Cool Science

[me]

Please keep the junk in your garbage-can-of-an-inbox out of here.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/cicret.asp

http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/the-cicret-is-out-this-futuristic-bracelet-doesnt-exist/52677

Could give a smart ass retort here but I won't. I hadn't seen anything on it, just ran across the video on Youtube and thought it was a neat idea that "may" come about in the future, not that it was already in production. Even Snopes said it could be possible in the future but maybe not entirely as depicted.

While the Cicret bracelet and app may not be impossible to develop with current technology, it's also not a device that exists even in prototype form at this stage. The video does not depict a working Cicret bracelet; and should the device ever come to market, it's not clear it would operate in the way its developers believe it might. While an eventual working Cicret could one day be real, it's also possible the concept will graduate to the realm of vaporware.

[Bo D]

Could give a smart ass retort here but I won't. I hadn't seen anything on it, just ran across the video on Youtube and thought it was a neat idea that "may" come about in the future, not that it was already in production. Even Snopes said it could be possible in the future but maybe not entirely as depicted.

It's one thing to speculate about what may be in the future. It's an entirely different matter to perpetuate a fraud.

[me]

It's one thing to speculate about what may be in the future. It's an entirely different matter to perpetuate a fraud.

Oh good grief, lighten up will ya?  Did I make a comment about it saying it was real? No. Did I post anything saying it was already in the works? No. Did I just post something that may be a reality in some form in the future? Yes. It's still science and interesting to think about.

[Bo D]

Oh good grief, lighten up will ya?  Did I make a comment about it saying it was real? No. Did I post anything saying it was already in the works? No. Did I just post something that may be a reality in some form in the future? Yes. It's still science and interesting to think about.

The people who made the video were trying to sell that product based on those claims. Not in the future. Now. It's a fraud and by posting it you bought in to it.

[me]

The people who made the video were trying to sell that product based on those claims. Not in the future. Now. It's a fraud and by posting it you bought in to it.

Well now I did not know that since I had read nothing on it and there is nothing to indicate that on the video.

[Bo D]

Well now I did not know that since I had read nothing on it and there is nothing to indicate that on the video.

Now you know. This is what people of your anti-science ilk will just never get. Question everything. Just a quick google search would have shown the truth.

[Bo D]

PEE POWER!!!!

Install one of these in the local frat house and it could light up the whole city!

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/03/urine-power-light-disaster-zone-camps?et_cid=4455536&et_rid=54725525&location=top

Urine Power to Light Disaster Zone Camps

A toilet, conveniently situated near the Student Union Bar at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), is proving pee can generate electricity. It is hoped the pee-power technology will light cubicles in refugee camps, which are often dark and dangerous places, particularly for women.

Students and staff are being asked to use the urinal to donate pee to fuel microbial fuel cell (MFC) stacks that generate electricity to power indoor lighting.

[libby]

     I thought it was one of your jokes until I saw the source. 

[Bo D]

     I thought it was one of your jokes until I saw the source.

[Locutus]

PEE POWER!!!!

Install one of these in the local frat house and it could light up the whole city!

Or any local bar that routinely offers a Beer Pong tournament. 

[me]

Or any local bar that routinely offers a Beer Pong tournament. 

Or coffee house......... 

[Locutus]

Or coffee house......... 

I think beer pong produces more product over time. 

[me]

I think beer pong produces more product over time. 

You could be right about that but coffee or tea runs a close second. 

[Bo D]

Star Trek Tricorder is No Longer Science Fiction

For the crew of the Starship Enterprise, Star Trek's "Tricorder" was an essential tool, a multifunctional hand-held device used to sense, compute and record data in a threatening and unpredictable universe. It simplified a number of Starfleet tasks, scientific or combat-related, by beaming sensors at objects to obtain instant results. The Tricorder is no longer science fiction. An invention by Tel Aviv University researchers may be able to turn smartphones into powerful hyperspectral sensors, capable of identifying the chemical components of objects from a distance. Professor David Mendlovic of TAU's School of Electrical Engineering and his doctoral student, Ariel Raz, have combined the two necessary parts of this invention: an optical component and image processing software.

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/04/star-trek-tricorder-no-longer-science-fiction?et_cid=4496681&et_rid=54725525&location=top

[Bo D]

How long does it take for most of the atoms in your body to be replaced by others?

Every 16 days about 72% of you is replaced.

About 72% of the human body is H2O (liquid water). Every ~16 days nearly 100% of the water is exchanged in a healthy body. Heavy elements like carbon, sodium and potassium take occupancy far longer perhaps 8 months - 11 months.  For example the calcium and phosphorus in bones are replaced in a dynamic crystal growth / dissolving process that will ultimately replace all bones in your body.

Other larger organs' atomic replacement can be estimated:

•The lining in stomach and intestine every 4 days
•The Gums are replaced every 2 weeks
•The Skin replaced every 4 weeks
•The Liver replaced every 6 weeks
•The Lining of blood vessels replaced every 6 months
•The Heart replaced every 6 months
•The Surface cells of digestion, top layer cells in the digestion process from our mouth through our large bowel are replaced every 5 minutes

In about a year every atom in your body would have been exchanged.  Not a single atom in your body resides there forever and there is a 100% chance that 1000s of other humans through history held some of the same atoms that you currently hold in your body.

Just as fascinating, is the fact that about 30% of your body, by weight, is not even "you" (cells without human DNA/RNA), it is a cooperative arrangement of bacteria, viruses, parasites and other welcomed or sometimes unwelcome guests.  In fact, just in the case of bacteria, there are 10 times more bacteria cells then human cells in your body.

http://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-most-of-the-atoms-in-your-body-to-be-replaced-by-others