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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It okay..I already knew it meant Kook Of The Month...I just got back from class and couldn't respond fast enough to say what it meant before someone posted it...seriously.
Albuquerque, New Mexico otherwise known as Albucrazy by the locals :) Pretty culturally diverse city...not bad city to come see. Either way...tell me how many believe in God yet there is no proof. Faith and what you believe is where science either fails, doesn't properly explain or just leaves off. I don't need proof to know there is something going on yet to be explained scientifically. I've been right way to often on a great many things of which nobody else could have known and I shouldn't ever have known. I've scared off a couple girlfriends before by what I knew and told them. Some even cried and said yes, "your right" and accepted. I was the person who talked to a head engineer back in 1998 and suggested they switch to the 64-bit Alpha EV6 microprocessor bus design. I seen into the future when I suggested that they stop cloning Intel and make real processor. I may not have gotten credit for it but I am proud they listened! I have better machine for it. I have great ideas sometimes...sometimes they work...other times they might not be feasable. Either way information comes to me at random from no apparent reason and I tell others so they can maybe make good use of it when I can't. |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Maybe you're just intelligent. No need for a supernatural explanation. :-)
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
These forums are geared toward science. The projects at WCG are based on science. The scientists working on those projects and the people posting in these forums are directing their efforts along paths that years of blood, sweat and tears have indicated are some of the more sensible paths to follow at this time. When you come into this forum and suggest that we're all on the wrong path based on the word of some psychic who hasn't demonstrated he/she knows their assembly from a hole in the ground then frankly, rbolo, you insult all of us.
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Former Member
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No, distributed computing is not the wrong path...otherwise I wouldn't be putting time and effort into it. This is a project with great intentions and goals. But, its going to take a huge breakthrough to get rid of the AIDS virus from the human body.
I have talked to doctors when I went to hospitals for check ups. I really believe our medical system isn't on the right path that it should be. I have no degree in medicine or such things yet I can stump the doctors? My friend is also into herbal medicines. She has proven to me that herpes can be burned off by applying salt which dries the virus out and kills it and if you get it the first time then it doesn't ever come back! Yet the commercials on tv say "there is no cure for herpes" but you can take a pill for the rest of your sticken life! Baking soda mixed into a paste with water can also dry out pimples, sores, herpes and just about anything else and is far more effective then todays medicines! I just had a new friend use a baking soda paste 4 times for one day on a bad case of acne and its now gone..something no other medication could do for her yet! I have often found ways to do things better then the system has and to me that is a failure when so many depend on it! Yes, my friend tells me..stop judging and being so harsh on people...she says we are getting slowly but surely. We need answers now far as I'm concerned and not enough is being done to find them! |
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Yes, it will take a major breakthrough and that breakthrough will be made by thinkers and scientists not kooks and psychics gazing into crystal balls and brewing potions from eye of newt and toe of frog.
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I have mentioned Alexander Flemming and the discovery of Penecillin before. From one point of view it was a pure incident that Penecillin was discovered. Some fungi spores had most likely come through an open window and landed in Prof. Flemming's Petri dishes. There the spores had started growing and had destroyed the bacteria cultures he was cultivating in his lab. Nothing unusual about that. Cultures destroyed -throw them in the incierator. No - wait a bit this culture was hopefully to be killed by some chemical he was testing. But the fungi had done the trick. Then Flemming started the tedious work of isolation and testing the active compound from the fungi. But the whole adventure started with the good professors openness of mind when he was about to discard the destroyed cultures. And personally I am afraid that the pressure on young scientists to get out publications - "The publish or perrish mentality" isn't always to the good for the openness of mind. I agree with Didactylos, It is amazing how the intelligent mind can extrapolate known facts to predict things in the future so it looks like they had been "seen" by supernatural abilities.
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Hi Wood chopper.
It was a moldy cantelope. He cultured the mold (a member of the bread mold family) in a petri dish and noticed that it killed all competing nearby cultures. But that was just the start. He published his observations and another pair of scientists grabbed the ball and ran with it for more than a decade. Developing penicillin was a long hard task. But only specialists and historians pay much attention to the scientists that did the real work.  Lawrence |
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ONce genetic enginering arives at its holy grail state, of safe genetic manipulation vectors 10-20 years and nanorobotics of nanorobots circualting
----------------------------------------in our blood (20-50 ) years, destryoying any kinda virus(hiv, ebola, flue , poison bacteria u name it, would be as simple, the trasmiting the genetic or molecular fingerprint of the agents to the nanorobots circulating in our blood, wittch would destroy the target on contact, its gonna be just like u get automatic update , or patch for u os or browser,. Ofcourse viruses , like aids , poisons, bacteria gonna be just litell side jobs to bother with, this advanced nanorobots disrupting them from there main job, witch is gonna be to repair any damage inside cells, dna, and structure to efectivly anihilate any efect of aging, soo they will keep us young and helthy indefenetly,. Soo in light of that anybody who can seriosly claim aids will not be defeated lacks any knowlege in wehre technology geneteics and nanotech is headed, besides that proves a close tuneel minded vision.  http://www.technologyreview.com/sens/ http://www.defeataging.com/ [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 2, 2006 12:10:33 AM] |
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Whamm! Right back to the pseudo-science again.
While speculation about the future is fine, we shouldn't get hung up on it. We certainly shouldn't give undue weight to the rantings of unqualified individuals, such as the nutcase behind the "aging is a disease" fad. Some of these possibilities are intriguing, and deserve further research. However, it would be wrong to view these things as certainties, just as it is wrong to waste valuable research time on a quest for eternal youth. I'm sure WCG would prefer us to discuss scientific realities, and approaches taken by actual research. We should leave our crystal balls at the door, if only to avoid arguments about pseudo-science and supernatual or spiritual speculation. While these methods may or may not have merit, they are really not relevant to current medical research. Stating these controversial theories as fact is very likely to upset some of the people here, particularly those with a personal connection to the diseases we are fighting. So, if you want to branch out into speculation, please make it quite clear that you are voicing your own opinion and beliefs, and not quoting established scientific knowledge. Thank you. |
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Sorry Lawrence I'm living in Norway(which is east of Greenwich) and went to bed when I had written my piece.
I have heard different version of what happened in London. I have my version from a source I considdered reliable. This little story about the cantelope is new to me though, and the fact that there were more people than Flemming himself involved is shown by the fact that the Nobel price for penicillin were divided among three researchers. However I think your expression "grabbed" is a somewhat strong. Not only in the meaning that you cannot "grab" what is published, but that they actually had talked to Flemming about it so he knew that his work would be followed up at Oxford. |
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