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Post by swamprat on Nov 28, 2018 3:45:02 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Nov 28, 2018 3:59:32 GMT
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Post by SuzyQ on Nov 28, 2018 5:13:31 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 28, 2018 10:20:33 GMT
Good morning, good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Science Daily
Researchers restore breathing, partial forelimb function in rats with spinal cord injuries
Promising results provide hope for humans suffering from chronic paralysis
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November 27, 2018
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Case Western Reserve University
Millions of people worldwide are living with chronic spinal cord injuries, with 250,000 to 500,000 new cases each year -- most from vehicle crashes or falls. The most severe spinal cord injuries completely paralyze their victims and more than half impair a person's ability to breathe. Now, a breakthrough study published in Nature Communications has demonstrated, in animal models of chronic injury, that long-term, devastating effects of spinal cord trauma on breathing and limb function may be reversible.
The new study describes a treatment regimen that helps reawaken certain special types of nerve cells that can regenerate extensions, called axons, within the damaged spinal cord. Rats with spinal cords half severed at the second cervical vertebrae (C2) regained complete diaphragm and partial forelimb function on the severed side after treatment. The recuperative effects of the therapy were fully maintained six months after treatment end.
"For the first time we have permanently restored both breathing and some arm function in a form of high cervical, chronic spinal cord injury-induced paralysis. The complete recovery, especially of breathing, occurs rapidly after a near lifetime of paralysis in a rodent model," says senior author Jerry Silver, PhD, professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
The treatment leverages the body's innate ability to very slowly sprout new axon branches from a sub-population of nerve cells that remain intact below the injury. The activity of these new branches is completely stifled by a family of potently inhibitory molecules called proteoglycans. Said Silver, "The strategy was to use a simple, one-time injection of an enzyme, chondroitinase, that breaks down the inhibitory proteoglycan molecules. The enzyme was administered, not within the lesion itself, but lower down within the spinal cord where motor nerve cells reside that send axons out to the diaphragm and forearm."
In animals treated immediately after spinal cord injury, the enzyme only marginally helped restore nerve growth with minimal functional recovery. However, in animals treated long after injury, the therapeutic effects of the enzyme were remarkably better. In as little as one week after treatment in chronically injured rats, new nerve extensions began to restore diaphragm function that had been silent for many months. Seventy percent of rats treated with the enzyme chronically, also began to use their forelimbs to move about and explore their environment (compared to only 30 percent of control animals).
"Surprisingly, the technique worked far better at chronic stages than at acute stages after injury," says Silver. The longer the animals had been paralyzed, the greater were the restorative effects of the enzyme. Silver's team found that even after an unprecedented year and a half following spinal cord injury, the treatment could recover full activity to rat diaphragms. One week after treatment, 60 percent of the animals had improved diaphragm function. Two weeks later, every rat showed improvement -- even though their paralysis had lasted most of their lives.
Interestingly, exposing the rats to brief periods of low oxygen levels, a respiratory therapy known as acute intermittent hypoxia, helped strengthen the growing nerve extensions, providing an added benefit. However, Silver's team found that when the rats were treated with the enzyme combined with excessive amounts of respiratory therapy, rats developed chaotic activity in their once paralyzed diaphragms. The researchers hypothesized that the potential for highly abnormal activity may be why the body releases inhibitory molecules to prevent functional axon regeneration in the spinal cord. They are now working to optimize the combination therapy to maximize recovery, especially in the forearm and paw.
"Our data illustrate the relative ease with which an essential motor system can regain functionality months to years after severe spinal cord injury," says Silver. "The treatment regimen in our study is relevant to multiple types of chronic incomplete spinal traumas, and we are hopeful it may also help restore motor function following spinal cord injury in humans."
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181127131559.htm
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 28, 2018 10:25:50 GMT
TexasUFOs
Published on Nov 27, 2018
A recent video showing a white, rod or cigar-shaped UFO hovering in the sky over Keller, Texas on November 18th, 2019 at sunset has been submitted to TexasUFOs. What do you think this video shows? A cloud, plane, balloon, or...aliens???
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 28, 2018 10:48:05 GMT
Asahi Shimbun
Next stop, build a super-deep maglev tunnel out of Tokyo
By AYATERU HOSOZAWA
November 28, 2018 at 18:00 JST
Thirty-six meters wide, 83 meters deep. These are the dimensions of a vast vertical shaft created to start work on a tunnel for a train line from Tokyo to Nagoya--and running through it, the fastest Shinkansen in the world.
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai), unveiled the deep shaft for the ambitious Linear Chuo Shinkansen project on Nov. 28, with plans to open the new line in 2027 between Shinagawa and Nagoya stations.
