LordFerret

Nothing wrong with burning bridges, it forces the barbarians to swim the moat in their attempt to reach you, making it easier for you to shoot them down like ducks in a barrel. Think strategic placement. My complaint for today is the weather. Two days ago it was like summer, beautiful. Yesterday, cold and rainy, blech. Today, warm and like spring again. Make up your mind Mother Nature! I think maybe I'm going fishing. The tide turns at noon and runs the afternoon, so, yea.

Union workers everywhere are throwing hissy fits right about now.

We have a thread for this already, and it's been running for quite a while.

Being Spring has sprung, I put the bird feeder back up on the porch today. It was an absolute mob scene, at least 8 different species showed up. It was also humorous, watching as the squirrels sat below intently looking up and all around ... you could see them thinking ... trying to figure out a way to get to it.

RIP Sydney Brenner. I remember reading in earnest some of your work with regard to cancer and cell division / death. You opened a door, thank you. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-sydney-brenner-decipher-genetic-code.html

What point does that serve, especially if you don't know what it is that you're messing with?

Waffles or Pancakes?

I just saw the trailer for the *new* Hellboy movie (and realized what's going on). No way in hell can Hellboy be anyone but Ron Perlman. And especially so without Guillermo del Toro behind the wheel.

I had a desktop pc going through some major funkiness a while back, which I initially thought was the HD failing; Turns out it was the CD drive had fried. Once I pulled the drive, all became well again.

I saw something akin to this the other day on tv news, and it was printed using plastics and aluminum from a 3D printer, runs on a variety of fuels, 10 minutes run time.

Stress and anxiety can compound either of those ailments. You should consider your experience a warning, your body is trying to tell you something - listen to it. Go get a medical evaluation.

Yes and no. Turns out the latest news says this one was caused by people lighting a bonfire. Every year or so the forest service here starts small fires to burn off the pine needles, a preventative measure against major forest fires. I remember one just a few years back that they started which ran away on them, and it ended up burning far more than this fire. This one was nothing.

From your description, so do atrial fib or arrhythmia.

It might be a poor lifting gas, but there was a time when it was used extensively. Living near the Lakehurst airbase, where the Hindenburg crashed, there's a lot of history passed around about dirigibles. One such interesting story is about the USS Akron, a helium airship.

Great. Way to go India. I thought the global space community sought advice and made reference to such plans with everyone else before making such a move. Nobody saw this coming? Nobody attempted to coach and advise this nation's program of the move they were about to make? The "ISS" being what it is, something doesn't seem right here.

News without being news. We get such fires nearly every year, such is life living in and around forests. I got to drive through this one (sort of) late Saturday afternoon, coming west out of Barnegat on 72 just before the police closed the highway. The smoke and ash carried northeast on the winds, was raining down on the car for miles as we traveled in the same direction. https://www.nj.com/burlington/2019/04/forest-fire-that-burned-11k-acres-in-nj-pine-barrens-started-in-area-known-for-illegal-bonfires.html

Audacity is a great tool, I've used it (relied on it) many times. It's bundled with AV Linux, which is awesome.

Eventually, we all get to deal with this to one degree or another. My cousin got their 2nd star (Major General) inside the Women's Memorial, I was there for it. To stroll though Arlington.......... it is quite a place.

I'm to understand that, back in 2015, Embry Riddle held some kind of contest. I had asked my cousin if his son had attended, but was told he was too busy with classes to be playing 'games'. All things considered, I agreed. https://connection.erau.edu/event/787365

Oh not this again. I'm getting tired of this ya know. Happy now?

Ponderings: There are several hundred million base pairs in each chromosome strand in human DNA. Using the method for data storage/retrieval defined in the article, applied to a music format or digital image format, I'm wondering what each of us would sound and look like. Just for ha-ha's mind you. With all of these genetic discovery services now being offered these days, perhaps a YouMusic could become a novelty.

@Cassel I fail to understand your issue with the terminology used. "Junk DNA" has a history to its definition and meaning. For all intent of purpose, one could consider it a simple label for a placeholder; It easily could have been called WhoKnowsWhat, or WhatEver, or Bob instead. It doesn't matter the branch of science being discussed, pick any you wish, they are full of terms alien (mismatched) to common language and meaning... and to think about that, it's not limited to 'science'. Because it's handy, from Wikipedia: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-coding_DNA

Here's a term I like in Cosmology (for example) ... "uncertainties". We have an entire science based on this (pretty much).

Yes, but does it have "Moon Milk" ??? https://eatfeelfresh.com/moon-milk/ Edit: On second thought, the only thing that worries me and gives me the creeps about this is... " plant based milk ".