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Old 01-12-2022, 02:37 PM   #2876
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That's actually a good point.

So not applicable for Mormons or Muslims?
I don't think this affects the Mormons. But I'm sure there are tons of other people that will not be ok with it. Maybe Jews and Muslim. The religion says you can't eat it but you're not eating it so is it allowed?
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I don't think this affects the Mormons. But I'm sure there are tons of other people that will not be ok with it. Maybe Jews and Muslim. The religion says you can't eat it but you're not eating it so is it allowed?
I worked in organ transplant, Mormons accepted organs, but they would not accept blood from other people, the transplant needed to happen without blood loss, which not many transplant departments are capable of.

True story...organ yes, blood no.
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I worked in organ transplant, Mormons accepted organs, but they would not accept blood from other people, the transplant needed to happen without blood loss, which not many transplant departments are capable of.

True story...organ yes, blood no.
Jesus Angel Moroni was oddly specific about what medical procedures are acceptable.

Wouldn't you also need to drain all the blood out of the organ before transplanting it?
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Old 01-12-2022, 04:31 PM   #2879
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I don't think this affects the Mormons. But I'm sure there are tons of other people that will not be ok with it. Maybe Jews and Muslim. The religion says you can't eat it but you're not eating it so is it allowed?
Probably a fair bit of people in India too. More pig organs for me though.
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Old 01-13-2022, 03:23 PM   #2880
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Jesus Angel Moroni was oddly specific about what medical procedures are acceptable.

Wouldn't you also need to drain all the blood out of the organ before transplanting it?
I can only speak for kidneys, they get totally flushed with a saline solution.
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Study finds no Martian life in meteorite found in Antarctica - Los Angeles Times
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A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday.

In 1996, a NASA-led team announced that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left by living creatures. Other scientists were skeptical, and researchers chipped away at that premise over the decades, most recently by a team led by the Carnegie Institution for Science's Andrew Steele.

Tiny samples from the meteorite show the carbon-rich compounds are actually the result of water - most likely salty or briny - flowing over the rock for a prolonged period, Steele said. The findings appear in the journal Science.

During Mars' wet and early past, at least two impacts occurred near the rock, heating the planet's surrounding surface, before a third impact bounced it off the red planet and into space millions of years ago. The 4-pound (2-kilogram) rock was found in Antarctica in 1984.

Groundwater moving through the cracks in the rock while it was still on Mars formed the tiny globs of carbon that are present, according to the researchers. The same thing can happen on Earth and could help explain the presence of methane in Mars' atmosphere, they said.

But two scientists who took part in the original study took issue with these latest findings, calling them "disappointing." In a shared email, they said they stand by their 1996 observations.

"While the data presented incrementally adds to our knowledge of [the meteorite], the interpretation is hardly novel, nor is it supported by the research," wrote Kathie Thomas-Keprta and Simon Clemett, astromaterial researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

"Unsupported speculation does nothing to resolve the conundrum surrounding the origin of organic matter" in the meteorite, they added.

According to Steele, advances in technology made his team's new findings possible.

He commended the measurements by the original researchers and noted that their life-claiming hypothesis "was a reasonable interpretation" at the time. He said he and his team - which includes NASA, German and British scientists - took care to present their results "for what they are, which is a very exciting discovery about Mars and not a study to disprove" the original premise.

This finding "is huge for our understanding of how life started on this planet and helps refine the techniques we need to find life elsewhere on Mars, or Enceladus and Europa," Steele said in an email, referring to Saturn***8216;s and Jupiter's moons with subsurface oceans.

The only way to prove whether Mars ever had or still has microbial life, Steele said, is to bring samples to Earth for analysis. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover already has collected six samples for return to Earth in a decade or so; three dozen samples are desired.

Millions of years after drifting through space, the meteorite landed on an ice field in Antarctica thousands of years ago. The small gray-green fragment got its name - Allan Hills 84001 - from the hills where it was found.

Just this week, a piece of this meteorite was used in a first-of-its-kind experiment aboard the International Space Station. A mini-scanning electron microscope examined the sample. Researchers hope to use the microscope to analyze geologic samples in space - on the moon one day, for example - and debris that could ruin station equipment or endanger astronauts.
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Old 01-25-2022, 12:03 AM   #2882
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Where's the Space Telescope? This is pretty cool.

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It's at the L2 point now. So far everything has worked better than planned.
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Old 01-25-2022, 12:30 AM   #2883
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It's at the L2 point now. So far everything has worked better than planned.
Yup. One million miles away using the Earth as a sun shield.

6 months of commissioning and if nothing goes wrong, we should start seeing some pretty cool stuff.
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****ing Lagrange multipliers almost made me fail my last upper division class for a B.S.. Do we really need that for Economics? Think prof was trying to show off tbh. Cool story bro.
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Old 01-25-2022, 01:12 PM   #2887
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Today's modern Economics and really even all the **** in the past is gigantic math. I know a few guys with PHDs in Physics and Math. With the exception of one guy, they all do big number stuff for financial firms and make $TX. The one guy (PHD in phsics) went into a think tank for AI. Also making $TX.
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Today's modern Economics and really even all the **** in the past is gigantic math. I know a few guys with PHDs in Physics and Math. With the exception of one guy, they all do big number stuff for financial firms and make $TX. The one guy (PHD in phsics) went into a think tank for AI. Also making $TX.
Yep...by late 90's, Wall Street was snapping up engineers and math folks as fast as they could.

I know two that did that for a while, loved the challenge, making loads of cash. Then they figured out what they were doing was really screwing people and left in disgust.

