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If there was evidence of that(not involving expansion) we would need to adjust, but FTL travel itself doesn't make much sense in terms of time dilation and length contraction. Generally the evidence is on the side of the speed of light relating back to causality in general.

Why park? I'd be willing to bet we'll see a mix of colors and styles. Be like the smart phone market. Will probably still be able to plot specific routes or switch into a manual mode. Ironically Uber is looking into self driving cars as well.

I meant it will be like a packet in terms of how it finds its way to its destination in light of the overall traffic situation. Many of our navigator apps do this to an extant. Likewise most Nav Apps already have speed limit data(annoyingly). I don't have enough information to even guess on how the legal framework will evolve. I suspect legal responsibility will remain primarily on the vehicle owner and depending on the nature of the accident, the car manufacturer. The law may require a driver be able to take control or it may not. Unoccupied vehicles and vehicles driving unaccompanied minors or individuals with disabilities are a real possibility though. On the policing end, I suspect the future will be largely data/command driven. ie. Law enforcement has a screen with information relating to a vehicle's owner(would you even need a license???) and have the ability to electronically issue 'Safely Pull Over and Shutdown' commands. There will probably be a substantial growth in services that cater to the vehicles themselves. Simple ones could be more easily done with further automation(pumping). Others accomplished by people, for instance, placing purchases inside a vehicle's trunk. You may well need to learn driving with few to no cues from other vehicle occupants on the road. In the most part though they should do better than we do at driving. You may be interested in the Google driverless car Wikipedia page. More usage data in an urban environment. Things like speeding and road rage should become far less common. Your vehicle could easily double as your office and entertainment, all without you being distracted/aggravated with driving.

Most modern self driving vehicles are using computer vision. Along the same lines as this: http://delphi.com/media/pressreleases/2015/03/14/delphi-to-launch-first-coast-to-coast-automated-drive The real benefit would be the networking aspect. Turn transit into something more akin to packet routing.

In light of the report does anyone have ideas on more specific solutions to the problems plaguing Ferguson and similar areas? @Overtone: I just want to say that, iNow is correct your posts do show a clear pattern of crankish behavior when a topic involving one of your hot button issues comes up. Please take this merely as constructive criticism from one who hopes you might engage in some introspection and not a personal attack.

That was an interesting read. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412011725 I'm liking their logic. Basically limiting incompatibly issues.

Just the genomes of mitochondria in the Spermatogonium to those in the resulting sperm after allowing some time to pass and exposing them to stresses typical to what they would experience in the natural course of events. Probably easier said than done though.

There are some nice treatments finally coming out.

My thoughts on the numerical hypothesis are that the ratio could be altered afterwards and if a numerical advantage is all that is needed then these active systems make little sense. Maternal mitochondria shouldn't have any reason to want to be in every offspring's cell, just the cells that go on to make the next egg. It's like they are saying a 1000:1 advantage is not enough and that they need to call in an airstrike. and yeah, I know the risks of asking 'why' in Science. We're the ones looking to fix the resultant issue of(virtually) perpetual inheritance of malfunctioning mitochondria though. On the surface you'd think 50/50 odds would make more sense. I was hoping someone somewhere had simply ran an analysis on a bunch of their genomes. That would be pretty conclusive one way or another. Looking at the numbers involved though seems like that may have been an unrealistic hope. Think I'll take a look at the variants out there that lack genetic material. If inheritance patterns vary that could provide some insight.

Yeah, I don't know either just trying to figure out some of the why of it all.

They are passed along more commonly in other species though. Sheep for instance. In contrast for fruit flies paternal mitochondria are actively segregated and eventually secreted. I'm fine with it. Basically swapping the egg the nuclear DNA finds itself in(ie. they aren't really moving mitochondria around). I was thinking though at the cost of a donor egg and moving around DNA, it'd be smarter to utilize paternal mitochondria. Only natural known case turned out badly though for the individual. I suppose we could just screen candidate mitochondria but still leaves one wondering.

Your father would be incorrect and rather arrogant. The Universe is not bound by human limitations. If you can imagine the points Laniakea and Poipu at two fixed co-ordinates, with an ever increasing distance between them, that is what expansion is like.

@OP: Might want to look into ocean acidification. Increased CO2 production is widespread and ongoing. That is why it is more a concern than relatively minor transient events. and this Florida boy managed to climb Pike's Peak. Most of you all are at higher elevations in our ocean of air and so should be just fine.

It would need to be processed on the moon with most of the material simply ending up as refuse. Hypotheoretically He-3 would be useful in fusion power. Risks to the moon itself would be negligible.

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Welcome The whole UK decision on mDNA replacement therapy was what got me thinking about this. http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/02/u-k-parliament-approves-controversial-three-parent-mitochondrial-gene-therapy

Sometimes we get true believers. Sufficiently advanced spam and all that.

Well in both cases the flowers are absorbing a solution via capillary action. Did some searching and found that dye will also work for flowers still on the bush when injected via a syringe.

That isn't always true. http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa020350 A man was found to have inherited some of his mitochondria from his father. I'm just trying to figure out why the mitochondria don't attempt to ensure they are passed along more often.

Anyone know if these are more likely to carry defects than those from the egg? I've been trying to reason out why there is a selective bias against them. Only idea I've been able to come up with, besides sheer dumb luck and an overzealous protection system for the egg.

Do you mean a deliberate explosion?

I'm guessing what was meant was 'immersive'. For #1 most our muscles are naturally immobilized during REM sleep and we might make use of a modified version of that. Happily it already doesn't cover everything, so no creepy 'stuck in the simulation' situations need ever occur. We don't fully understand how to send feedback along the nerves, though once we do replicating the multiple visual/auditory/tactile sensations would be considerably easier. Honestly my main concern is causing virtual psychological issues. Knowledge hacking also becomes something of a concern. There are virtual reality goggles out/coming out. They are not quite the same thing, but are along similar lines.

There is nothing besides the mythology on record in regards to Dionysus.

Wouldn't a dye have worked just as well? I know it works for cut flowers at least.