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9/1 Alternative/Mainstream energy predictions 50 years from now:
\_ Read The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg, who debunks most
replacements for oil. His second book, Powerdown, recommends a path
for reducing population and preserving the best of this peak in
human evolution
\_ The path to reducing population is WW3. Its coming soon,
b/c w/o it Zephram Cochrane can't take over a missle
silo in Montana and invent warp drive. Once we have
warp drive everything begins to change...
\_ Nuclear
\_ no way!
\_ Fusion
\_ no way!
\_ Way!
\_ Coal
\_ unfortunately!
\_ Natural Gas
\_ no way!
\_ alternative energy
\_ wind has the most potential right now...
\_ I met someone at a party whose job was designing wind farms
in the North Atlantic. I thought that was just the coolest
job ever. -John
\_ zero point?
\_ Zed PM, baby.
\_ Hi there SG1/Atlantis fan! There are 2 of us here now!
\_ This is getting out of hand!
\_ How do you like the dude you replaced O'Neill?
- yaSG1/AtlantisFan
\_ biofuel
\_ no way!
\_ Cannibalism
\_ Zombie Holocaust!
\_ Prayer!
\_ SEX!
\_ yermom!
\_ Forever mice:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1754008,00.html
\_ I'm...not liking this whole unnecessary 'amputation of my
limbs' thing. -mice
\_ I'm...not liking this whole 'amputation of my limbs' thing. -mice
/1 I'm listening to CNN and I can't believe how HAPPY the
news reporters sound at describing the terrible situation
in New Orleans. Has anyone else noticed this? Is anyone
else disturbed by this?
\_ anything that makes Bush looks bad is worth it.
\_ Bush is looking bad b/c of the hurricane? I didn't
pick up on that.
\_ The Federal Government in general looks slow and incompetant.
Bush II is the face of the government. And he himself is
reacting slowly on the disaster relief front.
\_ Well he did have a b-day party for McCain and guitar
practice to attend.
\_ And he did declare LA a disaster area before the party.
\_ Someone deleted my comment, but I think blonde folksy robotic
news anchors are par for the course nowadays. Just look at Fox
News - they use an equivalent tone to report news on Bennifer
as they do for Iraq.
\_ You'd be like that too with a face full of botox and body
swimming in uppers and downers.
\_ I'm...not liking this whole 'amputation of my limbs' thing. -mice
\_ HAMMSSSTTEERRR POWEEERRRRR!
\_ Hamster power!
http://www.aaaugh.com/jokes/hamster_power.html -John |
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| www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1754008,00.html The Times and The Sunday Times electronic paper The Times and The Sunday Times electronic paper The Sunday Times - Britain August 28, 2005 'Miracle mouse' can grow back lost limbs Jonathan Leake, Science Editor SCIENTISTS have created a miracle mouse that can regenerate amputated l imbs or badly damaged organs, making it able to recover from injuries th at would kill or permanently disable normal animals. The experimental animal is unique among mammals in its ability to regrow its heart, toes, joints and tail. The researchers have also found that when cells from the test mouse are i njected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate. The discoveries raise the prospect that humans could one day be given the ability to regenerate lost or damaged organs, opening up a new era in m edicine. Details of the research will be presented next week at a scientific confe rence on ageing, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, at Cam bridge University. Ellen Heber-Katz, professor of immunology at the Wist ar Institute, an American biomedical research centre, says that the abil ity of mice at her laboratory to regenerate appears to be controlled by about a dozen genes. She is still researching their exact functions, but it seems almost certa in that humans have comparable genes. We have experimented with amputating or damaging several different organ s, such as the heart, toes, tail and ears, and just watched them regrow, she said. When we injected foetal liver cells taken from those animals into ordina ry mice, they too gained the power of regeneration. We found this persis ted even six months after the injection. Heber-Katz made her discovery when she noticed that the identification ho les that scientists punch in the ears of experimental mice healed withou t any signs of scarring. The self-healing mice, from a strain known as MRL, were then subjected to a series of surgical procedures. In one the mice had their toes amputat