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Argh, again...... u need to add "probably something morpologically similar to" between ...chordates was..... and ...... the larval form.

Hmmm space travel is quite a broad feild though, I'm not saying all space travel is a waste, just space tourism, very little will be gained IMO......

Some say a comet will fall from the sky, followed by meteor showers and tidal waves, followed by fault-lines that cannot sit still, followed by millions of dumbfounded dipsh*ts And some say the end is near Some say we'll see armageddon soon Certainly hope we will I sure could use a vaction from this Stinking sh*t Sinking ship One great big festering neon distraction I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied LEARN TO SWIM

I wish I could though. Edit: The microwave is atleast good for reheating food.... cooking it ....... naaaaaa.

Yep, since they will never be implanted into a womb they're not even potential lives.

Like what have we gained from NASA, what inventions for everyday use? All I can think of is GPS, communication sattelites and sattelite TV, what else? Since this is most comparable to the space shuttle, eg it is a reusable form of space transport, what things do you think we have gained for every day use from the space shuttle? And would you care to speculate of what things we will get for everyday use from this?

We are all deprived of things that we don't know we can have, just because we don't know we can have them doesn't mean we cannot have them. I however also indentify more with Kerry's position, because I don't think an embryo has a right to life. It is rather the parents/mother who have a right to reproduce, or if need be not to.

He wasn't refering to your moronic creationist propaganda philbo, he was refering to dakotas post, if you had the least bit of comprehension you would see he states. "just pulled it outa your a$$ and made good ol' Ophiolite waste his time chastizing you for your immaturity..." Ophiolites post was before yours was it not?? Do you think Ophiolite has psychic foresight or something?

Oh, u just reminded me, I do recycle "other" my clothes, however they aren't turned into new clothes, just handed down, given to charities, the good ones sold to second hand shops ..... we also have clothing bins here, but we have recycling collected with our rubbish not one bin for each street. At universities and schools there are recycling bins for cans and glass etc...... this is something I don't do, when out I buy a bottle of drink I will just throw the bottle in the bin, since there are no recycling bins on the street and I don't want to carry it round all day the take it home.

Surely you mean it is an ancestor of the common ancestor, it is just that its morphology is conserved and hence it is inferred that its DNA is highly conserved from that ancestral genotype.

I think this is all explained in this post: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6341 which is also in the philosophy forum.

Right they are eukaryotic....... or........ Did he mean what type of cells are mammory glands?

One thing we do is grow our own spuds, we then take the old plant and peeled skins/leftovers uneaten and compost them, this compost then goes back on the spuds...... Ive seen on TV a toilet that goes to a worm trough where the shit is composted and becomes relatively harmless, I dunno if it can be trusted to go on crops, but I think on ornamentals it should be ok. I think cities need to focus on recycling their sewerage and waste water. Here in Christchurch NZ we have some of the best drinking water in the world, the bottled stuff tastes worse, yet everytime I do my laundry or my dishes, water my garden or have a wash I use this same awesome water, I mean if they could set up the infrastructure to deconatminate stormwater, this would be sufficient for these uses, instead we are using our drinking water.... and even though our aquifers are being slowly topped up, who knows how long before we start getting water bans.

This contradicts Which is it? Lets remove the double negative, do you think its ethical to expose children to chicken pox? Also can you back up the claim that the risk is the same with some evidence? I think you will find the proportion of vaccinated people dying from chickenpox is far lower (if not non-existent) than the proportion of non-vaccinated people dying of chickenpox. I think you may be succumming to the urban myth that vaccination can cause all sorts of diseases. One wildly inflammatory unjustified hypothesis that is widely accepted by parents because it was "on TV" is that vaccinations can cause autism, I suppose you beleive this too?

1. Yes 2. No, they can get it naturally if they get it at all. I made the remark, "yes as long as its during the school term" in jest.

I just want to remind you that the poll question asks for your subjective opinion: "Should there be a privately owned operation to send the public to vacation in space?" So why is it so bad if I want to justify my answer....... also the question and the poll are badly tied together, meaning its actually a yes no question, not good idea/bad idea. @ Yakuzi: we have public recycling, we use the plastic bags as rubbish bin liners, also use them to bundle our newspapers in for recycling....... hey a plastic bag on a string makes a great kite too

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=genetic+algorithms&btnG=Google+Search&meta= lol, most of its even too complex for me, good luck.

Let me guess, you read this "fact" about the worm in a book, so it must be true......

If the goal of the program was to survive and part of the code simulated an environment which it was harder for it to survive in, probably the first favourable mutation would remove this environment.

You mustn't be claustiphobic then....... actually I can think of one good use for this technology, if they could develop it into more feul efficient/faster aircraft, they could fly up to heights where the air is thinnner and thus fiction is reduced and reduce feul consumption for long international flights..... this way you would actually be going somewhere so you could holiday there, not just up in a box and down in a box..... Mind you this is a long way off, considering at the moment its just a 3(?) man craft.

I dont think that a living program could become aware that there was a physical world out there, this is because even if a "mutation" enabled it to control some kind of assembly line it wouldn't actually allow it to make use of it so that its program was more successful in the virutual world, which is where all its competition is taking place. On the other hand it would be able to become aware of other programs that were competing with it, it would be interesting to see if antivirus programs were actually an adaption it would make itself, like a bacteria making antibiotics, the virus would become and antivirus program. If however we intervened and gave the program instruction that it could use to allow it to be aware of the world, then it could become somewhat sentient. This is like how we currently use genetic algorithms to design robots programing, eg stabilising for bipedal movement.

He was meaning few when compared to how many adults die of it. Otherwise I'd agree with that too. Oh thats out of 4 million cases anually (before the vaccine), so 40/4000000 is also few. But tell me do you agree with him that its better to send your children to chickenpox parties than to vaccinate them. Do you agree that the vaccine is more risky because it causes the disease in some cases, while he wants all children to suffer the disease anyway.

I know Im wealthy, but then theres those people that are just ludicrously rich. You make the point travel to the southern ocean had been done before, but I think we are fairly confident that there is nothing novel to encounter in a suborbital flight, except maybe the first space tourism death. I think space travel for scientific goals is warranted, space tourism is ok, but in my opinion a total waste of time and resources. I just want to put it like this one more time; who would want to go on holiday trapped inside a box flying through a vaccum.

Ok, so then you would have a lower chance of dying of chickenpox while infected as a child. But you said you said "few", I think 40% is a bit more than few.