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quote: Originally posted by kenmeer livermaile:
I read today that Brit's mom is writing a book on parenting. You think I;m joking, don't you? Ha!
It's for the new Do as I Say, Not as I Do series. Paris Hilton will be providing a Driver's Ed book...
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| Posts: 3835 | Location: Vancouver, BC | Registered: August 05, 2007 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Boogerhead: "Eat it, Lick It, Snort it, Fuck It!!"heh heh...that's what she said.
For Brit, this is more like "meh" news.
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| Posts: 8759 | Location: A grue's belly. | Registered: February 20, 2003 | |
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This is pretty weird. Showers of red rain fell over Kerala, India in 2001, 2006 and 2007. Samples of the water revealed red cells, a little larger than a human blood cell.  quote: Over several months, Dr. Louis began experimenting with different temperatures to see if the cells would respond. As the temperature rose, he saw more activity. Eventually he got up to 300 degrees Celsius, which is 572 degrees Fahrenheit. He also increased the pressure to 300 pounds per square centimeter. It is assumed that normal Earth life would die at such a high temperature and pressure. But the red-walled cells in the Kerala rain water seemed to thrive.
During his experimentation with temperatures and pressures, Dr. Louis studied the cells under a microscope. As he watched,the cells produced smaller cells internally that were colorless, or whitish. He began calling those new, little cells “daughters†of the original “mother†cells. Once he counted as many as fifteen daughter cells bud inside one of the adult “mother cells.†As the daughter cells grew, their cell walls also became red and eventually, the daughter cells erupted through the wall of the mother cell. This is clearly a process of replication. The budding is what provoked some biologist to say the red rain cells must be a form of yeast, since yeast cells also replicate by budding. But yeast cells have DNA, as all normal Earth biology has. On Earth, replication of cells requires the presence of DNA. But Dr. Louis could not find DNA.
So, he sent red rain water to scientists at Cornell University in the United States for isotopic ratio studies of the elemental composition of the red rain water. Elements confirmed so far are hydrogen, silicon, oxygen, carbon, and aluminum. No phosphorous was confirmed, which would be present if Earth DNA were present.
The red water from 2001 and the red water from 2007 both contain these cells.
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"It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself."
--GK Chesterton, "Heretics"
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| Posts: 7495 | Location: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: February 02, 2003 | |
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quote: Originally posted by UberDog:
George Noory was talking about this on Coast to Caost the other night, thanks for finding an article on it. I meant to look it up, fell asleep and then forgot.
Coast to Coast makes for great bedtime stories, don't it?
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| Posts: 4154 | Location: Spokane, WA | Registered: August 11, 2007 | |
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quote: Originally posted by kenmeer livermaile: quote: Originally posted by UberDog:
George Noory was talking about this on Coast to Caost the other night, thanks for finding an article on it. I meant to look it up, fell asleep and then forgot.
Coast to Coast makes for great bedtime stories, don't it?
Yes it does, but Noory is a little too placating and pretends to believe everything.
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| Posts: 8759 | Location: A grue's belly. | Registered: February 20, 2003 | |
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quote: Yes it does, but Noory is a little too placating and pretends to believe everything.
Try recording them the night before and playing them backwards the next night. That's where all the really good stuff is.
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| Posts: 19162 | Location: my happy place. | Registered: February 17, 2004 | |
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| Posts: 2659 | Location: west Texas | Registered: February 17, 2004 | |
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I saw a coat like this at a Wired Next Fest but you had to ook through a special lens to get it to dissapear which I brought up as being impratical to get the enemy to do that. Did you ever see the UK guy who made his apartment into an all ST:TNG theme? He spents over 100,000 dollars I believe.
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