Fill In The Blanks.

[TTP]

1. An inch-thick rope of spider's silk can withstand up to __________ pounds of pressure.

[blinc]

Oh boy, that's some strong stuff... I'd say 5,000?

[In_His_Shadow]

I agree blinc, it's going to be alot more than we think. I'll go a ton.

Didn't that answer work somewhere else {toothy}

CJ

[TTP]

Not quite, your about...a lot off!
I know the answer in lbs, and well it's hard to believe...some cities aren't even as big as this stuff is strong...

[TTP]

No guesses? Utah should know this one, he got the email too.
Give them the answer. ;)

[blinc]

10 Tons!?

[TTP]

How many pounds is that?
Is the conversion 2586 lbs per ton? I forget?
If so...that would be 25,860 lbs...getting closer but still not even half way there...

[blinc]

I think it's 2,000 lbs = 1 ton. The 2,586... I think you're thinking of 5,286 ft. in a mile? I think that's how many feet are in a mile... just where would one check that out? AAGGH! School knowledge draining away. {dizzy}

Ok then, I'll guess 50,000 lbs!!

[TTP]

2000 sounds closer anyhow?? Not sure...I'll go look it up.

BTW- You're still almost half way there. :)
Aren't I a pain?

[TTP]

2000 lbs per ton it is I guess.
Hmmm, *calculates*
I'll give you a hint, it's more than 50 tons!

[blinc]

My last guess... 125,000 lbs! There!

This is unbelievable - I had NO idea the silk stuff was this strong.

[TTP]

Since you give up and all, the number that was given to me...I haven't actually went out and looked it up to prove this because I trust it came from a good source is:

140,000 pounds! Incredible!

[blinc]

Amazing! Maybe I'll start saving the cobwebs around here! Knit myself a good anchor rope for the ol' boat, huh?

[TTP]

New one!

This thread has suddenly _____, and has been ______ at the _____ forever!

[DkTahg]

Hey, I have a girl friend who is researching spider silk at the University of Wyoming. They can now make it without a spider. They genetically engeenered a bacteria called E. coli to make silk that so that it is cheaper to produce. What they are trying to do is make textiles from it. An 3-5 cm thick slab of this stuff can stop a bullet so they want to make bullet proof vests from it. Unfortunately, if it gets wet it shrinks over 50% of its size, meaning that if the office dumps coffee on his vest, the vest will shrink and crush him. They are trying to isolate the gene that makes the protien that causes this and try to remove it. Another problem is that since bacteria are making it they cannot make it into a thread, but they almost have that figured out. A student playing with it gave them the idea, but I dont know what it is, sorry.
Spider silk is really cool stuff.

[blinc]

This thread has suddenly _____, and has been ______ at the _____ forever!

This thread has suddenly died, and has been down at the bottom forever?

If that's ______ then I get to _____ the next ______! {toothy}

[TTP]

{anon}
If that's ______ then I get to _____ the next ______!

If that's correct then I get to start the next blank-filler-upper-thingy!

[blinc]

{rolleyes} Oh yeah, that last word was exactly what I had in mind! {toothy}

Bet you ____ guess what the ____ post is gonna have in it, you young __________!!!

[TTP]

Bet you ____ guess what the ____ post is gonna have in it, you young __________!!!


Bet you can't guess what the next post is gonna have in it, you young good-looking-funny-smart-really cool-guy!!! :-o Ah you really didn't have to. {toothy}

{rolleyes}

[blinc]

After reading that last post, think *giggle* *snort* should apply on this end of the forum!! {toothy}

[Debby]

DK Tahg.....they are calling this new wonderful bacteria E Coli?

And this a silk? I think this may be a bad name....lol....since in America, E-Coli, is a death threatening bacteria, that causes serious illness, and usually is gotten from raw meat.

