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LOTR comprised an excellent series of films which can be read on two different levels. The characterisation is more complete, the setting is superb and mysterious. The themes are varied and interesting. Harry Potter is mildly entertaining. J.K. Rowlings is a nice person, and does well, but aims for a young target audience. Sorry guys, but there is no competition here - LOTR by a mile or 1.6 km for the non Brits.

I did spend a lot of 14-16 hour days in the lab and knew all the security men by name and shifts including the 3 a.m. shift. I shut myself off from everything to complete my research. Was it worth it? I don't honestly know...

Good effort mate. You put your time and effort into this. It is difficult to avoid copyright issues. Why not just link to other sites.

Can't recall any past life and how accurate is the apparent data about past lives. Are people completely accurate with historical details?

Excellent and detailed answer. Just what I wanted. Thanks for that. OK, next step, the virus needs enzymes, I presume to assemble the protein coat or to prepare its genetic material. How would it sound to flood the body with enzyme inhibitors which are inside liposomes (membrane bubbles) which are specific to virally infected cells. The enzyme inhibitors are attached to a cyanide or poisonous chemical which is only activated when the attachment to the enzyme occurs. The virally infected cells are destroyed specifically. I realise there are extra problems here but I am just starting again.

I find the attacks on iNow absolutely unacceptable and personal and will not now contribute to this thread. I advise all sensible persons to do the same.

Due to the details of the experiments involved and the sheer breadth of material I had to include, 210 pages. I managed to get five peer-reviewed papers out of my material though so I'm not complaining.

I don't think my thoughts are controlled. However it may be more accurate to say that our communications and website use are carefully monitored and the time may arise when thoughts could be read using Terahertz technology. I am in touch with people who claim to be affected by such technologies as lab rats. It is quite frightening.

I guess if you don't know what an ion is you don't understand the basics. 1) All solids, liquids and gases are made of atoms. 2)These atoms are seen in the Periodic Table. 3) If you look at any single atom, e.g. potassium, it contains a middle bit which is positive and has negative bits circulating it. 4) The middle bit, called a nucleus has positive protons, the negative bits are called electrons. 5) The nucleus also has neutrons without a charge which may be holding protons together because of the repulsion caused by the positive charges pushed together in a small space. 6) In any atom (not ions), the number of protons and electrons must be the same to balance each other out. 7) Nobel gases seem to be pretty stable and contain 8 electrons in their outer shell. 8) Go figure how many electrons a potassium atom must lose to become a charged particle called an ion?

The paper seems to point to an induction of LTP with a "cAMP/p38 MAP kinase-dependent signaling cascade". Can we apply this study to humans without becoming proto-eugenicists?

OK guys and I don't know if I am making much sense here, why can't we flood the body with 'self' viral receptors which are engineered to bind irreversibly to the viruses. During an infection so that there is no antibody response against 'self' but virus particles who leave a cell to invade others become 'distracted' by the receptors around them and the scope of the infection is localised and mitigated.

Why don't we flood the body with artificial virus receptors We can then make antibodies against the virus receptors and so the antibodies would block the virus from getting into the cell - like locking a door and breaking the key off in the door so that no one can get in? I am not a virologist.

Horses for courses surely. What about mind maps, concept maps which use colour and imagery? My best students, some of which went to Oxford and Cambridge loved to make lists. They hated mind mapping and mnemonics.

I assume they would also use a Western blot with a specific anti-immunoglobulin produced as monoclonal antibodies (so they would be more specific). There is a method used here which could be easily copied: http://www.pnas.org/content/87/10/3942.full.pdf

In a Seminar, a young and pretty female scientist answers a question from a member of the audience: "I think you are wrong there, J____ et al mentioned that there was very little lectin activity in their paper..." Answer from the member of the audience: "No, I think you are wrong - I am J_____ ...". At this point the audience collapses in helpless laughter (I managed to hold in my laughter).

I hope this helps. It is good old wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type

Has anyone remembered by smell? I mean - has anyone used aromatherapy oils to associate smell with learning a topic or two. I would be interested in trying this out.

I don't know about viruses being borderline. They have genetic information protected from enzymatic degradation and seem to have found a way to propagate themselves from generation to generation quite well. If that isn't alive, I would be surprised.

I used to ask complicated questions at Seminars during my PhD and couple of post-docs. However, the humiliation was on me - I was doing it to satisfy my ego and to show how clever I thought I was. In my teaching, I am humbled by the amazing complication of the few pounds of grey matter we have in our skulls.

I love this stuff. Apparently Cecil Rhodes, the great industrial pirate said with regret upon his deathbed the following words: "So little done, so much to do." Rhodes, Cecil John (1853-1902) According to an unflattering T.V. series about Rhodes, his actual last words were: " Turn me over, Jack." Hardly memorable... I also love this one although it could hardly be called famous: "Why yes, a bullet-proof vest!" (Last request before the firing squad.) Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) [American criminal]

Thanks for the answer guys. That is, assuming that Black Holes really exist? I remember reading something confusing suggesting that they don't exist but cannot find the reference. This, and the fact that I was reading about the Voyager Missions, prompted me to think why send Voyagers out on either side of the ecliptic but neglect to look at the Black Holes which are apparently at the centre of each galaxy to help galaxies to form in the first place. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7774287.stm Thanks for the offer. I 'll give it a miss. My wife would not forgive me if I went into suspended animation for a thousand years - she would find a way to get at me somehow - regardless of the time or place

Thanks for the replies guys. The dome would have a protective function to support the correct types of organisms and , if successful could be grown larger in size. Thanks for the mention of algae and archeons which can survive in extreme conditions. I was hoping that there could be a possibility of independent growth of organisms which could make a subtle change to the atmosphere. Seems unlikely though. However, I was coming from the viewpoint that the Earth was also similarly seemingly inert but changed to accommodate large amounts of oxygen. npts2020 - this is what I was referring to because I though the Earth's atmosphere was changed by photoautotrophs to produce oxygen: http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1400/atmos_origin.html

Very simple question. Why can't NASA or other space agencies around the world send a Voyager-type space craft straight into a Black Hole to broadcast information right up to the point it is obliterated? Or are there problems associated with this question because it is an experiment that does not seem to have been performed yet?

Just musing about the Earth's early atmosphere as being mostly carbon dioxide and then slowly being converted into substantial amounts of oxygen from photoautotrophs. I just wonder if the original conditions for the transformation of the Martian atmosphere can be re-created as an evolutionary experiment and then periodically seeded with further and further species until levels of oxygen are created. I would envisage a dome-like structure to protect the bacteria or protists from the harshness of the Martian atmospheres. Any views on this?