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2013/4/17-5/18 [Health/Disease/AIDS, Health/Disease/General] UID:54659 Activity:nil |
4/17 Just a thought. Say we select a small percentagle of the population (e.g. 100000 people) with representations from all walks of life (scientists, engineers, doctors, chefs, plumbers, nannies, ...) except bad guys, transport them to a distant earth-like planet with abundant natural resources, and take away all man-made objects (machines, clothes, books, medicines, all tools, ...) How long will it take for them to re-build a civilization when all they have is the knowledge stored in their brains? \_ Less than 100 years, IMO. \_ history proves that mankind almost always self-destructs in a large scale until the advent of nuclear weapons. Also, more likely than not, a new disease will come out and wipe out a large % of the population. Without the continued production and research in diseases, those 100,000 people will be reduced really quickly. \_ But that hasn't happened since we learned about germs and how diseases are actually transmitted, which these 100k would know. \_ you underestimate the amount of resources (man + hours) to setup a lab, which can only be done in a very stable country with abundance of resources. \_ All you need is soap, clean water and a good way to dispose of human waste. But even getting that going is pretty hard, as anyone who has been to a 3rd world contry can attest to. \_ try to find vaccine for H1N1 or drugs for AIDS with 100,000 people, most of which will not be doing research or making microscopes and computers and such. It takes just one new strand of disease to wipe out huge populations. \_ I would be more worried about the ancient killers: cholera, tyhpus, typhoid ferver and dysentary. It is possible that they 100k could be screened, but soemthing would most likely slip through. something would most likely slip through. \_ I don't think they would in any reasonable amount of time. They might get to the bronze age before they forgot everything but that would be about it. Getting to the steam engine from scratch is just too hard. Most of them would die off pretty quickly unless you included lots and lots of people who were experienced hunters, fishermen and farmers. In subsistance economies, almost everyone has to focus on just generating enough food. \_ as pointed it, its goign to depend alot on the availability of natural resources. Worst case you drop them in an inhospitable desert and they all die in a few days. How fast they advance is going to be a huge function of how much of their time is spent spent surviving. \- It is also possible 100k people isnt enough genetic diversity to avoid interbreeding -> propagating bad recessive traits. I dunno if there are any good examples of island/isolated populations of this size with reasonable medical care [so you're not getting people dyning of simple infections etc]. --psb |
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2012/12/17-2013/1/24 [Health, Health/Disease/General] UID:54558 Activity:nil |
12/17 "Whoa: Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation" http://www.csua.org/u/yp3 Will you take the red pill or the blue pill? \_ which pill ends up with me in a universe where physicists and/or people writing about them aren't deluded about the abilities of physicists? -phuqm |
2012/4/23-6/1 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Women] UID:54363 Activity:nil |
4/16 "The K-E Diet: Brides-to-Be Using Feeding Tubes to Rapidly Shed Pounds" http://www.csua.org/u/w2x (gma.yahoo.com) I can't help noticing in the video: - how the doctor stayed standing up while examing this Jessica Schnaider sitting down, - how often he checked her heartbeat with his stethoscope, while standing up, - how convenient for her doctor the way she wore her button shirt was when she walked in to the office. \_ Why does her doctor need to listen to her heart so much? She isn't there for her heart disease. \_ Exactly. I think she's building up a media presence to pave her way to a reality show. And I think the doctor is knowingly in it. |
2011/12/29-2012/2/6 [Politics/Domestic/California, Health/Disease/General] UID:54275 Activity:nil |
12/29 "Venezuela's Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?" http://www.csua.org/u/v3q Looks like Chavez has more faith in US technology than Americans do. |
2011/12/19-2012/2/6 [Health/Disease/General] UID:54265 Activity:nil |
12/19 "Comic superheroes perform breast self exams" http://www.csua.org/u/v19 (news.yahoo.com) Whatever the title may say, I say this is superhero porn. \_ Boob Guy, are you back? |
2011/9/16-10/25 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Health/Disease/General] UID:54175 Activity:nil |
9/16 "Chinese condoms too small for South Africans: report" http://www.csua.org/u/ua8 (news.yahoo.com) "A South African court has blocked the government from buying 11 million Chinese condoms, saying they are too small, a newspaper reported Friday." What an embarrassment. \_ too small, made from the wrong material, and not approved by the World Health Organisation. Embarrassing, indeed! \_ Related news: "Condoms 'too big' for Indian men" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm \_ Aren't these female condoms? Too small might not be such a bad thing then. \_ It's still an embarrassment for Chinese men that these aren't too small for them. |
2011/8/15-27 [Health/Disease/General] UID:54164 Activity:nil |
8/15 Do LCD monitors emit cancer-causing radiation like CRTs in the old days? Wikipedia doesn't mention it. Thx. \_ CRTs didn't emit cancer-causing radiation either. \_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube#Ionizing_radiation "CRTs can emit a small amount of X-ray radiation ... The amount of radiation escaping the front of the monitor is widely considered unharmful." Oops. Never mind. In the old days I actually asked my employer to buy me a Polaroid grounded screen filter which supposedly filtered out the radiation on my 20" CRT. |
2011/5/20-7/13 [Health/Disease/General] UID:54117 Activity:nil |
5/20 CDC issues zombie apocalypse prepareness advice! http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp |
2011/3/31-4/20 [Health/Disease/AIDS, Health/Disease/General, Computer/SW/Virus] UID:54067 Activity:nil |
3/21 what are these virus phages? Can they be repurposed? \_ are you <b>insane?</b> you really want to start messing with recombinant <ul>rna</ul> crap when we don't even understand the normal virus lifecycle? |
2011/1/6-2/19 [Health/Disease/General] UID:53974 Activity:nil |
1/6 Study linking vaccine to autism was not flawed but fraud. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110106/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_autism_fraud |
2010/12/21-2011/2/19 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Women] UID:53979 Activity:nil |
12/21 Placebos work even when the doctor tells the patient that they are sugar pills: http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlangreth/2010/12/22/sugar-pills-work-even-when-people-know-they-are-fake/?partner=yahootix \_ "Harvard Placebo Study Was Seriously Overhyped" http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlangreth/2010/12/28/harvard-placebo-study-was-seriously-overhyped |
2010/9/13-30 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Sleeping] UID:53957 Activity:nil |
9/13 http://www.cracked.com/article_18654_6-ways-your-office-literally-killing-you.html --linkpusher |
2010/5/25-6/30 [Health/Disease/General] UID:53842 Activity:nil |
5/25 http://www.aolnews.com/health/article/study-many-sunscreens-may-be-accelerating-cancer/19488158 Sun Screens may be accelerating cancer. Ok, so plasticware in microwaves gives cancer. Cellphone gives cancer. Too much chlorine in the water gives cancer. What else is next, wearing cotton and eating wheat/corn gives cancer? \_ Eating too much soy gives you cancer. -dans \_ I wonder if KY Jelly gives people cancer. \_ I wonder if KY Jelly gives people cancer. Not only is it applied on mucous membranes, it's also vigorously rubbed against the membrane mucous membranes, it's also vigorously rubbed against the membranes which further increases absorption. \_ keep your day job. \_ Everything causes cancer. I'm not joking. We've set the bar so low on this that everything does. \_ not knowing what causes cancer causes cancer -- Mdme Curie |
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