TORPIC TRAVEL?

I'm not really seeing the innovation as this idea has been around for an extremely long time.

Perhaps the article writer is referring to the specific techniques that would be involved. However there is no guarantee that torpor will either be universally effective or universally safe. Plus there will be the danger of a difficult and untimely revival.

And obviously you can't put everyone in torpor, that's far too dangerous.

NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option for Mars Mission

Oct 3, 2014 12:00 PM ET // by Irene Klotz

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The deep sleep, called torpor, would reduce astronauts’ metabolic functions with existing medical procedures. Torpor also can occur naturally in cases of hypothermia.

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“Therapeutic torpor has been around in theory since the 1980s and really since 2003 has been a staple for critical care trauma patients in hospitals," aerospace engineer Mark Schaffer, with SpaceWorks Enterprises in Atlanta, said at the International Astronomical Congress in Toronto this week. "Protocols exist in most major medical centers for inducing therapeutic hypothermia on patients to essentially keep them alive until they can get the kind of treatment that they need.”

EPIGENETIC MEMORY

I have been studying the field of epigenetics for about ten years or so now? Something like that. Since the field of genetics has been a personal interest of mine for decades. But I only relatively recently became of aware of modern epigenetics and began studying it in depth.

I see it as being directly related (as a manipulation mechanism) to my theory of the Renaissance Man and the polymath.

Anyway I thought this was a rather good but very basic summary of some of the recent research advances and studies in the field.

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

18 hours ago

This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant mother lacking the methylation enzyme PRC2. The 2-cell embryo (right) shows transmission of the mark on the sperm-derived chromosomes in each daughter nucleus. Credit: Laura J. Gaydos

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development...

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

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This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant …more

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

17 hours ago

This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant …more

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp

THE HUMAN SUIT

And about bloody time too. I've been saying the same thing, and following the same design principle with my own AISTHPLEIS Suit design for over a decade now.

The idea makes far more sense and would be far more efficient and pragmatic than either a bulky, cumbersome diving bell type suit (current designs) or a totally artificial/mechanical robotic machine type exoskeletal suit (current military designs).

Biomechanical, bio-organic, nanobiological, human imitative and human enhancing and direct somatic interfacing technologies such as this are the wave of the future, not old style mechanical and robotic technologies.

Spacesuits of the future may resemble a streamlined second skin

Sep 18, 2014 by Jennifer Chu

The MIT BioSuit, a skintight spacesuit that offers improved mobility and reduced mass compared to modern gas-pressurized spacesuits. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

For future astronauts, the process of suiting up may go something like this: Instead of climbing into a conventional, bulky, gas-pressurized suit, an astronaut may don a lightweight, stretchy garment, lined with tiny, musclelike coils. She would then plug in to a spacecraft's power supply, triggering the coils to contract and essentially shrink-wrap the garment around her body...

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract - 6/23/09

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract

Intuition, Email, and Doom - When do people know what they don't yet?

The Cyborgin Impulse

Metastatically Examined

The Tilted Mass

I find this one particularly interesting as personally I have often wondered at the many seeming inaccuracies and inconsistencies (both physically and mathematically) in common models of solar system formation.

The Stretchable Creation

The Listening Ear

I've long been a proponent of biologically based and biologically modeled technologies, for obvious reasons. Here is a good example of why. The applications are enormous, for what if one designed chips and recovers of a molecular and genetic nature based upon the hearing capabilities of dogs and wolves?

The New Spin

I also have to wonder how this might effect practical applications of Spintronics.

The Entrained Brain

The Great White Serial Killer

I'd like to see this used as the basis for developing analysis systems for violent human psycho and social pathologies. In other words develop this study into a predictive analytical tool concerning human serial killers, as one possible application. I'm not talking about the direct correlation, but the generla methodology.

America's Most Twittered

I've recently been considering the real value (if any) of various social networking applications. Here is an application I could actually make real use of.

The Sharp Alchemist

Need I say more?

The Resonant Recharge

The New Cyber-Warfare

The Sunny Devil

I know I have included more than the usual number of articles in the Abstract. But the past few weeks have seen some very interesting and exciting developments in the various disciplines of science and technology that I thought were well worth examining.

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Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract 8/7/07

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract

Casimir Effect

The Balsa Planet

Wetworks

The Evil Vomit Light - I have always enjoyed working on, with, and developing new non-lethal weaponry. I like where this is going because combined with other types of wave-based NLWs, including sub-sonic I believe this could lead to something very like a phaser (not as a stunning weapon, but as a sensory and orientation incapacitator). The trick now will be to adapt the same basic principles to sonic and tactile weapons so that this type of weapon can incapacitate almost instantly and by use of light, sound, and by producing feeling within the body of the target. You would want it to be multi functional and be able to incapacitate in a number of different ways in order to be most effective and so it could not be easily defended against.

Advanced Concept Nuclear Shield - But I like Bruce Willis

Global Bugging

Going Under to Go Off - when I was younger and contemplated becoming an astronaut I have to admit that at the same time I was simultaneously captivated by the thought of deep sea exploration. Best of both worlds here.

What the Ruskies Have

Good Luck - Hope you do better with this than you do with your food industry.




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Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract 2/27/07

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract

South Pole Telescope - I wish I had a scope at the South Pole. I'd settle for one on the moon though.








Virgin Galactic - I'd like to see Virgin Galactica myself, but then again I guess I won't really get a vote.










Islamic Math and Geometry

Computer Model of Visual Perception and Object Recognition - It still seems very primitive to me compared to what the brain can do, but it's a start.








