Endy0816

You may want to ask some of your professors if discussion on ethical hacking will come up in your current or later courses.

Cellular replication is only one source of potential damage and IMO not a primary source. Your immune system typically policies things to keep cells from becoming too abnormal. Worst case you could compare multiple cells and determine how the original dna would have likely appeared, then select based on that. Generally as long as the introduced cells are close enough, they'll pass muster with the immune system. As you can receive organ transplants from family members, your immune system isn't that exacting. There's even studies of parasite immune system evasion going on, so might not be an issue at all down the line. Only way I could see a potential issue would be in terms of organ harvesting. Organ printing is likely going to be the better option in the future though so I'm not seeing it as a major issue myself.

He was actually decent as govenor. Fairly moderate views. That is really what the Republicans need if they're going to win anytime soon. Moderate views. Make no mention of crazy religion based policies. Appear down to earth but have or come from a record of financial success. Calming standard white guy image the country is accustomed to. I'm of the opinion they are likely to win this one. Not sure good/bad. Generally overall situation remains the same so not sure how much it matters in the grand scheme of things.

Evolution doesn't assume as a human would. What ended badly before might end well the next time. It does have some limited memory. The code itself and epigenetic mechanisisms. It is not so stupid that it overlooks the obvious, but it also doesn't claim "5 fingers will always be better than 4".

Generally gels are non-magnetic... Maybe gel pads combined with a feromagnetic liquid? There are soft gel magnets but price for a whole chair would be up there. My main thought is that what you are asking for would have to be custom made. Not impossible but pricey.

They are pumping out water with Renewables and gaining some of that energy back whenever the sea water is allowed back in. Pumping and air pressure are the typical solutions. If you have something better then by all means describe it. Likely though, many of the options have already been considered by the enginnering team. Aside: Interesting the new sorts of batteries being thought up. One I saw was based around using renewables to move a loaded rail car up a mountain and gaining energy back whenever it was allowed to come down. Another was using renewables to make fuel and gaining energy back during combustion.

Gray = Banned

Probably taking their names(and little else) from: Matrix mechanics and Lattice QCD. They certainly sound like something humans could manipulate, which is likely why the respective authors decided to use them.

I'm actually of the opinion there is travel backwards. I just don't think we can observe it as such or use it to send information backwards. Everything kismet in both directions.

I cringe when I see the word Aether used not in reference to a popular video game mod...

Basically just using the gas as a battery. Not a bad idea, depending the use you are putting it to. Not sure which reaction they're using but there is quite a bit you can do with Ceria as a catalyst.

There is a breathable liquid out there... searching... Perfluorocarbon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing Here's a decent pop-sci article on the subject: http://gizmodo.com/can-humans-breathe-liquid-1156138301

This should give an idea of the issues. http://www.efunda.com/formulae/fluids/draining_tank.cfm#calc Simplest thing would be to float your outlet. More expensive would be to use a pump or valve set up.

I think you are thinking of area. That would be different. Not enough information to find the Area, but via a bit of mental rearrangement you can find the perimeter. so you could say: 40%(A) x 50%(B) = 44%(200) A+B=200 so 200-B=A Plugging back in: 40%(200-B) x 50%(B) = 44%(200) which is the equivalent of what you had to start with. Note: I'm mostly working towards the middle here. Never was all that good at adding compounds.

I did read this. Main issue is that your ideas are not fully grounded in reality. Laws of Thermodynamics limit what can happen in any mechanical or biological system. Whatever you think up you need to make sure it at least makes sense within those rules. If you've got some wonder idea then work out the basic issues surrounding it. Wikipedia is your friend. Google can provide backup if your idea is really out there. You are one brain among many. Good odds someone else has already had that same basic idea already and figured out why it wouldn't work. Now not everything has been thought of yet, so there are still nuggets out there to be had, they just involve a bit of effort. People can help answer specific questions. There are no such thing as "atom movers shooting out photons" though, so nobody can answer your questions about them.

lol, first one makes for an enjoyable logic problem. Perimeter = Side A + Side B + ... The trick is that you don't need to know the missing information to find the answer. So the perimeter is the same as if you were dealing with just a rectangle with those same dimensions(20x30). 20 + 30 + 20 + 30 = 100 To put it another way the sum of the sides you don't know is equal to the sides you do know. 20 + 30 + x + y + z + a = 100

On the Universe part, no, the expansion is internal. now because I am not a Universe, I had to move my dots outwards. The Universe, however, could keep its dots at the same initial positions and still add space between them. On the rest, anything is hypothetically possible, but much of what you are and have been talking about has serious practical issues. Note: Partially writing in response to a PM.

No, you are correct that the DNA is basically the same. Red blood cells have none, some of your cells will have suffered some kind of damage, but generally remains true. Meant that the effects would depend on the cells the DNA ends up in. If we just assume something goes awry in the procedure then things are okay, story wise. You'd need to take a sample, duplicate those cells, extract the DNA and then inject. Then you need your immune system not to simply eat the foreign DNA and the DNA to make its way to the target cells. You would then need to enucleate the target cell and then renucleate it with the new nucleus. Then once more you need your immune system to refrain from trying to kill them. Phenotype is what differs between cells. For the sake of the story, I would just assume a straight change based on DNA alteration. DNA alteration impacting estrogen production is probably your best bet for a male picking up female characteristics. Huntington's disease itself though impacts the cells in the basal ganglia.

Was a response to Noxid. Didn't mean to imply conscious intent. Probably Boquila trifoliolata senses the nearest host plant's volatiles and then based on past selective pressures encoded in the DNA modifies leaf growth. The specificity and obviousness of the response is unusual. In the near term might help us understand volatile sensing and down the line how to tap into the system. Gain the defenses of more natural ecosystems for our fields. More radically you might have plants alter characteristics on the fly. I know I've seen Ivy around. Not as familiar with it as I am with our other naturalized plants though.

It can change based on the tree. Vine leaves are labeled V, the host tree leaves are labeled T. Really is pretty cool. Might yield some practical benefits as well if we can figure out how it works.

It would depend on the DNA utilized and which cells are involved. Any chance your character has control over his immune system as well? Would vastly simplify things changing out cells instead. Might want to check out real world human chimeras. I could see something along those lines working. Even a case mentioned of a male developing female organs as a result.

Somewhat ironically you got the one name almost exactly right: Thermoelectric Effect. The more common way to generate heat is via Joule heating though. The first is reversible, the second is not. So you can't reverse your electric blanket, but you could reverse a Peltier cooler.

Runaway engines are themselves real enough. I've always been told it is an issue of the engine getting "fuel" from somewhere else though. Lube oil is commonly mentioned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine_runaway Never heard of Nitrogen reactions mentioned in relation. There are runaway engine videos out there if you want to check it out. Pretty cool looking.

It is not feasible. Friction is conservative if you do the full calculations. Typically we just don't bother.

It is typically explained via particle-wave duality. This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#Electron_properties provides a good overview. I'll be honest, I despair of any insights spontaneously arising without the person having a firm grounding in a subject. Universe runs on its own terms and cares not a whit for human understanding. If you still want to though, you can open a new thread in Speculations and people can critic your hypothesis there.