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That's very true, the Moon hasn't anything much to offer. Nor have the planets Mars and Venus. Or anywhere else in the Solar System. It's just dead lumps of rock and giant balls of poisonous gas.
Well they aren't all bad. Gas giants and their moons are our best bets.
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You are thinking of the popular misconception for the Big Bang Theory.
The misconception is akin to pointing at a toddler and claiming that is the moment of birth. That is literally not what the actual Theory is saying at all.
It is simply saying if we look back through time we can see the Universe was once a toddler(hot, dense state) that has since then grown up(expanded). It doesn't say, because there simply isn't any evidence for it, how the Universe got to be in that toddler state.
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Ironically, a decent quantity of human hair comes from religious donations. Not all of the same quality though which is why it is used in different end products.
Evolution is just against you creating any kind of loop a pathogen could take advantage of. In many cases our instincts don't apply like they used to.
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Yeah, it can come from hair and duck feathers. Only one of a number of similarly "grouse" ingredients out there though.
Mostly have to consider how much processing is involved. Personally I don't worry about it. Even something straight from the field is going to end up with some level of nastiness. You look too closely at what you eat and you are going to end up not eating.
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On a slightly different tack, a radio program today mentioned how the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers was discovered. It made no mention of the individual that discovered it, who I understand was ostracised because he was going against well established procedure.
Marshall and Warren.
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bacteria_ulcers_and_ostracism_h._pylori_and_the_making_of_a_myth/
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Jetpacks are real. Mostly just pricey(gas based variety), not unlike flying cars.
There isn't much in terms of of practical value on the moon. Not a whole lot you can do with lunar regolith. I looked into it awhile ago and concluded we'd be better off building stations in open space and not bothering with the added cost of yet another gravity well. Most I saw for the Moon to offer was in the form of a tourist destination and scientific reserach station.
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In 1811 Henry Cavendish, expanding on previous reserch done by Isaac Newton into Alchemical reactions, proved magic to be true via use of a modifed torsion balance. Tragically in doing so this led to his summoning Maxwell's Demon. The resolution of this violation of causality resulted in his tragic death in 1810.
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No, what you are exposed to in life will play a large(if not the largest) role. If you want to take a look at some of the different historical views they can be pretty enlightening.
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We can't guarantee at present that every cell will be altered or that they will be altered in the correct fashion.
Depending on the disorder and chromosome makeup of the parents there would probably be a simpler solution.
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You are probably not the sole donor of genetic material and you can also screen for genetic disorders prior to.
Whole body isn't terribly realistic and more than a little dangerous in terms of causing genetic damage.
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Everytime I see this thread, I think this:
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/02/18/underground-farm-built-in-tunnels-12-storeys-beneath-london/
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I like to think of it as a conical seashell personally. Easiest to visualize in terms of area increasing from the tip outwards.
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There are some pratical concerns but the bulk of our illegal immigrants are not coming from regions we need to be concerned about. Just media trying to spin zenophobia. Even if we did role out with an Ebola Vaccine tomorrow how many of your own countrymen would you be willing to bet wouldn't take it?
For its high rate of mortality, Ebola's transmission rate is actually fairly poor. If it were an airborne disease I'd be more concerned.
I don't think it even technically qualifies as an outbreak. Only 2 infected and were initally infected in a different country. It hasn't spread any further as far as we can tell and it has certainly been within US borders(outside labs) in the past.
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lol, this is pretty funny in retrospect:
The logic we are called upon to swallow on pain of being classed with antigravity and flat earth men is simply this similia svnilibits procreantur as we see daily now therefore in former times similia dissimilibus procreabantur In other words men produce men and apes apes therefore we take a further step and conclude that in former times apes produced men.
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Anyone know what the CO2-N2 plasma might look like?
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Like I said, for me this is a logical question. If time is a fixed / static dimension, and each frame of time can be perceived as present by our awareness, then something external to it must be doing the perceiving. Because I don't see how you can create an impression of movement, or a presence of a dynamic nature, using only a static entity. Something must move through this static environment and interpret it.
A good example is taking a sheet of paper and a pen. You can consider up - down to be space and left - right to be time. The challenge is to draw anything on that paper which causes or implies movement from the left side to the right... even of a fake informational entity. You likely can't, because anything you draw is static. If you put a line somewhere to indicate present, you can no longer erase it, so no other segment of that paper could ever be perceived as present. Best you can do is create an optical illusion, like a wheel that appears to spin if you look at a center point... which again requires an external observer.
Could I create a similar illusion by comparing two memories?
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This would be more applicable to some of the earliest life. Was a long time from that point to multicellular lifeforms.
Generally you see a trend to minimize the impact of random mutations and to promote adaptation via safer means(recombination, multicellularity, horizontal gene transfer, etc).
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Some of those are real.
flying cars, jetpacks, holographic technology, drones/self driven vehicles
Real world is necessarily more practical though considering we have a number of technologies/innovations that nobody predicted I think it is still pretty amazing.
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Does anyone know why Israel was not carved out of Southern Germany rather than Palestine, since the Nazis were set on exterminating all Jews in Europe? Is it because the Old Testament kept referring to Palestine as the "Promised Land" and the "Land Flowing With Milk & Honey"?
Was basically founded during WWI, though the idea for a Jewish State goes back further than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917
Could have gone a number of different ways:
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Reuters provides more details:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/07/20/oukoe-uk-brain-tiny-idUKN1930510020070720
Memories are stored in the brain. If he truly had no brain, then he definitely wouldn't remember. It only states his brain is "almost completely absent". That is a far cry from missing or having signifignant sections of his brain cut out via lobotomy(lobe -otomy).
His brain isn't as compact but it still has all the necessary parts and pieces for him to live a reasonably normal life.
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I read something similar about friction occuring in space(via a temperature difference). I'll have to keep an eye on how this progresses.
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Distance, Shields and Life in Space
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1) Can't travel at c and have mass, even getting close is costly.
2) Anything you hit going fast, is the equivalent of something very fast hitting you. Something the size of a pebble could do massive damage. Most realistic thing I've read about would be a self repairing vessel, with "crew" functionally "backed up".
3) We don't know anything exact about conditions on other planets outside our own solar system.
4) The two galaxies will collide. What this means for Earth and the solar system in general is uncertain. Will likely be climatic to some degree though.
The Sun in contrast is simply going to expand as it enters into its red giant phase. It lacks the energy to actually explode. Realistically we just need to get enough distance from it and we'll be fine, though Earth itself is likely to be swallowed by the Sun or the closest planet to the Sun.
5) Indefinitely. The whole planet is "in space".
Radiation in space is the biggest threat. Second is simply the lack of resources and/or the need to recreate the environmental conditions we generally take for granted on Earth. Generally much of the planet contributes a huge amount to our daily needs. Consider manufacturing everything from the air you breathe, to the food you eat, to the water you drink. Now consider doing this with only the most basic resources.
If you are talking about general problems then main one is that the muscles weaken. A problem as the heart is one such muscle and many humans eventually want to return to a higher gravity location.
You may want to look at the Mars Society site. That one has quite a bit of accessible knowledge.