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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jan 15 2008, 02:08 AM Post #341 |
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| Denovissimus | Jan 15 2008, 03:02 AM Post #342 |
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It's true!
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| Julesy | Jan 15 2008, 03:18 AM Post #343 |
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i dont believe in 'evil spirits" only spirits I dig are the liquid kind
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| Denovissimus | Jan 15 2008, 03:35 AM Post #344 |
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I do believe in spirits, but too what extent I am unsure, cause I have not formulated a full opinion upon the exact nature of their beings. But I can speculate that in Heretic's Haven one day. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jan 16 2008, 03:04 PM Post #345 |
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I havent read this story yet cause I gotta go to work but I will read it later: Source of Mysterious Antimatter Found Charles Q. Choi Special to SPACE.com SPACE.com Fri Jan 11, 11:02 AM ET Antimatter, which annihilates matter upon contact, seems to be rare in the universe. Still, for decades, scientists had clues that a vast cloud of antimatter lurked in space, but they did not know where it came from. ADVERTISEMENT The mysterious source of this antimatter has now been discovered — stars getting ripped apart by neutron stars and black holes. While antimatter propulsion systems are so far the stuff of science fiction, antimatter is very real. What it is All elementary particles, such as protons and electrons, have antimatter counterparts with the same mass but the opposite charge. For instance, the antimatter opposite of an electron, known as a positron, is positively charged. When a particle meets its antiparticle, they destroy each other, releasing a burst of energy such as gamma rays. In 1978, gamma ray detectors flown on balloons detected a type of gamma ray emerging from space that is known to be emitted when electrons collide with positrons — meaning there was antimatter in space. "It was quite a surprise back then to discover part of the universe was made of antimatter," researcher Gerry Skinner, an astrophysicist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., told SPACE.com. These gamma rays apparently came from a cloud of antimatter roughly 10,000 light-years across surrounding our galaxy's core. This giant cloud shines brightly with gamma rays, with about the energy of 10,000 suns. What exactly generated the antimatter was a mystery for the following decades. Suspects have included everything from exploding stars to dark matter. Now, an international research team looking over four years of data from the European Space Agency's International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite has pinpointed the apparent culprits. Their new findings suggest these positrons originate mainly from stars getting devoured by black holes and neutron stars. As a black hole or neutron star destroys a star, tremendous amounts of radiation are released. Just as electrons and positrons emit the tell-tale gamma rays upon annihilation, so too can gamma rays combine to form electrons and positrons, providing the mechanism for the creation of the antimatter cloud, scientists think. Billions and billions The researchers calculate that a relatively ordinary star getting torn apart by a black hole or neutron star orbiting around it — a so-called "low mass X-ray binary" — could spew on the order of one hundred thousand billion billion billion billion positrons (a 1 followed by 41 zeroes) per second. These could account for a great deal of the antimatter that scientists have inferred, reducing or potentially eliminating the need for exotic explanations such as ones involving dark matter. "Simple estimates suggest that about half and possibly all the antimatter is coming from X-ray binaries," said researcher Georg Weidenspointner of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. Now that they have witnessed the death of antimatter, the scientists hope to see its birth. "It would be interesting if black holes produced more matter than neutron stars, or vice versa, although it's too early to say one way or the other right now," Skinner explained. "It can be surprisingly hard to tell the difference between an X-ray binaries that hold black holes and neutron stars." Weidenspointner, Skinner and their colleagues, detailed their findings in the Jan. 10 issue of the journal Nature. |
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| Julesy | Jan 16 2008, 03:05 PM Post #346 |
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im too dumb to understand! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jan 16 2008, 03:09 PM Post #347 |
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did you read angels and demons? that book is about antimatter! |
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| Julesy | Jan 16 2008, 03:12 PM Post #348 |
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no. i havent. guess I should |
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| Julesy | Jan 17 2008, 12:00 AM Post #349 |
