DrDNA

Is this the exception that makes fruit not falling far from the tree a law?

I have a high degree of confidence that it is muscovite mica. Looks just like it. But what is this all about?? "These strange microscopic objects were found in skin lesions of a person who suffers from both Lyme Disease and Morgellons. She also lives directly under a flight path of a major airport and near a 2001 hazmat event involving a (glycol) spill that required bioremediation." I think there is a very low probability that this was found in a skin lesion. Was this part of an alien abduction? It kinda remindes of that episode of Jackass where one of them stuck a Hotwheel car up in his rectum, went to a Dr and got xrays, so everyone could get a laugh when the Dr told him what was wrong with his butt.....

As soon as a bathtub chases your granny down the street and mauls her, I'll bet you'll see a loud call for a ban on bathtubs and we'll all be taking showers. Maybe the negativity regarding this breed is more related to perception about pitbull owners than the dog breed itself. Using your analogy to bathtubs above, if the stereotypical pitbull owner was envisioned in the same light as the stereotypical bathtub owner, the pitbull itself would have a more favorable image. Conversely, if a significant portion of the public envisioned bathtub owners in a light similar to the stereotypical pitbull owner, bathtub sales might drop significantly.

My intended point was there is no such thing as "free healthcare". Somebody has to pay for it.

I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one that said anything remotely negative about nanotechnology here. But dear Lord man, nobody ever said it was "useless". But nanotech is NOT a panacea. I said that it is mostly hype (at least 98%) and if we flushed the hype and quit blindly throwing money at things just because someone labeled them as nanotech or nanobiotech or whatever the latest buzz word of the day is in this round of grant proposals...... and focused on good science instead, we and the taxpayers and shareholders who fund us, and the whole world would be better off. I wish that half as much attention was paid to alternate energy programs as nanotech........... There are some real issues and dangers associated with new technologies that have not been realized and will not be realized until some later date. (quantum dots inside of people excluded...we already know that Cd is very toxic). That is the way it is and will be until we can model every variable in the universe. But some are going to be relatively obvious to you if you look closely, but not to the mainstream. Please do some research and reading and find out what these might be before you become a blind cheerleader. Those of us that have been working in quote nanotechnology unquote for 5-7 (my own experience) or longer (I do know people that have been in this longer than 10 yrs) realize that it is not a panacea for all of the world's ills......in spite of the fact that some of us have the word nanotechnology clearly written across our paychecks. Read man. Read. Read everything, but especially what you don't want to hear. Read about the history of science and the people that suffered because of ignorance...just not knowing and going with the lastest and greatest thing...Thalidomide babies, birth defects because of semiconductor factory ground water pollution, all the chemists that died of cancer or the people that had their feet measured with high power x-rays so their new shoes would fit better....etc...etc.... You are going to be a good scientist someday, I'll bet on it. But at some point you will stop relying on the propaganda that SciAm, Pop Science, the pop press and the other popular lay mediums and popular mediums of science cheerlead and get to the real story behind what it is you want to do. Don't throw them out, but keep them in the toilet for special reading occasions. I'll crawl back in my cave now......

