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But if you think about it, if we can revert cells back to their omni, pluri or even multipotent states then there would be no need for embryonic stem cells. Wouldn't that be great? It's just my opinion that we should do what we can to take away our dependance of embryonic stem cells. One of the current big projects in genetics as officially began at the 1st International Conference of the New Era in September 2008 is finding the "signals" that cause an adult cell to revert to a pluripotent state, and then the signals that would cause it to develop into a certain specialized cell. The advancements made in the last two or three years have been in huge leaps. The primary purpose of the conference I mentioned above was to begin a new project similar to the Human Genome Project that will eventually result in a complete database of every genetic mutation* that contributes to multivariable, autosomal common diseases. So I wouldn't dismiss reprogramming just yet. It is already quite an attractive alternative to embryonic stem cells, since it doesn't require destroying a fetus. *"Mutations" is not the correct, term, I used it for simplicity. It is actually Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, SNP.

Matt is now more of a sociopath than Peter, and that's saying something. The series finale is going to consist of everyone realizing that they have been [bleep]ed up to the extreme by the writers and initiating a giant battle with each other in which they all mercifully die.

The choices from GH3 on that list are terrible except for Cult of Personality :| Raining Blood and TTFAF might be hard but they're terrible songs. And what's up with Back in the Saddle. If they're going to pull an Aerosmith song make it Train Kept A'Rollin'.

This controversy is obsolete. No one is going to bother harvesting embryonic stem cells when they are only available for 10 days during the development of an embryo. The Bush administration's ban on federal funding for that type of research forced scientists to look for other methods of creating pluripotent cells, and they found them. You can reprogram them from hair. A billion times easier and without the sticky ethical issues.

I've worn uniforms all my life. Current high school one isn't bad at all, any shirt with a collar and slacks. Very broad. Khakis and cargoes are my pants of choice anyway. Although they got rid of open-toed shoes and hoodies this year. Oh well.

Going to be getting into Frankenstein soon. Also started The Gunslinger on my backpacking trip over break. Strange book.

Album artwork is cool. The music, not so much.

Not so. If we perfect cloning we could un-extinct any non-human organism, as we could take a sample of the DNA from the organism before it dies out, implant it into an egg then use a similar species as the surrogate mother. Easy. Doing it before it dies out isn't "un-extinction." It's cloning an endangered species. And we've already done that. But as I said, there is an extremely high failure rate for the transplantation and any species that can afford to wait on that can probably recover naturally. Look at the buffalo. You can't do it with a similar species either. Human and apes as I'm sure you've heard share 99% of their DNA. But can't reproduce with each other. While you skip the incompatibility somewhat by preparing the fertilized egg beforehand, there are all kinds of problems you could run into during gestation. That just adds another factor for failure.

I'm not the best math student, but I make it easy for myself. "Find me a number between .999... and 1!" "Okay! .0000000000000000 . . . 0 . . . 0 . . . oh . . ."

We've also cloned multiple other animals including a horse . . . Cloning as we know it is sort of pointless because of the high failure rate (Dolly took like 200 attempts before the nucleus transplant was successful.) Plus it doesn't have any real practical use. It's a scientific curiosity. Thank you genetic conference. Lol.

I took a crap in one of those training toilets when the removable tray wasn't in it, so I picked it up and took it to my mom who was talking to a friend in the driveway.

Having attended the same conference as Diesel I also knew something about this. I was under the impression that the idea was to grow the beta cells themselves from the stem cells and replace the destroyed ones. But I guess that wouldn't solve the problem of the immune system attacking them. So this works too.

Really? Lol. It's a pretty easy song to be honest. If you don't already I suggest you use the [garden tool]/pos in the main riff, it makes it so much easier to keep the beat and isn't tiring at all. I find it funny that Panic Attack and Painkiller have almost identical riffs though. Yay for originality. Alabama Getaway is my new favorite guitar song. So much fun. If you can't tell I'm milking RB2 for all it's worth before I have to give it back to Diesel :lol: Then I'll get re-accustomed to WT. Also FC'ed Everlong on my first run of it as an individual song (not part of a mystery setlist or something.) Way easier than WT. One Step Closer sightread FC . . . You Oughta Know FC . . . and stuff. Still playing a lot of drums.

Utterly pretentious.

