In a recent article by Veronique Greenwood, entitled "It's all in the rings" Greenwood informs readers of new bacteria that live off of caffiend and eplains why humans cannot.
The article states, "While humans show the caffeine derivatives, the most simple of whice is known as Xanthine, the door, the bacteria hang onto them, chopping down the rigngs to their component elements and havervesting energy. Humans get energy from many things, and most people say that they live off of caffeine, but it says here thats not possible.
The article also states," The specific rason caffeine isn't an energy source for us, thus, is that we don't have the gear to digest derivatives further." These bacteria have a power to digist the derivatives further and hang on to and harvest the energy.
Lastly the article states, "As Mani Subramanian, Summer's adviser, points out, 90% of the cells in our body are bacterial, and research into the human microbiome, our totat coplement of bacteria, has revealed that we are veritable rainforstes when it comes to bacterial diversity." We can live off of many things but caffeine just is not one of them, even though our body is 90% bacteria.
Every day after we finish with out medical classes at the college we always stop and get coffee, and one of my friends always says, I could not go the rest of the day without my coffee.
It makes you wonder some day in the future if it would be possible to live off of something like this, just because we have a certain cell in our body. Anything is possible in this day and age.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Flying Saucer!
In a recent article by Fox News, entitled "Government report on Secret Flying Saucer Program mad Avaliable", Fox News describesa blue print to build a "Flyng Saucer" during the Cold war.
The article states "The new released documents not yet posted on the national website of the National Declassiacation Center, offed details on a cold war era plan to build a round, vertical take off and alanding aircraft that can only be described as a flying saucer." They tell us that during the cold war that they were trying to make a air craft that had all of the classifications of a flying saucer. That would of been amazing if they could of actually came through with it.
The article also states that "The disk shaped craft-- which comes complete with an ejector seat and was powered by a "ram jet"-- was designed to reach a top speed of Mach 4 and reach a ceiling of more that 100,000 feet, according to the lengthy document." Aircrafts in the present day still are not designed to have these qualifications, it amazes me that they were still trying to accomplish this back during the Cold War.
Lastly the article states "Much of the 114-page document is devoted to detailed descriptions and schematics of the propulsion system, as tested in a scale model seen in a series of photographs." Some of this information has not been released to the public, so just imagine all of the information they are not telling us, no telling what this "Flying Saucer" would be capable of, especially if we used some of the technology we have today.
Just this weekend I was headed home with my family and my granny yells out "Did you see that flying saucer?!", and of course me and mom did not see it, but it makes you wonder what could be out there, the government does not tell us everything.
To know that back during the Cold War they were trying to come up with something this advanced, is mind blowing. You never know, in this day and age we have the technology to actually come up with something of this magnitude.
The article states "The new released documents not yet posted on the national website of the National Declassiacation Center, offed details on a cold war era plan to build a round, vertical take off and alanding aircraft that can only be described as a flying saucer." They tell us that during the cold war that they were trying to make a air craft that had all of the classifications of a flying saucer. That would of been amazing if they could of actually came through with it.
The article also states that "The disk shaped craft-- which comes complete with an ejector seat and was powered by a "ram jet"-- was designed to reach a top speed of Mach 4 and reach a ceiling of more that 100,000 feet, according to the lengthy document." Aircrafts in the present day still are not designed to have these qualifications, it amazes me that they were still trying to accomplish this back during the Cold War.
Lastly the article states "Much of the 114-page document is devoted to detailed descriptions and schematics of the propulsion system, as tested in a scale model seen in a series of photographs." Some of this information has not been released to the public, so just imagine all of the information they are not telling us, no telling what this "Flying Saucer" would be capable of, especially if we used some of the technology we have today.
Just this weekend I was headed home with my family and my granny yells out "Did you see that flying saucer?!", and of course me and mom did not see it, but it makes you wonder what could be out there, the government does not tell us everything.
To know that back during the Cold War they were trying to come up with something this advanced, is mind blowing. You never know, in this day and age we have the technology to actually come up with something of this magnitude.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Hazing at Wynne High School
In a recent article by Jason Miles, he goes over the recent accusations of 5 junior varsity football players for Wynne Arkansas, that supposedly put a noose around a African American players neck before practice last week.
The 14 year old African American claimed that white males put a noose around his neck in the locker room and drug him around. Miles interviews parents of students at Wynne High School, and one woman says, "we love Wynne, it's a good school system, and sometimes we just mess up." Since this incident on September 24th, only 2 white males have been suspended, 5 more are still pending. Miles goes on to say, "black and white parents are equally outraged", but what if the situation had been the other way around? If a white student had gotten a noose put around his neck, and African Americans drug him around the locker room, this situation would be handled differently. The police would be more involved, and people probably would of been arrested.
This all reminds me of when i went to Midland High School, in 9th grade. Towards the end of the year, a school board member published his thoughts of "being gay" on Facebook. Our school made National News. We were on CNN for something bad, people were scared to go to school, for the fear of someone coming to school and shooting, or bomb threats. Needless to say the board member stepped down from his position, and that resolved almost everything. These situations are real and scary, and I would not wish this perdicament on anyone.
The 14 year old African American claimed that white males put a noose around his neck in the locker room and drug him around. Miles interviews parents of students at Wynne High School, and one woman says, "we love Wynne, it's a good school system, and sometimes we just mess up." Since this incident on September 24th, only 2 white males have been suspended, 5 more are still pending. Miles goes on to say, "black and white parents are equally outraged", but what if the situation had been the other way around? If a white student had gotten a noose put around his neck, and African Americans drug him around the locker room, this situation would be handled differently. The police would be more involved, and people probably would of been arrested.
This all reminds me of when i went to Midland High School, in 9th grade. Towards the end of the year, a school board member published his thoughts of "being gay" on Facebook. Our school made National News. We were on CNN for something bad, people were scared to go to school, for the fear of someone coming to school and shooting, or bomb threats. Needless to say the board member stepped down from his position, and that resolved almost everything. These situations are real and scary, and I would not wish this perdicament on anyone.
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