[DkTahg]

Debby, You have E.Coli right now in you intestines! E.coli is one of the most common bacteria on the planet! It becomes deadly when the immune system get over loaded by it such as eating raw meat! Kindda like Salmonella, it's everywhere. Actually, we were playing with e.coli in bio lab. It is a really cool bacteria. It has a simple genome so it is the "lab rat" of the microbes.

E.coli is used to produce as genetically engeenered hosts to bactrophages (virus that attack bacteria). Viruses, at least some, infultrate the bacteria's genome with there own genome and carry on protien systhases to make more viruses. But somtimes, the baby viruses will take some of the bacteria's genome (specialized transduction) with them and if that peice of the genome is altered, say with a piece of human genome, it can be used for gene therapy!

But your right, E.coli is deadly! :)

[Zephyrus]

Well in our bio lab we didn't quite get to genetic engineering, but they told us to wash our hands really well afterwards {toothy}

Question about gene therapy. I'm studying this stuff, but I've only just finished first year so I don't know all that much! Gene therapy involves getting the virus to attack all human cells, to insert the *corrected* genome into our own genes in order to cure some disease, right? Isn't that impossible?? Wouldn't it have to infect all the trilions of cells that make up our body? And as far as I know, the virus inserts it's DNA or RNA into a cell, forces the cell to shut down everything and make virus proteins and DNA/RNA, and then when there is enough viruses, they bust the cell and break free...a bit confusing :)

[Debby]

Thank you for informing me!! Hey I learned something today! (And who ever said you can't teach an old dog new tricks? LOL)

[DkTahg]

You know Zephyrus, I really dont know, as i am learing about it too! I think you just get a injection of the RNA/DNA modified viruses. I dont think you need to infect all the cells in the body. Remember, the virus inserts the DNA into the cytoplasm of the target cell and some sort of mechanism causes it to bind to the cells genome, and hopefull correcting the problem gene. After that, the cell, if need be, carries on mitosis and divides. This is my understanding of it. But, i will cite this from my Genetics book.

A patient by the name of Dan Miller was born in 1949 with hemophilia. He went through all of the usual procedurs as time went on (and fortunatly he did not get AIDS from blood transfusion) but the relief from the procedurs only lasted for a short time (Lewis 11).

Miller claims that: "The [gene therapy] treatment is three infusions, one a day for three days.... In the 8 weeks before the infusion, I used 8 doses of the factor [VIII clotting protien]. In the fourteen weeks since then, I've used three (Lewis 11)."



Lewis, Ricki. Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001.


Also, i have yet to play with E.Coli that has been genetically modified by humans, only my girl friend has! The e.coli I played with was "semi wild" (grown in a petri dish). We we determining if it became resistant to certain antibiotics; which it did, which I find increadably facinating. :)

[Zephyrus]

That sounds very interesting! I'll definitely do some more research into all this genetic engineering stuff!

That resistance is also fascinating, although I have no idea how it works! It can't be through random mutations after every division, can it?

[DkTahg]

The resistance can come by many different ways. If one of the bacteri in the colony is resistant to an antibiotic and survives a treatment, then it will produce a whole colony that is resistant to the antibiotic. Resistance can come from random mutation. Other genetic variations may come from conjunction between two bacteria (excahnging plasmids). It can come from generalized transduction or from specialized transduction (involving viruses). It can come fron transformation (the uptake of foreign DNA from the enviroment) and/or from transposons(DNA that changes its location in the genome).

As you probably guessed, I love this stuff :)

[Zephyrus]

We'll get those little buggers! It's actually becoming a problem, we're running out of ammo to use against them, they're becoming resistant to almost everything we have! I've heard that they have some special antibiotics that they use only under *extreme* conditions, and in very controlled environments...scary thought, to think that it's come down to that!

[blinc]

Wow, that's some interesting theories there about antibiotics. I know Dr's and even my vet is becoming very leery about using them, unless things are to the point where they are absolutely necessary. Scares me to think that we are creating anitibiotic resistant bacteria because of the improper use of antibiotics. One of my doc's told me that's why it's so important to finish off the dose of medicine, even if you're feeling better - so you don't leave a few bacteria alive that recuperate and then build an immunity to whatever particular antibiotic was used. Scarey stuff.

