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Cadavers and body parts, human anatomy.
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Basically this anatomist/chemist guy figured out to preserve human bodies intact as they were when they were alive by replacing fluids and fats in the body with polymer. They have a dozen or so bodies that have been preserved in rather artistic poses highlighting different aspects of the human body.
One exibit was the entire human nervous system on its own and intact as it lies in the body. Several exhibits were of the circulatory system the most impressive of which was an entire man that had been reduced to just the skeleton and a few basic muscles but his entire circulatory system down to the finest hair-width vessels was preserved. Red plastic fluid was pumped through the guy's veins and allowed to cure then through mechanical and chemical means the rest of his flesh and skin were removed leaving his entire circulatory system intact exactly as it had lain in his body. The face and head was especially interesting with veins coming through through the eyesockets to feed eyebrows and cheeks while others went out to feed the entire scalp. Funny to see how peckers are nothing but a wad of blood vessels :)
They had another guy standing there with his entire body of skin draped over his extended right arm. Pretty wild to see just what the bodies largest organ looks like liberated from the body. All the bodies still had nuts, peckers, labias and poopers still attatched so it was fun to watch the kids and prudes trying to wrap their heads around what they were seeing :P
Here's the process,
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/plastinatio...on_process.html
Here's what one of the guys looks like. He's all 100% real made from a guy that donated his body to science,
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very interesting
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GOOD MORNING
The Daytona 500: Flying Without Leaving the Ground
By Michael Schirber
Special to LiveScience
posted: 15 February 2006
8:00 am ET
In the 49th annual Daytona 500 Sunday, NASCAR fans will see some of the most high-tech, finely tuned aerodynamics at work anywhere on or off the planet.
Aerodynamics has always been important to racing. But it has become more crucial as cars have become faster, given that drag caused by air friction is proportional to the square of the speed (which means the faster you go, the more the air works against you).
NASCAR rules do not allow a car's shape to be streamlined by much. Still, engineers will alter the body a quarter-inch here, a smidgeon there, to get a slight advantage. The Car of Tomorrow, NASCAR's new body type being used in some races this year, will limit a lot of this aerodynamic tinkering. But teams will still go to the wind tunnels to test tiny alterations.
"Aerodynamics will continue to be a major player at any place where the cars are going over 150 mph," said John Fernandez, managing director of the NASCAR operation for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, which owns three cars in the Nextel Cup series.
The three D's of racing
Certain courses require more attention to aerodynamics than others. The super speedways at Daytona and Talladega are long, fast tracks where cars get up close to 200 mph. Daytona is 2.5 miles long, with the backstretch a whopping 3,000 feet without a turn. This is where aerodynamics?both in the shop and on the track?becomes one of the many keys to winning.
"If a car at Talladega suffers damage to the body, it can just kill that team's chances," said Jerre Hill from University of North Carolina Charlotte's motorsports and automotive engineering program.
Engineers carefully design their car's bodies to reduce drag and to increase the aerodynamic "downforce" that helps the tires stick to the ground in a turn. And during a race, drivers draft behind each other to experience less wind.
These three aerodynamic elements: drag, downforce and drafting, are not separate [graphic]. Increasing downforce means more drag, while cars with a lot of downforce are not as good to draft behind.
Drag
Drag is commonly divided into two kinds: friction drag?due the wind breaking over the car's surface, and pressure drag?coming from the low-pressure wake that develops behind a car and sucks it backwards.
Teams make tiny tweaks to the body shape to make the air flow more smoothly, thereby reducing both friction and pressure drag.
But "there's not a whole lot of wiggle room," said Gary Eaker, whose Aerodyn Wind Tunnel in Mooresville, NC, runs tests for NASCAR teams 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"Teams have to become more and more creative," Eaker told LiveScience, just to get a half percent or so reduction in drag. But they are willing to do it because it can help them get a better qualifying position.
Downforce
Reducing drag is often secondary to increasing downforce, which allows cars to go faster through the turns.
"Drivers always say they need more downforce," Eaker said.
Downforce is also called "negative lift" because the physics is basically the same as the lift on an airplane wing, except it is turned upside down.
The average downforce on a stock car is between 1,650 and 1,750 pounds, Fernandez said. With this air-induced weight, tires have a tighter grip on the road, allowing drivers to maintain high speeds through the turns at Daytona and Talladega. But the drawback is that downforce adds to the drag.
"If you had your druthers, you'd have maximum downforce in the corners but little downforce on the straightaway," Fernandez said in a telephone interview.
Downforce can't be throttled back and forth like that. In fact, NASCAR teams are barred from changing the shapes of their cars during a race.
One way they get around this is by adding tape to the front grill. This increases downforce on the front of the car by causing more air to flow over the hood. But it also diverts air away from the radiator, so too much tape can cause a car to overheat.
Drafting
On the racetrack, both drag and downforce are affected by the air flow off nearby cars. In a common drafting situation, a lead car blocks much of the incoming wind, reducing the friction drag for a trailing car.
