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herbw22 karma

Hmm. Considering that in long space flight, the inability to prevent bone and calcium loss can be a major problem,often resulting in pathological fractures upon return to earth.

Wouldn't a good series of treatments for Osteogenesis imperfecta have a major bearing on handling bone loss in space?

Might be worth looking into for NASA funding, too.

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The facts are that DeBeers no longer exists except as a marketing name. in Aug. 2000 the BBC reported that because of competition esp., from Russian and Canadian mines, that they were selling off their diamond stockpile and Anglo-American, another Oppenheimer company was buying out DeBeers and would run it.

So, the diamond cartel has been quite, quite gone for the last 18 years, and too bad so few know it, either.

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Does infinity exist in the real universe? Is there anything existing to which we can point to and say that is infinite in a measurable way?

Thanks.