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    I have a question that I have asked many other people...
    Do you believe that the human race can achieve peace on the entire planet?
    How do you come to reach your conclusion?
    And why do you believe it is so?
    Tue, Dec 11, 2007  Permanent link
    Categories: peace, human race, evolution, question, beliefs
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    I found this artist and had to share. What metaphors spring up for you in his work? Does this show how we need to move with our environment or that it just doesn't work? Or is there a metaphor I'm not putting here?



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    ...rarely drink water. Instead, they have a highly water-efficient metabolism (their kidneys are at least four times more efficient at retaining water and excreting salt than those of humans) and manufacture water through a metabolic process called oxidative phosphorylation.

    One special feature of the kangaroo rat is the animal's efficient kidneys. The kangaroo rat has a longer loop of Henle in the nephrons which permit a greater magnitude of countercurrent multiplication and thus a larger medullary vertical osmotic gradient. As a result, these rodents can produce urine that is concentrated up to an osmolarity of almost 6,000 mosm/liter, which is five times more concentrated than maximally concentrated human urine at 1,200 mosm/liter. Because of this tremendous concentration ability, kangaroo rats never have to drink; the H2O produced metabolically within their cells during oxidation of foodstuff (food plus O2 yields CO2 + H2O + energy) is sufficient for their body. Kangaroo rats lose so little water that they can recover 90% of the loss by using metabolic water gaining the remaining 10% from the small amount of water in their diet. Kangaroo rats lose water mainly by evaporation during gas exchange and gain water mainly from cellular metabolism.

    -Wikipedia


    So if kangaroo rats can do this, would there be a way to create an artificial way of getting access to clean water this way? Or am I just being too hopeful?
    Sat, Jan 12, 2008  Permanent link
    Categories: evolution, question, kangaroo, rats, animals, water
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    August 22, 1916

    I have given orders to my death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race. It is only in this manner that we can acquire the vital territory which we need. After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?

    -Adolf Hitler


    If Hitler had succeeded in his attempts, would any of us remember, or care, about the deaths during the second world war?
    Fri, Jan 4, 2008  Permanent link
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    This particular post doesn't have anything to do with philosophies or sciences, I just had a question for you all...

    If you are really stressed out, what do you do? Do lash out or calm down? Do you do anything at all?
    Thu, Jan 3, 2008  Permanent link
    Categories: question, stress, calm, peace, help,
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    I don't know what everyone here thinks of facebook, but I created a sort of unofficial facebook group for SpaceCollective. Just something for the fans of SpaceCollective.org!

    It's here.
    Sat, Dec 29, 2007  Permanent link
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    The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a s**t.


    -BANKSY
    Sat, Dec 29, 2007  Permanent link
    Categories: beliefs, Banksy, art, fame
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