[jon boy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6544627.stm

they took the wall!

[jon boy]

i just sneezed with a mouthfull of coke.

[sonicl]

I still have a headache.

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by sonicl

I still have a headache.

The same one from yesterday? Or is this a brand new one?

[sonicl]

Originally Posted by Pookie

The same one from yesterday? Or is this a brand new one?

Same one.

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by sonicl

Same one.

Just a random headache, or migraine? I've started to get a bit of hayfever already, and that's usually accompanied by a headache at first.

[Danny Himself]

 

[sonicl]

I'm discounting migraine on the basis that I'm able to operate normally (well, as normally as I ever do). I've been hayfever-y for a week or so, but I don't think that's the cause either. I think I'm just tired.

[MellySingsDoom]

I should be working, instead of shirking.

[jon boy]

go home from work sonicl. sounds like a migrane so go lay in a darkened room with some soothing music.

[ALIEN ANAL]

im going to bed goodnight all you lovely people sleep well MWa MWa

[king_buzzo]

OK!

[nicfit]

this is really cool in a geeky disturbing way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY

[ALIEN ANAL]

woooooo
new dino jr song on rage
thurston was in it too
cool clip cool song

[king_buzzo]

Originally Posted by ALIEN ANAL

woooooo
new dino jr song on rage
thurston was in it too
cool clip cool song

Whaaaaaaaa????

[ALIEN ANAL]

For the new dino jr single

The clip is of a young band playing in a house really poorly and then thurston is sitting there listening and asks if they can play the new dino jr song and they say oh yeh and then its dino jr playing in the living room and stuff

[nicfit]

 

[Hip Priest]

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

"It's the first molecular evidence of this link between birds and dinosaurs," said John Asara, a Harvard Medical School researcher, whose results were published in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Scientists have long suspected that birds evolved from dinosaurs based on a study of dinosaur bones, but until recently, no soft tissue had survived to confirm the link.

That all changed in 2005 when Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University reported finding soft tissue, including blood vessels and cells, in a T. rex bone dug out of sandstone from the fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation in Montana.

Schweitzer, in another study appearing in this week's issue of Science, found that extracts of T. rex bone reacted with antibodies to chicken collagen, further suggesting the presence of birdlike protein in dinosaur bones.

For his study, Asara used a highly sensitive technology called mass spectrometry to determine the chemical makeup of bone fragments provided by Schweitzer and her team.

He first had to purify the bone extract, which came in the form of a gritty brown powder that remained after minerals were extracted. Asara then broke it down into peptide fragments, little bits of proteins, isolated into the amino acid sequences that make them up.

"It was very tough to get anything," he said in a telephone interview. He wound up with seven separate strands of amino acid, five of which were a particular class of collagen, a fibrous protein found in bone.

Next, Asara had to interpret the sequences. He compared his results to collagen data from living animals. Most matched collagen from chickens, while others matched a newt and frog.

"Based on all of the genomic information we have available today, it appears these sequences are closer to birds or chickens than anything else," Asara said.

Ultimately, scientists had hoped to find genetic material that was unique to the T. rex. That was not possible with the tiny T. rex sample.

"We never found unique T. rex tags," he said.

In a similar study of mastodon bones supplied by Schweitzer, Asara had more luck.

He compared the samples to a database of existing amino acid sequences and against a theoretical set of mastodon sequences and found a total of 78 peptides, including four unique sequences.

Still, Asara said the T. rex protein sequence was useful in providing clues about the evolution of the species.

The researchers said the results may change the way that people think about fossil preservation.

"The fact that we are getting proteins is very exciting," said paleontologist Jack Horner, who dug up the T. rex in 2003 and is co-author of the paper with Schweitzer.

Horner said paleontologists will need to dig deeper for specimens that have not been corrupted by ground water and bacteria.

"I think we are going to find that many specimens are like it. It will be a matter of paleontologists getting into sites that are not necessarily easy," he told reporters in a telephone briefing.

[ALIEN ANAL]

Im in a battle of the bands in a few weeks and have no idea what we will play
If we are one the top 5, we play at the youth fest the next day along side KARNIVOOL...i want to make the most ultimate song!! we are all decent musicians sort of and we need to rock, i dont want to play just the standard punk rock because alll the bands will be playing that there, i want something interesting.

[sonicl]

Oh my God, Prince William has split from his girlfriend!