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Post by dinosauria101 on Dec 2, 2019 21:14:33 GMT 5
-SpaceBattles is heating up -The Splashers is proving to be quite a blast -I may have some new gauntlet ideas for both here and SB -Looking a little into the wonderful world of marine crocodiles has given me plenty of matchup ideas
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Post by creature386 on Jan 4, 2020 3:10:20 GMT 5
Finally cracked the 5k words for my thesis. Time for the revision (which, as we all know, is by far the most fun part!).
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Post by DonaldCengXiongAzuma on Jan 4, 2020 3:33:51 GMT 5
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jan 4, 2020 4:01:56 GMT 5
I now have a good solid post to explain to people a >13 tonne Triceratops.
There may also be some interesting matches on the way.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 4, 2020 4:18:38 GMT 5
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Post by DonaldCengXiongAzuma on Mar 11, 2020 8:03:56 GMT 5
It has been raining in Australia lately.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 11, 2020 16:48:18 GMT 5
Last night was the first time I got to sleep in my own bedroom in my new house. The nights before I was sleeping in the basement with the rest of my family. I still need to get my bed and a new desk in, but I'm finally living more or less normally again. Ngl, a good part of this was me being grateful for simply being able to sleep and spend my free time in my own room again. "...living more or less normally again" was kind of an exaggeration, especially in comparison to now. Now I am living normally.
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Post by Infinity Blade on May 25, 2020 1:46:23 GMT 5
I recently got my grades back for the semester, and overall I'm actually rather pleased. By my reckoning I just barely made it into the dean's list this semester. I'm actually surprised given how much I struggled with taking good notes on my human anatomy lecture course after spring break (this was when remote learning began). In hindsight, though, it would have been wiser to choose the S/U grading option for that course.
EDIT: also I haven't left my home in 10 weeks now. Anything my family needs to go outside for doesn't need me (that includes work or grocery shopping), and anything I could plausibly go outside for is unnecessary. I swear I'm going to do something like this next time I get to leave the house.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 4, 2020 3:37:20 GMT 5
My area got hit by a power outage today. At noon the sky was quite dark for the time of the day (we're talking 7 PM levels of dark) and the rain was very intense. From my window I could see water just gushing down from my roof into the gutters. I didn't think much of that. Hell, I didn't think much of the brief power outage until it turned out to be much more prolonged than I thought. Unfortunately, a lot of people in my area are powerless too, and there are too many customers at any given time trying to get their power back. As a result, we are currently running on a noisy generator on our back porch. As I'm typing this post this would normally be the time when I'd turn on my lights for better visibility, but I don't have that option now.
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Post by all on Jun 9, 2020 19:59:19 GMT 5
Couple days was my birthday. I'm agitated, amped up, bored and annoyed. I hate birthdays. well hate is a strong word.
And I got some things from my mother. But that was a birthday present long before my birthday that was actually great of her.
I love this woman.
However birthday itself was just like any other day but it remands me that I'm now little bit older and wasted yet another year of my life.
Today is just beginning. I'm planing on reading something. Watch some TV. Wonder why in France they use Carnac stones to build roads and what terrible loss it is.
I'm trying to get myself to to read some of the books about genetics I asked my mother to give me for my birthday. But i'm worried that it might be to hard. on the other hand the small part that I have read is actually very easy but it pretty much says nothing. No real information what so ever. More like book made simply to make money than anything with biological knowledge.
However Biology book that would give me something to learn but at the same time be accessible to a layman is hard to find. Especially one that goes into something new.
I also realized that while there are no limits to my ambition. I severely lack work ethic and background knowledge to achieve what I wish. Of course I knew it for some time now.
I wonder if there is a way that given specific environment (and no I'm not expecting that environment to actually arrive on Earth anytime soon so you don't have to point out that it won't) there would be possibility for the long term potentiation to increase non linearly in the nervous system of an animal of some kind.
When I say animal I don't mean something like dog or cat. This being would most likely be on higher evolutionary scale than Homo sapiens.
The reason I believe that given specific environment there is that possibility maybe even as offshoot of something on our planet if given environment would present although this might be reaching is the fact that we as apes can evolve brain only up to about 3 times our size before our brains become too large to be as efficient (as efficient pound per pound of course)
If environment would require even higher intelligence I'm not sure how safe it would be (but because they transplanted human astrocytes to mice so it should be) astrocytes could be made larger to give necessary intelligence.
However at some point even that would not be enough. And then non linear increase in long term potentiation (the increase of strength of connection between neurons over time as they are used more and more) might be necessary to arm the higher or perhaps all species in this particular environment.
And perhaps this would be accomplished.
I'm also aware that even if this type of environment appeared on Earth right now the Earth would probably become uninhabitable by that time. As well as the fact that in order for it to happen major changes would need to happen leading to extinction of many species ( Although many species go extinct everyday right now because of man but this is whole another topic)
However if we could accomplish this using biological advancements we could accomplish this much faster and without losing any species. Then however species not possessing this ability would be at the mercy of those who do. which might be even worse.
Now what I'm saying is probably work of science fiction but its just food for thought.
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Post by creature386 on Jul 3, 2020 17:28:32 GMT 5
ACCEPTED FOR THE OEP MASTER'S PROGRAMME IN BONN!!! www.oep-bio.uni-bonn.deInfinite thanks to theropod , I don't think I'd have accomplished this without you looking over my application letter!
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Post by DonaldCengXiongAzuma on Jul 6, 2020 14:26:40 GMT 5
I think I am getting the hang of taking my time to write my fanfictions. Still not satisfied yet.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jul 6, 2020 23:58:32 GMT 5
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Post by creature386 on Jul 30, 2021 2:15:54 GMT 5
Visited the LVR Museum in Bonn today. It was really beautiful. The highlight of the exhibition was of course their Neanderthal, you know, the type specimen that got found in the Neander Valley. Photo credit: dpaTheir reconstruction looked so life-like. It's hard to describe how awesome it felt. Standing before him, seeing how much shorter, but stockier he was than me. Looking into his brown eyes over his full beard and wondering when he'd blink. Realizing his arm is broken, but he still got so old because his family cared for him. Well, nice to see that museums even now can still impress me.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jul 30, 2021 2:42:14 GMT 5
That reconstruction looks amazing. Probably up there as one of the best models of a Neanderthal I've ever seen.
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