suffering... to anything? (i mean, if you stop experiments on animal to have humans dying left and right, you just shifted the burden)

c'mon... we are all vegetarians... I just prefer some of my vegetables already assimilated in rather tasty matter.

B cells undergo somatic hypermutation after Heavy and Light chain rearrangements when they leave the bone marrow and enter the periphery. This can lead to expression of self reactive Immunoglobulins. Also, T cells developing in the thymus may produce self reactive T cell receptors after Alpha and Beta chain rearrangement, and for one reason or another, fail to be clonally deleted.

in other words... Upon generation, white blood cells can actually interact with anything. however, if they get too strong an interaction signal too early (meaning that they are reacting to something that's part of the self... usually) they will get shut down. when later on they get a moderately strong signal (which should be from a non-self particle... again, usually) they get to multiply. This is very simplified but even then you can see that these processes are far from being foolproof, which leads to the WBCs recognizing self particles as threats.

slightly off-topic... but that Thiomargarita namibiensis is scary!

its the largest bacterium known... and is visible to the naked eye.

Because they had realy tiny hands.

 

Organisms that require more complicated movements from their appendages will have to develop larger brains to increase co-ordination. Big dinosaurs only realy had to worry about eating things. Little dinosaurs didn't have large enough brains.

 

That's my take on the matter anyway

Tiny hands? uhm... short of the larger carnosaurs and tyrannosaurids' date=' I think you are WAY off... point in case "Google" [i']Therizinosaurus[/i], or watch Jurassic Park's velociraptors (which have the right proportions at least). All the dromaesaurids had rather large hands.

See... they are smaller than birds, but bigger than most mammals, and arguably bigger than ours (ratio-wise). [note, this picture shows them in the wrong orientation though... they looked more like this]

The human hand is more complicated, but it makes no sense that such an appendage would appear and THEN the brain would have to follow. if you had 7 fingers on one hand, and you couldn't use them properly, they would become a liability. the opposite had to happen.

How is the brain involved in judging how much time passes between events?

 

For example if i were fall asleep' date=' on waking I would automaticaly know if I had been sleeping for half an hour or six hours. Or thinking back to my childhood if I think of two memories from a similar age, I always know which one occured first. How does your brain order memories like this?[/quote']

 

you really know how long you've been sleeping? personally, unless I have a clock, i'm completely clueless.

about the memories, you are right... i don't have an answer, and am curious about this too.

you have far to go in the mystical ways of humour. go read unencyclopedia, that has some very funny things in it, go, read, learn.

its not humour...

hasn't Austrolopithecus been discounted as a homo sapiens ancestor?

Not a whole lot of vertical advantage for gliders that always start at sea level, unlike for land animals. I wouldn't say that gliding is halfway there.

At the point where we are now, there is advantage for predators as well as prey.

provided none of this existed, there would be advantages for prey first. the point is not getting very high but simply high enough to be out of reach of predators.

I'm saying that gliding is half-way there since, from that point on, the evolutionary steps are clearer.

I think the BBC had a documentary talking about this, where they were looking at how evolution might continue after we are gone.