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The Immune System and Sleeping Habits Adequate rest and a properly functioning immune system are closely related. Sleep deprivation appears to compromise the immune system by altering the blood levels of specialized immune cells and important proteins called cytokines, resulting in a greater than normal chance of infections. http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/html/effects.php3

There is another picture here though, along with drawings: http://ufologie.net/htm/caponipics.htm Looks extremely fake!

Quite honestly, I did a quick search and didn't much of anything on it. I don't feel like wasting my time on something that appears to be a hoax.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/29/ndrag29.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/29/ixhome.html

You could contact a company such as this: http://yipes.com/services/internet-access.html But keep in mind, there would be a large investment, both in monthly service, and in the purchasing of a router, switch, etc.

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ It was causing some problems for me which is why you only see part of it enabled. It has an RSS news reader and process monitor also. It worked for months, then all of a sudden was causing high cpu load so i turned them off for now at least. Haven't had time to look into it any further.

5 GB a day isn't really that much. That is only like 6kB/sec or 48kb/sec or .0048mbit. Raw bandwidth varies in price as it is almost like a commodity these days. But last time I hear it is around $30/mbit with a commitment of 100mbits or so. It's just a matter of economies of scale. Not to mention hosts are usually in the same building that major bandwidth is located. When you pay for your home connection, you pay for the transit from a bandwidth provider usually based in the city, to your house. I'm really looking forward to WiMax. This new format is simiar to WiFi except it is faster and will go longer distances. This could be a last-mile technology that would drastically reduce transit costs. In theory, you or a co-op could buy bandwidth and transmit it using WiMax. Maybe in a few years. Small Edit: That is probably a typo, most hosts offer 5 gb a month, not a day. But even on a daily basis you see how little that actually is.

I haven't done this in a while ! Here is my desktop - 2 monitor setup.

Agreed that is the correct way to go about it if you want to host a site. However his question was how to get his home connection more bandwidth. It really doesn't make sense financially to do this when there are so many web hosts out there that do this for cheaper.

You could probably argue that the earth's atmosphere is a lake of nitrogen, oxygen, etc. Of course "lake" is usually meant to mean liquid, but I could see the argument I suppose. Those science articles are written so joe blow can read them.

I don't buy it. I think it is just a hypothesis until there is an experiment that proves the physical brains are different. At birth or after puberty. There is too much of a societal effect on upbringing that could affect which parts of the brain are used more than others and become more developed. Really, males and females are the same until they hit puberty, thats when the physical changes occur. I might buy that the hormones introduced at that time cause the brain to develop differently. But even before then, males and females are trained differently and that could have just the same effect. Does the environment affect the change in brain development, or does the brain development cause the change in environment? That is the big question. I preface all my statements with that I am fairly ignorant about any studies that have been done concerning this as I'm not a neurologist!

It was decent seeing here, some very high clouds occasionally obscured the view. It wasn't as red as it normally gets I think, just got darker and then lighter.

What about the projects which study "Earth Sciences" from outer space? Where do you think they get weather forecasts from and study global warming? If you want to see what they spend money on, check out the proposal for 2005: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/55524main_FY05%20Agency%20Summary-2.31.pdf I do agree though, human spaceflight is too risky and has too much expensive (can you say life support systems?) to really get good 'bang for the buck'. Currently human spaceflight does not take up most of their budget and they realize robotic exploration is where its at.

I'm more worried about the asteroid we don't see that hits us next year The timeline on 1950DA is far enough in the future it isn't a worry quite yet. Also, I'm hoping that by 2800 we have the technology to "evacuate the planet" - remember that show "Earth 2"

I'm really looking forward to the results from the probe that will enter Titan's atmosphere. The environment there seems to be fairly unique in our solar system.

My personal belief is that NASA could put as much money as they wanted into 'deep impact' research - meaning searching for asteroids that may hit earth or finding ways to divert them, but when that big one comes I don't have any faith we would have any ability to stop it.

You'll probably have the best response, if you don't know someone that works at nasa, by contacting them here: http://www.nasa.gov/about/contact/index.html See if you can arrange for someone to interview.

I'm a big fan of research for the sake of research. But for those non-scientists that believe we should spend money elsewhere: - NASA work has produced many things we now use in our daily lives: http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/spinoffs2.shtml - NASA stimulates the economy because of these products and also the raw amount of materials that must be manufactured to send things into space. - NASA work may eventually lead to space or planet colonies which will prevent overpopulation of the earth. - Space exploration stimulates the imagination of our young and not-so-young citizens.

Even though they are fairly common they are neat to watch. Things like this first got me interested in astronomy.

As someone who works at a web hosting company I can tell you that google is not an ISP. The definition of an ISP is someone who provides internet access to someone else. Since google does not have customers that use it to "connect" to the internet, they are not an ISP. Google purchases bandwidth directly from the major bandwidth providers. There is no "middle man" who re-sells it to them. To further complicate things, they have a few datacenters across the US which handle your query. I just watched a good video on what it takes to execute your search query, basically it takes only .5 seconds and accesses 1000s of servers simultaneously. So to answer the topic, you *could* in theory purchase your own bandwidth and host your own server. This would only have the benefit of speeding up access to your own server from others on the internet. The minimum you could buy would be a T1, this is pretty slow for today's standards. There are a myriad of "ISPs" that provide bandwidth for hosting servers and handle all of the internet routing for you. But, this solution would cost a lot per month, maybe $1000 per month (just a rough figure).

You guys are assuming that the difference between the brains of males and females is biological and not caused by upbringing. Determining the difference between "nature vs nurture" is hard in this case because it would take a controlled scientific study, repressing the "gender" of a child (which would probably cause an outcry if a child was used to experiement like this), over 20 years or more. From birth, males and females are treated differently. Have their been studies that show there is an actual biological differeence in the brains of men and women? Besides the hormones of course. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah luckily it will be fairly good viewing here tonight. Here (EST) it begind around 8:15pm and peaks around 10:15pm. That would be early morning UTC.

This kind of caught be by surprise, there is a total lunar eclipse tonight and it is the last one until 2007. I am excited for this, especially because I just moved out into Amish country and there are no lights around us; it is extremely dark out there - great viewing area. Nice article on it: http://space.com/spacewatch/eclipse_041027.html Live webcast and maps of the eclipse area: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2004Oct28/TLE2004Oct28.html It looks like it will be viewable from most of the earth besides S.E. Asia and Australia. See how your viewing area will be: http://cleardarksky.com/csk/

I think the price tag to send anything up into space would be the main restriction. Even using technology that is available, I couldn't see it costing less than $1 Million. Not to mention the legality of such a thing. I remember some big news after the Patriot act was put into place about restrictions on model rocketry.