If you watch the timecode in the top part of the screen you can see that it's just the same one over and over again.
Nevertheless, not unusual for a meteor to break up into several pieces in the upper atmosphere. From what I've been hearing, it's pretty likely that this one hit the ground somewhere and I'm sure there's an army of meteorite hunters out there looking for it right now.
How many more years until its economically feasible for your average Joe to go to space? I'd probably say 30 years.
Some say technology is expanding 300% per year, I'm thinking less than 30 years for sure.
Just think of 30 years ago, no GPS, no cell phones, no space shuttle...hell the internet didn't exist so I wouldn't even be able see or respond to your question.
Heres crazy:
I remember talking at length in 1999 to my 99 year old grandfather about what he has seen in his (almost) 100 years.
1) he saw the first "real type" automobile
2) first radio broadcast
3) first aircraft's (he became a pilot)
4) the television
5) Internet
And everything in between.
He remembered just turning 19 and was waiting to go fly a Sopwith and "slap" the German Fokker's out of the sky, but the war ended just before he was to be deployed.
He died 3 days before his 100 birthday and 51 days before he would have lived in 3 centuries.
Technology is growing so fast..nothing would surprize me.
Some say technology is expanding 300% per year, I'm thinking less than 30 years for sure.
Just think of 30 years ago, no GPS, no cell phones, no space shuttle...hell the internet didn't exist so I wouldn't even be able see or respond to your question.
Heres crazy:
I remember talking at length in 1999 to my 99 year old grandfather about what he has seen in his (almost) 100 years.
1) he saw the first "real type" automobile
2) first radio broadcast
3) first aircraft's (he became a pilot)
4) the television
5) Internet
And everything in between.
He remembered just turning 19 and was waiting to go fly a Sopwith and "slap" the German Fokker's out of the sky, but the war ended just before he was to be deployed.
He died 3 days before his 100 birthday and 51 days before he would have lived in 3 centuries.
Technology is growing so fast..nothing would surprize me.
True - but we haven't put a man on the moon in more than 30 years. I think if anything, space travel is at a bit of a standstill.
Some say technology is expanding 300% per year, I'm thinking less than 30 years for sure.
Just think of 30 years ago, no GPS, no cell phones, no space shuttle...hell the internet didn't exist so I wouldn't even be able see or respond to your question.
Heres crazy:
I remember talking at length in 1999 to my 99 year old grandfather about what he has seen in his (almost) 100 years.
1) he saw the first "real type" automobile
2) first radio broadcast
3) first aircraft's (he became a pilot)
4) the television
5) Internet
And everything in between.
He remembered just turning 19 and was waiting to go fly a Sopwith and "slap" the German Fokker's out of the sky, but the war ended just before he was to be deployed.
He died 3 days before his 100 birthday and 51 days before he would have lived in 3 centuries.
Technology is growing so fast..nothing would surprize me.
All true but it seems like there haven't been any of the fundamental leaps we've seen in other areas in the manned flight sectors. Seems there are only really 3 players left. Spacex and osc who've recieved almost 500 million in funding from Nasa for development to resupply the ISS and both yet to make their maiden flights. Then Virgin Galactic who've given up on going into orbit entirely for the time bring.
Saw this story on the BBC news tonight about the new NASA telescope (Sofia) ready to launch in a 747. It's so sad that the best news on American science tends to come from the BBC. Anyway, this looks really cool - huge jet jammed full of scientific equipment flying around every other night with its cargo door open and a big telescope taking pictures above the clouds. I imagine the biggest challenge was compensating for the vibration of the plane.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8638566.stm
Despite routinely vaccinating our infants and toddlers against 14 pediatric diseases [PDF] (15 if you count H1N1), compared to the single smallpox vaccine kids got a century ago, their immune systems get less of a workout. How can that be?