The volcano didn't go inactive before the rock was created. You're kind of making things up when you assume that going back in time somehow exempts you from the effects of your past. You go back in time. Assuming that if and when you return it is at a time significantly later than you left--say a month--during that month you are absent from the "current" time. Your parents are going "Oh no where's Johnny?!?!" You--not a somehow different you than the one in 2009--exist in the past. If you kill your grandfather, you never existed to travel to the past to kill him in the first place. But you do exist and you do kill him. But that means you don't exist. Paradox. I don't mean to sound like a broken record in the middle of this, but there's a reason the Grandfather Paradox exists. If some random dude on an internet forum could disprove it there wouldn't be such a hypothetical paradox. And I have no idea what this has to do with the Bible, but it's more interesting. [/hide] If I go back in time and instantly kill myself(through fire or something completely destructive) I will disappear from the historical record wherever I traveled from correct? Now to apply to grandfather If I go back in time the linear historical me stops existing. If I remove the mechanism that created me, there is no force to end my existence. My existence no longer makes "logical" sense, but I would still exist as someone without parents. The volcano doesnt need to be around for the rocks it made to stay around, once my body is made I can go wipe out how it was made without suffering literal consequences. First, if you're talking about killing the you that time traveled then nothing would happen to the timeline you're supposed to be in. Dying in the past doesn't change the fact that you're gone. If you mean killing your past self, the same paradox applies. The volcano analogy still doesn't work because we're talking about the volcano being inactive before it created those rocks. You're saying that the rocks can still exist after the volcano goes inactive. Well, duh. But they can't exist if the volcano went inactive before it created them. And that is what we're dealing with if you go back in time and destroy the means of your creation. Yes, the you that exists in the linear timeline disappears when you travel to any different time. I said that myself. Say you traveled back in time to five minutes ago. Spend five minutes in the past, and you're back to the point that you traveled back in time and once again only one of you exists. If you somehow died in those five minutes, the "past" you would never return once he traveled. If you killed the past you in those five minutes, paradox. You just stopped yourself from traveling back in time, which mean you can't exist. You say that because you stop existing in 2009 there aren't any consequences for destroying the means of your creation. Since you don't exist. But the you that shows up in the past didn't spontaneously generate. He came from somewhere. He's you. You left the timeline at one point and reentered at another. Killing your grandfather, your father, yourself prevents you from doing that leaving and reentering. "once my body is made I can go wipe out how it was made without suffering literal consequences" suggests to me that you're still thinking to linearly. It would be once your body is made if you killed your grandfather in the present. Killing him in the past is before it was made.

The volcano didn't go inactive before the rock was created. You're kind of making things up when you assume that going back in time somehow exempts you from the effects of your past. You go back in time. Assuming that if and when you return it is at a time significantly later than you left--say a month--during that month you are absent from the "current" time. Your parents are going "Oh no where's Johnny?!?!" You--not a somehow different you than the one in 2009--exist in the past. If you kill your grandfather, you never existed to travel to the past to kill him in the first place. But you do exist and you do kill him. But that means you don't exist. Paradox. I don't mean to sound like a broken record in the middle of this, but there's a reason the Grandfather Paradox exists. If some random dude on an internet forum could disprove it there wouldn't be such a hypothetical paradox. And I have no idea what this has to do with the Bible, but it's more interesting.

Five-starred everything on RB2 guitar except Visions, and it's a crappy song so I only played it once. So I went to drums. Using a WT drum kit for RB2 can be awkward. Doing rolls on the yellow cymbal is lol. But I'm getting better. I can actually do reasonably well on Expert for a lot of songs :o Joker and the Thief has to be my favorite to play right now. Made it to the outro of Master Exploder on Expert and WTF KICKPEDAL FAIL. :lol:

The attempt to force a connection between young Angela and Claire was way too in-your-face.

ZE-ML-BAAfY Who disabled embedding. Srsly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-ML-BAAfY

First-person shooters work great on the Wii. Boo, you have to concentrate more to hold a controller steady. So what? I don't think there's anyone who doesn't realize that the system is constantly getting screwed by half-assed third party titles that are the source of many of the problems with Wii FPS's. The Conduit looks great and is from a brand new developer that is actually aiming for the definitive Wii FPS. So if anything, people should be celebrating, not ripping on it. Really. Metroid Prime 3 already proved that an FPS -- or at least aspects of one -- can work. But it doesn't seem like anyone has tried too hard until now. (I haven't played WaW or Medal of Honor so I don't know if they're any good with the controls. I've heard they were pretty decent.)

You can't begin a sentence with a numeral; it must be written out. I would just write out all numbers, you'll never be wrong. Besides, "There were 2 of them!" looks stupid. So does "There were 21 of them!" Obvious exceptions are dates and descriptive numbers, i.e. "Room 4."

Bumping this due to renewed interest. Guide has now become the entire thread. You can learn as much from the discussion as the OP. Which also means that I'm not going to edit the OP for every issue has. Please, voice them. Your opinion will be heard just the same. And regarding the dragon thing, delving into every tiny natural possibility is pretty close to splitting hairs and not something that readers are likely to do. The point is, dragons don't exist in our world, and nothing short of millions of years of evolution or extreme advancements in genetic engineering are going to make them exist. But in a world alien to ours that has a completely different evolutionary history, sure. I'll believe it. If you can find biological evidence to back it up, good for you.

I had a prose guide floating around here somewhere. It sort of died. I'd be happy to resurrect it now that we seem to have renewed interest.

Uh. It was there on Wii. Which reminds me, I wanted Caprici di Diablo but it wasn't on there. Sigh.

Borrowed Diesel's copy of RB2 and have played through most of it. I'm getting better with the rectangles but they still piss me off and my soloing remains inferior to WT. So hard to judge speed. Pretty sure I've 5-starred everything so far . . . Panic Attack and Painkiller took a second run after missing that 5th star by seconds. Gold-starred Ramblin' Man first try on the last second of the last sustain. I thought the song was over and then the game chimed with those gold stars :lol: Downloaded Prequel to the Sequel because it was free, and then took a chance and bought Snow and Joker and the Thief. Snow is a [bleep], I failed on the Slow Part :x Then I got lucky with OD phrases and used a crapload of it on the chorus next run, 5 stars :lol: A few sightread FCs . . . Rebel Girl, Hungry Like the Wolf . . . Not really bothering with FCs as I have to give the game back soon. Definitely buying it sometime.