Cap'n Refsmmat

You're generalizing.

Just because a reputable scientist said it's true doesn't mean it really is.

I thought that was the Canadian healthcare system, spending two years waiting for an MRI.

I suggest we do comparative studies on how much money is spent on fast food, as well as studies on health care. That would certainly clear up a lot.

Just remember that several mutations can happen in different individuals in the same generation and end up spread among offspring as well. Evolution doesn't work one mutation at a time.

Whoops. Fixed.

Gene duplication often works in tandem to mutation and allows completely new traits to evolve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_duplication

It would not speed up your PC at all. Freeing up hard-disk space doesn't do much for speed.

If a search engine could get a huge index and relevant results, it would be a world-beater. The problem with personalization is that sometimes people break out of the personalized "mold." If, for example, they always search for pet information, the engine might personalize to bring up more relevant results, but then their evil sibling gets on and tries to find instructions for nuclear weapons and only gets guinea pig feeding directions.

Researchers have developed a new vaccine that may be able to substantially lengthen the lifespan of patients with the glioblastoma multiforme variant of brain cancer. During a study of 23 cancer patients, it increased survival times by at least 18 months, and only 4 of the patients died during the trial period. The vaccine works by "tagging" cancer cells with a protein that tricks the immune system into believing they are foreign, forcing it to attack the cells and destroy them. Unfortunately, however, it appears that the vaccine only works until the cancer evolves to use different receptors, at which point it becomes ineffective. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4942840.stm

Returning to the original argument, New Scientist has a rather nice comment on the subject:

I'll admit that silkworm's ideology is what has caused the divorce rate to skyrocket so rapidly.

http://www.arxiv.org

Theories aren't absolutely true; they have enough evidence to make the credible, but they haven't been proven absolutely positively true.

I died in 1932.

It would be nicer if you could give us some reason to believe you, like an explanation of how the technology works or some other evidence.

These are popups that are coming up with or without a browser open, right? ecoli: AVG and Spybot are not comparable. AVG is an antivirus, Spybot is for spyware.

JustStuit is correct.

http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_research/2006/20060210/20060210.html

http://cartagodelenda.blogspot.com/2006/04/great-debate.html

Space is not the absence of matter. Perhaps I should have said space-time. In essence, the entire universe expanded. The matter in it was not moving, but the distance between particles increased. It's hard to understand, but it can happen. The big bang happened everywhere in the universe. Remember, the universe was infinitely compressed at that point in time, and so the entire universe expanded with a burst of energy at every point at once. We can look with a telescope at any place and see the cosmic background radiation left behind from the rapid expansion, because it was emitted everywhere.

This does not belong in the Biology forum.

It was a rapid expansion of space itself. That means the particles in it were not necessarily moving - the entire universe was. Then you'd have to explain how particles of matter can shrink. Yes, a telescope or nice little calculations.

Echoing the previous replies, I'd like to say that this smells like homework. Google is your friend.

We're limited by the number of pigments we have in our eyes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color