# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1414166628 25200
# Node ID 8bf12217d0fa7482826070d9f737a1912a747f50
# Parent  46bc0f596b91526ed444d13c99e18b44bff9d235
immunoincompatibility.

diff -r 46bc0f596b91 -r 8bf12217d0fa org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Sun Sep 07 21:35:52 2014 -0700
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Fri Oct 24 09:03:48 2014 -0700
@@ -31,6 +31,69 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
+     that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
+     support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for
+     us? It makes us immune to almost all viruses!
+
+- life cycle :: it's called a cycle, right? So, the thing that repeats
+                itself over and over, right? Not much of a cycle if
+                you don't come back after you die, if you ask me!
+
+- car with no blind spots :: use some cameras in the back of the car
+     to augment the rear-view mirror so that you never have to turn
+     around in order to lane change.
+
+- partial cell death :: you freeze a set of cells using some cryo
+     protocol and 60% survive. How can this be explained? It seems to
+     me that if the cells are the same, and the conditions
+     homogoneous, then all the cells should either die or
+     live. However, suppose that there is a metabolic cycle that needs
+     to be in a certain phase for the cell to survive. If the cells
+     are asynchronous, then you might end up with some cells dying
+     because there were in the wrong part of their cycle. This implies
+     that you might be able to cryoprotect cells by causing them to
+     enter a certain metabolic mode before freezing.
+
+- cryonics color appeal :: perfusate used by cryonics companies should
+     have red food coloring in it. It's just a nice touch so that the
+     cryonics patient looks more life-like than with clear CPAs, and
+     hopefully might get treated with more respect.
+
+- paramagnetic CPA :: you take a CPA that can be influenced by
+     magnetic fields so that its degrees of freedom are limited. Then,
+     you release the field, instantaly increasing the size of the
+     state space of the system and dramatically decreasing the
+     temperature enough to plunge the system past homogenous
+     nucleation temperature and directly to the glass transition
+     temperature, creating a doubly unstable glass at much lower CPA
+     concentrations than possible at conventional CPA concentrations. 
+
+- room temp noodles :: how does the physics of cooking noodles work?
+     Could you use a vacuum instead of heat to force water into the
+     noodle?
+
+- personal carbon offset :: feel bad about contribuiting to global
+     warming by using electricity / driving a car? Forget trying to
+     "conserve" or "minimize your carbon footprint". Follow the
+     Platinum rule -- make the world BETTER off than you found it!
+     This would be a small, self contained system that sucks C02 out
+     of the air. It uses electricity, but it's so efficient at
+     removing CO2 that it more than offsets the CO2 produced by even a
+     coal plant to produce that electricity. This way, you can still
+     drive even a gas guzzler, but have a net negative carbon
+     footprint! Maybe something cool could be done with the carbon as
+     well. Use as much electricity as you want, but negate the damage
+     to the enviroment with more technology. 
+
+- undoing spermogenesis :: with enough sperm, you can derive the
+     donor's entire genome. You gain more confidence in the alleles
+     for a particular gene the more sperm you have. Each additional
+     sperm gives you the same sort of information you'd get flipping a
+     coin and trying to decide whether the coin is H/T of H/H. Is
+     there enough sperm in the the average load for you to be as
+     confident as mitosis?
+
 - mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
                (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
                poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an