Anywho! Here's a fill in the blank riddle for ya! {toothy}

Can you complete this sentence using words which are anagrams of each other?
"At the school recently, only the __?__ students could solve the __?__ equation."

Hint: It's a five letter word.

[Debby]

Refresh my memeory on what an anagram is....been too long since I was out of school....is that a word that looks the same but has two different meanings?

[KatCo]

Hi Debbie,

A anagram is a word or sentence constructed out of another word or sentence by trnasposing the letters.

A Synonym is a word of the same or almost the same meaning as another word.

A Antonym is a word opposite to another in meaning.

A Homonym is one or two or more words with identical pronunciation but different spelling and meaning, as in rain, rein, and reign.

I hope that helps....:) It's been awhile since I've been out of school also, and the ol' saying of:

If you don't use it you loose it, holds so true!! (at least in my case);)

[Debby]

Thank you so much for your help! I still don't know the answer to the riddle, but at least I have learned something! {toothy}

[blinc]

Ok... I'll give another hint to this riddle:

Can you complete this sentence using words which are anagrams of each other?
"At the school recently, only the __?__ students could solve the __?__ equation."

Hint: It's a five letter word.
Hint: Both words start with the letter "B".
*wicked grin*

[Pamella]

Would the wicked grin be because both words are exactly the same?

[blinc]

No, they are two different words. Here's another hint!

The first words starts with BR the 2nd word with BI.

{eek} Oh my goodness! I just realized I made a mistake! There are SIX letters in the puzzle - not FIVE!

AAAAAAAAAH!!
*runs from people with spears and clubs*
{eek}
AAAAAAAAAAH!!

[Pamella]

“At the school recently, only the BRAINY students could solve the BINARY equation."

[blinc]

Yes! {einstein} Alright Pamella, way to go! {party} Congratulations! :)

[Pamella]

Thanks, lol.

Okay..Start with the first word and add a three letter word to complete it.
Then take two letter’s from that three letter word and add one more to make a new three letter to complete the second word, then use two letters from the new three letter word and one other to make a three letter word to complete the third.. and so on… Does that make sense?

H I * * N *
A * V * C *
C * * * N T
* Y * * I D
P * * D * E
S * * U * H
B * A Z * *

*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

I think I get what you mean. Make a 3 letter word to fit into the first word... H I * * N *
RIG would fit, as a 3 letter word, to make "HIRING"... Then we take 2 letters from RIG, add a third to make a word, and add it to A * V * C *, to make another word?
Oooh, this is a great riddle! :)

[Pamella]

That's the idea...
Good luck!

*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

Ok, the hubby's helping me on this!

So far, we've got this:

H I * * N * (DIG) to make the word HIDING
A * V * C * (DIE) to make the word ADVICE... are we right so far?

C * * * N T
* Y * * I D
P * * D * E
S * * U * H
B * A Z * *

[Pamella]

Two out of two so far...

That was quick!
*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

I think we've got it! Joint brainstorming effort. :)

DIG to make HIDING
DIE to make ADVICE
LIE to make CLIENT
EEL to make EYELID
LED to make PEDDLE
LET to make SLEUTH and
LED (again) to make BLAZED!

This was great fun Pamella! :)

[Debby]

My gosh Blinc....I just checked this thread not too long ago...haven't even gotten offline yet, and you have already solved another one!!! Talk about being on a roll!!!! :) :)

[Pamella]

Well done Blinc!
That WAS quick!
I had leg/pledge, but yours works. :)
Next time I'll post it after you've gone to bed, see if your brain works so fast in the mornings! ;)

*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

*bows to the left*
*bows to the right*


*topples over*

{blush}
*ahem*
I meant to do that!

If you post a riddle in the morning, I'll never get it! I'm one of those 2 pots of coffee, just to get the blood sludging through the veins, kind of people. {eek}

Can't take all the credit over here... the hubby got at least half of them! :) He's not here in the mornings to help out either!

