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by spqr0a1 10y ago
From lab-scale plants it's clear that they are at least as resistant as the chinese chestnut the fungus is from. http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/resistance.htm Of course the proof is a forest of full grown trees, but
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Good news! this article understates the current stage of development for at least one of the reintroduction projects. A blight resistance gene (oxalate oxidase) has been added by state university researchers in new york. The genetically mod
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Welcome to the complexities of Hymenoptera genetics! Workers are 75% related to each other (sisters) and only 50% related to their mother (the queen). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy#Relatedness_rati...
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
In principle, low-orbit satellites should be lower latency than copper or fiber over long distance. The speed of light in vacuum being faster than in solids. In addition a satellite network could offer a more direct path (short distance) th
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Have to recommend Blundstone boots. I was concerned that the elastic would wear out but it's been years and looks like it will outlast the tread. They are durable, grip well, waterproof easily, and dressy enough for semi-formal occasio
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Idiosyncratic Drug-induced Liver Injury (DILI) is only 13-20% of all DILI. The other ~80% being pharmacological. About 40% of all acute liver failure is caused by acetaminophen. http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Soil-transmitted helminths infect 2 billion people. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs366/en/ More than a few will benefit, because in many areas with high infection rate, the majority of child
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Your comment at the end is on the right track. Annual energy consumption isn't the ideal metric because you can charge a car battery every day. 22,200 GWh is all the storage capacity you'd need with daily charging.
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
13GWh is way off! 1500GW x 8600h x 0.1 capacity factor = 1,300,000GWh or 1.3e9MWh. Within an order of magnitude of US electricity demand.
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
The comparison is to "One Time Passwords (OTP)via SMS phone messages." Given the vulnerabilities in GSM, that's not a high bar. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11493/
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Yup, cadherins are transmembrane proteins and the variable domains are exposed on the external surface.
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
It's essential to the growth pattern of dendrites that neurons are able to recognize and avoid themselves. There's evidence that alternative splicing (the genetic differences you mentioned) arose in cadherins before even the immun
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
That implementation is a feature, not a bug! Write-in candidates are an important part (as documented up-thread) of our electoral process.
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
How about the Pyra? Seems to be close to your ideal. https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
While a space elevator is constructable on the moon or mars, making one for earth would needs exotic high tensile strength materials that we don't know how to build. A launch loop, on the other hand, has many of the benefits of a space
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
They are getting $750 million of incentives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Billion#Government_inv... The project awarding the incentive is under state and federal investigations and at least one key official (A
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Regular bones are also structure with non-uniform porosity. But to optimize something like strength-to-weight ratio by reinforcing areas under the most stress. http://classes.mst.edu/civeng120/lessons/composite&#x2
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Light bulbs aren't such a clear example. Incandescent filaments are much more efficient at higher temperature but burn out quicker. In the general case, savings from reduced electricity cost more than offset the increased replacemet ra
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
To get extra pedantic we are apes. Taxonomically, humans are in the great ape family Hominidae . We were, however, never monkeys.
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
Not likely near lake placid. Many land uses within the Adirondacks require a constitutional amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Preserve_%28New_York%29... Much of central and western new york has a similarl
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
I wonder if there's any connection to the snake on a staff widely used as a symbol of medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius It which case its origin may be a representation of the treatment for
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
For comparison, most crop plants get 1-2% solar to biomass efficiency on the high end.
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by spqr0a1 10y ago
The american chestnut has been successfully genetically engineered with an oxalate oxidase gene for blight resistance. testing and out-crossing with wild-type chestnuts is ongoing. Wider availability should be possible in the next few years
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by spqr0a1 11y ago
Ah, but road transport isn't really shared between commercial and personal transportation. Road maintenance is in large part funded by fuel tax. Fuel use is roughly proportional to vehicle weight at low speed, or frontal area at high s
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by spqr0a1 11y ago
Sliced thinly enough, you can pick out the parasite cysts on a light table. No freezing necessary.
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by spqr0a1 13y ago
There are compounds that specifically inhibit sweetness perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactisole