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  1. I'm not sure the texture of the plant-meat would be correct without electrical stimulation to substitute for exercise. They had to do that with the "lab burger" at any rate. Also not sure how the cell wall or its lack would impact the plant's growth and/or the meat's texture. That is not entirely true for submarine food. The vegetables and fruit have a finite shelf life. After a couple weeks, anything green comes from a bag or a can. I've also been onboard when food has run low. You can end up dining on Ketchup soup, ever smaller slices of peperoni on peperoni mini pizzas, then just flour and sugar combinations. Thank FSM for flour and sugar.
  2. You see this with artificial life programs. Something needs to define the problem though. here's a good example: http://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/ If you want something a bit meatier to look at: Code not written by any human being... More like molding clay than programming when you are working with it.
  3. looks like the WASP diving suit is the top: http://www.oceaneering.com/oceandocuments/brochures/subseaprojects/OPG%20-%20WASP.pdf Able to go down to 2300 feet or ~1036.74 psi.
  4. Generally every time we want a bit of energy our main means of obtaining it is via combustion. Decreasing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and increasing the amount of carbon dioxide. As more of the world industrializes we can reasonably expect this trend to accelerate. CO2 traps heat better and none of us wants the Earth to end up looking like Venus. There's reasonable evidence it can also snowball. The trapped methane in the oceans is only stable within a narrow pressure/temperature range. It gets too warm and the methane starts bubbling exacerbating the problem. Problem with changes caused by lifeforms is that the lifeforms don't stop having an impact. If you want to look up the "Oxygen Catastrophe", it illustrates this fact well.
  5. Methanol and Boric acid should do the trick. http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Spirit-Lantern-Green-Fire-20/
  6. We kind of already do this though admittedly using hydraulic fracturing instead. Geothermal sites and in natural gas drilling operations. Article gives mixed data on the subject if you read to the end.
  7. Cooling. Doesn't swallow coastlines like warming can. Mostly a money/prosperity issue in terms of fixing or even creating stop-gap measures to deal with the problem.
  8. Go under the wall.
  9. Thanks, and yeah, my brain is a bit fried.
  10. Would it be possible for one or more cases of successive gravitational lensing to direct light back towards its source?
  11. Problem with numerology predictions is that they tend to be base dependent. We use base 10, but we could just as well use base 8. Universe at large doesn't particularly care about the number 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal#Other_bases
  12. There are different disorders along these lines, though I don't know of any that exactly fits everything you are describing. Probably one of the more well known cases out there, where a man lost his ability: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/03/23/in-search-of-the-minds-eye/#.VLSNm3tN8eM You may be able to work to improve it. http://www.self-help-and-self-development.com/visualization-exercises.html Maybe working with real and/or virtual blocks as well. Lego's, Minecraft or anything similar(and there is no shortage out there). ...and note, just because you can mentally visualize how something works does not mean you can repair it. Sometimes you fail to visualize something small, like rust, and your repair effort instead results in a hole in the wall and a small but unstoppable leak(sadly shutting off the home's water main was not considered a valid repair option by my family).
  13. Generally speaking I would say that the benefit lies being able to visualize a task or system without needing to physically interact with it. What do you see in your mind's eye when you try these kinds of tasks?
  14. I use it to sign-in to different sites. I have a few Twitter accounts for the same purpose. There is Ello if you want an alternative to FB.
  15. Is she grading based on how easy an essay is for her to relate to?
  16. That we went through a period of adaption to a semi-aquatic environment. It is the question of whether our adaptions are specific to that environment which is the issue. If you make the case the descended larynx's suggest adaptation to a semi-aquatic environment and I bring out a male Red or Fallow deer, he makes for an effective counterpoint. I do have to admit some unavoidable bias. We have a score of accidental drownings every year in Florida. The media coverage at least is frequently concerned with cases involving young children. Can't really get away from the public safety campaign against it.
  17. On a good day I can reach the bottom of the deep end. About the same as the family dog... As for why Fido doesn't take down that great horned beast that keeps swimming around in the jacuzzi... Well, I can only speculate that the risk of injury increases when more common tactics would fail to work. There's too many counterpoints IMO. You start looking at the actual history of water birth, infants with their non-descended larynx, other mammals with a descended larynx(ADH - Aquatic Deer Hypothesis), it all just looks really shaky. Possible, sure. Probable, I am not seeing it as such.
  18. At the top, what would cause the water to come out of the capillary tube?
  19. Something along those lines. Historically it went: Winner takes all Voting system --> 2 Parties You get vote splitting in our present system when you introduce a 3rd party into the mix. Ron( R ): 50 votes Daisy(D): 48 votes Susi(S): 37 votes Ron wins, but all of Susi's supporters would have voted for Daisy, if Susi had not been on the ballot. The math is pretty much the why of it all. Ideally in the future we run simulations prior to drafting up a Constitution.
  20. Well there are a number of religions which engage in the practice of casting spells. Rationally you can answer "Yes" and not indicate whether you believe the spells themselves to actually work. As for ghosts, I think at least a number of people have had odd experiences. Whether this is due to little known physical phenomenon, actual spirits, or our brains misfiring, who knows.
  21. We would probably need to see a voting system change for US to move away from the 2 party system. I don't know. Generally political systems muddle onwards with only relatively minor modification, until something major happens.
  22. This is the full quote from Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/ What was presented is quote mining and almost invalidates the argument by itself.
  23. Tilt? Still no free energy though.
  24. Weird, it isn't escaping the characters correctly for the one. I've seen where uploading while mobile browsing can cause something similar. <a itemprop="url" id="tid-link-21595" href="-snip-" title="Which is the most " intelligent'="" animal,="" in="" your="" opinion?="" -="" started="" 7="" november="" 2006="" 02:09="" am'="" class="topic_title"> Icky.
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