Posts by Pastychomper
The shape of the Earth is mostly a result of its gravity pulling its mass into the most efficient shape available. The oceans are also pulled towards the centre of mass, and collect on the lowest ...
Years ago I read a letter in a magazine suggesting a method for reducing the fire risk in an enclosed environment such as a space shuttle. The idea was to reduce the oxygen concentration to the po...
Short, easy-to-read gene tags. Since all modifications are reliably policed, you can require that every modification includes a short, non-coding DNA sequence containing the recipient's legal iden...
Small islands have been built in inland waters since prehistoric times, but using sea floor material to build an offshore island is a much larger project. As Peter Taylor and JBH have pointed out,...
I assume proper hygiene to prevent post-implant infections, which would otherwise be the biggest risk. Presumably the lab-grown hair needed some hormone(s) to stimulate its growth. There's a chanc...
Yes. All plants require free oxygen, and any (part of a) plant that is not actively photosynthesising has to obtain its oxygen from its environment. We owe our oxygen supply to the fact that, on a...
Possibly, but I think it's unlikely, except indirectly. Exercise increases natural carnosine levels, so someone who both takes extra creatine and uses the energy to increase their exercise level p...
For the cells to act exactly as described would require cooperation between different metastasising cell lines, both during infection and when growing structures in the new host. That implies a ki...
