GeomanNL

Strange and suprising things

Strange and suprising things

I've found this strange and suprising page:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171660-1-megawatt-cold-fusion-power-plant-now-available-yours-for-just-1-5-million

I thought cold fusion was long dead, but apparently it is not and someone actually tries to sell a cold-fusion power plant. Good luck to him finding any buyers.

 

And this, the next step in the search for alien life: long-infra-red.

http://www.livescience.com/42540-how-to-search-for-alien-civilizations.html

Not only do they want to search for Dyson spheres around stars, but even around entire galaxies, because those are "easier to find". Good luck to them finding such a Dyson sphere.

 

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Reply #26 Top

http://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-genome-sequenced.html

From DNA from a 7,000 year old tooth, people discovered that only 7,000 years ago, there lived a dark man with blue eyes. From this we can conclude that having a white skin is a fairly recent phenomenon. And it's all caused by cereal!

 

Reply #27 Top

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 26
it's all caused by cereal!

Why do you think they called it "white" bread?

Reply #28 Top

Jeez, Starkers sounds kinda grungy with his warts and stinky feet and peeing on his self,LOL. 8(|

Reply #29 Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 1

Apparently, honey bees won't poop inside their hives. So sometimes during winter they will have what is called a "cleansing flight" where they all go outside the hive and poop together. This occurs on particularly warm winter days, since they would freeze to death otherwise (and some still might).

 

 

 

Do they all poop in one place?

 

Could be a first stepping in a pile of bee poop. Freakin amish bees need an outhouse.

Reply #30 Top

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 26

http://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-genome-sequenced.html

From DNA from a 7,000 year old tooth, people discovered that only 7,000 years ago, there lived a dark man with blue eyes. From this we can conclude that having a white skin is a fairly recent phenomenon. And it's all caused by cereal!

 

 

 

So the Irish ate lucky charms

The Africans ate sugar smacks

The whites or euros ate puffed rice

The Germans ate whatever they wanted

The rest had oatmeal.

 

Am I close?

Reply #31 Top

Quoting doortech1, reply 28
Jeez, Starkers sounds kinda grungy with his warts and stinky feet and peeing on his self,LOL.

Actually, those are age-old remedies handed down from generation to generation.... and the only one I tried was the 1st spittle in the morning on a wart.  Have yet to try the peeing ones.  So when I next get a blister I'll let you know if it works.

:grin:

Reply #32 Top

link..       :|

 

secret base....

or maybe......

it's how far Starkers had to move to get away from his son-in-law's stinky sock smell....   :\

Reply #33 Top

Quoting sydneysiders, reply 32
secret base....

or maybe......

it's how far Starkers had to move to get away from his son-in-law's stinky sock smell....

 

Actually...it was starkers...

Reply #34 Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 33
Actually...it was starkers...

so, there's cabbage growing in that thar base greenhouse...   :|

Reply #35 Top

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140130110953.htm

Researches have designed RNA that can split very specific types of DNA. They've used it to kill bacteria, but it sounds quite scary to me. And I thought such things like targeting specific strains of DNA was science fiction, but it's real !

 

Reply #36 Top

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 35
They've used it to kill bacteria, but it sounds quite scary to me.

Why?  Are you bacteria posing as human to get on these 'ere forums?

Now that'd be strange, though not so surprising. 

I'm quite convince there is a numjber of species who'd join these 'er forums if they could.

When the aliens living here have fully mastered the written word, me thinks they'll come here in droves.

:-"

Reply #37 Top

I think it's scary because I think such a thing can become a kind of poison that can be tailored to kill just 1 person, or 1 group of people that share a certain DNA trait. For example, if some evil genetic scientist wants to get rid of all people that share a gene that causes noses to be long and hooked, then such a thing is actually possible nowadays! Maybe it's not easy to administer (yet) but it's a first step towards such a bio-weapon.

 

Reply #38 Top

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 37
For example, if some evil genetic scientist wants to get rid of all people that share a gene that causes noses to be long and hooked, then such a thing is actually possible nowadays!

No, it really isn't. The article you linked is about an antibiotic that targets specific species of bacteria and leaves the beneficial ones in your gut alive. It has only been tested in a petri dish so far as well. This has little to do with developing a poison capable of killing humans that have certain genetic traits. Considering there are already numerous ways of wiping out our entire species, I don't see how a theoretical one that targetted just a small percentage of the population would be scary in comparison. That research is potentially good news for reducing antibiotic resistance and their side effects (diarrhea, etc) in people though.

Reply #39 Top

Quoting starkers, reply 36


Quoting GeomanNL, reply 35They've used it to kill bacteria, but it sounds quite scary to me.

Why?  Are you bacteria posing as human to get on these 'ere forums? ...


 

Bacteria are not welcome here.  This type of environment (the forums) favors viruses (viri?) :)

Reply #40 Top

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 39


Quoting starkers, reply 36

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 35They've used it to kill bacteria, but it sounds quite scary to me.

