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I have come across lots of illegal Canabis smoking, in my life...
They get highs and lows, and bypass reality, gets totally dependant and addicted...

Now all of a sudden, you can plant it somewhere, to wait for production

It's legal if you're sick, and it's very easy to say I'm down, and desperately need it

How has Canabis helped / not helped you?

Of course, a claim like that, has us think about a somewhat similar claim about the Titanic, and we now
know, that didn't work out so well.
But, for a moment, think about a ship made from a material, that itself is unsinkable.

Researchers at the University of Rochester used short pulses of a powerful laser to make the microsurface of metal highly hydrophobic. It now repels water. So, the material itself floats, no matter what shape it is in.

Currently, the shape of the hulls of ships displace a lot of water to make the ship float. However, if the hull is damaged, the ship can sink. Imagine the same hull made from the hydrophobic metal. You could shoot holes in the hull and it would still float.

For more on this topic, here's a video

I read an article last week about doctors employing science on patients where they bring the body temperature to nearly freezing of someone who requires hours of surgery where they would expire under normal conditions. The blood gets replaced with other liquids that creates a state of suspended animation. This borders on true cryogenics... a branch of physics and the study of extremely low temperatures.

Animation legend Walt Disney died in 1966 from complications of lung cancer and reports that his body was frozen waiting for one day when a cure was found that he could be revived for treatment. Don't hold your breath on this... the story was a hoax.

Tonight I pulled up some YouTube videos where people (with enough money) can be frozen in hopes that they can be brought back to life at a later date. The link is to Anita, a woman who died of cancer. She was transported to a cryonics lab where her body was preserved and frozen in liquid nitrogen.

This documentary is very cool...

I saw a story today about the long-term weightless effects on the human body. Astronauts returning after months aboard the International Space Station had swollen optic nerves, slightly flattened eyeballs that caused changes in vision. Some developed blood clots.
If you recall in science class, some of the veins in the legs have one-way valves called the venous pump. Researchers are finding blood flow while in orbit becomes irregular and fluids that are normally held down by gravity now float to the head, increasing pressure to the skull.

I guess they need to invent the gravity machine that was on the Starship Enterprise so no one goes floating around the bridge!

Fully 25 % estimates of all known species (metazoan), and 40% of their kin in the class Insecta. Sure, those colorful hard protective second retractable wings (elytra) may have played a part. And possessing the miracle of metamorphosis can't hurt. Those larval stages can bore through even the toughest tree barks. Protection then through the harsher seasons, and from most clever predators, only to emerge as adults in prolific reproductive/migratory life stages. But so what? Other orders of Insecta enjoy similar evolutionary adaptations. No, oh my brilliant CS friends, these Coleopteran marvels somehow have figured out much more in the struggle for life. Several threads of evidence now converge to show how, as with some ruminant mammals, these insects can digest all sorts of plant based very tough items, many based on the strongest cellulose polymers. But ready for the kickers here? Seems as though this huge survival trick was borrowed from bacteria, and "lower" plants, such as fungi. And accomplished, again somehow, by incorporating the DNA of these other life forms, into their own genomes. But more amazing, is that these little friends, again somehow, may have done so 100 large, VERY large, years before even the dinosaurs shuffled onto the scene. And they are still here, in strong numbers, VERY strong, some 60 million years after the dinosaurs sauntered OFF the scene. Sure, bacteria, using quasi " mating" techniques, can swap genetic material. One factor behind the growth of resistance to most commercial antibiotics. And deep shite for us all. But how the heck can the beetles have done so? Let's hear from the marginally educated ignoramuses here who will complain that a post like this, as with religion, and politics, so important to many, and definitely revealing in the great search for mates, is out of place. Pathetic. Revealing. Not unexpected. Pretty soon these mini minds will begin to call for a ban on flirting-on a dating site-of all places----can't make this stuff up folks.

Ya just have to notice things, then form hypotheses, and sometimes to experiment to test them, and thereby developed better theories. The scientific method, over rated, but still of merit. Now and again, usually when nature calls him, sorely delayed by my chasing the hotties here on CS, Bravo won't instantly devour one of the disgusting bone like treats I give him most mornings. Instead, he marches about the house, sneakily, Mr. R., looking for places to hide the treat. Mind you, hide from whom, as I'm the only other being here in the VIERK mansion, apart from the rare field mouse? Or reduvid bug. Why hide it from me, when the hiding places are never very cryptic, and I am the one who gave it to him? The main hypothesis is that what we see here is a minor retreat to former wild pack behaviors. Even though these may be thousands of generations old, and no longer of much value. If you get the first tasty bone from the kill, better make you and it scarce, especially if the big dog is nearby. But how to test this hypothesis? A theory, a theory, ..... my kingdom for a theory.

