RE: Abuse in the cabin

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 07-10-02 AT 04:06 PM (GMT)]But why do people need alcohol, most people can go through a working day without a shot of the juice, can’t they?

Perhaps these drunks are nervous of flying, they drink to relax. However they drink too much, and they get scared about the whole flying experience, they get defence, and in some cases get abusive and/or violent.

The answer is use a herbal remedy (I wasn’t thinking of stuff you inhale btw) or get knocked out, or use a different method of transport if you cant handle it.

Sorry but with everything thats happened in the last year I think such behaviour is totally unacceptable.

Simmer

RE: What do you work as?

Aren’t you a party hostess or something??

Myself, I work in a genetics lab.

Simmer

RE: Saving Private Ryan.

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 07-10-02 AT 04:14 PM (GMT)]I agree with you, that scene is not a pleasent one and I came out of that movie mulling over the scene over and over again, with feelings that I never knew I had! In fact it makes me sick to the stomach just thinking about it. What made it worse was knowing what the German soldier was saying… which was:

“Don’t fight it. Shh… You’ll see it’s better this way.”

Simmer

RE: Just curious!!!

Samsung A300e, its ok, but doesn’t have any games 🙁

RE: Computer network question!

Microsoft’s proxy server allows you to ‘throttle’ bandwidth, but is it likely that all of you will be using it at the sametime? I would suggest having set-times, almost liek a rota so that you get an hour or so a full capacity to get what you want.

Simmer

RE: User names

I like flight sims, nuff said!

RE: Flight Sims

Sounds like a good idea to me BartBoy. Why doesn’t someone do an RAF career sim?

You could start out at Cranwell in the Fireflys and work your through, depending on your performance your career could go to fast jets, or rotary wing, multiengine etc. Part of the career could include airshows as well as theatres of war.

That could be awesome! I’d buy it:)

Simmer

RE: genetic engineering

They wouldn’t inject the DNA straight into the embryo, the basic steps are:

Take an egg cell (female gamete) from the Ostrich.

Remove the Nucleus/DNA from the cell.

Then you would take the Nucleus/DNA from the Moa and inject it into the cell/Nucleus.

A few chemical steps maybe needed to start the process, and then basically you wait with fingers crossed.

If the cell divides and continues to develop you will then have a Moa clone of your very own (depending on your view, the mother cell still contains Ostrich DNA in the mitochondria. Some academics still insist that a method of this nature can never produce a clone, but instead a hybrid.)

Of course the chances of this happening is 1000.s to one. Even today hte techniques are very hit and miss.

GE is still a fairly young science, we’ve only known about DNA/Chromosomes for 50 to 60 years!

I think the problem is that the labs are developing new techniques and increasing our understanding about the very base of life, but the politics are far behind. All these labs are desparate to tell the world that they can engineer glow in the dark mice (it has been done!). They want to be able to use it in the real world, christ glow in the dark pets, you know there would be people out there who would buy one. Wether its the thrill of playing god or just stepping on ground which has never been trod we need to be careful with GE.

I’m not saying its a bad thing, I have a degree in it, like anything with this potential for good and bad it needs to be handled with kid gloves.

Simmer