If you're a dude, supposedly it'll make you live longer... A Russian guy I work with recounted a saying to us while he contemplated the same question:

"If a man stays single, he lives like a man, but dies like a dog
But if he marries, he lives like a dog, but dies like a man"

Maybe it lost something in translation...

I believe this is a dupe of

http://www.videosift.com/video/Congress-Is-Getting-Sexual

Thanks... fixed now

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Thanks for the promote deputy

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Thanks berticus, dag, and gwiz.

I guess the solution was 'wait', since when I delete my avatar now, my pre-apocalypse pic doesn't show up anymore. I found that supremely odd. I thought I did wait since it took me more than a minute to write my post, but oh well, it works now.

Re: Clipping, I had to make it exactly square or it clipped part of the image off. Turns out my resizing was off by one row

Dag, just out of curiosity: What's the deal with static, static1, etc? Why bother holding on to old avatars?

Thanks for the help

2,42,5378,18,2,66,258,0,65570,2,2,2,1024,2,514,258

on a side note, I found out the cut off freq of my laptops speakers... this babe has ZERO bass.

Wait, what the heck is the gray cat doing in the background between 1:10-1:15... Looks like he's frozen in mid fall.

No No, you folks have it all wrong... She doesn't have any TEETH... that's why she doesn't open wide... *ahem* well, I bet she does that too, but I meant smile wide.

As an MR researcher, the 'Why don't you just turn off the magnet' complex is a safety issue we battle everyday. It's easy to make mistakes , even if properly trained, because you can't see the magnetic field, and by the time you feel it, it's often too late. Almost every MR researcher I know has had their credit cards wiped (at least once) by forgetting their wallet in their pockets when they go grab something from the MR suite. This case is more serious but luckily it looks as though no one was injured.

To clear things up, clinical MRI's use Superconducting Electromagnets. After installation, the current is slowly ramped up until the desired field strength is reached but they *DO NOT* require additional power to keep them running. There is NO power cord for the magnet and the current will run FOREVER so long as the coil is kept cool enough to remain superconducting (usually using liquid helium as mentioned previously).

An enormous amount of energy is released when a magnet "Quenches" i.e. heats up and becomes non-superconducting. Once the coil has non-zero resistance a ton of heat is generated, the liquid helium boils off, and the coil can expand causing permanent damage to the magnet. Furthermore, when the helium gas boils off it can displace all the oxygen in the room creating another hazard: asphyxiation.

While most systems have a "Quench" button which has been engineered to be as friendly as possible to the magnet, it is a costly and risky maneuver which is reserved for cases when human life is in danger i.e. someone walks in with a non-MRI safe gurney which pins someone to the magnet... It has happened.

The point is, this is not a magnetic field that can switched off easily/cheaply and turned back on quickly/cheaply!!

As for metal implants, it is important to remember not all metals are magnetic, and most implants are made of MRI Safe materials i.e. won't rip out of your skin in the presence of a strong magnetic field. However, most are not "MRI Compatible" meaning they will cause image artifacts in a small area around their location.

MRI is safe, working with humans around an MRI is the dangerous part.

Thanks, all fixed :-)

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Fixed :-) Thanks

Amen! You are a credit to wombyn kind...

The vacuum and abs-er-cise were bad ideas, but I'd like to hope there is more to a successful relationship than spending money on fancy rocks :-)


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Am I the only woman geeky enough to think that extra RAM and a note is a sweet gift??
He would totally get some nooky.

Plus I fucking hate diamonds. What a waste of money for shiny little rocks. De Beers has the world hypnotized.

Argh, I was totally fooled by the imitations!! Why didn't you post this sooner!

Thanks for the promote Silvercord :-)

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