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[size=7] this gave me the willies![/size] U.S. to study bizarre medical condition By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer 13 minutes ago ATLANTA - It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you. Some experts believe it's a psychiatric phenomenon, yet hundreds of people say it's a true physical condition. It's called Morgellons, and now the government is about to begin its first medical study of it. ADVERTISEMENT The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is paying California-based health care giant Kaiser Permanente $338,000 to test and interview patients suffering from Morgellons' bizarre symptoms. The one-year effort will attempt to define the condition and better determine how common it is. The study will be done in northern California, the source of many of the reports of Morgellons (pronounced mor-GELL-uns). Researchers will begin screening for patients immediately, CDC officials said Wednesday. A Kaiser official expects about 150 to 500 study participants. Morgellons sufferers describe symptoms that include erupting sores, fatigue, the sensation of bugs crawling over them and — perhaps worst of all — mysterious red, blue or black fibers that sprout from their skin. They've documented their suffering on Web sites. Some doctors believe the condition is a form of delusional parasitosis, a psychosis in which people believe they are infected with parasites. In the study, volunteers will get blood tests and skin exams, as well as psychological evaluations, said Dr. Michele Pearson, who leads a CDC task force overseeing the study. Pearson suggested the study will help determine if Morgellons is the same as delusional parasitosis or something new. Study participants will be drawn from Kaiser's 3.4 million health insurance customers living mainly in the Sacramento and San Francisco areas and as far south as Fresno. CDC officials acknowledged the study is limited and the results won't give a complete picture of the problem. Randy Wymore, an Oklahoma State University pharmacologist, who believes the condition is not a psychiatric one, says there is distrust by some Morgellons sufferers toward the new study. Some of these patients who are Kaiser Permanente members have said they don't like the way they've been treated by Kaiser doctors and probably won't participate, said Wymore, who formerly was a research director for a patient group and hears constantly from Morgellons patients. "They felt that Kaiser was particularly unreceptive to treating them for anything other than a psychiatric disorder," said Wymore. A Kaiser official said he had not heard such complaints. No patient will be excluded from participation, even if a doctor previously determined the problem was psychological, said Dr. Joe Selby, director of research for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Kaiser researchers will look in their records for previous patients who in the last 18 months reported Morgellons-like symptoms. They will be asked to participate in more medical evaluations. Any fibers or specks that are collected will be analyzed at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Selby said. Doctors who believe the condition is psychiatric suspect fibers are likely just threads from clothing. The CDC has been getting more than a dozen calls a week from self-diagnosed Morgellons patients for well over a year, and was urged to investigate by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and others. Some say they've suffered for decades, but the syndrome did not get a name until 2002, when "Morgellons" was chosen from a 1674 medical paper describing similar symptoms. |
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| Denovissimus | Jan 17 2008, 02:34 AM Post #350 |
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I've read about that before Jules! I saw its an alien infection! Antimatter is further proof of the dualist composition of this universe. |
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| Julesy | Jan 17 2008, 03:13 AM Post #351 |
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we are so on the same wavelength..i dont mean sexually.....just the same crap we dig. Michele is all yours
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| Denovissimus | Jan 18 2008, 02:49 PM Post #352 |
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![]() Conan the praying dog folds his paws in prayer alongside a Buddhist priest at Shuri-kannondo temple in Naha city, Okinawa province, Japan. The eighteen month old long haired chihuahua stands up in prayer when the temple priest performs his sutras. Apparently, Conan also prays before going out for walks, or before feeding time. Conan was named after the mystery writer, Arthur Conan Doyle. Not, sadly, Conan the Barbarian. ![]() _____________________________________________________ that is just too cute! |
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| Julesy | Jan 18 2008, 02:51 PM Post #353 |
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| Julesy | Jan 18 2008, 02:56 PM Post #354 |
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[size=7] Gary Colemans pants worth a buttload[/size] Are Gary Coleman's pants the new Virgin Mary grilled-cheese sandwich? No. They are bigger. Bidding on eBay reached $400,000 on Thursday for a pair of navy blue, size 12XL-Regular Gap Kids sweatpants signed by the former child star. Yes, $400,000. "This is really high," eBay spokeswoman Karen Bard agreed. And it could get higher still. The auction wasn't set to close until later Thursday. To say memorabilia dealer Brian Chanes was in disbelief wouldn't properly convey his utter and absolute skepticism. "If someone pays $400,000," said Chanes, who handles client relations for the Southern California-based Profiles in History, "I would eat my hat." To Chanes, who has seen stage-worn Madonna wardrobe items fetch $15,000-$20,000, a six-figure sum for sweats modeled by the latter-day, post-Diff'rent Strokes Coleman doesn't make sense. Much less cents. When reminded that the pants' waistband bears the signature of the onetime California gubernatorial candidate, Chanes laughed. "Who cares? That adds an extra five bucks...This is absolutely a farce." Bard said the site won't know until the auction is over if the winning bidder is serious. The seller seemed to be in similar straits. "I don't know if the bids are real," the eBayer known as brassonline wrote in an email Thursday. "Until somebody actually pays that amount then I will be comfortable." Last year, an eBay auction hosted by John Schneider, the Dukes of Hazzard star, ended badly, when the winner of Schneider's General Lee car said he wasn't really the winner—that the top bid of more than $9.9 million had been wrongly made in his name. In any case, the iconic auto went back on the block. The Coleman pants pusher has proceeded with caution. The main auction page notes that the sale is open only to pre-approved bidders (something Schneider didn't do). The bid-history page shows that more than a dozen bids, including one for as much as $50 million, have been nixed, in most cases because the seller suspected they were bogus. "If you are not Serious in paying for this item, YOU NEED TO RETRACT YOUR BID IMMEDIATELY!!!," brassonline wrote in an emphatic Jan. 11 eBay post. |
