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Let me get this strait - somebody challenges you; you have 24 hours and you can either dump at least an ice-bucket of ice cold water on your head and nominate three other people, or you can write a cheque for whatever amount to a charity?? I'm I understanding correctly? The challenge is to do one or the other?
And please don't challenge me. Because --- I learned in grade school that it is foolish to take a dare. --- I'm not sure this is a healthy thing to do (although probably the risk is low for healthy people). --- I only have a limited budget that is already stretched to the limit - some is earmarked for charity - in order to give to ALS I would have to take from somewhere else, and I've already researched where I give the most.
Yes - I am all for research into the causes, treatment and eventual cure for ALS and other nerological disorders (like Parkinsons) but I haven't researched to see how much of the money donated to this cause actually reaches its target.
On the other hand - if you enjoy having ice water poured over your head - go for it! If you have money to spare - do some research and decide where it will be most effective.
 
@Pr.Jae - the website you mentioned, in your video, 'water for the world.net' also states
"The cup of coffee you may drink while reading this page required 140 litres of water. 15.500 litres of water is needed to produce one kg of beef"
Maybe its time to give up the Tim Hortons coffee and BK burgers.
 
Inukshuk said:
@Pr.Jae - the website you mentioned, in your video, 'water for the world.net' also states
"The cup of coffee you may drink while reading this page required 140 litres of water. 15.500 litres of water is needed to produce one kg of beef"
Maybe its time to give up the Tim Hortons coffee and BK burgers.
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Perhaps. What would you suggest as reasonable alternatives? I'm gradually giving up beef anyway. Switching to a more vegetable-based diet.
 
Actually it's food there is no shortage of.

Water is a finite resource. We can not create more of it.
We can make it unuseable-through contamination.

We need to protect clean water.
 
Seeler said:
Let me get this strait - somebody challenges you; you have 24 hours and you can either dump at least an ice-bucket of ice cold water on your head and nominate three other people, or you can write a cheque for whatever amount to a charity?? I'm I understanding correctly? The challenge is to do one or the other?
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I had heard at one point, it was to donate $10 with the challenge, or to donate $100 while declining the ice water.
That's where I agree with Mike Rowe's stance, it's almost a threat - give $100 or give $10 and dump ice water on your head!

Dumping ice water on my head could trigger my HAE, so in my case it very well could be dangerous, and I have no desire to test it out!
 
Tabitha said:
Actually it's food there is no shortage of.

Water is a finite resource. We can not create more of it.
We can make it unuseable-through contamination.

We need to protect clean water.
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We can, in fact, make water. It's just difficult. Combustion of hydrogen produces water as part of the exhaust, for instance, though how we leverage to produce a water supply is beyond my capabilities.

We can also get more water but, again, it's difficult. It is one of the most abundant chemical compounds in the universe and our solar system is lousy with it (Those s-f movies where aliens invade us because they need water? Bad science fiction all the way. The aliens could get much more water much more easily by asteroid mining than they could by invading Earth). A large comet or water-bearing asteroid would serve us for quite a while, though we would probably have to distill it or filter the hell out of it to remove other compounds.

So, in short, yes we need to protect clean water because replenishing our supply is a very expensive and difficult proposition.

But I think it is also important that we acknowledge that there is hope even if we f*** things up badly.
 
We don't have a shaking head smiley, but pretend I just posted it in response to that article.
 
Beloved said:
Or reduce the time of your shower, or depth of your bath, on the day you do the challenge :).
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Better yet - reuse your bath/shower water to do the challenge with. Btw - showers are better than baths. Not only do they typically use less water - but also you aren't sitting around in your own filth.
 
still having a hard time with Jae-who lives in a house with an outdoor pool (yes technically both belong to his mother) lecturing others on water conservation.
 
Bury a bunch of humans and there is more fertility than a mire phesh ... and thus the fecundity returns ... AC anon ... no swaying allowed the fellow shippers will panic over other sects! Boobs are restricted to the maidenhead ... so the sailors can follow suite ...
 
Inannawhimsey said:
It has borne some fruit

http://www.seeker.com/ice-bucket-challenge-leads-to-als-breakthroughs-1946760085.html

Inspiration can move mountains...the space race was there due to SF...
Money helps as well :3
Humanity: helping make America n Earth Great Again
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*sigh* I wish science reporting could be accurate. Looking at pubmed, there are papers on Nek1 going back to 1992 (although that is the protein) just looking at titles the gene goes back to at least 1999 and I would guess some of the papers before that talk about the gene.

C21orf2 was described as a 'novel gene' in a paper published in 1998.

The new research is important, but stating that they have found a new genes is not what was done and those involved with work before deserve credit for it.
 
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