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Comment Re:My first thought... (Score 1) 26

The military has excluded people with mutations from serving ie.. (flat feet). If a race of mermaids were real the Navy's typical response would be that no web footed freaks need apply for naval service. I can see how mutations (vascular tissue) in the Himalayan mountains can provide oxygen at high altitude. The same is true of mutants in the south American Andes with improved hemoglobin.

Comment Could this also lower the costs of CPAP machines? (Score 1) 48

The current costs of CPAP machines is anywhere from $850.00 to $3000.00 the device is used to treat sleep apnea. If the basic design of a ventilator is circuits , sensors, backup power, audible alarm, dual compressors, built-in redundancy. The hacker spaces around the world could figure out the wiring. What about those algorithms that can model the best shape for weight distribution on a quad copter. The best shape for lungs might be something nature has already invented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Massive Errors VCD Blocking Tool (Score 1) 69

Crashes on start. Run as Admin with compatibility for win 98.
CTSListBase: Misaligned list Error!
Google search leads to VCD Blocking Tool --- Valve Developer Community
Something was left in the old code that is some form of DRM.
I never got to play this game. The hype for this game died on the vine.
Sad really due to the fan base surrounding the orange box.

Comment Re: How About the US Diplomats in China? (Score 1) 60

Janitors should have come down with this first not diplomats. The effect is identical to microwave beam damage. It penetrated thick embassy walls better than a bullet. It is a terror weapon. No civilians harmed in the continental USA. No US militias are proudly showing off energy weapons. This points to a hostile foreign power, Russia, China, forces allied with Syria. Anyone with enough money could get a lab to build it. The timing of the attacks will help identify the guilty party. Tit for tat. An action by the US against someone in a distant nation repeatedly upset takes action every time you poke the bear. One more diplomat falls ill. Staff were targeted walking outside the Cuban embassy. Cover stories will continue until every US embassy is covered in a protective Faraday cage. That won't happen for a long time. Explanations so far: Grasshopper swarms, Mosquito spray, poisons, everything but the truth.

Comment Uranium for the win (Score 1) 142

The heavy isotopes sink down to the core of planets. If hot then the densest metals transfer heat to the lighter elements. I've given this some thought. If the horse head nebula is second generation stars then there isn't enough plutonium and uranium present to maintain heat for billions of years. The Sol system is at least a fifth generation star having components from early star collisions and nova events. The gold on earth is from neutron star collisions billions of years before this system existed. Any planets in the horse head nebula are facing the exact same problem as Mars. Too few heavy metals.
  Too many and you wind up with Mercury. Plutonium core surrounded by lead. Venus had enough heat internally to resurface itself, erasing nearly all meteorite craters. Venus's proximity to the sun doomed it to a run away greenhouse effect.
  The Earth has the right mix of distance from the sun... heavy metal mixtures... lunar mass(asteroid buffer)... Amino acid levels... and we shouldn't discount theories that the outer star system was in a liquid state four billion years ago. Life may have started near Jupiter and made its way inwards as the young star cooled down.
Once life started out there it changed each habitat to suit itself. A lack of sunlight in the outer system means methane breathing bacterium. Same as Earth's diverse genomes. RNA or DNA doesn't really matter. There is also circular MtDNA. If we explore the galaxy we will probably find right handed DNA and RNA.

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