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>"Ash Wyllie" lr.net> wrote in message
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>> A.G.McDowell opined
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>>>Has anybody written the great P=NP novel yet?

>>
>> It might not be a novel, but _The Atrocity Archive_ by Charles Stross is
>> a good story.

>

>> Reception of alien signals, or observations of alien activity from a

>>>moon-based telescope, might provide such a firehose.

>>

>What is P = NP?

> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:40:00 +0100, Eivind gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>n...@bid.nes skreiv:

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>>> Notice this also shadows all the rest of the Universe's attraction
>>> from that patch of Earth below it. Ordinarily all the rest of the
>>> Universe attracts objects on the Earth's surface, counteracting the
>>> Earth's gravity just a bit leaving the ordinarily felt "one g", but
>>> under the Cavorite sheet the Earth's full, unopposed gravity would be
>>> felt! So much for great fleets of Cavorite-driven spacecraft launching
>>> from London Spaceport, they'd wreck the place!

>

>>Nonsense. The "rest of the universe" has larger mass than earth, but
>>it's also further away than earth. And since gravity drops off rapidly
>>with distance, the effect is not that large. ...

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> On Dec 22, 10:52 pm, "Dan Goodman" iphouse.com> wrote:

>> Title: In Outer Space without a Space Suit?
>> Authors: Alexander Bolonkin
>> (Submitted on 24 Jun 2008)
>>
>> Abstract: The author proposes and investigates his old idea - a
>> living human in space without the encumbrance of a complex space suit.
>> Only in this condition can biological humanity seriously attempt to
>> colonize space because all planets of Solar system (except the Earth)
>> do not have suitable atmospheres. Aside from the issue of temperature,
>> a suitable partial pressure of oxygen is lacking. In this case the main
>> problem is how to satiate human blood with oxygen and delete carbonic
>> acid gas (carbon dioxide). The proposed system would enable a person to
>> function in outer space without a space suit and, for a long time,
>> without food. That is useful also in the Earth for sustaining working
>> men in an otherwise deadly atmosphere laden with lethal particulates
>> (in case of nuclear, chemical or biological war), in underground
>> confined spaces without fresh air, under water or a top high mountains
>> above a height that can sustain respiration. ...

> On 2008-12-23, chornedsnork...@hush.ai wrote:
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>> For example, are worms, maggots or lampreys attacked by an immune
>> system?

>

>> If something is eating a mammal slowly, such that the wounds are
>> healing and then bitten again, does immune response of the prey harm
>> the eater?

>
> Generally not, I think, though I'm not sure what the causal
> relationship here is: any macroscopic parasite that did trigger a
> strong immune reaction would likely die quickly, at least unless it
> had some specific defense mechanism against it. A bacterium has the
> option of trying to breed faster than the host's immune system can
> find and kill it, but a macroscopic animal can't really do that.
>