Drafting is important in many other sports, like bicycling. Roughly 90 percent of biking power is used to overcome drag, Hill said, so bike racers often ride in a pack, which can go 20-30 percent faster than a single rider.
Drafting bikers take turns in the lead position to block the wind for the others, so each can pedal furiously while at the front while relaxing somewhat when back in the pack. In car drafting, the lead car is also getting a benefit. Trailing cars fill in the lead car's low-pressure wake, thereby cutting down pressure drag. "The decrease in work for the lead car is substantial," Hill said.
With less drag for everybody, drafting lines can go about 5 mph faster than a single car. "On the super speedways you really need a drafting partner to get to the front," Fernandez said.
For Indy and Formula One racing, drafting is less effective. These open-wheel cars generate a huge amount of downforce, resulting in "giant-rooster-tail wakes that are less conducive to drafting," Hill said.
Car of Tomorrow
This year NASCAR will start using the Car of Tomorrow in certain races. The new design is primarily meant to improve safety, but it will also change the way that air flows over the car.
"It's a boxier car, so it has more drag," Hill said.
Two new components will be the main aerodynamic "knobs": a rear wing (replacing the spoiler) and a front splitter (a thin sheet under the front bumper that provides most of the front downforce).
Teams will be allowed to adjust the angle of attack on the wing and the position of the front splitter, Fernandez said.
"Everybody is going to be on a steep learning curve," he said.
The rest of the body shape will be more standardized, but Eaker doesn't believe this will hurt his wind tunnel business.
"It doesn't mean teams won't be changing things, it just means they will be nibbling off smaller and smaller effects," Eaker said.
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http://www.livescience.com/technology/070215_nascar_aero.html
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18. February 2007 @ 07:36 |
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Medical Advice
For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies:
1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
4. The Italians drink large amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
6. Ukrainians drink a lot of vodka, eat a lot of perogies, cabbage rolls and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, Australians, British, or Canadians.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
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18. February 2007 @ 10:41 |
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Good afternoon all! I must have had a bit of a bug ... I went to bed early last night and didn't wake up until two this afternoon. My neck was killing me so I took some pain medication and it took me five mins to figure out why I was watching the DaVinci Code but hearing a dirrhea commercial. I really need to lay off that stuff! Anyway, hello to all!
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18. February 2007 @ 19:20 |
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Gerry.. Only 5 mins to notice wrong soundtrack??.. It took me the whole film to work out they were talking c***.. LMAO!!
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19. February 2007 @ 03:17 |
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Mornin'
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19. February 2007 @ 04:08 |
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GOOD MORNING TO YE ALL THAT ARE STILL HERE
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19. February 2007 @ 04:49 |
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Morning, off today and tomorrow for Mardi Gras.
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19. February 2007 @ 04:52 |
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Lucky you....I went to New Orleans one year about a month after Mardi Gras had moved on and it was still packed. I can't imagine being there when it is in full swing.
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19. February 2007 @ 06:00 |
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Well, I don't think britain does Mardi Gras so much.. :-(
Lol
Hey Scott - What happened to BB the other day?! :-P
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19. February 2007 @ 06:15 |
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Nothing...I had no problem at all, neither did jan or herbs.
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19. February 2007 @ 06:41 |
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Hmmm... It was me then ;-)
Lol. Don't worry, I'm back on now. I was getting a Database error, but whatever. :)
Edit: Nope, still gettin this error atm, but I got on earlier.. WTF.
Hold on, I'll do some stuff to my Firefox lol
Edit2: Flsuhed my DNS, and cleaned the cache and am still getting this when I try to connect to any part of the forum..
Quote:
phpBB : Critical Error
Error doing DB query userdata row fetch
DEBUG MODE
SQL Error : 1146 Table 'bits_xmb1.SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE' doesn't exist
SELECT u.* FROM phpbb_users u, SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE k WHERE u.user_id = 4306 AND u.user_active = 1 AND k.user_id = u.user_id AND k.key_id = '8b23bb9dcf01cae1d97219910fe5efc6'
Line : 89
File : sessions.php
Lol; Any Ideas? You're the man, after all ;-)
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19. February 2007 @ 06:55 |
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How you be LOCO? Still puttin' in them terrible hours?
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19. February 2007 @ 07:13 |
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No problems this end.. but I don't have an account so I can't log in...
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19. February 2007 @ 07:28 |
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Not my account, as I could log in during ICT at school.. Lol.
Just here at home. :S
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19. February 2007 @ 07:45 |
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Janne is on IRC....
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19. February 2007 @ 07:54 |
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He's on Msn too ;-)
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Well done Janne; again! ;-)
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GOOD MORNING
BOYS AND GIRLS
MEN VS. WOMEN: BATHROOM STRATEGIES
The Man's Strategy for Going to the Bathroom:
1) Walk slowly and proudly up to the bathroom, make sure everyone knows that is where you are headed.
2) Enter the bathroom, and quickly check out the whole room
3) Look for the right urinal. This is how to pick your urinal: There must be at least one urinal between you and the next closest person (on either side) to you, if this is not available, take the urinal next to the wall, beside a 'safe looking' male. If this is also not available, glance at stalls, or leave bathroom, and return later, to get the right spot.
