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I know I have to cook mushrooms to...

- get rid of carcinogens (agaritine)

- break cell walls to release nutrients

...so after I boil white mushrooms, can I just dry them...then put them back in the fridge?

Will the white mushrooms retain their nutrients until I do decide to eat them?

http://cfmushroom.com/mushroom/white-button-mushro...

First...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fPmCKt48Zw

...so could a bubbled ship enter a black hole and exit the way it entered?...or exit through a white hole or wormhole (if such exists for that particular black hole)?

...without getting crushed or killing the people inside that ship?

Google recently blogged that they would be slowly phasing-out several of their Google products/services to focus on more beneficial projects for the long-term.

Any of you Googleheads or Google aficionados know of a -comprehensive- list of differences between Google Notebook and Google Docs? I'm not sure if I should miss Notebook (which I have been using for years) or not. What would I be missing (in terms of or regards to Notebook features)? Has Google developed Docs to, now, have all the features of Notebook?

We're all going to have to embrace Google Docs eventually, whether we like it or not. I just wanted a quickie answer to my thoughts in the meantime. Google Notebook will be thrown into the bin of history.

Thanks, in advance, for your comprehensive response(s).

If cancer began in a particular human cell (there are so many types of cells), couldn't we humans target that cancerous cell, then down-regulate its telomerase enzyme (in order to shorten the length of the cancerous cell's telomeres)? Couldn't we also prevent cancerous cells' alternative methods of telomere-lengthening?

Once a cancerous cell's telomeres are sufficiently short, it will induce and commence apoptosis (cell suicide).

Once we accomplish this, wouldn't cancer finally be cured? This seems to be the only obstacle; correct?

I know the US Mint produces the proof bullion platinum coin, the platinum eagle, but what about a proof platinum maple?...proof platinum koala?...proof platinum noble? I never see any proof platinum bullion coins besides the proof platinum eagle. Why is that?

Which SSD's are able to boot with Windows 7?...and support the TRIM command? I want to know which SSD to buy.

SoCal has so many area codes, and some cities straddle two area codes. I've never lived in CA since I've been in Las Vegas all my life, and we've always just had 702 while 775 is considered long distance. I just wanted to know if you have to call long distance and pay long distance charges for just calling across the same city or nearby cities with differing area codes.

Whenever you travel in EVE, there are these light specks/speckles that surround you at all times right next to your ship. I know it's good to use to help us measure how fast one is going (instead of relying solely on stars/ships/planets/moons/stations as things to measure speed/acceleration against), but they're too small to be stars! What are they??

I know an SSD's performance/speed decreases as the drive gets fuller with data, but even when that happens, is a full SSD still faster than two RAID'd Western Digital Velociraptors going at 10,000 RPM's through a SATA 3.0GB/sec interface?

I'm mainly eye'ing the Intel MLC and SLC SSD's b/c Intel has the best SSD's on the market right now (it could change in the future, tho).

I know "god is great / greater" is "allah akbar" in Arabic, but how does one say "science is great / greater" in Arabic?

Since some states are closing correctional facilities to close budget gaps (which limits number of available rooms/beds for inmates), do you think states will start to use capital punishment as a solution for crime when their occupancies become full?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/05/news/economy/Michi...

How many Americans/Canadians own platinum coins?

What percentage of people in the world are private owners of platinum metal?

Why can't a game just auto-loot an enemy's body after you kill him/her/it? I don't see why we have to loot the dead body or corpse. What is the purpose? What goal does it accomplish? What exploit does it prevent? If there are proper loot rules in place that prevent one person getting all the loot (like in Warhammer Online, for example), then I don't see the point. After you kill an enemy, the loot rolling system should just automatically kick-in; spread the vendor loot around or give it to the one who dealt the fatal blow...then need-before-greed the good stuff. It gets repetitive clicking dead bodies/corpses all the time...especially in the heat of battle like in fast-paced PvP or RvR (like in Warhammer Online).

I was watching a History Channel show on youtube about the fate of our universe. With the two laws of thermodynamics, our universe will ultimately grow cold and dark (supposedly). I've read about dark energy and dark matter, and I've read about their tendency to oppose gravity and expand outwards in an accelerating manner, but this show did not mention dark energy or dark matter. Lack of mention doesn't remove the fact that we cannot stop dark energy or dark matter at this time, however.

I read about the Dyson Sphere idea on Wikipedia, and it reminded me of recycling. Like that example in the show, a newspaper's total mass equals its resulting burnt mass + particulates flying outwards + heat/energy/light it emits as it's being burned. Instead of our sun just radiating its heat/light outwards into space to get dissipated amongst a larger volume of vacuum space, couldn't we trap all matter and energy around every star and recycle the energy to be kept in a smaller unit of area in space? The example comparing charcoal to our sun helped make fuel-burning by our sun easier to understand for me. Over time, the lightweight hydrogen combines with other atoms to form heavier elements which do not burn as well and causes the sun to slowly die. Would it be possible to filter-out the heavier elements inside the sun, break them down, then feed them back to the sun?...or would that require more energy than the sun would give back once accomplished?

I think if we built Dyson Spheres around every star we could...recycled all that energy/matter...and somehow used some of that energy to tow stars closer together to fight dark matter/energy's tendency to push everything outwards, we could really oppose a cold/dark fate of our universe.

Of course, if this idea does not hold up, then we're going to have to traverse the multiverse to find universes that can continue supporting our life forms in this universe.

Here are the links to the show (you can exclude the fmt=18 parameter in the URL or click the high quality button to revert back to normal quality if you don't have a high quality connection)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgtIDSMlkF8&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HMAZWECEKM&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAjGAdb9Kec&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3iB2fAl5uo&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RFIfLQfT-s&fmt=18

...and Dyson Sphere article on Wikipedia...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dys...

