Remnant44 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Almost anything is better than corn (Score 1) 560

by Remnant44 on Friday January 11, 2008 @09:38PM (#22009096) Attached to: Switchgrass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn

Because a diet consisting of corn is so healthy for us humans, right? I don't like my _beef_ being all corn-fed -- it results in a screwy fatty-acid profile not reflected in natural (grass-fed) beef. A diet of all corn for humans is a fast-track to those diseases of affluence that you just mentioned. My point: I don't give much stock to the argument that the US is morally bankrupt because they feed cows to eat rather than feeding people. Feeding people what we feed cows would result in lots and lots of even more unhealthy people.

Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations 299

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 05, 2007 @05:28AM from the back-to-the-drawing-board dept.

SteakNShake writes "Once again professional astronomers are struggling to understand observations of the sun. ScienceDaily reports that a team from Saint Andrew's University announced that the sun's magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the corona via a mechanism dubbed the 'solar skeleton.' Computer models continue to be built to mimic the observed behavior of the sun in terms of magnetic fields but apparently the ball is still being dropped; no mention in the announcement is made of the electric fields that must be the cause of the observed magnetic fields. Also conspicuously absent from the press releases is the conclusion that the sun's corona is so-dominated by electric and magnetic fields because it is a plasma. In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe, this kind of crippling ignorance among professional astrophysicists is astonishing."

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