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Post by askamexican on Apr 5, 2012 18:30:31 GMT -5
I just saw this and I thought it was cool.. www.iop.org/news/12/apr/page_54993.htmlIt's a handheld plasma flashlight that is capable of killing germs and pathogens from yous skin in an instant. "The device could be used in ambulance emergency calls, natural disaster sites, military combat operations and many other instances where treatment is required in remote locations."
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Post by admin on Apr 5, 2012 18:33:50 GMT -5
Okay, that is cool as hell.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 22:12:02 GMT -5
I'm such a germophobe. WANT!
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Post by philipkduck on Apr 6, 2012 4:12:30 GMT -5
Could it be scaled up so that it would kill sheep ?
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Apr 7, 2012 13:41:45 GMT -5
looks cool but I'm sure that a certain number of friendly bacteria are necessary for human health - this would kill indiscriminately!
bacteria are needed for the synthesis of viatmin K but that's in the stomach
vitamin D is produced in the sebum of the skin. I don't know if bacteria are invoilved though.
However, it would be good for dealing with things like MRSA and hospital infections. I thought UV was meant to kill bacteria??
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 11, 2012 21:07:46 GMT -5
I'm with the Scotsman. Too fucking many germ killing things out there. Germs adapt way too quickly to try and fight them with chemicals and technology. Nature gave us an immune system to do that with and we keep bloody well suppressing the bugger with shit we breathe in and eat - then we invent more shit to kill the germs we can no longer fight off with our depressed immune systems. That also takes out all the beneficial bacteria.
thus we fall prey to food allergies and breathing problems - this makes us more susceptible to germs - it's a bloody carousel and there's always some fucker from a major Pharma Co waiting at the ER to sell us yet another "salve" for our sicknesses.
They're making us bloody sick - there's no profit in keeping us well, is there?
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 11, 2012 21:09:18 GMT -5
And btw. A light that kills germs is called the fucking sun!!
Ultra violet, innit?
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Post by MOLEY on Apr 12, 2012 2:12:08 GMT -5
SO true EARFA darling I don't even go to he doctors and I got the wheeze but it could be lack of enough chest exercise, since I stopped smoking puff. Should smoke some pot again really dope smokers have better lung capacity because they hold their breath in for longer. I use a pipe but it's rare as I mostly did stop.....until recently when I decided I felt healthier when I smoked, so I started to indulge again coffee or pipe ready, good stuff for clearing the chest. But my silly head doesn't really handle the high too well, due to being a bit bonkers already, I still enjoy it though just not every day. The sun is essential vitamin D I feel better since we got some recently. Penfold is not short of bacteria disease runs away screaming from him.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 12, 2012 2:17:48 GMT -5
A bit of leaf and kiff won't hurt you. Just don't spend the big bucks to get heads - and stay well clear of that hydro shyte you got there. It's fecking rocket fuel. Got the highest THC levels of any dope sold in Europe the English stuff has.
BB told me so it must be true. He would never lie to me.
Well he would - but not about drugs.
;D
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Apr 12, 2012 8:15:31 GMT -5
funnily enough, because of Britain's position on the globe, you don't really get any vitamin D from the sunlight unless you are out between 11:30am to 12:30pm because the UVB cannot penetrate the atmosphere at such an oblique angle
"vitamin D season" only really begins and ends between April and August in the UK - so it's a bit crap really!
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 12, 2012 8:20:02 GMT -5
In Scandinavia they're civilised enough to provide free sun lounges . Every citizen can pay several visits a week to one of these places and top up on Vitamin D. It's one of the reasons why they live so long. They don't get brittle bone disease and depression knocking them off too soon.