The fearsome VIERK/Swedish Political Pathology King Olaf/Nobel Memorial Research Institutet may have stumbled onto a partial cure for severe types of Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. (TD-HDS). Quite painful, and costly in time, money and possible harmful side effects, but so far, 92 out of 100 hithertoo hopeless clinical trial cases have had their scores on the proprietary political GOM (grounded open mindedness meter) raised by a full 75%. I would give details, oh my most deserving CS comrades, but we may be wired in for the next Nobel Prize in Physiology. However, for those who pay close attention to my astute blogs, I hinted at a number of hypotheses on target to the cures. All well within the past fortnight, cherubim. But for private paying patients, we do make exceptions, if the price is right. Why change the usual approach to private pay health care? Please call the Institutet at 044-69-NIXCLUBCOUP, for special offer details on our generous payment plans. Live operators are standing by. Ever onward, through the fog, for science, and the green back, is our motto.

You should see the philosophers and neuroscientists fret over trying to understand how it could possibly have come about. I think it's a no brainer, no pun intended. Given so many trillions of adaptable neuronal connections in us (and squid/octopi, just while we are on the subject,), so much evolutionary time, strong natural selection for adaptive survival by environments---It's likely that MANY consciousnesses evolved---not just for humans. Next easy task?

as I lovingly admire the reflection in my mirror.... But seriously, folks, here in the US northeast, so close ooooouuuuut there to OH Canada, EH?...even our evergreens shed a bit in the Autumn wind and storms. But it's the fall of the leaves, after the brilliant shows of color change, that hint, once agoin, how perfectly timed these changes seem. All entirely so that I can rake in more comfortable weather. However, our ecologist friends remind us that, what we see as beauty, beautifully choreographed hand in glove interrelatedness between, say weather and the well timed fall of leaves, has a brutal story as well. Countless generations of apparent mismatches, in these regards, with the demise of individuals, that finally yield so many links, on a species level. And, finally is the wrong word, as it continues. Sure, some groups can have enormously long runs, as with the angiosperms, many insects, and the dinosaurs. But in time, the ecological grim reaper calls us all. Mammals, also here for eons, take note.

Tagged: Scientiferous x moody blue

... One tiny byte of Mystery can be removed if we come to see that the System itself is rolling UP & winding down. We are, of course, referring to the System of the World, the arrow of Time & hot law 2; Entropy.
Consideration of Earth, Air, Water, Fire ..along with grammar, rhetoric, syntax and Number ) )
gives us a fat window of looky into pagan Astronomy / astro-Logic..) ) which runs parallel to increasing
human presumption & error .. ) ) ) isn't that right, Team Houston ?
... The $implified version of Street Level Astronomy deals in terms the simple-minded can Grip.
Surface traction of Friday night, Satur-day Tailgate, Sun-day Rituals, Monday blues.
Said system is wearing out..) ) but until then, enjoy the show......
* * * part 2. Always leave the record player on..- Uncle Joe, 2019

Doing so will accelerate entropy, invoke Parkinson, and create many jobs in the manufacturing $ector.
do you know what eYe mean ? I trust my drift will generally exceed your get....ball point radio trumps standard FM jargon-monoxide and offers a truufy Rx for mind and spirit... let us count the Ways....
70 } Turn back the hands of Time / T Davis ........ 72 } Time in a bottle / Croce
....... For the good times / Ray Price ............................ Ventura Highway / America
..... child in Time / deep purple ................................. Reelin in the Years / Steely Dan
***** 73 } kodachrome / simon
.................................. T I M E / p Floyd
................................ photograph / Starr
74 } Don't let the sun go down on me / Elton John
..... .... down down / status Quo
........ Sundown / Lightfoot..... ) ) ) and then along came METAL ....
* * * * * * Mental Funeral / autopsy.................. Seven Churches / possessed
............. Cause of Death / Obituary ................. Ram it Down / Judas Priest
............. Left Hand Path / Entombed .............. the End Complete / Obit.