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News Briefs 03-12-2009

Hark, Traveller: Thou have reached the region where the web is clear.

Thanks to Rick, Kat, Greg, Sugarhush & Ixca Cienfuegos.

Quote of the Day:

“Is the Creation unfinished? Yes. And that’s the requirement in which, inevitably, God slips into the world to me. If God made us to its image, does God contain the human evil? I answer —Yes. We’re too reflection of that evil and unfinished part of God. We work in order to complete God.”

Carlos Fuentes [‘Where the Air is Clear’, Amazon US & UK]

  1. LHC slow down and STOP…….
    well….either much teething problems, or something does not want us to play with GOD particals…….
    More likely some industry suppliers wanted a little extra cash and supplied “not quiet up there” components.
    Either way, and i’m not for this experiment, I do take my hat off to human inginuity.(sometimes,even my own spelling makes me laugh). I never mastered smoke signles either ;-{P

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      It appears that a failure occurred at 01:23 Swiss time this morning in an 18,000-volt power line at the Meyrin site above the mighty collider’s subterranean circuit.

      Hmm… 01:23. 123. Is someone trying to tell us something with that? 😉

  2. Hot Dog! – Meat you won’t eat
    “Scientists have managed to grow a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time, according to reports. Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it.” – Telegraph

    Meat grown in a vat has no muscletone! As I commented the last time this came up, it matters what your food was doing before you obtained it. Traditional ranching won’t disappear until after the labcoats manage to figure out a workout for their invention for starters.

    On the other hand, there are some guys in Beijing selling sandwiches made out of pork tailings and discarded cardboard, so who knows.

      1. Distributed Existence?
        This begs the question:

        Are you in any way connected to living cells cultivated from your body elsewhere?

        There are stories of people with transplanted organs gaining characteristics of the donor. Now, in our case here, I would suspect there are no nerve cells involved. However, could you conceivably shock a vat of muscle in Mexico City and somehow affect the steer that donated the original tissue living in Zacatecas?

        1. Awesome
          That is a delicious question, indeed. Should we see cells as mere blocks of protoplasm used to create scaffolds of tissue… or is there more to it than that?

          That would imply that we should give the donor the best life we could grant, does it not? something like Kosher 2.0 or something! 🙂

  3. Finding ET: U r doin it WRONG!!
    From the account data of NEZ, as published at the setiathome website:

    [quote]SETI@home classic CPU time: 10,165,328 hours[/quote]

    That’s like… wow… 1160 years of processing time. And nobody thought this was kind of odd?

    PS: However, that seems to counter the claim that the dude had all those 5000 computers working 24/7 crunching numbers for Seth Shostak (according to my figures, having only 116 computers working non-stop would have amounted to those millions of CPU hours; if you change to only 8 hours per day —night time— that gives about 3481 computers).

    I used to have the Seti@Home program installed in my home computer ten years ago. I remember that it worked only when the machine was idle, instead of going to screen saving mode.

    I think this guy is being used as a patsy to justify bad accounting.

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