Why?  Are you bacteria posing as human to get on these 'ere forums? ...




 

Bacteria are not welcome here.  This type of environment (the forums) favors viruses (viri?)

Good!!  I don't wanna come here and pick up STD's [Strange Thounding Dialects].  As it is I have picked up a lithp that manifests in every 2nd word or so that I type.  I blame that on the aliens who come here before mastering the written word.  They might be used to telepathy where they come from, but I dunno if we want to be able to read other peoples minds, as that could have depressing results....

You hear: "Good morning, and how are you today?"

But then you read their mind: "Piss off, you're a bloody idiot."

I mean, how deflating would that be if you thought that person was your friend... and worse still.... your only friend!  Nah, me thinks mind reading is overrated. :-"

 

Reply #41 Top

All english speaking people suffer from such a dialect. It's called "French".

 

Reply #42 Top

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 41

All english speaking people suffer from such a dialect. It's called "French".

 

And then there's this....

Lekke noken nit betalen. 

Not too sure about the spelling it's been that long... but I suffered that dialect many moons ago when I served on a Dutch freighter back in the 70's.  I know plenty of other phrases but have no idea how to spell them.... especially when the spoken word sounds like somebody hacking up a lugy.

:-"

As for French, I suffered that at high school for a while... until the female teacher booted me for a phrase not too unlike the one above.

Hehe, suited me, though!  I got to do extra manual arts work instead, which I thought more useful anyway.

Reply #43 Top

Quoting starkers, reply 42
Not too sure about the spelling it's been that long...

The spelling is wrong, but I can understand it :)

 

Reply #44 Top

Quoting starkers, reply 40
You hear: "Good morning, and how are you today?"
But then you read their mind: "Piss off, you're a bloody idiot."

Damn!!!  I've been found out...;)

Reply #45 Top

Quoting GeomanNL, reply 43


Quoting starkers, reply 42Not too sure about the spelling it's been that long...

The spelling is wrong, but I can understand it

 

I never knew the spelling to begin with.  I worked with a bunch of dutch sailors who never saw the need to spell out anything, they just used vulgar phrases from time to time.... er, all the time, and I picked them up.

Quoting Jafo, reply 44


Quoting starkers, reply 40You hear: "Good morning, and how are you today?"
But then you read their mind: "Piss off, you're a bloody idiot."

Damn!!!  I've been found out...

Like you thought you were going to keep hiding in the undergrowth forever? :-"

Reply #46 Top

Back to forum topic:  Flying snakes outed - National geographic uncovers their secret to flying. 

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/29/snakes-reptiles-animals-science-flying/

 

Reply #47 Top

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 46
Flying snakes outed

hmmm..... glad ours (Aussie snakes) don't fly... enough problems with drop bears... and funnel webs dropping out of trees...

Reply #48 Top

Quoting sydneysiders, reply 47


Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 46 Flying snakes outed

hmmm..... glad ours (Aussie snakes) don't fly... enough problems with drop bears... and funnel webs dropping out of trees...

Not to mention spitting goannas that aim for the eyes; koalas up in trees doing toxic pees; herds of kangaroos in army boots that'll trample you to death in 60 secons,  and hoop snakes that roll away at 45mph after [they like earlobes] biting you.

:-"

Then there's the neighbourhood dickheads [and EVERY neighbourhood has 'em] who like to do 120km up 40km streets running over cats, dogs and anything else that gets in their way... and the strange and surprising thing about that is the bastards never kill them feching selves

>:(

Reply #49 Top

Yes this is really mysterious. If snakes don't need a plane to fly, then why were all those snakes on *that* plane a few years ago? And why didn't they all jump out of the window when *he* got pissed?

But you wonder why those snakes want to fly at all. Maybe they just enjoy it? Or maybe they want to hunt flying squirrels?

Reply #50 Top

Quoting starkers, reply 48


Quoting sydneysiders, reply 47

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 46 Flying snakes outed

hmmm..... glad ours (Aussie snakes) don't fly... enough problems with drop bears... and funnel webs dropping out of trees...

Not to mention spitting goannas that aim for the eyes; koalas up in trees doing toxic pees; herds of kangaroos in army boots that'll trample you to death in 60 secons,  and hoop snakes that roll away at 45mph after [they like earlobes] biting you.

Then there's the neighbourhood dickheads [and EVERY neighbourhood has 'em] who like to do 120km up 40km streets running over cats, dogs and anything else that gets in their way... and the strange and surprising thing about that is the bastards never kill them feching selves

Dang, Oz seems like a really dangerous place.  Oz wildlife puts the wild' in wildlife.  I don't want you to adopt me anymore.  ;)

 

@geomanNL,  the snakes on the plane were there because they got a group rate.  (Or what ever you call a mess o' snakes all slithering together?) A 'valdomort' of snakes?