High-speed trains using the magnetic levitation system will run at depths of more than 40 meters in certain urban areas and at blazing speeds of 500 kph.
The vertical shaft has a 6-meter-thick concrete floor at the bottom and is about 1.5 kilometers from the starting station of Shinagawa in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward.
A disassembled boring machine will be transported to the site and lowered down the shaft. Once assembled, it will be used to dig the main line's tunnel toward Nagoya Station.
After the start of train operations, the vertical shaft will allow for ventilation and provide emergency exits.
Construction workers are now engaged in assembling reinforced steel to support the tunnel walls.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201811280060.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 28, 2018 10:53:24 GMT
Published on Jan 9, 2015
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Post by HAL on Nov 28, 2018 16:46:07 GMT
Crystal,
This is the method used to build the new sewer extension in London. They used three shafts and three boring machines.
The Asahi Shimbun, many years ago (early eighties) apparently published a story of a number of businessmen who were driving along behind a car when it just dissolved away before their eyes.
Too much saki ?
At the time I had friends in Tokyo who tried to trace the story; without success.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 29, 2018 10:14:51 GMT
Crystal, This is the method used to build the new sewer extension in London. They used three shafts and three boring machines. The Asahi Shimbun, many years ago (early eighties) apparently published a story of a number of businessmen who were driving along behind a car when it just dissolved away before their eyes. Too much saki ? At the time I had friends in Tokyo who tried to trace the story; without success. HAL.
I didn't find any info on the disappearing car but I did find this in Mysterious Universe:
Japanese Island Completely Vanishes, Government Launches Search Party
Sequoyah Kennedy
November 8, 2018
Things just disappear sometimes: car keys, jewelry, whole entire islands. It’s just the way things are. Sometimes those things are pretty hard to let go of. If your car keys disappeared, it’s a fair bet that you’d tear your house apart trying to find them. Well, in 2014, Japan named 158 uninhabited islands off its coast to delineate the nation’s territorial waters, boundaries that have become increasingly contentious in recent decades. One of those 158 islands has up and vanished. The Japanese government has responded by initiating a search and rescue mission to locate the island that was seriously just there a second ago.
The island, Esanbehanakitakojima, is—was—located in the cold north ocean off the coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost of the major Japanese islands. It’s not a particularly impressive island. At only 4.6 feet above sea level, Esanbehanakitakojimaonly barely qualified as a real island. Still, it’s important. The area where the island is located is contentious. Japan and Russia both lay claim to the area, and China is a close and aggressive neighbor. For China’s part, they have been constructing artificial islands off their coast in an effort to inflate their claims on the surrounding sea.
With this island gone, Japan stands to lose about 500 meters of territory. That might not sound like a lot, but it’s concerning enough for the Japanese government to dispatch the coast guard and avoid ceding any territory to their unfriendly neighbors.
The island is unlikely to be found, however. The first report of the vanishing island came in September, when the author of a book on Japan’s smaller islands went to photograph Esanbehanakitakojim. No photographs were taken because the island was not there. When the author said that he couldn’t find the island, a group of fishermen set off on their boats to locate the darned thing. No such luck. Now the coast guard is looking for it, but they do not suspect that their luck will be any different.
The thing is, no one has recorded any data on this now-nonexistent island since 1988, so not only does no one know where it is, no one knows when it disappeared either. Any number of things may have caused its disappearance. Wind erosion, ice bergs, or rising sea levels may all have played a part in the vanishing, but no one knows for sure.
The oceanic boundaries of Japan are constantly changing, however, and when one island disappears, it seems another pops into existence to take its place. In 2013, an undersea volcanic eruption caused an island to spontaneously appear south of Tokyo. That brand new island now has its own ecosystem, as plant and animal life moves in to colonize it. The Japanese government has taken measures to preserve this virgin island, but who knows how long it will be before someone steals this one too.
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/japanese-island-completely-vanishes-government-launches-search-party/
I prefer the vanishing car story to the vanishing island story, much more fun!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 10:26:16 GMT
latest 3d pet/mri scannining..entire body real time..watch how quick sugar dye travels..
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 29, 2018 10:27:22 GMT
Richard Dolan
Streamed live on Nov 24, 2018
Richard Dolan interviews filmmaker Jeremy Corbell regarding his new documentary on Bob Lazar, who in 1989 went public with a statement that he had been hired to conduct research on an alien flying craft. A live Google Hangout event.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Nov 29, 2018 11:13:12 GMT
BBC News
Published on Nov 29, 2018
Togo imports an estimated 500,000 tonnes of e-waste a year, some of it can be a health hazard, but it also inspires local innovators and provides jobs, as Waihiga Mwaura reports.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 16:05:17 GMT
Crystal ..If it was just the motherboard..your old hard drive is ok!
