Call Me a Perv . . .
mimus
For a quick intro to what it's all about, the noble _C. elegans_, which
consists of about a thousand cells, eats bacteria, has a nervous system,
can be frozen and thawed back out, is virus-free, and survived the
_Columbia_ disaster, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
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mp 10
mhm 29x13
"You are either insane or a fool."
"I am a sanitary inspector."
< _Maske: Thaery_
mixed nuts
> But I reely reely like this:
>
> http://www.wormbase.org/
>
> For a quick intro to what it's all about, the noble _C. elegans_, which
> consists of about a thousand cells, eats bacteria, has a nervous system,
> can be frozen and thawed back out, is virus-free, and survived the
> _Columbia_ disaster, see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
>
They're more 'evolved' than we are as well - they go through thousands
of generations in a human lifetime, have a much larger population base,
and have been around in substantially 'settled form' for a lot longer.
"Elegans" is a proper descriptive term.
--
nuts
mimus
> mimus wrote:
>
>> But I reely reely like this:
>>
>> http://www.wormbase.org/
>>
>> For a quick intro to what it's all about, the noble _C. elegans_, which
>> consists of about a thousand cells, eats bacteria, has a nervous system,
>> can be frozen and thawed back out, is virus-free, and survived the
>> _Columbia_ disaster, see:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
>
> From the Wiki entry:
>
> "The organism has also been identified as a model for nicotine dependence as
> it has been found to experience the same symptoms humans experience when
> they quit smoking."
>
> Wha?!?
Munchies?
> And:
>
> "C. elegans made news when it was discovered that specimens had survived the
> Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003."
>
> I did not know this. Interesting.
>
> (you perv)
I like the crawling GIF:
Chuggin' right along, looking all inscrutable with its thousand cells.
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mhm 29x13
You want a job and a lizard to ride?
< _The Einstein Intersection_
mimus
Could've equally well've been "efficiens".
The exciting part is that in their progress from the single-cell
fertilized egg to the thousand-cell adult (complete with nervous system!),
they use much the same developmental-control genes that the rest of us
use, making them a sweet little "model organism" for studying said
development, just as earlier the noble _Drosophila melanogaster_ became
the "model organism" for genetics with its giant chromosomes.
Also, rather neatly, any time environmental stress, such as lack of food,
warrants, they raise the number of males to go forth and explore.
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mp 10
mhm 29x13
mimus
> mimus wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:23:47 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>
>>> mimus wrote:
>>>
>>>> But I reely reely like this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.wormbase.org/
>>>>
>>>> For a quick intro to what it's all about, the noble _C. elegans_,
>>>> which consists of about a thousand cells, eats bacteria, has a nervous
>>>> system, can be frozen and thawed back out, is virus-free, and survived
>>>> the _Columbia_ disaster, see:
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
>>>
>>> From the Wiki entry:
>>>
>>> "The organism has also been identified as a model for nicotine
>>> dependence as it has been found to experience the same symptoms humans
>>> experience when they quit smoking."
>>>
>>> Wha?!?
>>
>> Munchies?
>
> It's just mean, I tell you. Getting a poor C. elegans, just minding
> his/her/it's own business being a good worm, and force it to smoke go get
> nicotine dependent by making it smoke cigarettes by the carton just to cut
> it off "cold turkey" and watch how it reacts. It's just mean, I tell you.
> Evil people are behind this evilness.
I wonder how many of 'em ended up hanging around on street-corners with
the fast crowd?
The worms, I mean.
>>> And:
>>>
>>> "C. elegans made news when it was discovered that specimens had
>>> survived the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003."
>>>
>>> I did not know this. Interesting.
>>>
>>> (you perv)
>>
>> I like the crawling GIF:
>>
>> Chuggin' right along, looking all inscrutable with its thousand cells.
>
> It kind of creeped me out. Even though it's a tiny animal, my brain
> always makes them about earthworm sized. And ever since my grandmother
> told me a story about getting ringworm in the foot by stomping around in
> a mud puddle when I was a kid, my brain always imagines a worm creature
> crawling around under my skin and I can see it crawling around. It
> always happens, always has since Grandma told me the story and always
> will. Thanks Grandma! If she was still alive, I'd to yell at her!!!
Giddovait.
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mhm 29x13
"Ah*ooh*ah*ooh*ah*ooh*ah*ooh*ah."
