DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!soapyshooter said:
An actor actually doing something to benefit the world isn't going to happen. It can't happen! It would break the universe worse than dividing by zero!!!
Science!: Tongue Breathing and Synthetic Cells
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An actor actually doing something to benefit the world isn't going to happen. It can't happen! It would break the universe worse than dividing by zero!!!
Not thrilled at this causing controversy, given that this is the field I'm currently studying and hope to get a job in.
Hope Kevin's machine will work. Theoretically speaking should work as it uses centrifugation principles to split the mixture of water and oil. But probbaly won't work fast enough but could work if they had more machines. And actually I am surprised nobody else came up with this idea to control oil spillage as similar but much smaller devices are used in thousands of labs around the world. Even if it doesn't work Kudos for Kostner to at least trying it.
Hmm... didn't know Costner was in the business of building centrifugal separators.
That technology actually works pretty well for separating substances with different densities. Hopefully they'll work well enough to reduce some of the damage this fiasco is doing to the environment.
And synthetic life is probably the best approach to genetic engineering. You try to tweak an existing bacteria's genome and who knows what other traits are going to be affected. You create a bacteria with an artificial genome, you know what's in it, how it's going to work, and how to kill it if it gets out of hand.
That technology actually works pretty well for separating substances with different densities. Hopefully they'll work well enough to reduce some of the damage this fiasco is doing to the environment.
And synthetic life is probably the best approach to genetic engineering. You try to tweak an existing bacteria's genome and who knows what other traits are going to be affected. You create a bacteria with an artificial genome, you know what's in it, how it's going to work, and how to kill it if it gets out of hand.
I'm calling this now: if we actually create genuine artificial life, it better not become sentient and demand rights and freedoms. Racism is choppy enough already; we don't need things that are, in fact, different from us to be hateful toward.
But glad to hear that celebs are chipping in for the environment. Bummer about the otters :/
But glad to hear that celebs are chipping in for the environment. Bummer about the otters :/
Personally i don't see anything wrong with synthetic life, even if it does become sentient and can't breathe our air and demand we change the atmosphere for them,nothing could possibly go wrong!
/sarcasm
joking aside... dibs on the algae.
/sarcasm
joking aside... dibs on the algae.
Sentience is tricky. Never mind developing it in a lab, some humans only have a rudimentary grasp on their own!the idiot computer said:
That tongue shot is adorable... makes me miss the ones I had back when I was a kiddo ;_;
Just one question about Costner suckage, wouldn't the sucking bring some small crustaceans and whatnots for a fun water spin?
If it does I can see see Crush spinning around going totally "Wow duuuuuude!".
Just one question about Costner suckage, wouldn't the sucking bring some small crustaceans and whatnots for a fun water spin?
If it does I can see see Crush spinning around going totally "Wow duuuuuude!".
The pie'd part this is that for every moment they ***** and moan about the oil spill my home state is that much closer to having their ecosystem messed up in a big way.