[Pamella]

Ack...
That sounds like too much energy at 5am.. I'll post one now instead, lol.

Same idea...

*HYM**
B**WS*
TH***N
IG***E
U*T*L*
IO***E
*H**NY

*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

{sleeping}
!{
Erg. Wish I had caught this last night!
Excuse me while I start another pot of coffee.
*shakes self*
Wake up! Thar's riddles to be solveded!

[Debby]

awwwww Blinc.....just have to tell ya how much I love thee....and even though I have never met thee...you are in my heart....(oops....sorry to get sappy and sentimental during a riddle...lol....but I have to say what I have to say..LOL) (plus a couple drinks didn't help....sorry) But you are soooo funny....and so sweet....and I just love frappydoo! Wish I could take you all home with me. :)

[Debby]

PS don't remind of this in the morning. LOL

[blinc]

Well, I love you too! :) There! Now we can both {blush} like crazy in the morning! hee hee! Hope you won't be feeling ]:{ !

[Debby]

No.....I don't think I'll be feeling ]:{ But if I am....I will live through it...lol. :) (thanks for loving me... :))

[blinc]

Glad to hear you don't think you'll be feeling bad. But, come morning if you ARE feeling a little sick... you just know we'll be chasing you around the forum making little {pukeface} smilies everywhere, just to drive ya bonkers, doncha? {toothy}

Pamella, I think I finally, finally, finally got the first word!

*HYM** Is it RED to make RHYMED?
B**WS*
TH***N
IG***E
U*T*L*
IO***E
*H**NY

[Debby]

Well Blinc, that's why if I AM feeling {pukeface} in the morning....I sure as heck won't tell you! LOL!! I might need a {nurse} :)

*will you be my {nurse} ??? *

Sorry to interupt the riddle :) I won't let it happen again :)

[blinc]

Awww, you could tell me! I wouldn't laugh too loud! Wouldn't want your head to feel like {tnt} was exploding right next to ya! heh heh. {toothy} I could be a {nurse} as long as you didn't require a shot! I can't stand needles, they freak me out! *faints*

Wakes up in time to remember that she thinks she has word TWO!
If word one is Rhymed...
*HYM** Is it RED to make RHYMED?
B**WS* ROE to make Browse?
TH***N OOOH! ROW to make Thrown?
Ack! I'm stuck again! Drats! Anyone else got the next word?

IG***E
U*T*L*
IO***E
*H**NY

[Debby]

Is the next word Ignite? (help me here Blinc, I am just guessing...pretty good guess for a sicko...LOL)

[loxodonta]

Could it be the following? Or am I making up new words that were not intended?

IG***E -> NOR to make IGNORE?
U*T*L* -> NOD to make UNTOLD?
IO***E -> DID to make IODIDE?
*H**NY -> TOR to make THORNY?

[blinc]

{grblob} Good morning! {grblob}
*evil cackle*

Loxodonta, I think you've gotten the next two words! {party} Alright! :)

The rule for this riddle was that we had to use two of the three letters in the three letter word, to fit into the next word. Add a letter to the two letters from the previous 3 letter word, to insert into the next word.

If RED was the first three letter word. The 3 letter word "RED" was used to make RHYMED. Then to figure out the next word, take one letter out of the word RED and make another 3 letter word, ROE (replace the D with an O). It's a bit confusing at first - because it's like a double riddle... you not only have to make another 3 letter word, but that word has to fit into the next word on the list! You did great to get the next two right off the bat! You're better at riddles then you think! {toothy}

RED to make RHYME?
ROE to make BROWSE?
ROW to make THROWN?
NOR to make IGNORE?
NOD to make UNTOLD?

These are great fun Pamella! I love word riddles! :)

[loxodonta]

{blush}

I remember now: first read the rules - then jump into the game and not confuse the playes! Sorry!!

Okay, here goes

DIN to make IODINE?

