Comment Re:There is no evidence Mars One is not sincere (Score 1) 89
A couple of Fox news reporters tossed out of earth gravity wouldn't be such a bad start.
A couple of Fox news reporters tossed out of earth gravity wouldn't be such a bad start.
Yeah, coming out of a ketamine tranq state to a zero grav toilet with six pages of instructions ought to be good for at least one episode.....
You could probably do it - with enough computer graphics and skill. But that would cost a buttload of money (which they don't have) and require the expertise of hundreds of people (like a modern movie). Wouldn't be a secret for very long.
Besides, after a month or so, one of the stars would be photographed at a Burger King in Honolulu and that would be the end of that....
Yeah, I'm seriously worried about my white blood cells!
And well you should be. Autoimmune diseases are some of the most common, difficult to treat and uncomfortable diseases known to man.
It's a pretty sad state of affairs when your own body is trying to get rid of you.
Unless that number is 99.9998%, AT THE MARKET, this is not acceptable. Got citation to back up those claims of yours?
If you're that worried about things, you should move to California and read ALL the warning labels.
How do you price real water? And if you did, where does the money go? It's not like there's some manufacturer to pay -- the stuff just comes out of the ground! If I sell a million gallons of water to somebody across the state, do I just have a hundred tanker trucks drive up to my well, pump it out, drive across the state to the other guy's well, and dump into his well?
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That's fairly easy - you price it at replacement cost. If it's cheap to replace, fine. I you have to desalinate to replace - charge that rate. Then you have an economically renewable resource.
The historical problem is that, when aquifer drilling first started, the supply seemed basically limitless - no need to conserve. Run the clock out a few decades and we see that those predictions were just flat out wrong. We've taken the low hanging fruit so now it's time to put our big boy economic panties on and deal with the problem instead of ignoring it.
Yes, wireless mic + Dragon or even just an audio file to transcribe at your leisure. Much easier than trying to type on some horrid little membrane keyboard.
We have these COWs at the hospital (Computers on Wheels although we aren't supposed to call them that because it's not politically correct although I've never seen why denigrating dinner was such an issue) that have keyboards that you can run through a dishwasher and all other manner of decontamination. They are horrid. Slow. Squishy. Like trying to type through industrial strength jello.
Hell, you could put GoPro's on your head and get and audio and video log. Those housing will certainly take a mild clorox bath. It's not like you have to boil the thing to get rid of Ebola.
However, at our stage of understanding the system, climate engineering is probably not such a good thing to be doing. The planet isn't an experiment that we can easily clean up after we make a mess. We can't 'nuke it from orbit' just to make sure.
That is a major issue with the carbon sequesters and everybody else. We're really running in the dark. We need to put quite a bit more energy (pun intended) into understanding the system before we blithely go and tinker with it (like we are doing at present).
If you read and understood TFS you would note that they indeed make this inference. You'd have to read the paper to see the details.
You might want to look at an accompanying editorial for more details but here is some additional info:
The blood-brain barrier, a tightly packed layer of cells that lines the brain's blood vessels, protects it from infections, toxins, and other threats but makes the organ frustratingly hard to treat. A strategy that combines ultrasound with microscopic blood-borne bubbles can briefly open the barrier, in theory giving drugs or the immune system access to the brain. In the clinic and the lab, that promise is being evaluated.
This month, in one of the first clinical tests, Todd Mainprize, a neurosurgeon at the University of Toronto in Canada, hopes to use ultrasound to deliver a dose of chemotherapy to a malignant brain tumor. And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in Science Translational Medicine that they used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and cognitive functions. If such findings can be translated from mice to humans, “it will revolutionize the way we treat brain disease,” says biophysicist Kullervo Hynynen of the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, who originated the ultrasound method.
Some scientists stress that rodent findings can be hard to translate to humans and caution that there are safety concerns about zapping the brain with even the low-intensity ultrasound used in the new study, which is similar to that used in diagnostic scans. Opening up the blood-brain barrier just enough to get a beneficial effect without scorching tissue, triggering an excessive immune reaction, or causing hemorrhage is the “crux,” says Brian Bacskai, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who studies Alzheimer's disease and used to work with Hynynen.
My emphasis.
Yes, this will be interesting - but the results may not be as scary as you might think. Assuming this pans out (the first three letters of the word assume are...) and the results are clinically apparent, even a modest benefit would save 'the system' quite a bit of money. Alzehiemer's patients are very expensive to maintain. They live for years, they can be otherwise healthy. They need a lot of human supervision (which doesn't come cheap).
So even if the equipment manufacturers charge and arm and leg for the procedure the overall health care dollar might go down. Another interesting issue is that this is a pretty cheap treatment - standard ultrasound machines, no expensive drugs* and a protocol that may well be so simple as to be effectively unpatentable.
So stay tuned. Quite a bit of work to do but some the 8 digit UIDs might be able to take advantage of the treatment (again, assuming that they are not running for their lives from a Zombie / Ebola / Ted Cruz infestation).
* Some of the treatments do work better with microbubbles which might end up costing some money. See the accompanying editorial for more info (needs a Science subscription).
Grandpa! What are you doing posting on Slashdot?
What I really want to see is for the Uber concept to be applied to health care. That's when the news will get really interesting.
What, people will make an appointment to get a physical in the back of somebody else's car? Where does that get fun?
That's hertory! There's no fucking "s" after you remove "his"!
After you remove 'him' there is no fucking, period.
Much too nuanced
TL;DR - bring lawyers, guns and money.
Yeah, no DNA!
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