...so I read the following...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfictio...

...and it mentions that teleportation using quantum entanglement would "copy" particle states from source to destination. Assuming you had a device to do human beings (as opposed to individual atoms or particles), all the particle states of the original human being would be "copied"...the original human being destroyed/disintegrated...particle states transmitted...then "formed" using destination particles. The resulting human being, for all intents and purposes, would be exactly LIKE the original human being with the same physical makeup and same memories up until original disintegrated...but it wouldn't really be the same human being...just an exact copy...correct?

I think people would STILL die if teleported. Please prove me wrong, if incorrect.

...so I watched this three-part vid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb-1WJ3mliY&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha6ZJRoJwFk&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buaooE_3IIM&fmt=18

...and one of the messages I got was: now that women have equality in society, they're looking to marry for love/compatibility and not so much for financial stability anymore.

If all the smart/intelligent/career-driven women somehow matched-up with their likewise men...and if they drove lesser males and females into some sort of extinction or, at least, minority, would this world eventually be run by women?...with men basically serving "support- or mate-type" roles `for` those women? I'm not talking about feminism or femi-nazism...but this, to me, almost seems like an alternate reality...like an episode of Sliders or something.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders)

What do you guys think?

I had an ad on a personals site and was doing some searching like always, and this girl leaves a message. We typed a lot in messages and, later, on IM's and had some things in common (so I made my profile hidden)...but I already had my sights set on a girl on myspace that I first msg'd 6 months ago but is now showing "single" when she wasn't before. The myspace girl definitely had something I was looking for physically while the other girl I couldn't be too sure of due to her pics...so I decided to take her off my IM buddy list and pursue the other girl. The myspace girl txt'd me A LOT, and I said I was going to ask her out on the second date (to make it official)...but I did a lot of thinking after the first date, and she just didn't seem too intelligent to me (I have a bachelor's from UNLV, so I'm a little picky when it comes to smarts)...but boy was she endowed. I went ahead and paid for everything on the second date as I did on the first, but at the end of the night, I explained that we just weren't compatible mentally and proceeded to drive her home after we were all finished eating. I noticed she put "feeling rejected" on her myspace, and I felt bad...but at least I was straightforward and honest with her...and she didn't look as physically attractive to me anymore. The other girl IM'd me outta nowhere after, like, almost a month of not talking to her, and after chatting awhile, I just decided to throw it out there and asked if she wanted to go out and eat sometime. She was totally down, so we went out...and wow, I was surprised...she was packed, too, AND had brains. I added her back to my IM buddy list, and she had given me her number, so I had been txt'ing her every now and then but not too much since I didn't want to seem desperate.

This is where it starts. I txt'd her if she was still down for going out (second date), and she txt'd back she definitely was. She didn't give me a time, but I txt'd to just txt me back or call back and let me know. I was sleeping and she woke me up to talk about when to meet up. We did, and it went well. As I walked her to her car, she mentioned we should do this again. She had a paper to write for school, and I said I would be online (in case she got done and wanted to chat a little). I txt'd her that I had to go to the gym and would bbl in case she got online while I was out of the house. She then txts me she just finished her paper, I respond, and that was it. The next night, I txt'd if she was cramming for a test and what she wanted to do next weekend. She said she already planning on visiting her family in her hometown and that we could do something the weekend after...and that was the last time I contacted her (so as not to seem desperate).

I initiated contact right before the second date, said I would be online afterwards, and initiated contact regarding a third...so now, in my mind, the ball is in her court. She msg'd me first on the personals site and IM'd me like crazy before I took her off my buddy list (she didn't know I did), and even tho I lapsed for awhile, I had been txt'ing/IM'ing her a lot, so now she should initiate contact w/ me this time to let me know she's still interested and that it's mutual (I've already shown that I am). She's on the personals site everyday but looking for "friends" not "dating"...and I found her on myspace (private profile) which I noticed she checks everyday. I've seen her on IM at times, but she doesn't even IM to say "hi"...or txt...or call/leave voicemail. She goes to school fulltime and works fulltime, but I am not giving-in...she either makes the next contact, or I'm moving on. It's been a week; what does this mean? Is she really that busy? Is she looking to date other guys? Is she keeping tabs on me and making sure I don't put my profile up on the personals site or go on myspace to "supposedly" check messages (she knows my myspace)? Is she not as attracted anymore since the chase is over? Is she waiting for me to make the next contact when she should know I've done it the last three times and have clearly shown I'm interested? I know it's only been a week, and I really shouldn't be tripping...but what does this mean?

If you fell in love with someone and married that person...but, later, fell out of love (but still loved that person)...would you divorce that person?

Why?

Why not?

I am just curious if it's illegal to store people's DNA if you have the money (money to store the DNA and money to compensate the person). I found this site - http://www.genesaver.com/index.html - and that idea popped into my head.

I was thinking about the last Great Depression and how extravagant and liberal society was in the 1920's before the depression. After the bottom hit in 1932, there was a period of rebuilding, then war, then post-war which started about in the 1950's. We all think of the 1950's as very conservative...like guys having to meet the parents and asking the father for permission to date his daughter...conservative music and clothing...et cetera.

I also thought about ancient Greek culture/society where homosexuals were accepted and did not even pose an issue...but then you come to the middle ages where everyone is religious and attempting to be pious and live conservatively and all that.

This seems to me like the ebb and flow of time and history...we swing back and forth between two ends.

...so if a big depression hits the world and especially the United States, do you think we'll go back to being a conservative society again?