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Cracking an Icy Mystery -This is the way a wood frog freezes.
washingtonpost.com ^
| Sunday, December 12, 2004
| David A. Fahrenthold
Posted on 12/12/2004 5:36:34 AM PST by crushelits
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To: AdmSmith; spetznaz
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posted on
12/12/2004 5:39:09 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: crushelits
Imagine an ice cube. Paint it green.Thanks for posting this excellent profile of Hillary Rodham Clinton ;-)
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posted on
12/12/2004 5:44:40 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: crushelits
Important research here. If we learn to cryopreserve organs, thousands of lives will be saved each year. This would be a gigantic step toward workable cryonics for whole humans.
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posted on
12/12/2004 5:50:22 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
12/12/2004 5:55:50 AM PST
by
sasquatch
To: marktwain
I don't expect to see it in my lifetime. Unless, of course, these frogs just started doing this last week!
If so, we got the jump on 'em! <|:-)~~
To: sasquatch
Ice cube, not berg.Good point. As we know, icebergs have 10 times more on the bottom than on the top ;-)
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posted on
12/12/2004 5:57:47 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
As we know,icebergs have 10 times more on the bottom than on the topThan the definition fits Hilliary in more ways than one.
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:00:10 AM PST
by
carlr
To: crushelits
Interesting. Maybe in a few years or so they will solve the mystery and be able to use that knowledge to help humans.
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:00:45 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
To: crushelits
This is the most interesting and credible
Washington Post article I've read within memory.
(Okay. There's got to be a hidden agenda here somewhere. What is it?)
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:00:45 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(This is the choice: confrontation or capitulation. Appeasement is capitulation.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I thought Hillary slept in a coffin with dirt from her grave in it.
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:10:53 AM PST
by
philetus
(Zell Miller - One of the few)
To: crushelits
The real question is......
Has anyone extended the time the frog remains frozen to see if it reanimates after a year, two years or 20 yeaers.
Several months in the winter might be its limit.
Combining frog DNA with human genes might create a mutant human who can live in or out of water and cryosleep for long space flights.
The bonus might be basketball superstars "swamping" the sport because of improved jumping ability.
To: Savage Beast
(Okay. There's got to be a hidden agenda here somewhere. What is it?) Probably that the Bush Administration has failed these poor unfortunate creatures- leaving them to freeze solid in some stinking swamp every winter. Oh, the heartlessness...
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:14:32 AM PST
by
Riley
("Do you not know Doctor, that in the Service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?")
To: philetus
I thought Hillary slept in a coffin with dirt from her grave in it.She does, but freezes in cold weather, only to thaw and emerge later to scare children and small, harmless Senators.
To: marktwain
Even bigger, if we get the ability to put humans into cryo suspended animation, we gain the ability to conduct long interplanetary and interstellar explorations
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:18:16 AM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
To: Riley
Probably that the Bush Administration has failed these poor unfortunate creatures- leaving them to freeze solid in some stinking swamp every winter. Oh, the heartlessness... Females and tadpoles hardest hit.
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:19:00 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
To: crushelits
These creatures would make wonderful paperweights, if you have a chilly office. It's also shaped right to be a good doorstop.
From '101 things you can do with a frozen frog'.
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:23:34 AM PST
by
Riley
("Do you not know Doctor, that in the Service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?")
To: crushelits
I did this with houseflies when I was a kid. They froze solid in the freezer, and I thawed them with Mom's hair dryer the next day; they buzzed off with no apparent ill effects.
I'm sure they were a touch annoyed at me, but anything in the name of science.
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:27:55 AM PST
by
asgardshill
("We march by day and read Xenophon by night.")
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Catching flies with your tongue would be pretty cool also!
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posted on
12/12/2004 6:32:30 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(What's the difference between Joseph Goebbels and Michael Moore? About 150 pounds.)
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