ed but the digits grew back, complete with joints. In another test some of the tail was cut off but also regenerated. Then t he researchers used a cryoprobe to freeze parts of the animals hearts, only to see these grow back again. A similar phenomenon was observed whe n the optic nerve was severed and the liver partially destroyed. Heber-Katz will describe some of her findings at the Cambridge conference and plans to publish her results in a research paper. We have found th at the MRL mouse seems to have a higher rate of cell division, she said . The researchers suspect that the same genes could confer greater longevit y and are measuring the animals survival rate. The mice are, however, o nly 18 months old and the normal lifespan is two years so it is too earl y to reach conclusions. Scientists have long known that less complex creatures have an impressive ability to regenerate. Many fish and amphibians can regrow internal org ans or even whole limbs. Humans can regenerate their liver provided at least a quarter remains int act, as well as their blood and outer skin, but no other organs regrow. This is probably because, although most mammalian cells start off with th e potential to develop into any cell type, they soon become very special ised. This allows mammals to develop more complex brains and bodies but deprives them of the power of regeneration. By contrast, if a newt loses a limb then cells around the injury revert b ack into so-called stem cells. These can develop into whatever types of cell are needed, including bone, skin or nerves. |
| www.aaaugh.com/jokes/hamster_power.html com Lines: 174 The following should be credited to the UC Berkeley CSUA. I left a world- writeable file in my account and waited to see what people would put in it... Extort ransom from animal-rights acti vists and other anti-cruelty types: demand payment in the form of electric current. Feed back small port ion of generated electricity into hamster brain pleasure center. Seal large quantity of hamsters in air tight holding tanks. Smush mucho hamsters in a trough, use the drippings/blood to run a wa terwheel for hydroelectric power. Switch hamsters for P6 chips coming of Intel assembly lines. Cover performance loss by releasing new version of Windows NT at the same time. Ground the floor and attach negative leads to the ceiling. Once they're at the competitive lev el, convince Las Vegas hotel owners to convert to serving hamsters. Accumulate enough hamsters that the self-gravitational force causes t he mass to shrink and heat up. Threaten to drop hamster down CEO's pants unless he gives you a power plant. Have the Emperor warp and twist a hamster clone into an evil Anti-Ham ster, Darth Hamster. b Splice appropriate genes from electric eels into hamsters, because they're smaller and cuter and, well, hamsters. Splice in genes from blue-green algae as well, and you wouldn't even have to feed the hamsters! Mail the electric company a dead hamster every day until they give yo u power for free. Crossbreed hamster with Mothra and use resulting giant mutant lightni ng- breathing hamster as power source. Give the hamster to Scotty, he'll find some way to yeild 20% more pow er from the dilithium crystals. Take thousands of hamsters into orbit -- when the orbit decays, they will heat up the atmosphere. With enough hamsters, you could raise the planets temperature as much as you want. Then when they turn red & em barrassed, use the heat from their red face to drive a Carnot engine 33. Emmass enormous quantities of hamsters until it reaches enough mass t o begin hamsterfusion in the core. Throw in more hamsters to 33 (above) until the hamsterstar goes super nova... spin the resulting neutron -hamsters around each other in a binary orbit... Tell yourself very firmly that hamster s _are_ electricity. Give them little magnetic collars, and run them through a maze of coi led wires. Transfer the released energy via heat/engine or energy conversion scheme of your choice. Take two hamsters, run one through a klein bottle to convert it to an ti- matter. Harness the resultant massive burst of energy as per #38 above. It is a well-known result of quantum field theory that all fields are symmetric under the combined action of time-reversal, charge-conjugation and parity-inversion operators: the familiar TCP symmetry. It is trivial to show that time reversal and charge conjugation both take fermions into their anti-particles. Use this to show that plucking hamsters from mirrors will produce beaucoup electromagnetic radiation. |