The Universe, SARS and Science News
Jupiter Scientific
(1) the science of SARS and how it spreads,
(2) the latest developments in the cosmology of the universe, and
(3) the completion of the human genome project (an update)
at the website
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/index.html
under "Recent Reports".
The articles are in English but can be translated
into several other languages at
http://world.altavista.com/
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Uncle Al
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> There are interesting articles on
> (1) the science of SARS and how it spreads,
SARS is spread by lack of funding. Every Liberal knows that. More
income redistribution can save our children!
> (2) the latest developments in the cosmology of the universe, and
It isn't the Earth sitting on African elephant's back in turn standing
on a tortoise and then tortoises all the way down. WMAP data
explicitly requires an Indian elephant, then the usual data
renormalization used to such telling effect in Enviro-whiner
climatology.
> (3) the completion of the human genome project (an update)
Again. Given that the Human Genome Project has been Officially
completed at least three times to date, one wonders why nobody knows
how many genes there are within it. The number is hovering around
27,000 right now, but pundits promise 30,000 if more studies are
funded.
Little Dr. Persephone Mogly and her genomic horde are sitting at home
tonight wondering how many innocent children will die because vicious
Darwnian capitalism decided to invest in infrastructure instead of
plumping her expense accounts. In the meanwhile, some gene-gineer
cowboy whom Management has never liked has decided to sequence the
entire Sargasso Sea. Given that the rules of engagement are "if you
discover it, you name it," there might me a million disparate
organisms added to current lists, all named craigventerii. Since
Venter is a White male, this is historic White Protestant opression of
Peoples of Colour celebrating their ethnic diversities. Africans
discovered all these organisms, but they were stolen by crusaders.
[snip]
A world of racial diversity has no tolerence for unfair oppressions of
competence.
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Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Net!
Maleki
<3EE3462D...@hate.spam.net>:
>[I have gone mellow]
You've gone mellow. What happened; did the last piece of
your half-incinerated chirality fall off?
--
reyo rumo baghdAd ro be ham bAfteh ast.
Edward Green
<snip usual politically incorrect rant>
I'm still marvelling at the idea that 70,000 years ago the human
species may have almost become extinct. Of course the idea is
probably based on misinterpretation of the genetic data and a tendency
to sensationalize -- that goes without saying -- but one want it to be
true. So would liberals ... do I have closet liberalism? ;)
If we passed through such a restrictive bottleneck so recently, we are
even more all brothers than we thought. It's such an incredible
thought ... takes the sting out of worries about nuclear annihiliation
-- it was a complete coin toss whether the seemingly inevitable human
investation of the planet, the culmination of nature and 5 billion
years of blind evolution, would have happened or whether we would have
become yet another insignificant blip in the then unexamuined fossil
record, next to paleohomoeohipicus.
Ahh.... there is the misinterpretation/distortion! In saying that
"humans" almost become extinct, meanS direct ancestors of the dominant
talking primate -- the fossil record _is_ littered with extinguished
humanoids. So big deal ... if our little band had joined them, there
would have been some other essentially human looking primate ready to
try again: essentially, only broadening "human" a little ways down the
branched genetic tree, human domination of the planet was almost
inevitable after all. It's just that, like infant hyenas, having once
gained the upper hand we quickly cleaned up the immediate competition.
Note to Maleki: I never thought I'd be glad to see _you_! Educated
curmudgea welcomed in vacant intellectual sea, abandoned by squeamish
academics in high dudgeon. You are insulting, but insulting with
class. ;-)
Maleki
<2a0cceff.03061...@posting.google.com>:
> the fossil record _is_ littered with extinguished
> humanoids. So big deal ... if our little band had joined them, there
> would have been some other essentially human looking primate ready to
> try again: essentially, only broadening "human" a little ways down the
> branched genetic tree, human domination of the planet was almost
> inevitable after all.
They could have looked very different from the present
human. The single factor that started the avalanche in the
growth of our abilities past those of other animals was
speech. In any other animal, in the absence of humans, as
soon as speech would start the rest would've been bound to
follow leading to those animals becoming human. So physical
features of a human could have been very different from ours
if something else had started to speak earlier than we did.
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gheymati rush mizAram ke nakharn!