Comment No trespassers since... (Score 0) 828
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 0) 898
They're a coffin if there's a fire on the ground floor and you're on floor -50?
I wonder... if there was a fire on the ground floor, would you even care if you're on floor -50?
Given that the fire would consume massive amounts of O while creating massive amounts of heavvier-than-oxygen-and-not-all-that-healthy CO, Yes I probably would.
Now, I'm glad I at least ordered my sub-50 building with rocket escape pods.Move all SIG!
Comment Re:Obesity & Bacteria, Mice and Men (Score 0) 397
why is it worded in such a way as to imply the different bacteria is the reason that one is obese and the other isn't, instead of the type of bacteria changed because being obese (and the eating that goes along with it) favor one type over the other.
Perhaps because that was one of the findings reported in TFA?
From TFA:
"..researchers in Jeffrey Gordon's lab at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that lean and obese mice have different proportions of microbes in their digestive systems. Bacteria in the plumper rodents, it seemed, were better able to extract energy from food, because when these bacteria were transferred into lean mice, the mice gained weight. The same is apparently true for humans: In December Gordon's team published findings that lean and obese twinsââ"âwhether identical or fraternalââ"âharbor strikingly different bacterial communities. And these bacteria, they discovered, are not just helping to process food directly; they actually influence whether that energy is ultimately stored as fat in the body."
You know, sometimes you find surprisingly good answers to your questions if your read TFA.