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    The Mutant Art of Radioactive Insects

    Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer

    Thank Chernobyl For First Space Plants?

    Is Your Doctor Exposing You to Too Much Radiation?

    Meet the Tardigrades: The Solar System's Most Extreme Survivors

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    Image of Sockatume Sockatume
    10/14/09

    In reply to The Mutant Art of Radioactive Insects
    Fun as looking at mutants is, several of those "radioactive disasters"... aren't. Plenty of the bugs were gathered up from areas that happen to be near nuclear power stations (or, indeed, research particle accelerators) which have bugger-all radiation. Perhaps she's arguing that nuclear power can mutate bugs without using radiation?
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    10/13/09

    In reply to The Mutant Art of Radioactive Insects
    These things seem to get a lot of attention if they are found near a place like Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, but it's not uncommon even far from any nuclear influence.

    In the 70's, I worked as a student aid at a small research center a thousand miles from Hanford, and years before TMI. We documented lots of unusual things like this, and though it wasn't my job to interpret any data, it was not completely uncommon to see strange malformations in the odd insect. You'd see thousands of normal ones, and then some lady bug or grass hopper would show up with an eye only half formed, or wings that were not functional when they should be.

    When you have kids by the hundreds or thousands, and all your millions of relatives are doing the same, there are going to be some that just don't come out right.

    Not saying radiation isn't a cause for concern. Only that just because you find a bug near Hanford, or Sellafield that looks funny doesn't mean that it might not have just come out messed up no matter where it hatched, or when.
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    Image of Alizarin Alizarin
    10/13/09

    In reply to The Mutant Art of Radioactive Insects
    Well. This makes me want to walk into traffic. Interesting to be sure. But man, I have lost a little of my will to live. Poor things.
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    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    Real holographic simulated evil Lincoln is back!!!
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    The Sex Room Will Not Be Telivised
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    This is seriously cool stuff. I love that folks are working on bringing more of our senses into media play. It'll be interesting to see how they eventually come up with electronically induced smell, taste, and grumbling stomach.
    The other cool thing about this technology? The pitter-patter of tiny elephant feet running around on the palm of your hand.
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    08/07/09

    @Boas_MC: Funny you should say "palm", I was seriously thinking Jim Belushi's Wild Palms as the next step here.
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    08/07/09

    @jbq: Totally. Bring on the Edwardian collars!
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    Image of JamalPullus JamalPullus
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    That pic is from Voyager's holodeck and not from the Enterprise.
    Thats Captain Gateway and the hologram Doctor from Voyager.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/07/09

    @JamalPullus: nerd alert!
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/07/09

    @evildead1971: Double Nerd Attempt:
    Unless I am mistaken, that is the episode where they had removed memories from The Dr because he chose to save Harry instead of another crewmember because he knew and liked Harry - since there was no medical reason to decide which to save. Guilt was driving him crazy.
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    evildead1971 promoted this comment HalOfBorg was starred HalOfBorg was unstarred
    Image of diverguy diverguy
    08/07/09

    @JamalPullus:
    That would be Capt. Janeway... not Gateway.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/07/09

    @HalOfBorg: what with all the star trek nerds here?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/07/09

    @evildead1971: This is the only place we have . . .
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    Image of freakout freakout
    08/08/09

    @HalOfBorg: Close, but it's actually from Distant Origin, that cool episode from the third season where the evolved dinosaurs were studying the Voyager crew.
    You can tell by Janeway's hairstyle. Ponytail was S3.
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    08/08/09

    @freakout: BOOOM! And the bad old Borg goes down in flames once again!
    EEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... splat.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    ok, i'm setting my cryogenic tube for 1,000 years.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    Oh come on! We know where this is going... SEX!!!
    BTW screw (figuratively) holograms!!!! Where's my sexbot?
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    08/07/09

    @ManchuCandidate: for ages when man has made a scientific discovery the first question has been: "can i fuck it?"
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    08/07/09

    In reply to Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer
    Hopefully android technology will advance quicker than tactile holography technology, so that when Moriarty does show up, we'll be able to call upon Commander Data.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/07/09

    @atrus123: No! We need to shut down android research. Moriarty would never have been a problem if Pulaski hadn’t dared the computer to make a worthy competitor for Data. What we need is a Wesley Crusher to fix all our problems.
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    08/07/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Damn, you're right. Save us Wil Wheaton!
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    Image of Newton's Law Newton's Law
    08/07/09

    @atrus123: Wow, I don't know which is worse, the fact that you guys are talking about episodes from TNG season 2, or the fact that I know that.
    No, what I'm most afraid of is Minuet, not Moriarty. I would never leave the thing.
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/07/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Nerd Alert once again - it was Geordi La Forge (who had been playing Dr Watson) who asked the computer to create a villain who could defeat Data.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/07/09

    @HalOfBorg: You're right! In my defense, Geordi never would have done it if Pulaski hasn't egged him on.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/07/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I'm good with blaming all bad things on Pulaski.
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    08/08/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Yeh, probably true.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    05/18/09

    In reply to Thank Chernobyl For First Space Plants?
    Strangely, though, according to Hajduch the vegetation "tastes like chicken."
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/18/09

    In reply to Thank Chernobyl For First Space Plants?
    I knew a kid back in summer camp who was near enough to Chernobyl to be effected by the radiation.


    His only special power was that he had no pubes, and he seemed really offended by the fact that the rest of us did. Hearing that thick Russian accent berate us for having hair in special places will never be forgotten.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/18/09

    In reply to Thank Chernobyl For First Space Plants?
    Oh man am I happy this came up on img search:


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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    05/18/09

    In reply to Thank Chernobyl For First Space Plants?
    So, will these plants give me superpowers?
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    Image of All_Thumbs All_Thumbs
    05/18/09

    @Atnakena: Depends, do you consider explosive diarrhea to be a power?
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    05/18/09

    @All_Thumbs - R.O.A.C.H. Black Hat Haberdasher: Depends on whether you use it for good or for evil.
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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    03/04/09

    In reply to Is Your Doctor Exposing You to Too Much Radiation?
    Oh and one more thing. If you are worried about radiation... make sure you're not fat. I'm not being mean, I'm not trying to beat up on people that don't need it. The bigger you are, not only is the dose your receiving going to double, but the chance the tech shooting is going to have to repeat the films is going to go up. We don't know where everything is, we have to go by land marks to know where to shoot. If I can't feel the top of your pelvis because you're too big, I have to guess and I might have to shoot over again. And if you're too big we might not be able to do the procedure in the hospital at all. You don't want to be told and I don't want to be the one to have to tell you that you need to go the ZOO to get your films done.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/04/09

    @Final is Werewolf Nat Turner.: ...to the ZOO...Oh, SNAP!

    Just wanted to thank you as well as Drs. nudemanatee and Lizardo (see above) for sharing your professional perspectives.
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