Oolite Bulletins

I hope you were not one of those "animals"!
Seriously, these experiments are not yet made with humans. At least not officially, but they expect some decisive advantages on heavily wounded persons who otherwise wouldn't survive an operation.

You're talking about the H2S experiments (so was I, hence the headaches, heehee. Professor with a love for raw garlic on bread..)

I'm a bit sceptical about it. It's really nasty stuff. I prefer the 'undercooling' approach, i think...

Rubinstein wrote:

Quite simple, they are in stasis and getting reanimated by opening the box.
We are talking about the future, don't we? Btw, we're not that far away from these things, when thinking of recent scientific experiments with animals who were kept in some sort of artificial death state and reanimated after several hours, w/o any damage.

Why can't the future use good old fashioned cardboard boxes?

Because all trees are being used to build huuuuuge catapults to launch vehicules into orbit, duh.

Rxke wrote:

You're talking about the H2S experiments

No, I'm talking about this (sorry, german only):
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,374972,00.html
Strange enough: although these experiments where made in Boston
(by Hasan Alam, Massachusetts General Hospital), I couldn't find any english article about it...

Rubinstein: Wow, impressive! (Yes, I read German, heehee)

Heard about this, didn't know it was so far advanced.

Rxke wrote:

Rubinstein: Wow, impressive! (Yes, I read German, heehee)

Ah, I see you are from Belgium, not that far away (waves).
Anyway, I guess I wouldn't understand a single word of your native spelling.
Something I never understood: why so many Dutchman understand german but not the other way around...
Ok, Belgium is not Holland, but is the spelling similar?
I always thought the main language in Belgium is french, which I even understand less.

@rubinstein:
Probably because german is a basic (mandatory) course during highschool. (so are english and french)
But only for part of the track. Halfway, students can choose several subjects that they like to specialise in, dropping (failed) languages etc.

I had one hour a week German, aaaages ago, and that was in a mixed class... where chaos ruled. Big time.... Teacher got boycotted... Didn't learn too much. Only word I remember from that time is dusenjaeger (jetplane)...

but in the 80's a lot of hi-tech was way cheaper in Germany, so we went shopping there. (That's to say: me and friends gave wads of money and list to my uncle who worked in tech dept. at uni, and went to all those great technology-events...

Atari ST260, American keyboard, German errormessages... Those were the days...
Oh, and I'm a big Einstuerzende Neubauten fan, which helps a lot
Language in Belgium-Flanders part and the Netherlands is in essence identical.
South of Belgium speaks French, and contrary to most people's outside Belgium, Flanders has the biggest population.

(We're going a wee bit offtopic, heehee)

My love for german was 100% inspired by Bud Spencer.
Before BS I hated all foreign languages, because I had to study them.

Now that it is no longer compulsory, I find myself studying Japanese, German, Danish etc (not seriously, but for fun)

Arexack_Heretic wrote:

My love for german was 100% inspired by Bud Spencer.

Thanks. Now I can go and drain my laptop from sprayed-through-the-nose coffee!

I was serious!
I recieve mailings from the fanclub.

Through Bud, I grew fond of consuming large quantities of beer and sausages.
Thankfully I have a fast metabolism, or I'd be as big as the man himself.

something else:
Last night was a Meeting of my new student fraternity, we almost got a motion accepted that commission members should grow their beards.
Next meeting, I'll put forward the notion that every third fullmoon should henceforth be talk-like-a-pirate-day.
(Currently only on 19th sept)

Rxke wrote:

Because all trees are being used to build huuuuuge catapults to launch vehicules into orbit, duh.

Very good, I like that. Extremely funny!

@ A_H: Oh, I thought you were fond of the German-dubbed versions of his films. (I'm serious..)

Impressive guy, BTW. From Wikipedia:

Born as Carlo Pedersoli, is a famous Italian actor.
Spencer holds a doctorate in law, as well as several patents; he also was a successful swimmer and water polo player, participating in the Olympic Games in 1952, 1956 and 1960 and also winning several titles.

didn't know that.

@Jaybee: I actually felt a bit embarassed for posting such a lame joke...

I AM fond of his movies, although I don't like the dubbed german voices very much.

Let's get back on-topic shall we?