Still More Adult Cell Goodies - I really like MIT's work in this area. They've shown for a long time that Adult Stem Cells have far more promise than embryonic stem cells and have demonstrated repeatedly that Host stem cells have far greater promise than alien stem cells. Then again I probably like them cause I've been saying the same thing myself for years. It's just common sense and basic biology.











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Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract 2/6/07

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract

To Boldly Go - How best to find New Worlds.

Princeton and Google

The Chinese Romans- While I was in College I did a couple of studies and papers on the Silk Road, and of Greek, Byzantine, and Roman traffic East and of Chinese Traffic West. One was a study of possible Buddhist influence on early Christianity and Common-era Judaism, and the other was concerned with economic trade between East and West via overland routes. I find this project very interesting and will follow it with real curiosity.

Sunita of Outer Space - Where else but in America?

The Dendritic Advantage - I've been saying this for years: If Solar Radiation makes Clark Kent a Superman it ought to at least make you a little healthier. There are few things sunshine and fresh air won't cure. Add regular outdoor exercise and you may live to be a hundred.

When Detection Doesn't - Try Bird Flu a la Britannia.

Negative Refraction - I gotta admit, I love at least the theory behind this idea.

No Time Like the Present

A View on a Nightmare - What bothers me most about Vista is Vista.

FutureWar - FCS: We've still got a long ways to go in my opinion, but this ain't half bad for now.

Posted - This sounds more like something the New York Times would believe.

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Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract 1/30/07

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract

Stem Cells as they Should Be - Now here is a far more ethical use of stem cells. They are extracted from the host creature, no potential separate creature is destroyed to harvest them, and most importantly as I've said before, it is the host organism itself from which real cures for the individual will come. Not from alien stem cells taken from an unrelated creature. It is only basic logic and biology, yet you would think from the way the science surrounding stem cells was pursued originally that nearly 500 years of more modern medical knowledge had been lost overnight in an anti-scientific frenzy of political vapidness. Modern scientists, when they get a bug up their ass and a theory in their empty skulls no amount of evidence will dissuade them. Like Greek theoreticians, they create a theory to explain the way the world oughtta work instead of simply looking at the real world and noticing how it actually works. They make me laugh.

Zazacatla - Very interesting. Another Olmec linked city. Personally I love studying about the Olmecs and Toltecs.

Portfolio of Fuels - How much corn can Jimmy Crack crack?


The Strong and the Stretchy - Nanocomposites that do it all.

The Prize - Dang, and I was betting good money and hard science that Al Gore had done this.

Learning to Devector - A better detector is a better devector.

A Mirror on the Man - Just the ticket and an excellent idea.
















Bird Flu goes Mammalian - Well, don't say I didn't see this coming guys cause I told you it would happen. Where is that evolutionary species barrier now that we really need it?

Cybercrooked - I love it. Sir Isaac Newton would be proud. Very proud.








Virtual Europe - It just makes so much sense, whether you stop to bother to think about it, or not.



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Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract 1/16/07

Tuesday Science and Technology Abstract

McNaught Comet - Because the weather has been so moderate around here and because the sky has been so clear at night I have been making a great deal of astronomical observations at night in my area (I also live in a very rural area free of most light pollution so that my own telescope is useful for most observations). Occasionally I make use of the Naval scope at the observatory on top of the mountain. This comet has personally excited me. Unfortunately for the past couple of days the weather has been cloudy or foul and observing opportunities limited. I'll be glad when I have enough money to build the observatory I designed for the south hill near my woods.

Skypenet - Skype offers international broadband television service.

Free Electronic Prescriptions - Personally, I think this an excellent idea and one which could very well reduce the number of prescription errors.

Neanderman - Interesting because I never really thought Neanderthal man had disappeared, it seemed far more likely to me that if he was indeed a true branch of humanity then he would have been absorbed through cross mating, not wiped out. If he was not truly human then he could not have mated with humans and would have been a competitor who was possibly warred out of existence, or failed on his own, but if he was truly human then he could have easily been assimilated. I've certainly seen people who could pass for Neanderthal, or at least a Neanderthal's uncle.

New Class of RNA Molecules

Einstein's Tea Leaves

Hybrid Nano Chips - As someone who is a personal advocate of most forms of nanotechnology and research I found this article very interesting, especially about what it implies about scale, materiel, and energy transfer/efficiency rates.

The Prodigy At College - Since my children are homeschooled and well ahead of both common age and academic standards, I found this very interesting. My two daughters are already doing college level work at a time where most kids their age are in 6th and 3rd grade. I was conversing with a woman just the other day and we discussed putting our various children in college at about 15 or 16.

Zinc Oxide based LED Chips

The New Sleuth - You know, as my friends in law enforcement and the military will tell you, I have for years advocated using the Web for purposes exactly like this, research of criminal cases, gathering of Intel, the development of personal PIINs, contact and exchange work, development of informants, counter-terrorism, and so forth. I personally think law enforcement, the government, and military ignore a huge number of really outstanding assets by not mining these civilian fields for amateur operatives who would be of tremors benefit in any given number of situations. The amateur, because of the way he works, is often, at least in some cases, a far more efficient and rapid investigator and operative than the professional precisely because he is not limited to the restrictions of Intel gathering which hampers so many professionals.

The Consequrences of the Deep Link

New Patent with Interetsing and Wide Implications and Possible Applications

Google Tracks UPS

More Evidence of the Legitimacy of the TSS Doctrine of Gaming

Quantum Biology

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