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Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
Drudge | 12-28-07 | Alexis Madrigal

Posted on 12/29/2007 10:54:35 AM PST by Jotmo

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To: Fzob
Compound interest is a based on well understood basic mathematics. The other two alchemy and perpetual motion are scams.

i see. so the former precludes the latter?

21 posted on 12/29/2007 11:43:23 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (whose spirit is hillary channelling these days?)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Ok, so why is compound interest a scam in your view?


22 posted on 12/29/2007 11:46:52 AM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Jotmo

Well I might not be sleepy any more but my body will still be tired as hell.


23 posted on 12/29/2007 11:55:03 AM PST by Boiling point (The Indians had a bad immigration policy and look what happened to them!)
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To: Jotmo

Isn’t this how cocaine got popular?


24 posted on 12/29/2007 11:57:00 AM PST by RichInOC ("Cocaine's a hell of a drug.")
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To: Right Wing Assault
Cool! Now I can get another couple jobs and work 24 hours a day.

And if you are divorced her lawyer can impute wages for 24 hr/day work...

25 posted on 12/29/2007 12:03:13 PM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: savedbygrace
And we replace sex with Internet browsing.

Ah. So that's what happened to my sex life!

26 posted on 12/29/2007 12:04:01 PM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: Truth29
But do you get to keep your teeth? :-)

Why? They're outdated - get dental implants. See, this not only lets you NOT sleep, but save time by NOT brushing, nor wasting money on dentists! It's a win-win all around!

27 posted on 12/29/2007 12:04:54 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Complaining about the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible.)
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28 posted on 12/29/2007 12:07:16 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Fzob
The other two alchemy and perpetual motion are scams.

Nope.

Any idiot with a reactor can transmute elements.

People are working on 'zero point' energy to extract usable power from quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations. Also there are several commercially products that do 'energy harvesting' to power flea watt electronics...

29 posted on 12/29/2007 12:07:58 PM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: Jotmo

Isnt this the same as Provigil.


30 posted on 12/29/2007 12:10:08 PM PST by Husker24
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To: null and void
...commercially available products...

Damm non-clairvoyant spell check.

*grumble grumble grumble*

31 posted on 12/29/2007 12:10:56 PM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: Jotmo
Possibly the most evil invention I've heard of.
32 posted on 12/29/2007 12:14:40 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: null and void
Any idiot with a reactor can transmute elements.

Really? Someone has a reactor that transmutes lead into gold or another base metal. Got a link?

People are working on 'zero point' energy to extract usable power from quantum mechanical vacuum fluctuations. Also there are several commercially products that do 'energy harvesting' to power flea watt electronics...

How are these perpetual motion machines?

33 posted on 12/29/2007 12:14:57 PM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Fzob
Really? Someone has a reactor that transmutes lead into gold or another base metal. Got a link?

It can be done, but it is a very expensive way to make gold. Transmuting elements has been being done deliberately since the early 1940's.

The medical industry depends heavily on synthetic radio isotopes.

The semiconductor industry used 'transmutation doped' or NTD - 'neutron transmutation doped' silicon, it's the only way to get even phosphorus distribution, as higher concentrations of phosphorus tend to segregate out in a melt.

How are these perpetual motion machines?

Zero point energy, would be an infinite source of power as the quantum fluctuations (the generation of 'virtual' particle and antiparticle pairs) are a fundamental part of the universe.

Commercial energy harvesters generate useful amounts of energy from stray radio waves, environmental vibrations, changes in temperature or pressure. In principle, a vibration energy harvester could extract energy until the whole universe is near absolute zero. Not quite infinite, but close enough!

34 posted on 12/29/2007 12:32:37 PM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: Jotmo
I remember when Time had an article on this wonderful new drug named "Ecstasy."
35 posted on 12/29/2007 12:41:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And LSD, IIRC...


36 posted on 12/29/2007 12:42:42 PM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: Jotmo

The abolition of sleep will transform society in ways that we can’t even envisage today.

Imagine how much more man can do with those eight extra hours a day for work, leisure and study.


37 posted on 12/29/2007 12:48:46 PM PST by Loyalist (Social justice isn't; social studies aren't; social work doesn't.)
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To: null and void

“Any idiot with a reactor can transmute elements.”

Wasn’t that tried at Chernobyl?

;-)


38 posted on 12/29/2007 1:13:17 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: null and void

I get your point and maybe this is just me but I was thinking of practical methods of transmuting lead to gold, which do not exist. But your point is taken

Regarding energy harvesters and potential zero point energy are not technically perpetual motion machines unless the change in entropy is zero


39 posted on 12/29/2007 1:14:02 PM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Jotmo

Cellular repair only occurs during REM sleep.
This is insane. There is a reason for sleep.


40 posted on 12/29/2007 1:19:23 PM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (...And we, poor fools, demand truth's noon, who scarce can bear its crescent moon.)
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