Have hubby take out old HD..of old computer and I can send you the external cable for it so you can extract your old files..Its super easy!..just connect end to old HD and the other end to the usb on the new computer and boom..you pick and choose what you want..Just send me a snapshot of old HD or give me the model and make..its either the big old clunker IDE or the smaller SATA/IDE one....Ill put in mail..immediately..no charge..You dont even need to use that dumb cd..or powercord if its the smaller type. works out the box!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 18:02:19 GMT
 In the Twinkle of an Eye
Cosmic Airburt 3700 years ago..
Some New ME History Revealed..Coinciding with Sodom and Ghamora est 65k killed..pottery vaporized..desert glass..no life for 600 years..
‘Cosmic airburst’: Tunguska-like blast destroyed part of Middle East 3,700 years ago Published time: 29 Nov, 2018 16:01 Get short URL ‘Cosmic airburst’: Tunguska-like blast destroyed part of Middle East 3,700 years ago © NASA / Wikimedia Commons A Tunguska-like ‘cosmic airburst’ may have annihilated an ancient Middle Eastern civilization in a split-second in a terrifying example of the fragility of life on Earth, according to new research. Analysis of 3,700-year-old archaeological evidence from Jordan’s Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project indicates that a “high-heat” explosive event “devastated approximately 500km2” of land to the north of the Dead Sea, wiping out a thriving civilisation that had existed for millennia almost instantaneously. READ MORE: Celestial danger: Prime targets for Earth-bound meteorites identified Given the absence of an impact crater, the team believes the destruction was caused by a low-altitude airburst not more than 3,280 feet (1km) above the ground. The explosion was so awe-inspiringly powerful that the Zircon contained within the civilization’s pottery sublimed into a gas thanks to temperatures of up to 7,230 degrees Fahrenheit (4,000 degrees Celsius). For comparison, the temperature at the surface of the Sun is about 10,000 Fahrenheit (5,600 Celsius). The pottery itself was reportedly vitrified (turned to glass). Radiocarbon dating at the site indicated that mud-brick walls “suddenly disappeared around 3,700 years ago, leaving only stone foundations.” Unlike the 1908 Tunguska event, this explosion occurred in a highly populated area, for the time, and may have killed between 40,000 and 65,000 people who inhabited Middle Ghor, the 25-kilometer-wide circular plain in Jordan. The blast radius of the Tunguska event was over four times the size: almost 2,000 square kilometers of taiga forest was flattened, indicating the explosion must have occurred at a higher altitude. Football field-sized asteroid zooms dangerously close to Earth t.co/QDQDnvWKT7pi |
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Post by swamprat on Nov 29, 2018 18:10:49 GMT
Old Albert is still right.....Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Just Survived a Massive Crash in Outer Space
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer | November 29, 2018
In this illustration, a hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris gets stripped from neutron stars just before they collide. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
Gravity is big and weird and difficult to study. It moves through space as a wave, sort of like how light does. But these waves are subtle and difficult to detect. They occur in measurable amounts only after massive events, like the collision of black holes. Humanity didn't spot its first gravitational wave until 2015. Then, in 2017, astronomers for the first time detected both gravitational waves and light from a single event: a neutron star collision. Now, researchers are using data from that event to confirm some basic facts about the universe.
In a paper first uploaded Nov. 1 to the preprint server arXiv (which Live Science first saw reported on ScienceAlert), researchers announced that they found no evidence of "gravitational leakage." Scientists had thought it was possible for gravity to penetrate high dimensions (those beyond the four that humans experience — up/down, side to side, forward/backward, time) even though light does not. If that happened, the force of gravity would lose more of its energy than light does while passing through space. But comparing the light and gravitational waves from that neutron star collision showed that this wasn't happening.
All our dimension's gravity appears to be staying right where it belongs, as Albert Einstein predicted in his theory of general relativity.
The researchers in the new study also analyzed gravitational waves to see whether the graviton — the theoretical particle that carries gravity — might have mass, like other particles do. If there was such a thing as a "massive graviton," gravitational waves would also have mass, and if these waves had mass, they would exhibit signs of momentum, unlike light particles, which are massless. That would also be a violation of general relativity. But, again, it didn't happen.
Overall, researchers found, Einstein's theories of gravity remain basically intact. Someday, that might change. But it hasn't yet, even after two neutron stars slammed into each other.
www.livescience.com/64191-einstein-graviton-live-science.html
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