Radical Edward

I thought it was demonstrated to be the same speed though...

I said, I'm nothing to do with medicine or anything like that, it's physics.. MSc is Master of Science... it's a postgrad degree.

as I said, I don't start till next month, but here goes: Duncan Hill (still Mr) PhD researcher duncan_hill@hotmail.com Fraunhofer Institute MSci and MSc, Imperial College London for 5 years Research on Organic LED... dunno what I will be doing other than that I needed an MSc to do it, and I got interested i nthe area throught he MSc course, since one of my Professors was one of the people who discovered Light Emitting Polymers.

It's all part of the compensation culture that has developed. Financial compensation should not be given unless it is necessary.

no hills and warm air.... do you have a free room I can move in to?

well I have two degrees, but I don't start work till next month.. also I work in physics... any help?

I find anything other than simple single celled organisms deeply disturbing... and even some of those are pushing it

well tbh, you want to pick somewhere with pretty stable weather, and measure differences from the norm. also pick stable cloud patterns - don't pick small ones as they usually come about for some localised reason, such as the top of a hill, or sudden rush of warm air.

would you go out with a girl who kept crapping herself and peeing her pants? no? neither would I. and the uses for it in nature are pretty apparent.

you'll also have to pick different days, and different areas as well... I mention different areas because I've seen some really wierd recurring events that can only be attributed to the lie of the land - such as con coatlines, or sharply rising lonely mountains and so on.

Stopping the advance of a technology just because you can do something bad with it is a stupid argument. If we had followed that line back in history we wouldn't even have invented spears.

why bother vaccinating when your immune system can just be upgraded to cope, and then have that improvement handed automatically to your offspring?

not all forums should be merged, but restrict each topic to a few smaller areas. also I think we need a reading list....

you didn't tell us why it worked... if we have some idea of the 'principle' then we might be able to come up with a testing regimen.

most of your concerns are technical ones: one may have said the same about heart transplants - surely a weeks worth of life is better than none at all if it goes wrong - but now they are commonplace. those that aren't, are things that are suffered anyway, such as all the social pressures to conform with some given ideological/cultural group, which the child may later feel that they do not belong to - everything from religion to gender identity and parents who want their children to follow the family career can be enforced unwillingly onto a child, so the thought of manipulation does not really offer anything significantly new to the mix what is left are pretty much only positives.

what's the rush? China... heh.

'back in the 60s', that still doesn't excuse bush's weapons of mass distraction though.

there is no 'why' in this case. It's the way things are.

cool, so a war on iraq costing billions, a ship to mars, costing billions, tax relief, the vast majority of which goes to the richest 1% of the population..... methinks bush isn't really all that interested in the economy.

athlons are far better... Pentium < *

3 is the simplest possible system, and it requires the simplest proteins to read the DNA. everything else is just redundancy and waste energy, and so an organism just using 3 would be the most efficient, and most likely to reproduce. one would expect. Plus it depends on how the organisms evolved in the first place. I'm not sure off hand what the definition of an amino acid is, but say life used more, then it would need more nucleotides....

snooty buggers

is dead air any good? oh, and Mary L Boas, mathematical blahblah is far better...

<faf broke the internet>

neurons don't have this switch, they either fire or don't fire - so in essence they are boolean and the processing (at the synapses or internally) gives a boolean, but not nescessarily linear result..... I feel that your view of the complexities of intelligence are somewhat limited in this respect.. I might suggest reading 'The Emperor's New Mind' by Roger Penrose..... damn good read.