"For every fatal dog bite in the United States, there are 230,000 bites that are not treated by a physician. ................ Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed study of dog bites from 1982 to the present. (Clifton, Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to November 13, 2006; click here to read it.) The Clifton study show the number of serious canine-inflicted injuries by breed. The author's observations about the breeds and generally how to deal with the dangerous dog problem are enlightening. According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon children, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings. In more than two-thirds of the cases included in the study, the life-threatening or fatal attack was apparently the first known dangerous behavior by the animal in question. Clifton states: If almost any other dog has a bad moment, someone may get bitten, but will not be maimed for life or killed, and the actuarial risk is accordingly reasonable. If a pit bull terrier or a Rottweiler has a bad moment, often someone is maimed or killed--and that has now created off-the-chart actuarial risk, for which the dogs as well as their victims are paying the price. Clifton's opinions are as interesting as his statistics. For example, he says, "Pit bulls and Rottweilers are accordingly dogs who not only must be handled with special precautions, but also must be regulated with special requirements appropriate to the risk they may pose to the public and other animals, if they are to be kept at all." The financial impact of dog bites Dog attack victims in the US suffer over $1 billion in monetary losses every year. ("Take the bite out of man's best friend." State Farm Times, 1998;3(5):2.) That $1 billion estimate might be low -- an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that, in 1995, State Farm paid $70 million on 11,000 claims and estimated that the total annual insurance cost for dog bites was about $2 billion. (Voelker R. "Dog bites recognized as public health problem." JAMA 1997;277:278,280.) According to the Insurance Information Institute, dog bites cost insurers $345.5 million in 2002, $321.6 million in 2003, $317.2 million in 2005, and $351.4 in 2006. The number of claims paid by insurers was 20,800 in 2002, but fell to 15,000 in 2005. The insurance payment for the average dog bite claim was $16,600 in 2002, but rose to $21,200 in 2005. Liability claims accounted for approximately 4 percent of homeowners claims. Dog bite claims in 2005 accounted for about 15 percent of liability claims dollars paid under homeowners insurance policies."http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/statistics.html http://www.dogbitelaw.com/Dog%20Atta...%20Clifton.pdf To summarize, of 2209 dog attacks doing bodily harm, 1110 were by pit bull terriers. This is not counting pit bull mixes. "Pit bulls seem to differ behaviorally from other dogs in having far less inhibition about attacking people who are larger than they are. They are also notorious for attacking seemingly without warning, a tendency exacerbated by the custom of docking pit bulls' tails so that warning signals are not easily recognized. Thus the adult victim of a pit bull attack may have had little or no opportunity to read the warning signals that would avert an attack from any other dog." Regarding German Sheps and Wolf Hybrids (Sorry, I can't find similar data on pure wolves): " German shepherds and German shepherd mixes in which the German shepherd line predominates together amount to 16% of the entire U.S. and Canadian dog population, according to the data we have on breed-specific licensing, or just about nine million total dogs. There are by contrast only about 300,000 recognized wolf hybrids: about one for every 30 German shepherds.Relative to their overall numbers, wolf hybrids are accordingly 60 times more likely to kill or maim a child than a German shepherd--and that is before even beginning to consider the critical behavioral distinctions." "In the German shepherd mauling, killing, and maiming cases I have recorded, there have almost always been circumstances of duress: the dog was deranged from being kept alone on a chain for prolonged periods without human contract, was starving, was otherwise severely abused, was protecting puppies, or was part of a pack including other dangerous dogs. None of the German shepherd attacks have involved predatory behavior on the part of an otherwise healthy dog.Every one of the wolf hybrid attacks, however, seems to have been predatory. Only four of the fatality victims were older than age seven, and all three were of small stature. The first adult fatality was killed in the presence of her two young sons, whom she was apparently trying to protect. The second was killed while apparently trying to protect her dog. Most of the victims were killed very quickly. Some never knew the wolf hybrid was present. Some may never have known what hit them. Some were killed right in front of parents, who had no time to react. Unlike German shepherds, wolf hybrids are usually kept well apart from children, and from any people other than their owners. Yet they have still found more opportunity to kill and maim than members of any other breeds except pit bull terriers and Rottweilers, each of whom may outnumber wolf hybrids by about 10 to 1.". This has been discussed ad nausium....http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28108&page=4&highlight=pit+bull

That is true. http://www.hydrogenassociation.org/general/factSheet_safety.pdf

Good lookin fellar are ya? Dear Lord, have mercy on his soul. He's coming home soon.

Tested how...pass failed how.....???? ATTS stands for American Terrier...what exactly? Unbiased are they? Did you read the stats that were posted and linked on here?

You sir are a true experimentalist! As far as asphixyation goes, I believe that Helium and H2 are probably similar, but they do differ in that one is associated with a very loud POP with even a minor spark. And if I were a paramedic trying to rescue a victim of helium or hydrogen asphyxiation......uhm....I choose the helium guy by a long shot. The hydrogen guy can lay there for a few hours while the air clears out...... How come you don't look for another hobby?

You know as well as I do, that when a dog is fired up, it doesn't stop to think about what species it is going after. Nope. I'm not saying that at all. Some of these people apparently love Pitbulls A LOT.

Sounds a lot like, "I've been smoking for 20 years and it ain't killed me...cough .....cough...." PS: I do conceed that they (in the pics) are beautiful babies, beautiful dogs, look like fun times....