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| Denovissimus | Jan 18 2008, 02:57 PM Post #355 |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jan 18 2008, 03:04 PM Post #356 |
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wtf? who the hell wants gary coleman's pants!!! that praying dog is so cute! |
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| Julesy | Jan 18 2008, 03:08 PM Post #357 |
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i bet these dogs hate thier owner. old lady http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYDLBgz3Lxw |
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| Julesy | Jan 18 2008, 05:52 PM Post #358 |
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[size=7]Recreational Drugs FAR Less Likely to Kill You than Prescribed Drugs! [/size] By Christopher Kent, D.C., J.D. Recreational drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year [1,2]. While this represents a serious public health problem, it is a "smokescreen" for America's real drug problem. America's "war on drugs" is directed at the wrong enemy. It is obvious that interdiction, stiff mandatory sentences, and more vigorous enforcement of drug laws have failed. The reason is simple. Cause and effect have been reversed. The desire to solve problems by taking drugs is a product of our culture. When a child is taught by loving parents that the appropriate response to pain or discomfort is taking a pill, it is obvious that such a child, when faced with the challenges of adolescence, will seek comfort by taking drugs. Drugs are Dangerous Whether Pushed or Prescribed While approximately 10,000 per year die from the effects of illegal drugs, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered. More than two million suffer serious side effects. [3] An article in Newsweek [4] put this into perspective. Adverse drug reactions, from "properly" prescribed drugs, are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. According to this article, only heart disease, cancer, and stroke kill more Americans than drugs prescribed by medical doctors. Reactions to prescription drugs kill more than twice as many Americans as HIV/AIDS or suicide. Fewer die from accidents or diabetes than adverse drug reactions. It is important to point out the limitations of this study. It did not include outpatients, cases of malpractice, or instances where the drugs were not taken as directed. According to another AMA publication, drug related "problems" kill as many as 198,815 people, put 8.8 million in hospitals, and account for up to 28% of hospital admissions. [5] If these figures are accurate, only cancer and heart disease kill more patients than drugs. Has the situation improved since the publication of this information? Hardly. Null [6] et al have published the most comprehensive and well-documented study I have seen of deaths associated with medical practice. In this report, their research revealed some shocking facts. The findings are summarized in the abstract: "A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251." Drugs Number One Killer The authors conclude: "When the number one killer in a society is the healthcare system, then, that system has no excuse except to address its own urgent shortcomings. It's a failed system in need of immediate attention. What we have outlined in this paper are insupportable aspects of our contemporary medical system that need to be changed -- beginning at its very foundations." A recent article in Archives of Internal Medicine [7] stated that in the seven year period from 1998 through 2005, reported serious adverse drug events increased 2.6-fold, and fatal adverse drug events increased 2.7-fold. The authors noted that reported serious events increased 4 times faster than the total number of outpatient prescriptions during the period. Another study concluded that the majority(86%) of the adverse drug reactions for which patients were admitted to a medical intensive care unit were preventable. [8] One proposed solution to the illegal drug problem was encouraging potential users to ignore peer pressure and "just say no." Interestingly, this strategy is not being recommended for prescription drugs. Bruce Pomeranz, MD , one of the authors of the JAMA paper, said he is not warning people to stay away from drugs. "That would be a terrible message," he said. Lucian Leape, MD, of the Harvard School of Public Health said, "When you realize how many drugs we use, maybe those numbers aren't so bad after all." [4] Does that mean that the number of deaths due to illegal drugs, suicide, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, accidents, and drunk driving "aren't so bad" either? Does it mean that we shouldn't discourage drunk driving or unsafe sex? The folly of such double standards should be obvious to all. It is time to address the real drug problem -- the cultural notion that the first solution to seek for relief of life's problems is a drug. That's the drug culture we need to address. References 1. "Drug deaths." Globe & Mail (Canada). February 27, 1998. 2. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC. 2007;56(05):93-96. 3. Lazarou J, Pomeranz BH, Corey PN: "Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients." JAMA 1998;279:1200. 4. Kalb C: "When drugs do harm." Newsweek. April 27, 1998. Page 61. 5. "Reaction." American Medical News. January 15, 1996. Page 11. |
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| Denovissimus | Jan 18 2008, 06:07 PM Post #359 |
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Great article. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jan 18 2008, 08:37 PM Post #360 |
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I believe it, fo sho! |
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