Fortunately companies like Google and Amazon were snapping up people with those same skills about that time, so they had no trouble finding other places to work that was more rewarding and slightly less evil.
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****ing Lagrange multipliers almost made me fail my last upper division class for a B.S.. Do we really need that for Economics? Think prof was trying to show off tbh. Cool story bro.
Oh man. I remember being in a physiology class when the prof started in with "This is the differential equation for the transmission of the electrochemical impulse along a nerve."

Most of the class were post-grads working on masters in some med field. About half the class looked like they just crapped themselves.

I was one of two undergrads in the class, and the only engineer.

Finally the prof let them off the hook and explained we didn't need to be able to solve it, he just wanted to show it to us.
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Today's modern Economics and really even all the **** in the past is gigantic math. I know a few guys with PHDs in Physics and Math. With the exception of one guy, they all do big number stuff for financial firms and make $TX. The one guy (PHD in phsics) went into a think tank for AI. Also making $TX.
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Yep...by late 90's, Wall Street was snapping up engineers and math folks as fast as they could.

I know two that did that for a while, loved the challenge, making loads of cash. Then they figured out what they were doing was really screwing people and left in disgust.

Fortunately companies like Google and Amazon were snapping up people with those same skills about that time, so they had no trouble finding other places to work that was more rewarding and slightly less evil.
Good points, big data was the future employment back when I took that class and guess prof (now the Dean) was trying to expose us to multiple avenues of career paths, It helped steer me no doubt...to the cost accounting/small business management route ;P

Bolded part: Funny that Economics - a discipline in free market/exchange liberalism (not to be confused with left politics) - can be reverse engineered (imo) to create brokers of wealth transfers, and not the good kind.
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I saw that too, but man the pace is frustratingly slow.

They are improving the time of sustained operation by an order of magnitude roughly every decade. And don't get me wrong...those are huge leaps.

So 11 seconds now.

In 10 years, 100 seconds.
In 20 years, 1000 seconds (15min)
In 30 years, 10000seconds (2.5 hrs)

At that pace of development we're looking at city-scale fusion power plant for a 30yr service life somewhere near end of the century.

Hopefully it ramps up faster. I'm all for crawl walk run sprint. But it sure is something the world could use sooner rather than later.

Also, I want my Mr. Fusion.
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My impression was that continuous heat was not needed. You ramped up one chamber and as it cooled back down another one ramped up.
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Still using more energy than it generates. Until that can be reversed (E out > E in) for even a little bit (even for just a hand full of ms) then they don't have anything. According to the big brains the math is there so it should be possible.
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Old 02-11-2022, 01:32 PM   #2895
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Robo-fish. Killed and filleted in the end. I wonder if it was tasty. On the serious side it would be cook if they could grow a heart like they do noses and ears.

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Still using more energy than it generates. Until that can be reversed (E out > E in) for even a little bit (even for just a hand full of ms) then they don't have anything. According to the big brains the math is there so it should be possible.
Yeah... A big part of the problem is the magnets. You're looking to heat things up to boil water so that you can generate electricity, but the magnets have to be in close proximity to the plasma and they need to be kept at cryogenic temperatures because they have to be superconductors or the math doesn't work anymore. Traditional electromagnets would eat up so much power that it's pointless and that's only IF you could somehow create field strengths that high with them and I don't think you could. So the whole thing is basically fighting itself. If we can create superconducting magnets that are capable of generating the field strengths we need at "high" temperatures, say liquid nitrogen hot, there's a pretty good chance that this works. But if it has to be cooled with liquid helium, I don't see how they get to breakeven. It takes a lot of energy to get stuff that cold.
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MIT and CFS are working on high temperature semiconductors. CFS are also working on "real" reactors. Really interesting stuff.

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Technology is amazing, especially wireless tech. It has connected the world and democratized information unlike anything we've seen in human history. But building that infrastructure took technology that no longer meets our needs today. Companies are transitioning away from it, and they will leave customers adrift. That list of lost customers includes car owners now that AT&T has shut down its 3G cellular network.

The telecommunications conglomerate ended its 3G wireless service on February 22, according to The Drive, which has been following this issue. The shutdown affects mainstream brands like Honda and Ford, luxury labels like Lincoln and Porsche, and certain bespoke Bentley models.

The 3G shutdown could affect a variety of in-car connected services, depending on the make and model. Functions cars could lose include remote lock/unlock, smartphone connectivity, WiFi hotspots, and more.

Some affected models were built for the 2012 model year, while others made as recently as the 2020s are on the list, like select 2022 Honda Pilot trims. The Drive has a long list of affected makes and models, and they are not all equally affected. Ford has just three models losing service, while Volvo has six. Audi has 10.

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Automakers are working on solutions that keep the functionality offered by the 3G network operating for owners. According to The Drive, GM and Honda have offered over-the-air updates for certain affected models, while Volvo, VW, and Ford owners can get a hardware upgrade to keep their connected services. More cars will suffer a similar fate as T-Mobile (Sprint) and Verizon will shutdown their 3G networks this year, too.

Automakers use 3G connectivity for a variety of services that is now done by 4G networks. However, it's only a matter of time before 4G follows 3G into obsolescence, with 5G already here. The transition will likely cause even more chaos as many of today's cars have some sort of wireless connectivity.
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Just still a little mind blowing we can browse pictures from a rover on mars on our world wide web networked computers.





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Just still a little mind blowing we can browse pictures from a rover on mars on our world wide web networked computers.


[photo of rocks on mars]


That looks like stuff on a beach in Florida
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