Tuhoi, mitochondrial tree, toxic vitamins?, Giordano Bruno, Safari-1, Maya Droughts

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Google vs Bell
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Over the coming years we can expect the Bell system to do everything in its power to destroy or subjugate Google. That's what history suggests; for since 1894 or so, the Bell system has swallowed or eliminated almost all of its would-be rivals. As one historian writes, in the early 1900s Bell would bankrupt competitors, and then "in truly medieval fashion, pile the instruments in the street and burn them, as a horrible example for the future."

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digitalbio
do it yourself mitochondrial tree
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sciam
1996 to 2005. Over that relatively short span plants budded as much as 20 days earlier, dark-winged fungus gnats led all insects by appearing nearly a month early, and small wading birds known as ruddy turnstones laid eggs after migrating from Africa and Europe a full 10 days earlier on average.
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sciam
Gasoline contains about 31,000 kilocalories (Cal) per gallon. A very efficient car might get 50 mpg, and a conservative driver might drive 10,000 miles per year. If that driver eats 2000 Cal/day, a little number crunching shows her car "eats" 6,200,000 Cal/year while she eats 730,000 Cal/year. There's ~240 million passenger cars in the US (a little less than one per person). If ethanol is derived from edible plants (like corn) we will need to grow fuel equivalent to the calories consumed by ~7-8 times the current US population.
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poop patrol
.. all babies seem to acquire the same set of bacteria over time, though they start in radically different places and experience dramatically different shifts in the populations over the first year. ... The Human Gut Microbiome Initiative ... it remains unclear what kind of microbes are best for your—or your baby's—gut. "We really have no idea," Palmer admits, "what is ideal."
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toxic vitamins?
ncbi
Treatment with beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E may increase mortality. The potential roles of vitamin C and selenium on mortality need further study.

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"I do not share your view that the scientists should observe silence in political matters ... Does not such restraint signify a lack of responsibility? Where would we be had men like Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Voltaire, and Humboldt thought and behaved in such a fashion"
Albert Einstein - quoted in D C Cassidy 1992 Uncertainty: the Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg
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An 18-foot (5.4-meter) minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in Brazil's Amazon jungle, some 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian media reported Friday.
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Richarson Gill’s book on The Great Maya Droughts , begins:

Millions of people died, and until now, no one knew why. The devastation is almost impossible for us today to understand. One by one, and by the millions, the people died of starvation and thirst. They died in their beds, in the plazas, in the streets, and on the roads. Their corpses, for the most part, lay unburied and were eaten by the vultures and varmints who entered the house to eat the bodies of people who didn’t die in the open.

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nuclear reactor attack
pretorianews
globalsecurity
Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center
..the Safari-1 research reactor, ... a large inventory of highly enriched uranium
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rertr
In July 2005, the South African Department of Minerals and Energy authorised the conversion to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) of the South African Research Reactor (SAFARI-1) and the associated fuel manufacturing at Pelindaba. At that stage the proposed scheduling allowed approximately three years for the full conversion of the reactor..Delays ... ..Delays
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The reactor was initially fuelled with Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) sourced from the USA and elements manufactured either in the USA or the UK. In later years (post 1981), the reactor has been fuelled solely with HEU allocated from the South African HEU inventory (45 and/or 93%).
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Its unlikely a few guys could extract HEU from a swimming pool, but its not great having crooks with guns around bomb-grade uranium
Two successful simultaneous incursions doesnt sound like a lovers tiff
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clockwise or anti?
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