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I was just posting a couple of high salinity examples. No true marine ones out there(though the crab-eating frog comes close), but should be enough to raise reasonable doubt. Several species go to great lengths to avoid laying eggs in the ocean. IMO seems more plausible that something that doesn't have to doesn't, than does. Interesting to think about though.

There are a number that can handle high levels of salinity. The crab-eating frog is a good example. Name kind of says it all there. Taylor's Salamander is another(Salamanders need love too).

Saw this in Wired. Pretty interesting work.

Mine was based off of this: Using ceramics, maybe something in the theater style? Should come out looking pretty good.

Did a death mask using plaster at one point. If you can find a plastic craft mask that helps out a lot with the forming.

Knowledge of an insane act can cause copycats. Suicide is a big area you see this in. Depending on your country there may already be media restrictions in place.

Think in terms of heat transfer. Water vs Air

Does anyone know if a rotating plasma can also undergo time dilation? Been thinking off and on about how it might allow a plasma ball to last longer than one would otherwise expect. Just not sure what the math would look like for a rotating system.

"He's good at quantum physics, just don't get him started on Schrödinger."

As I think was already mentioned, the "200 Rat study" was flawed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/09/24/does-genetically-modified-corn-cause-cancer-a-flawed-study/ ...and the Rats given Roundup in their drinking water lived the longest. We've been selecting for size, taste(sugars) and ease of manual harvesting. These are the nice, wholesome, "natural" crops we're talking about here. In the process we've introduced a number of undesirable traits along the way. We need to undo at least some of these in less than the thousands of years that it took to get to this point. Ocean problems are going to mean an increase in crop production. Mainly for our livestock barring acceptance of insect protein and/or lab grown meat. Anything that doesn't mean yet more land converted with resultant pollution is something worth investigating. Probably won't be a choice in the end. Necessity moves society forward like little else.

Scents are different chemical compounds, considerably more complex than photons.

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Yeah, more starch internally and a harder shell.

It's a constant because it is derived from constants. Planck's Constant and Elementary charge respectively. Planck's Constant = 6.62606957×10−34 J·s Elementary Charge = 1.602176565×10−19 C Von Klitzing's Constant = Planck's Constant / (Elementary Charge)2 = 25812.807557 J·s/C2 = 25812.807557 Ohms You can divide the two yourself and have proof of this. If you want how it relates to the real world you'll need to look at the already mentioned Quantum Hall effect.

Instructables is good for projects and the like. Show people what you're doing while teaching them how to do it.

If it was designed it was done badly. Mars is too far, Venus is too close. We've got Uranus on its side and Triton going to crash. God must have knocked off early when the former 5th planet fiasco happened and now we have the Asteroid belt we all know and love. Our own freakishly large Moon must have been some kind last minute mistake and later declared a "feature".

Some sponges and adult flatfish are asymmetric. Code size is less. Probably stability is the big issue.

Yeah, would just need to make a separate thread over in the Religion section if you want to discuss deity involvement. A thread in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section suggests a pretty specific intent.

Something came to exist that was capable of imperfectly duplicating itself. At that point the process met the most basic definition of life. Eat, reproduce, create waste. It proceeded to evolve into Life as we know it today. The how and the why are open questions. The Abiogenesis link above gives a decent overview of present theories.

I imagine that the ice would be likely to boil off and then float away due to the low gravity. More practically we're talking about some sort of structure. Prefab or using Lunarcrete. 4) Would probably use hydroponics instead. The actual soil is likely deficient in one or more ways, at the very least you would have to introduce soil microbes. Probably solar based extraction and water recycling/importation will be used first. From there we can split the water into its components or use it directly. Looking at He-3 we're talking a fairly large scale mining operation and before any power generation can be done.

We're not accelerating as we normally think of it. Space is being created internally. Like a sphere getting bigger on the inside while "externally" it remains the same size.

Depending on what traits the tumor possesses it can fuse with the macrophage and then spread to other areas.

They don't always attack the tumor and can actually help it spread. Would also want a bone marrow sample instead, not all white blood cell types replicate.

Just to start, this is typically done outside of a living organism. 1) Yes, DNA can be altered. Mutations and retrovirus replication are examples of this. 2) Rudimentary changes. Nothing too complex or widespread. 3) Depends on the vector and cellular replication rates. 4) Depends on what you want to achieve. The only master blueprint is at the time when you are a single cell. From that point on each cell has its own copy. Not every cell actually replicates however. Some are never replaced. Some are replaced from a stem cell line(Red blood cells via Bone marrow for example). 5) Now and free if you want to be technical. In terms of deliberate beneficial changes, think I've heard of real world medical retrovirus usage(Can't find the article with all the HIV antiretroviral literature out there). Offspring and professional sports are the other two areas that are likely to be served first. Non-trivial or cosmetic changes are likely a long ways off.