< _Shaun of the Dead_
david hillstrom
wrote:
how long do these little critters live?
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mimus
Based on the freezing-and-thawing and _Columbia_ things, I'd say just
about forever.
An "extreme metazoan", indeed, right up there with if not actually more so
than cockroaches.
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mp 10
mhm 29x13
"You are either insane or a fool."
david hillstrom
wrote:
what if i eat one by accident? will it make me sick? are they
already living inside me?
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mimus
I don't know how well they stand up to stomach acid.
Anyway, wurms normally get scragged by the immune system if they somehow
make their way into ya, for example by traumatic injection, like getting a
stick stuck into ya (the ones that don't are highly-evolved and
-specialized predators or parasites, just like pathogenic bacteria, fungi,
amebas).
Incidentally, the rate of Guinea Worm infections is at an all-time low
world-wide, or so I seem to've caught on the teevee n00z yesterday (see
following post "Cable Reset":
Will we miss slowly winding the little fellers out of our sides on
sticks?
I do wonder if that's a presently-accurate statistic, since I suspect such
public health as there was has pretty much collapsed in central and
northwest Africa.
mimus
Northeast, not northwest.
Winging it again, eh, Mr. mimus?
mixed nuts
You can't eat just one.
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nuts
mimus
Be sure to wash them fruits 'n' nuts 'n' veggies 'n' roots before you chow
down on 'em, eh?
(With filtered water, at that.)
Shirley
mimus
> PERV.
<sniff>
I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
Whatever are we to do to show the
true harmony and peace that rule here,
somewhat disguised at the moment by
the apparent disorder now seemingly in
progress?
< Laumer
mixed nuts
like with carrots or spinach. Or wipe 'em off on yer shirt. Like with
apples or pears or tomateos. Or just flick the critters (aphids, ants,
spiders) off like with raspberries or blueberries - if there are any.
Then pop 'em into yer mouth. Nematodes and all. Then you'll grow up
strong and healthy.
--
nuts
david hillstrom
mheh
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david hillstrom
wrote:
if we could only train them to fix damaged tissue, we'd be set.
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i once had a singing nematode. true story.
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JPEGS!!!!
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mimus
We've already got leeches and maggots, what more do ya want?
mimus
<soothingly>
Of course you did.
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Decorum, after all, was a more subtle and ultimately more
satisfactory weapon than high feelings and improper conduct.
< Vance
psci...@sbcglobal.net
"mimus" <tinmi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:xe2dnYedbaBXdKfU...@giganews.com...
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:04 -0800, Shirley wrote:
>
> > PERV.
>
> <sniff>
>
> I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
Well you DID ask.
Smee
mimus
> "mimus" <tinmi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:xe2dnYedbaBXdKfU...@giganews.com...
>
>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:04 -0800, Shirley wrote:
>>
>>> PERV.
>>
>> <sniff>
>>
>> I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
>
> Well you DID ask.
>
> Smee
Speakin' of _C. elegans_, it's a good thing they can be frozen and thawed
out, is all I can say.
Brrr.
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tinmi...@hotmail.com
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mp 10
mhm 29x13
It's Spring, and with any luck the carbon dioxide will thaw.
< Pratchett
david hillstrom
wrote:
lil wigglers that could heal torn ligaments and bone and soft tissue
is what i want. screw the nanobots. UP WITH THE WORMS!!!!
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david hillstrom
wrote:
>On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:26:19 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>
>> "mimus" <tinmi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:xe2dnYedbaBXdKfU...@giganews.com...
>>
>>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:04 -0800, Shirley wrote:
>>>
>>>> PERV.
>>>
>>> <sniff>
>>>
>>> I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
>>
>> Well you DID ask.
>>
>> Smee
>
>Speakin' of _C. elegans_, it's a good thing they can be frozen and thawed
>out, is all I can say.
>
>Brrr.
its sub freezin and majorly windy here.
got wind?
--
dave hillstrom xrbj
mimus
I'd rather use engineered macromolecules or biopolymers for that sorta
thing.
Just like the body does.
Single cells at most (complicated), traveling to problem area and
releasing said molecules.
After all, worms might have their own agenda. Go on strike or something.
Revolt.
--
tinmi...@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
When a system is set up to accomplish some goal, a
new entity has come into being--the system itself.
