This is true, although the Science channel is a little better.Uzique wrote:
my biggest gripe with discovery/science is that none of their shows are steeped in fucking reality, at all
they're all just HIGH ACTION! ADRENALINE! YEAH! shows about shit like 'WAYS THE WORLD COULD END!'
'WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF ALIENS INVADED'
'PANDEMIC: GLOBAL CATASTROPHE'
'DICING WITH DEATH: NATURE'S CLOSE MISSES'
and they always have the same crackpot selection of phoney-academics that are more like sci-fi/fantasy fucking writers... all bullshit
Same shit repeated over and over and over throughout the day. Recycled shitTrotskygrad wrote:
fucking discovery and history channel is shit.
Period
Last edited by Spark (2010-12-10 17:10:36)
.. I mean, it's entertainment. Not my kind of entertainment, but still. Discovery made a turn for the crapper when they began the reality show programing infatuation. If they are still getting ratings .. that's what they will continue to do.Spark wrote:
Discovery is pretty awful I have to say.
Typical American self centred response. Who cares what you guys do, the world will move on with its research. There's plenty of nations out there that aren't shackled by religious dogma. Infact, judging by the guys code name "Berlin patient" I'm guessing this was all done in Germany.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Good thing we had a ban on stem cell research eh!!!!!
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-11/heal … =PM:HEALTHKimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In 'Berlin Patient'
On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.
Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the "Berlin Patient," received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing "strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved."
Brown's case paves a path for constructing a permanent cure for HIV through genetically-engineered stem cells.
Last week, Time named another AIDS-related discovery to its list of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. Recent studies show that healthy individuals who take antiretrovirals, medicine commonly prescribed for treating HIV, can reduce their risk of contracting the disease by up to 73 percent.
While these developments by no means prove a cure for the virus has been found, they can certainly provide hope for the more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. Alongside such findings, global efforts to combat the epidemic have accelerated as of late, with new initiatives emerging in the Philippines and South Africa this week.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/1 … 96521.html
"About a third of the people die [during such transplants], so it's just too much of a risk," Levy said. To perform a stem cell transplant, doctors intentionally destroy a patient's immune system, leaving the patient vulnerable to infection, and then reintroduce a donor's stem cells (which are from either bone marrow or blood) in an effort to establish a new, healthy immune system.
there's only a very small majority for using embryos to further stem cell research. Idiots the lot of them (those opposing).Mekstizzle wrote:
Typical American self centred response. Who cares what you guys do, the world will move on with its research. There's plenty of nations out there that aren't shackled by religious dogma. Infact, judging by the guys code name "Berlin patient" I'm guessing this was all done in Germany.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Good thing we had a ban on stem cell research eh!!!!!
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Life After People's a good, intereting series.Kmar wrote:
Every once in awhile Discovery will have a good doco. When we left Earth wasn't bad. It's a little wrought with patriotism, but the Space Race was largely motivated by national pride.
I think this thing is broken. I put in a strike on land by a 10km wide asteroid made of solid depleted uranium and it said there would be survivable areas.Kmar wrote:
YES! .. great success.
http://i.imgur.com/D8kJ3.jpg
If ur bored http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth
A new website lets astronomers - and anyone who likes to watch stuff blow up - calculate the damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit Earth.
The interactive website, called Impact: Earth! (available at www.purdue.edu/impactearth), is scientifically accurate enough to be used by the Department of Homeland Security and NASA, but user-friendly enough for elementary school students, according to the researchers who developed it.
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About time."Scientists from around the world have put forth an update to the Periodic Table of Elements. In particular, they are changing the manner in which atomic weights of ten elements are expressed. From the article: 'For example, sulfur is commonly known to have a standard atomic weight of 32.065. However, its actual atomic weight can be anywhere between 32.059 and 32.076, depending on where the element is found.'"
mcgid1 wrote:
For those interested, there's going to be a total lunar eclipse on Monday night. Best viewing in the US will be around 1:15am eastern.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101217/ … ondaynight
hmm, how fast? Here is the math for those more gifted than me. http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/Conte … tation.pdfmcgid1 wrote:
For those interested, there's going to be a total lunar eclipse on Monday night. Best viewing in the US will be around 1:15am eastern.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101217/ … ondaynight
Edit:I think this thing is broken. I put in a strike on land by a 10km wide asteroid made of solid depleted uranium and it said there would be survivable areas.Kmar wrote:
YES! .. great success.
http://i.imgur.com/D8kJ3.jpg
If ur bored http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth
A new website lets astronomers - and anyone who likes to watch stuff blow up - calculate the damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit Earth.
The interactive website, called Impact: Earth! (available at www.purdue.edu/impactearth), is scientifically accurate enough to be used by the Department of Homeland Security and NASA, but user-friendly enough for elementary school students, according to the researchers who developed it.
