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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2005-04-22 03:35 pm
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Artificial torpor
Apparently they've induced hibernation in animals that don't normally hiberate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4469793.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4469793.stm
Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Interesting tradeoff idea: sure, you can have the immortality formula, but you have to live on Ellesmere Island.
Hibernating.Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
"Dahling, all the best people are moving to Tharsis."
Okay, getting serious for just a moment: the thing about settling any part of Mars, even the dodgy part, is that it's making history. People will pay with time, money, elbow grease, and family ties for the privilege of settling there. Not only that, they'll know they're in for long-term hardship and therefore won't expect much from their surroundings. But for a lot of the hardy pioneers, the wilds of Manitoba might be simultaneously too near and too far.
I'm already distracting myself from other work by posting here, or I'd look up what people expect from life in Siberia these days.
Re: AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
A ticket to any place warm, is my impression.
Oil Prices
How much of the price of gasoline is taxes? Perhaps if the economic effect of high energy costs is undesirable, the tax on gasoline could be relaxed a little, to be replaced by (something comic and highly repressive: fill this in later).
1: The problem is that the Saudis can produce a barrel of oil for much, much less than %70.00.