Vaccine biology is much improved today. With purified proteins and recombinant DNA technology, we can target the desired antigen -- that component that we want the immune system to "see" and remember -- much more specifically. So while vaccines of the past may have had hundreds of antigens, today's vaccines can have as few as one. Here's the take-home: kids today get many more vaccines than the children who got the solitary smallpox vaccine, but they actually receive less immunologic triggers (approximately 150 versus 200 antigens from smallpox, according to researchers).
hopefully, the comments at the bottom is not indicative her message is falling on deaf ears
Bioethicist Art Caplan argues that society has the right to coerce its parents to vaccinate their children even if vaccines carry a small risk. “Parents don’t have unlimited rights with respect to the welfare of their children. You can’t kill them. You can’t put them at risk of fatal disease. You can’t put them at risk of devastating disability.”
Do parents also have a duty to the welfare of others (herd immunity)?
Bioethicist Art Caplan argues that society has the right to coerce its parents to vaccinate their children even if vaccines carry a small risk. “Parents don’t have unlimited rights with respect to the welfare of their children. You can’t kill them. You can’t put them at risk of fatal disease. You can’t put them at risk of devastating disability.”
Do parents also have a duty to the welfare of others (herd immunity)?
Nope. Having children makes people into special and unique snowflakes. They must be catered to!
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$375M already spent ($1B total budget) is "money poured down a hole. Sequencing endless more cancer genomes isn't going to tell us more than we already know."
glad it's two of the biggest names in all of cancer research (Bert Vogelstein and Bob Weinberg) saying this. Hope the granting agencies are listening. Fund hypothesis-driven research, not these grandiose fishing expeditions
There are some great Frontline documentaries. My favourite one being the Age of AIDS which aired a few years ago. Even though there was an obvious bias in the presentation, it featured some great interviews with the original CDC investigation team and the scientists who engineered the first breakthroughs in drug therapy.
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Bioethicist Art Caplan argues that society has the right to coerce its parents to vaccinate their children even if vaccines carry a small risk. “Parents don’t have unlimited rights with respect to the welfare of their children. You can’t kill them. You can’t put them at risk of fatal disease. You can’t put them at risk of devastating disability.”
Do parents also have a duty to the welfare of others (herd immunity)?
Moral parents should, but lots of people are not only "me first" but also not very good at comparing relative risks (e.g. risks from vaccinating vs. not vaccinating). There are two solid arguments for making it mandatory though - the kid's right to be protected from harm (which to me should outweigh the right of the parent to decide, but I suspect I'm in the minority there) and the 'greater good' to society that arises from herd immunity.
I don't think a government-instituted mandatory vaccination program would go down well here though. At least my kid's dayhome has mandatory vaccination with no religious exemptions if you want to attend.
What makes this Frontline — “The Vaccine War” is written, produced, and directed by Jon Palfreman — so compelling is seeing the smugness of the vaccine-deniers contrasted with the facts and figures of the historical record and current studies being down about the efficacy of things like the MMR triple shot.
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An interesting new approach to disease, this could be a small start to a big change in how we handle major diseases.
'Landmark' cancer vaccine gets FDA approval
Quote:
(CNN) -- A vaccine treatment for prostate cancer has become the first therapy of its kind to win approval for use in U.S. patients.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Provenge, a novel technique for fighting prostate cancer, on Thursday. The treatment involves taking a patient's own white blood cells and using a drug that trains them to more actively attack cancer cells.
"It's a landmark in the sense that it would be the first approved cell-based immune therapy," said Dr. Nina Bhardwaj, director of the tumor vaccine program at New York University Langone Medical Center, who is not involved with Provenge or its maker, Dendreon Corp.
The treatment is intended only for men with so-called "metastatic castration-resistant" prostate cancer, for whom hormone suppressant therapy has not worked. Studies have shown that Provenge prolongs survival by about four to 4.5 months.
But the real breakthrough is the approval of this new way of treating disease, which could be used for other cancers and conditions, such as HIV, Bhardwaj said.
The same effect also likely happens to certain groups of people when Sarah Palin speaks...or to be fair, when Conan O'Brien speaks. I'm guessing this is an evolutionary adaptation to the acceptance of authority within structured society and the societal pecking order somehow.