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Post by MOLEY on Apr 12, 2012 8:20:57 GMT -5
A bit of leaf and kiff won't hurt you. Just don't spend the big bucks to get heads - and stay well clear of that hydro shyte you got there. It's fecking rocket fuel. Got the highest THC levels of any dope sold in Europe the English stuff has. BB told me so it must be true. He would never lie to me. Well he would - but not about drugs. ;D That'll be Super Skunk it's too strong for me I prefer something lighter anyway, although I used to indulge in quite a lot of skunk at one time it makes you feel like you are walking on the moon particularly after some bottle in buckets. One time at about 1.00 in the morning I was pulled over by a policeman for dead rear light bulb and I had been indulging all day long but was too wasted to panic. So proceeded to act agreeable, appear keen and even took some great effort to get out to have a look for myself in case he was lying to trick me (paranoid much)
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Post by BadBeast on Apr 14, 2012 11:16:57 GMT -5
It's not so much that our weed is stronger, just that the demographic that buy most of it (18-25 year old lads) approach it with the same abandon that they do with beer. And tend to go for for the strongest strains. And market forces being what they are, our domestic growers opt for fast growing, high yield super skunks. T
hese hybridised strains are developed and grown legally in Holland, and have jealously guarded seed stocks. There are annual growers conventions and shows, where prizes are awarded for quality, strength, yield, etc.
Dutch Law allows small scale horticultural operations the room to experiment with different strains of plants. so when a good hybrid strain is standardised, a female plant will be pollinated, and allowed to go to seed. The seeds are carefully feminised, and sold by mail order for anything up to £20 per seed.
But because the seeds all produce female plants, growers here can't grow their own seed stock. And because of cannabis's illegal status, keeping a continual "sea of green" commercial operation going with cuttings quickly attracts the attention of the Police.
So growers will generally rent a house, fill it with hydroponic automated feed trays, and metal halide growing lamps with a six to nine week maturing strain, then harvest it, clear out, sell it, and set up again somewhere else.
The biggest giveaway is the power consumption needed for the lights, and Power suppliers usually have pre-payment meters fitted on rental properties. So when an address suddenly starts showing seven or eight times the normal power consumption, bells start ringing. And Police Helicopters all have IR sensors too, so a flight over town at night with them on, shows the heat signature of up to twenty 750 watt metal halide lamps like a blazing beacon.
So all the weed here is produced in two or three month "slash and burn" operations.
Back on topic though, (inventions) cutting edge hydroponic growing tech now utilises banks of multi spectrum L.E.Ds, which don't use hardly any juice, or produce any heat. Blue /white ones to provide wide spectrum UV inclusive general gro-lites, with red ones that come on once the flowering heads begin showing. This starts the plant producing buds. Keep that red light on them 24/7, while reducing the time on the white light, and the buds get bigger and bigger in order to maximise the chance of being pollinated before winter. Once pollinated the flowers will stop growing and go to seed.
But because there are no male plants, the buds just keep flowering. And because the female flower is where all the THC gets made, they start oozing tiny sticky granules of pure (85%+) THC. So theoretically, you can get a plant up to maturity, then level off the light at optimum bud level, and keep it going indefinitely.
Cannabis isn't an annual flowering plant, it's biennial, so it can be kept alive for years, as long as it gets it's nutrients, and these can be fed into your tilting drip tray / rockwool setup, at levels for optimum yields almost indefinitely. But you cant do that discretely if your using halides, and kilowatts of electricity. So the humble LED should be changing the availability and choice of good weeds for the better. And the sooner the better, in my opinion.
Then Moley can have a nice mellow, relaxing Indica, that won't make her any madder than she already is, all potentially grown from perpetual cuttings, in her airing cupboard. Making her bedlinen smell like cat's piss. Instead of Bear's piss.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 14, 2012 11:31:53 GMT -5
But hydro is all grown in hormones and that worries me. I had a mate smoked hydro exclusively for 15 years as they grew it and she had nothing but trouble with her plumbing and ladybits - and every woman I've known who had too much of the shit had the same kinds of issues.Breast cancers, ovarian cancer, ovarian cysts and ectopic pregnancies - infertility - its just too many similar problems not to be a cluster in scientific terms. Way over the odds. This is a small town and the same doctors treat them - and even they have commented on it being unusual to know so many women in a close group of friends who have almost all been through similar gynaecological problems. It needs looking at. Don't tell me it's unrelated - it's just massively under researched. I always smoke bush if I can get it. Grow it in dirt in a bit of sunlight and I know what I'm taking in. But your essay was really good and explained lots I didn't know. Just sayin' on the hormones thing.
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Post by Random Panther on Apr 14, 2012 11:38:37 GMT -5
My buddy only deals in home grown(bush weed). But I'll take what I'm given,for the longest time all that was available here was soapbar,and that shit is 90% plastic and 5% fuck knows.
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