[blinc]

{blush} I didn't mean it to sound that way Loxodonta! Honest! I knew the rules for these riddles was on another page... instead of you having to look for them, thought I'd just post them in here, so you wouldn't be wandering around lost. That's all I meant! I'm sorry if I came across any other way. :)

[Pamella]

Blinc and Loxodonta, those braincells are doing well - much better than my isp! (:

We have...
RED to make RHYMED
ROE to make BROWSE
ROW to make THROWN
NOR to make IGNORE
NOD to make UNTOLD
DIN to make IODINE

Leaving...
*H**NY

*smile*
Mel :)

[loxodonta]

{idea}
How about

WIN to make WHINNY?

[Pamella]

Yay!
We have a complete solution!

Well done Blinc amd Loxodonta!

[blinc]

{mm} Woo hoo! {mm} We did it! :)

{grblob} Do you have anymore Pamella? {redblob}

[Pamella]

Sure... not bored of these yet?

S**RA*
S*R**E
*S**NT
S*R**L
*IZ*R*
*R*YE*
OF**N*

*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

Heck no, I love these kind of riddles! They're one's I actually have a shot at! {toothy} As a matter of fact, it would be great if you started another thread just for these word riddles, after this one is closed! :)

I've got the second word, I think!

S**RA*
S*R**E KIT to make STRIKE?
*S**NT
S*R**L
*IZ*R*
*R*YE*
OF**N*

[Pamella]

That would mean thinking of some more.. ;)

Hmm.. that word is wrong Blinc, sorry! :D

*smile*
Mel :)

[blinc]

Well goodness sakes, I had no idea you were making these up on your own! Yikes! {eek} Wow - congratulations on having the brains to think of these!

Okay... back to the drawing board! :)

[loxodonta]

Isn't Mel a little genius around us "normal" mortals??? ;)

Well, I have to admit that I somehow came up with the last three words - or rather: possible solutions for them. So far I have:
S * * R A *
S * R * * E
* S * * N T
S * R * * L
* I Z * R * : LAD to make Lizard
* R * Y E * : FAD to make Frayed
O F * * D * : FED to make Offend

Yes, I am strange, but it just seemed to "come to me" ... {blush}

[blinc]

I think you've got those Lox, they sure seem to fit good. Drats too, cause I was thinking the word above those was sprawl - but if it was, I couldn't get anything to fit in your lizard word. Yup, think you may have got those last three. :)

[loxodonta]

Hah!
{idea}
I finally found a solution, but had to change my lizard to a wizard, first:

S * * R A * : cab to make scarab
S * R * * E : cap to make scrape
* S * * N T : ace to make ascent
S * R * * L : caw to make scrawl
* I Z * R * : wad to make wizard
* R * Y E * : fad to make frayed
O F * * N * : fed to make offend

Thanks for the tip about the word before my former lizard, blinc! I would never have found any word, at all, without it! :) We sure make a great team! (:

Now, let's wait for Mel's decision whether this is acceptable ...

[Pamella]

Mel thinks you are both in need of a round of applause!!

*claps*


*smile*
Mel :)

[loxodonta]

Yippeeeeh!

*grabs blinc by both hands and dances with her around the thread!*

We are so astoundingly intelligent and smart and clever and wise and fantastic!


{blush}


{cool}
Ähem ... I mean ... well, thank you Mel. I was hoping we'd finally got it ...

*sneaks away and leaves the thread to be closed*

[blinc]

*comes to a whirling stop*
*watches room still spinning* {dizzy}
*loses balance and topples over*

Thank you for the uh, "dance"? there Lox! {toothy}

hee hee!

I think you deserve to get 99.999% of the credit for solving that riddle! Congratulations Loxodonta! {party}

More! {grblob} Ya got anymore Pamella? huh? {grblob}

If you do, just start another thread and we'll continue on from there, ok? :)

Thank you for starting a new thread Mel - I'll go ahead and close this one down!

The new thread is here: http://frappydoo.com/forum/showthread.php3?postid=14956#post14956