recycling

3/9/08
Why my immune system is more efficient.

I'm one of the few lucky people who happens to be mixed. Putting
social constructions, ethnicity, identities, and likewise charged
terms aside, I'd prefer to speak on my immune system's biological
advantages to being "mixed race."

Death is the antithesis to life, and unless one was to die through
accident, disease (or old age) will end all life. I see death in
itself is a disease, one that could easily be forever halted (if the
right amount of money were placed in the right areas). Then again, I'm
a fatalist, so what the fuck do I know?

Disease is so prevalent in the world; on the micro scale, forms of
life (bacteria, viruses, protists, etc) mutate and colonize at such
alarming rates, getting rid of them with always be impossible?
Throughout the world, specific diseases are endemic to certain areas,
that is to say that specific diseases have certain gene pools which
inevitably are limited (and vary) by:

1. space (geographical)
2. the endemic population of potential hosts

Given these limits, disease can mutate only "so much" within a
population, over time. Also, given that specific populations of people
inhabit specific areas, specific groups of people start to have
long-standing associations with certain diseases, which in turn
evolves specific populations to specific immunity (and infections).

By having a genome comprised of genes from many different continents
of the world, I have been blessed with a naturally superior immune
system. I am naturally resistant to more diseases, whereas someone
whose genes come from all one part of the world is left at a
disadvantage. I notice that my overall health (and well being) tends
to be much better than average; many mixed people have expressed
similar observations to me about their health and immunity.

At the same time, my risk of genetic defect and/or disease goes down
to almost impossible by being mixed. Again, incongruous genes are
placed next to each other, resulting in less potential for inferior
genes to be expressed (genetic disease). Basically, I'm more evolved
than the average person, and I'm glad I'm not white, because it's
evolutionarily advantageous.

More of of the story? Mix your genes together to achieve a more
efficient, more evolved baby...

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1/14/08
I call this theory the Greening of Mars.

If I'm going to create a false atmosphere on MARS, by genetically engineering a lichen to live in an extremophile environment, then I have to look for desirable genes at the bottom of the ocean.

I need to take the "hardiness genes" from the bacteria that is most genetically similar to the green alga or cyanobacterium. This gene has to come from the bottom of the ocean. So, take that gene (it probably has something to do with metabolizing nitrogen, but that's another story) and incorporate it into the lichen's genome to make it super hardy, so hardy it can live on the surface of Mars with minimal "fuss" and if I play my cards right, the lichen will hence produce large concentrations of oxygen over time. I have to travel to the bottom of the ocean to "green" Mars.

In the end, the change in the concentrations of gases in the atmosphere would never make the air breathable? In my current opinion, it would just make it possible for material science to make a space suit that would be lighter, more comfortable, etc?

I like to pretend like I could do it all myself. OH WAIT, I could. I only need other people's money, other people just get in the way.

3/25/08
the greening of Mars continued

Today I was thinking about the potential problems a genetically engineered lichen could pose to humans, from a human health standpoint.

Long story in cleaning out lots of moldy shit from the fridge. I'd have to go ahead and assume that since the organism would be such extremophile to cold temps (low O2 concentrations) perhaps in this case a 98.6 deg temp would be an even larger asset, allowing for complete resistance to infection and/or colonization; until eventual mutations which occur @ frequency/time.

Mycology would be such a fun field of research...

3/26/08
greening of Mars continued


SO, I guess it wouldn't matter if mutations occurred at frequency/time if there were enough geneticists sampling current populations of the organism frequently enough to catch any potential mutations that could enable the extremophile to colonize tissues...

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3/27/08
ing. 4 lyfe

Since science is consistently having to redefine exactly what life is, it's no surprise that lately researchers have been discovering the "ingredients for life" elsewhere inside our very own solar system (as well as recently discovering organic compounds outside of our solar system).

Even though this whole can never be a sum of its parts, the most pressing and fundamental problem humanity currently faces is exploring our part of the universe, and confirming the presence of life outside of earth (and the space transportation necessary to make these measurements).

The ingredients for life are beautifully simple, consisting of water (maybe not even in a liquid form), an energy source, and simple chemical building blocks such as C, O, H and N.

With all the current research and observation being poured into Saturn and its moons, researchers have recently confirmed moons Enceladus and Hyperion as having the ingredients for life.

Clearly, life colonizes from planet to planet? I guess what they've been teaching in Russian schools has been honest this whole time...
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2/1/08
A brief history of my self sustaining ecosystem.