4) If proper urinal is available, approach urinal swiftly, looking straight ahead, never turning eyes or head. Another approach is to look at the floor, feet are always good as well.
5) Undo pants, relieve yourself as quickly as possible, keep head looking down (or eyes closed and head held looking up) this way no one will think you are trying to check them out.
6) Shake it off, put it back in your pants.
** Note Steps 7 and 8 are optional, but recommended in 45 of the 50 states.
7) Wash hands.
8) Attempt to dry hands. Look to see if a blow dryer or paper towel dispenser is close by. If not, your clothes will do just fine as a towel.
9) Exit bathroom, do NOT look back, you didn't forget anything.
10) Check to see if your female companion has exited the bathroom before you, although highly unlikely, you must check anyway.
11) Wait patiently for her return, remember to NOT say things like, "Wow, what took you so long."
A Women's Strategy for Going to the Bathroom:
1) Enter bathroom, and start checking each stall, but do NOT check the first one, first one is bad luck, even if tests prove that it's always the cleanest. Look to see what stall is the nicest looking, deciding only after checking every available stall.
2) Decide which is the cleanest stall, and try to get to it before that other bitch who entered when you did.
3) Mutter "nut" under breath, when she grabs the stall you wanted, and make a run for the one you wanted, or that skank who entered after you will get it.
4) Hang jacket and purse on hooks on door.
5) Take some toilet paper and wipe the seat, pretending you can wipe off all germs.
6) Line toilet seat with toilet paper! Germs are bad!
7) Start to take off all layers of required clothing, be sure nothing rests on the ground! Use all other hooks available if needed.
8) Sit down on toilet seat very lightly, as not to disturb layer of paper between you and the seat. Germs are bad!
9) Relax and let the flow go, but make sure your still sitting lightly, because the paper on the seat can't move, or you'll get germs!
10) Start to dispense the required amount of toilet paper from the roll. Fold into neat rectangle, and wipe all drips, very careful to not get germs from the seat!
11) Toss soiled toilet paper into toilet while standing up, watch out for the germs!
12) Start to put back on the 27 layers of clothing you were wearing, make sure it looks exactly like it did when you entered bathroom.
13) Put all toilet paper lining seat into toilet.
14) Flush.
15) Grab jacket and purse while unlocking door.
16) Walk to sink, and turn on tap.
17) Put hands under running water for at least 10 seconds.
18) Lather up with lots of soap, and be sure to get anywhere on hands that was exposed to germs!
19) Rinse soap off hands under water for another 10 seconds.
20) Look for paper towel, if there is none, mumble under breath, and stick hands under blow dryer for 4 minutes. NEVER WIPE HANDS ON CLOTHING! Make your move to counter/mirror section.
21) Put jacket to side, blocking that skank who was trying to get your stall from coming next to you, and make sure your as far away as possible from that bitch who took your stall.
22) Scoff at the way the bitch who took your stall looks. Her make-up is all wrong!
23) Spread out contents of purse on counter.
24) Touch up already perfect make-up, for no reason, be sure to take at least 2 minutes doing this.
25) Organize objects when putting back in purse, a messy purse is bad!
26) Put on jacket, laugh to self at that skank who wanted your stall her clothes are gross.
27) Walk out of bathroom, tossing head at the skank who is still putting make-up on, and make sure you gasp when the bitch who took your stall scoffs at you.
28) Find boyfriend outside, wonder how he gets done so fast ... You were really quick this time!
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20. February 2007 @ 06:18 |
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LOL! That's so true...the men's part of it anyway. Odd how we nearly ritualize bodily functions!
Good morning to all! Not much time to spend here this morning; work is just jumping today given the snow and cancellations last week. I'm really not in the mood for all this today but then again, I seldom am!
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20. February 2007 @ 06:51 |
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Listing of Vista Drivers for those that want to get in bed with the movie studios DRM and microsoft DRM..
Don't waste your time searching dozens of vendor websites every month for the driver updates you need.
Just bookmark this page and come back whenever you need a new driver.
This FREE page lists the latest Windows Vista drivers and provides direct links to the files for downloads. We're offering this as a free service to the community, to help you all get through this challenging period of Vista-transitioning.
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @12:35AM
from the crib-sheet dept.
Windows Microsoft
RadarSync writes to plug their page of links to Vista drivers. Listed are many drivers that Microsoft doesn't have and that aren't easily found on the manufacturer's sites. For Intel alone, 364 drivers are currently linked.
http://www.radarsync.com/vista/
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20. February 2007 @ 07:48 |
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MS VISTA, I guess the MS stands for MORE OF THE SAME. I did the on line upgrade test on my new pc which is only a few months old and more than half of the stuff on it didn't pass. It even told be to uninstall Nero digital which is the latest version. What a joke. I decided to install it on one of my older pc's I built just to see how it works. Its OK so far but doesn't impress me as any better than XP Pro. Just my opinion. Not worth the money they are asking because of all the other updates it will require.
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