No matter what the "goal" of the system, it
immediately begins to exhibit system behavior; that
is, to act according to the general laws that govern
the operation of all systems. Now the system itself
has to be dealt with.
< _Systemantics_
mimus
Did last night, roaring from the NNW. Calm and sunny today, so even
though it's only in the mid 20s F the snow's meltin' off.
Where's global warming when ya need it?
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mp 10
mhm 29x13
"You are either insane or a fool."
david hillstrom
wrote:
give em a movie night and i bet theyll be just fine.
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david hillstrom
wrote:
>On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:23:42 -0500, david hillstrom wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:11:07 -0500, mimus <tinmi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:26:19 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>
>>>> "mimus" <tinmi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:xe2dnYedbaBXdKfU...@giganews.com...
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:04 -0800, Shirley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> PERV.
>>>>>
>>>>> <sniff>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
>>>>
>>>> Well you DID ask.
>>>>
>>>> Smee
>>>
>>> Speakin' of _C. elegans_, it's a good thing they can be frozen and
>>> thawed out, is all I can say.
>>>
>>> Brrr.
>>
>> its sub freezin and majorly windy here.
>>
>> got wind?
>
>Did last night, roaring from the NNW. Calm and sunny today, so even
>though it's only in the mid 20s F the snow's meltin' off.
>
>Where's global warming when ya need it?
in australia for the northern winter. i sometimes get emails from it.
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mimus
> mimus wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:26:19 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>
>>> "mimus" <tinmi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:xe2dnYedbaBXdKfU...@giganews.com...
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:04 -0800, Shirley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> PERV.
>>>>
>>>> <sniff>
>>>>
>>>> I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
>>>
>>> Well you DID ask.
>>>
>>> Smee
>>
>> Speakin' of _C. elegans_, it's a good thing they can be frozen and thawed
>> out, is all I can say.
>>
>> Brrr.
>
> Ain't there some other things that can be frozen and will spring back into
> full motion when warmed up again?
Tardigrades, I guess.
"Temperate"-zone plant-seeds in general, one presumes.
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You want a job and a lizard to ride?
< _The Einstein Intersection_
mimus
> Yeah. A worm revolt. We wouldn't want that.
You get a sympathy-strike from the earthworms and it's all over.
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mimus
> I don't care what you say,
> a JMP is the same as a GOTO.
Is somebody arguing differently? the fols.
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C: The First and Still the Best Portable AL!
RSN
mixed nuts
> mimus wrote:
>
>>
>>>"mimus" <tinmi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:xe2dnYedbaBXdKfU...@giganews.com...
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:23:04 -0800, Shirley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>PERV.
>>>>
>>>><sniff>
>>>>
>>>>I'm gonna take my worms and go home.
>>>
>>>Well you DID ask.
>>>
>>>Smee
>>
>>Speakin' of _C. elegans_, it's a good thing they can be frozen and thawed
>>out, is all I can say.
>>
>>Brrr.
>
> full motion when warmed up again?
Many insects overwinter frozen. There's the sonoran desert toad that
survives freezing on a routine basis. Some fish too.
--
nuts
david hillstrom
wrote:
the fish would be very sad at that.
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david hillstrom
carp, for instance. frozen solid.
--
dave hillstrom xrbj
mixed nuts
glycoprotein (given a bit of time to wind up) which keeps ice crystals
from forming that prevents tissue damage. I don't know if generic carp
are capable of this but I have heard of goldfish (which are carp)
surviving the winter in a shallow pond that almost certainly froze to
the bottom.
Did you ever see frozen carp?
--
nuts
david hillstrom
<melops...@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
not personally. but tales from others say they have.
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mimus
Did they see them thaw out and swim off?
david hillstrom
wrote:
they did. i didnt. credible sources, too. my grandfather, for one.
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mimus
He was having you on. Mine told me once he used to make popcorn with
Indians.
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david hillstrom
wrote:
i suppose he ~could~ have if he ground them up enough.
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mimus
Um . . . .
Haven't been any Indians-- organized groups, I mean-- 'round here in the
old Northwest Territory since about 1814.
He was lyin'.
mixed nuts
houses, however, and wearing regular clothes). Algonquian speaking
types. They're like indigenous to the area. They do things like fix
cars, teach school, run book stores and such. They never left but spent
a century or two laying low. Now it's mostly OK to be an indian so it's
possible to find some that you could make popcorn with.