About 2.5 years ago, a friend gave me a gift for which I had been lusting. In essence, it's a self-sustaining ecosystem (or at least it is designed to work as such, although I have seen it fail almost ever time in stores). What am I talking about? Aqua Babies! Aqua Babies has a website whose url is aquababies.com. Perhaps you've gone to Longs (or suchlike stores) and seen this product- It happened to be a sealed plastic container which efficiently houses the following:

1. a fish
2. a plant

This small world will live as long as it receives radiant energy. What I find interesting in stores is the plant is almost always plastic, which means that the largest animal will inevitably eat all the smaller ones, before an eventual death from starvation. On the other hand, there is the underlying potential that the smaller ones could "band together" and consume the largest organism, but that's another story altogether. In effect- the plant eats the animal's shit, and makes air for the animal to breath (as well as providing a food source).

After receiving my own example of this eco-invention, I quickly realized what would come to pass. I received a small cube about 4 inches tall by 3 inches wide. Inside, there were 3 shrimps, 1 larger white one, and 2 smaller red ones. Within a week, the largest shrimp had consumed the 2 smaller ones, I knew it was because the ecosystem was unbalanced due to the fact that the plant was a piece of plastic. In effect, only one half of the magical equation was present. I dropped some elodea into the water in the hopes that the plant would start to balance out the problem. I knew I had made an error in that I dropped a fresh water plant into a salt water ecosystem, after a while a large amount of algae had started to grow on the inside of the plastic barrier. My hypothesis- I have often noticed that Elodea had algae growing on it, so the algae simply had colonized a new ecosystem.

I always think how interesting that humans can create entire artificial worlds at will, that in effect serve no purpose. Basically, anybody who has a fish tank has already "played god." Obviously, science doesn't have to conform to what people think is right or wrong, only what is true, and I suppose that's why I like to learn about it so much, because I'm really only worried about what's true (measurable).

I can't remember if I put additional blue-green algae inside the ecosystem or not, I think I did. I had a bunch of capsules of it that I purchased when I went on a camping trip to Humboldt County, and used it for my beta fish as a way to increase oxygen concentrations in their small and stagnant glass bowls. All that matters is that in the end, there was a large amount of algae in the bowl, which turns CO2 and sunlight into O2, which the shrimp in turn breathes. To return the favor, the animal excretes Nitrogen, which the plant consumes. Both organisms depend on each other for survival, so balance is necessary and integral to life cycles.

Now, years later it's interesting to see that the shrimp is still alive! All this time that small green box that I never do anything has provided a home for both the animal and the plant. Life is so inspiring in that it always finds a way. It colonizes from planet to planet. It can exist everywhere on earth, even at the bottom of the ocean, or deep inside caves and caverns where sulfur is the only food source. Life always finds a way to create more life, over time. What I appreciate most about Aqua Babies is that you don't have to do anything to take care of your pet. In effect, it takes care of itself, and that's convenient.

I'm interested in my self sustaining ecosystem because I'm interested in nitrogen and gas cycles. These cycles of life need to be balanced in space travel, especially if we're talking about long term travel. I plan on genetically engineering lichen to produce a false atmosphere on mars (see the greening of mars) but I know that on a more fundamental level, I know that in order to creatively direct a false atmosphere through space (and time?) then I have to know ny nitrogen cycles?
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3/29/08

theorize
ast night as I was falling asleep, I thought of a much needed term for the research into apoptosis I'm scheming.

Since I'm a proponent for immortality just like Ray Kurzweil himself, and plan on using genomic medicine specifically stem cell technology to "reactivate" areas of primary growth constantly in my own body repeatedly over time (instead of allowing it to occur naturally and only once, hence cheating nature) I've needed a simple, catchy, and most importantly "friendly" term for this process. Most people just aren't on my level, and will never be able to understand things on the level and to the depth that I am so easily able to; experimenting on myself = genius. I mean, after I found out I'm a genius it was the biggest ego boost I ever got, simply because I realized that everything I say, write, think, and do are all the actions of a genius.

Anyways, For a while, I had been calling my process "balance cell birth with cell death" but that's way too inefficient and verbose, so I'm switching to a term that is much easier for people to say and remember- cell recycling.

Since I'm on a recycling tip, today I was thinking about Steven Hawking, his new theories about dark matter and energy, black holes, white holes, and universes where information is either lost or preserved (the new theory that states ultimately, only universes in which information is preserved will be the only universes left existing as universal time continues). It seems like galaxies look a lot like toilet bowl water gong down the drain, which makes me think of recycling. Maybe black holes are another example of recycling, death, and rebirth in the universe.

Then today as I was walking down the street, another genius scheme popped into my head, one that had never been there before. Synthesize a new vector (perhaps a genetic "hodge podge" of genes from bacteria, viruses, protists AND/OR fungi) to be infinitely virulent, and systematically release it throughout the world, becoming the most effective bio terrorist to date. The world is overdue for a global pandemic, and let's face it, most people serve no purpose.

Why do I know that sum1 like me should be able to do things like this? I'm divine, the only one who knows what's good and bad. Btw, there's only 1 type of good, but infinite kinds of bad. Stand on the shoulders of giants.