Re: [Vo]:OT: Tardigrades survive deadly radiation by glowing in the dark

[Terry Blanton]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:56 AM H LV  wrote:
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> Tardigrades survive deadly radiation by glowing in the dark

I hope it helps them survive on the moon!

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49265125

Re: [Vo]:Acoustic demonstration of beats

[H LV]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 9:22 AM JonesBeene  wrote:

> *From: *Robert Lee 
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>- I must've missed a few classes; are you talking about creating or
>removing heat in a general sense, starting an atomic nuclear reaction, or
>simply producing energy? I joined the group last night and, obviously,
>missed a few emails, too. Just curious.
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> The thread started out as vaguely related to “alternative” thermodynamics…
> which is probably a subset of “alternative facts.” But like so many threads
> here it generally revolved back around to the implications of finding a
> free lunch.
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Since you are alluding to something I said earlier,  what actually I said
was an "alternative theory of radiation".

Unlike statistical thermodynamics, the classical laws of thermodynamics are
silent about the precise nature of heat and radiation. Therefore it is
possible to pose alternative theories of heat and radiation which do not
violate the classical laws. However, such alternative theories might lead
to new explanations and discoveries that don't make sense within the
confines of statistical thermodynamics.

Harry

Re: [Vo]:Acoustic demonstration of beats

[Bob Higgins]

We are talking about THz stimulation of a cathode in a Pd-D electrolysis
LENR cell.  Certain frequencies of THz excitation stimulate LENR to occur,
the frequencies being around 8, 15, 21 THz.  These are believed to be
phonon frequencies in the loaded Pd-D lattice.  Thus, the
Letts-Cravens-Hagelstein experiment of the tuned dual laser illumination
seems to implicate phonons in, at least, the stimulation of LENR.  It is a
very interesting probe into the underlying mechanism of LENR.

Here is the curve:
[image: XPvsLaserBeatFrequency_Letts-Cravens-Hagelstein.png]
It is from:

Hagelstein, P. L., D. Letts, and D. Cravens. "Terahertz difference
frequency response of Pd-D in two-lader experiments." J. Condensed Matter
Nucl. Sci. 3 (2010) 59-76



On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:32 PM Robert Lee  wrote:

> I must've missed a few classes; are you talking about creating or removing
> heat in a general sense, starting an atomic nuclear reaction, or simply
> producing energy? I joined the group last night and, obviously, missed a
> few emails, too. Just curious.
> Bob Lee
>


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[Vo]:OT: Tardigrades survive deadly radiation by glowing in the dark

[H LV]

Tardigrades survive deadly radiation by glowing in the dark

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257008-tardigrades-survive-deadly-radiation-by-glowing-in-the-dark/

A tiny tardigrade can survive intense ultraviolet radiation for an hour by
glowing in the dark. “It acts like a shield,” says Sandeep Eswarappa at the
Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are animals around 1 millimetre
long. They are famous for being able to withstand extreme conditions that
would kill most organisms, such as being completely dried out.

Studying moss at their institute’s campus, Eswarappa and his colleagues
found what may be a new species of tardigrade, though they don’t yet have
enough information to formally describe it. For now, they are calling it
Paramacrobiotus BLR, short for Bangalore.

“We found this particular tardigrade in many places, especially in places
that are well lit with sunlight,” says Eswarappa. The researchers
transferred some of the animals to their laboratory and began to study them.

Their first experiment involved exposing the animals to a germicidal
ultraviolet lamp. A control animal, a worm called Caenorhabditis elegans,
died within 5 minutes, but Paramacrobiotus BLR survived for an hour.

“The next step happened serendipitously,” says Eswarappa. While looking at
how the tardigrades might survive the UV light, he left a tube of them near
a UV source and noticed that the tube started glowing.

Further experiments revealed that the tardigrades contain a fluorescent
chemical. “It is absorbing the UV light and emitting harmless visible light
in the blue range,” says Eswarappa.

The team was able to transfer the fluorescent chemical to another
tardigrade, Hypsibius exemplaris, and to C. elegans, both of which are
sensitive to ultraviolet radiation. This protected them from 15 minutes of
UV exposure.

The team doesn’t yet know exactly what makes up the fluorescent shield, as
simple methods for identifying the chemicals haven’t yielded clear results.
“It is not a simple compound,” says Eswarappa.

Once the chemical is known, Eswarappa hopes to make it in large quantities
and to explore whether it might be used in sunscreen. “We’d like to patent
it and see whether we can mass-produce [it],” he says.

Journal reference: Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0391

RE: [Vo]:Acoustic demonstration of beats

[JonesBeene]

From: Robert Lee

➢ I must've missed a few classes; are you talking about creating or removing 
heat in a general sense, starting an atomic nuclear reaction, or simply 
producing energy? I joined the group last night and, obviously, missed a few 
emails, too. Just curious.

The thread started out as vaguely related to “alternative” thermodynamics… 
which is probably a subset of “alternative facts.” But like so many threads 
here it generally revolved back around to the implications of finding a free 
lunch.