I’m not going to lie, I’m scared of bees! And thanks to movies like Terminator, Terminator 2, and Robocop robots are the coolest scariest thing in the world. Now it looks like scientists are working on putting these two things together in an attempt to make me an insomniac.
I’ve never been stung by a bee but that’s mostly due to the complete fear of Africanized honey bees instilled in me by watching way too many movies about what could happen. Knowing nothing about bees makes them ever more scary because, to me, they all look like killer bees. Its not manly to admit being scared of something but when it comes biologically equipped with a knife and a suicidal need to kill, that tends to scare me. I’ll never get another wink of sleep knowing that there could be unkillable robot bees in the near future that could possible attack me like I got stuck under a thousand sowing machines of death.
They say that these little robot killing machines might be used for pollinating or maybe in search and rescue missions by observing and finding a way to copy the ability of a simple brain like a bee. Is it just me or is this how all those cheesy scary black and white monster movies started. Freakin scientists say to themselves hey what will happen if we upload this brain to this drone with missles on it and poof instant killing machine. Sure it’s a not a threat until it thinks the missiles it has are pollen and all the major cities on earth need to be pollinated.
Sounds like how the future happens in Terminator too, cant we pay attention in these movies instead of zoning out while trying to get a hand job. Lets pay attention people the future depends on it!
Fox news reports (so you know it’s the “truth”) that a new study shows that weed use causes a drop in IQ over time. If this is true this explains so many things about the people that I have known in my life but there is a fundamental flaw in this research. If this research is taken from the numbers from the test that are taken over time then that is going to be the flaw in this research. You cant expect a pot head to take a test and do well.
Have you ever met a pot head in real life, even the smart ones don’t look like the kind of people that feel like taking a test, especially to disprove the usefulness of Marijuana. Lets break down what a pot does to a person before we breakdown what these studies are showing. First of all this story is being put out by the Propaganda machine known as Fox News. Pot makes you lots of things like hungry, lazy, and all around paranoid. But one of the things pot also does it that it makes you examine the mundane that the rest of us take for granted. A pot head will spend hours contemplating why the number 9 is just the 6 doing a handstand. But one of the other things that it makes you contemplate is the usefulness of a study on something that should be legal when all the other legal drugs in our country are so much worse. How many pot related drunk driving accidents are there in a year or how many pot related lung cancer deaths? This entire argument is just arguing the same things over and over.
There is a joke, I think it’s a Bill Hicks joke, that talks about how pot doesn’t make you unmotivated because you have the same amount of motivation but pot just helps you realize it isn’t worth the effort. This is very true, so if you ask me the reason the IQ scores for these people go down is because they have seen beyond the IQ score only to realize that this study is just to prove what the people funding the research want proven to keep weed illegal. So who cares? Just the people in charge.
Maybe weed is bad for you but so is Alcohol, tobacco, guns, hamburgers, candy, soda, potato chips, sunlight, all types of medication, cars, tv, video games, movies, porn, tattoos, rock and roll, piercings, laziness, and almost anything else you might enjoy, so just enjoy!
Its finally happening, Discovery news reports that they have identified a way above average chimp named Natasha. This chimp has outperformed all the other chimps on the test they administered but it wasn’t enough that she did better than everyone else she nearly aced every test. My question is what does this mean to the rest of the world?
If you’re a christian watching a genius monkey what goes through your mind? Anyone on the side of evolution is gonna think, logically I might add, that these types of things happen in the small window of time we have in the larger platform of evolution where the major change happens. But I would assume the average homosexual hating christian is going to think about every decision that they have ever made leading them up to the point of blindly not believing in evolution, then they’ll drag their knuckles over to a local bingo barn where, they obviously think about all things of the universe, and talk to Bubba and Hoss about this chimp. After a few of the lords beers they will get a message from their “god” spelled out in the alphabet soup they just vomited up in the parking lot and decide to go kill the chimp. But then again I’m just guessing that’s what happens in the middle of the country. (don’t forget I’m a christian too, I just like making fun of the stupid ones)
I just wonder what this means on a grander human scale. If there is a genius chimp that exists there will be a time that the super genius monkey will exist and at the rate humanity is devolving maybe there needs to be a new animal at the top of the food chain. But like any good human will do, we will be sure to kill the rise of the super genius chimps to make sure they wont use up all “our” resources and take all the low level jobs that no one but illegal immigrants want because only then will the immigration debate end. We will band together as stupid people and once again try and stop something mother earth has put into motion to destroy us that we believe is the work of the devil! GO HUMANS!