No! If you don't violently explode first, you will asphyxiate, soil your pants and die an embarassing death. If you want to play with some funny gas, play with Helium.....or pinto beans..... And if you are hell bent on dying, die of old age with some dignity man!

I was taught in grad school that the mustard part refers to their propensity to cause blisters on the skin and irritate the lungs. I also saw in the link that mustard refers to the smell.....hmmm... In any case, breaking the law would be the least of your worries. Like several other agents of chemical warfare that were banned by the Geneva Convention, these are not too difficult too synthesize, but really, really nasty.

Obama has 71% with 50% reporting! Hillary is in second with only 20%. On the Rep side, Fred has 16% and he is not even in the race! McCain 33% and Huckabee 30% My son was watching it on TV and told me these results and I thought he was confused....... Obama's lead is unbelievable! I just looked up the history of S Carolina primary and each party's eventual candidate has been the winner of S CA for a long time...... 04 Kerry and Bush 00 Gore, Bush 96 Clinton, Dole 92 Clinton, Bush 88 Dukakis, Bush EDIT 58% Obama, 28% Hillary and still 50% reporting...... EDIT EDIT 55% Obama, 27% Hillary and 55% reporting....this is odd.....but Obama has been declared a winner...the rep percentages have not moved...

Great! Take a load off, set a spell, take your shoes off and please accept an invitiation to join my exclusive bubba-scientist club, which you will recieve just as soon as you learn an extremely critical input variable in cutting torchology, welding, building demolition and destruction (among other really cool things)...... ..........................which is........... Well, why not?!?! There is no heating involved when a large passenger jet that is loaded with jet fuel slams into a building at 350 or greater mph ?? Ouch...hot! EDIT PS: What strawman? I am stating fact.

How come no I'm a lot smarter than everyone else and everyone is out to get me?

Let me think about it.

I've been thinking and I kind of have mixed feelings about this whole rep thing...... On the one hand, I feel REALLY GOOD (like dancing even) when I get some points...BTW thanks to those people that have graciously given me some points But on the other hand, I realize that I am being rewarded for particular behaviours and behaviour patterns that the collective happens to find favorable. And I am probably already changing my thought patterns and the content of my posts because of this...hell, I'm probably doing it right now! So could this be just another vehicle that The Man is subtly using to bend me over the proverbial barrel and sodamize me into submission? What do I have to look forward to from you people? Castration?!?!

At the risk of sounding like a bigot....well, sorry but I am relatively innocent of that but I am guilty of MANY other gnawing and gashing of teeth for eternity-worthy sins, so better luck next time........here goes anyway.... Here in AZ, if you go to the emergency room and pretend you don't have a SS number, you're pretty much home free for a variety of services. I'm sure that diabetes testing would be covered because most of the people packing in the emergency rooms here (and believe you me, they are REALLY packed here) do not have insurance but have relatively common, self limiting things such as the flu. On the other hand, if the billing agent knows you have a SS number, they will pry it out of you and you can expect to get a hefty bill and a big ding on your credit if you don't pay up. I feel kind of silly for not thinking of it sooner, but maybe its worth a shot?

This might seem like a dumb question, but what's a LHC ?

If you finished half of a college math book in a week and a half at 5 yr old, while sitting in a car, then Black Holes and gravitational theory should be no problem at all for you....unless of course you were cheating off your brother. Did your brother beat the crap out of you when your dad left you pinned up in the car with him and out in the middle of nowhere? Mine always did and I never forgave him for it.

Wow. That would be different. But I don't understand how that would work at all because... 1. embryos are already fertilized and 2. if you meant unfertilized eggs, who are the semen donors on the receiving endgoing to be? and 3. how would they survive without mommys and daddys to feed, cloth, protect them, teach them basic survival skills, etc? talk about neglectful parenting!

Maybe I'm missing something but aren't you both really saying the same thing? I.e., it (it being losing men in battle) would not be as severely penalized in an evolutionary sense as losing women in battle would be. Wooo hoooo

Autism is sad, and I would do nothing to try and make light of a situation involving autism, but to date, there has not been a positive correlation drawn between autism and vaccinations. Although there have been many attempts to do so.....