--
nuts
mimus
Well, sure. Been that way all along. Especially intermarrieds. And more
so since the dual-citizenship thingie came down in the last century. But
even before that, really: No-one's ever had any objection to
individual Injuns working and living outside the reservations as ordinary
citizens, as far as I know (I'm not really up to speed on the whole
matter, I admit), and for that matter Grant's chief military engineer
during the Civil War was a Seneca Indian, a West Point graduate, I believe.
For that matter, and this weirded me out when I read it, although I
quite like it, there's a small reservation on Long Island, about as far
East as you can go in the US without getting seriously wet.
But there was apparently too much bitterness over the old Northwest
Territory tribes siding with and fighting alongside the British in the War
of 1812 for any reservations to be ceded in the consequent treaty (my
mother doing genealogical research actually talked on the phone to a
dumbass in the BIA once who insisted there were reservations in Ohio and
Kentucky-- BIA must be where they "side-promote" all the Department of the
Interior bureaucrats too stupid to trust to work anywhere else).
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That is not a good plan. It should not be carried out.
< The Crow scout White Swan to Custer, the day before
david hillstrom
wrote:
im sorry, but any sentence with a government agency in it and
qualifying only ~some~ as "too stupid to trust" simply doesnt parse.
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mimus
Hell always has circles.
(And probably one to the side . . . .)
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You cannot help thinking that the no doubt ill-advised
rebellion in which I was concerned in youth,
unarithmeticable aeons before this Earth was thought of,
took place quite long enough ago to be forgotten.
< _The Silver Stallion_
psci...@sbcglobal.net
You nailed it. Time servers whose sole concern is guarding their jobs and
gov. pensions.
Smee, who has dealt with the BIA.
mimus
Well, it beats the Old Guard BIA, I guess, who were in it for as much as
they could steal . . . .
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"You are either insane or a fool."
knoxy
says...
(from Sweden), we were very impressed until my grandma started telling
him off for lying.
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news:UYqdnTVm283TMKTU...@giganews.com:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:31:18 -0500, david hillstrom wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:24:56 -0500, mimus <tinmi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:23:36 -0500, mixed nuts wrote:
>>>
>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>
Let's dump a couple of gallons of 'em on Mars, and maybe the place will
be liveable soon. ;D
metro-golden-meower
wrote:
>On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:14:52 -0500, mimus <tinmi...@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:57:51 -0500, mixed nuts wrote:
>>
>>> david hillstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:39:16 -0500, mimus <tinmi...@hotmail.com>
>>>> what if i eat one by accident? will it make me sick? are they
>>>> already living inside me?
>>>
>>> You can't eat just one.
>>
>>Be sure to wash them fruits 'n' nuts 'n' veggies 'n' roots before you chow
>>down on 'em, eh?
>>
>>(With filtered water, at that.)
>
>if we could only train them to fix damaged tissue, we'd be set.
this thread has reminded me of an asian manga inspired film we watched
the other night called 'the gene generation'. i think it'd be your
kind of film, dave.
metro-golden-meower
only because the cheating cunt sailed a ljongbjoat over 'cause he was
to lazy to swim.
david hillstrom
probably, yes.
--
dave hillstrom xrbj
Tim Weaver
Did you get a slap for that comment?
--
Tim Weaver
I know you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not
what I meant.
metro-golden-meower
wrote:
its on a binary server right now waiting for you to dl it.
metro-golden-meower
not yet. she said take a ticket and wait for my number to be called.
from what i gather, you have several tickets in front of mine.
Tim Weaver
Well, that's a given. But, I'm out of arms reach and she can whack you
anytime you walk by.
metro-golden-meower
<tmw9...@gmail.com> wrote:
i aint scared of her. i'll just kill her in her sleep.
Tim Weaver
Or she might Lorena Bobbitt you.
knoxy
meo...@meowdot.org says...
cheating cunt.
metro-golden-meower
<tmw9...@gmail.com> wrote:
now you're just expecting more from her than she could do. she doesn't
have a mean bone in her. unless i give her one *wink*
metro-golden-meower
that's true. your ol' man certainly is a cheating cunt.
knoxy
like that anymore.
metro-golden-meower
viagra and his heart wired directly into the mains may work for him.
Tim Weaver
Careful with your delicate back.