A Study was release in the journal Nature where the research was based on 78 Icelandic families with children that either had schizophrenia or autism. They have found that the age of the father is most responsible for the abnormalities in the genetic code. These combined families had 44 children with autism and 21 that were schizophrenic. This study seems strangely suspicious to me.
To blame autism on age is way too easy. There have always been old guys have kids with younger women, especially before it became illegal. So what, the median age of fathers has risen and now that’s the cause in the sudden surge of autism in recent years. This seems like a cop out to me. The study found that there is the same chance of autism in a 30 year old father as there is in a 40 year old father. If it truly is age there would be a difference in chances the older you get, right?
On the other hand age may have a role to play but I think its in a much different way than expected. I just want to say that no one has all the answers but I think these people are not looking at the real factors based solely out of self interest from their investors. In my opinion age may have something to do with a risk factor but not in a genetic error way they way these scientists are purposing. I think age may have a lot to do with it but its because of all the garbage that is shoveled into our bodies through bad choices and factors that we are completely unaware of. The tiny amounts of deadly ingredients in processed food to the crap that goes into a plastic cup that you drink out of. There are factors all around us that only seem to grow in number but studies do not bring in the accumulation of all the factors, they will usually only isolate one factor to prove that it has nothing to do with that 1 product.
There is a type of Autism where the child seems fine until about the age of 2 then they just seem to regress. I don’t buy it. When a seemingly healthy child suddenly contracts a disease that is supposed to be genetic during a very sensitive age still sounds like crap to me. It seems like these kids bodies just cant handle the barrage of chemicals thrown at them from every direction. I know of a case where the autistic childs mother just happens to be a meth addict and the type of autism this child has was the regressive kind, coincidence I don’t think so.
You claim that the median age is rising and that is to blame for the rise in autism. I say garbage that we interact with on a daily basis is growing right along with autism but I challenge you to find a study on that. But hey what do I know…..nothing.
I found an article on ScienceDaily.com about bone regeneration. Check out this quote:
"ScienceDaily (July 24, 2012) — Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have developed a new method of repairing bone using synthetic bone graft substitute material, which combined with gene therapy, can mimic real bone tissue and has potential to regenerate bone in patients who have lost large areas of bone from either disease or trauma."
You know what that means, Doctor Connors, from the new Spiderman movie, might actually be rooted in some sort of truth. I’m not saying that they are using reptiles but what I am saying that there is a potential for reptilian like regeneration in the future. How crazy is that?
Could you imagine falling a 3 story fall landing on your feet destroying the bones in your not only in your legs but in your back and in a matter of weeks being on your feet again like nothing happened. Regeneration is not only for healing the sick and broken but the implications on aging could be revolutionary.
You will never be old again (thank God, I was starting to get a little worried because I’m staring my 30’s in the face). Our bodies work on what seems to be a timer, technically we regenerate on a cellular level replacing old skin cells with new skin cells but as you age the regeneration slows and once it slows enough that’s when the aging process begins to show. Your skin gets thinner and wrinkles don’t go away, you start to lose elasticity but with artificial regeneration it could all be a thing of the past. Fingers Crossed!
Popular Science reports that geneticist in Canada have taught a breed of fruit flies to count to four. It has only taken them 40 generations (they must have smoked a lot of weed in that breed). I’m sure the scientists were high 5ing each other but I remember something else that started out like this….. Planet Of The Apes.
Maybe I’m just paranoid but there are already a bazillion of flies around the world but it seems to me the last thing we need to do is help them develop the skills necessary to take over the world more than they already have. Math and language are the building blocks of society. We just gave flies 1 and we assume they don’t have the other but I’m sure they can communicate with each other. Even if they kill them all I’m sure 1 will get away in a sort of Outbreak scenario (that movie is where most of my ideas about the disease originate).
Once the fly escapes its only a matter of time until he becomes the Einstein of the fly world and gives them the fly equivalent of the atomic bomb with his theories. He’ll end up having children and passing along the necessary requirements to do his complicated levels of math and from there the ball will be rolling. Soon the flies will find a way to defeat all the predators in their food chain and then will become top of the food chain and it will just be a matter of time before they dominate our food chain.
All this because some scientist thought it would be cool to make money showing flies how to count….. Or maybe I’m just paranoid.
