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Took the words right out of my mouth, Hope.
My neck hurts from shaking my head so much...OUCH!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
You and me, both, Spumoni!
Uncanny how spot-on some lists can be, huh?
Characteristics of a Genius:
1 DRIVE
Geniuses have a strong desire to work hard and long. They’re willing to give all they’ve got to a project. Develop your drive by focusing on your future success, and keep going.
2 COURAGE
It takes courage to do things others consider impossible. Stop worrying what people will think if you are different.
3 DEVOTION TO GOALS
Geniuses know what they want and go after it. Get control of your life and schedule. Have something specific to accomplish each day.
4 KNOWLEDGE
Geniuses continually accumulate information. Never go to sleep at night without having learned at least one new thing that day. Read. And question people who know.
5 HONESTY
Geniuses are frank, forthright and honest. Take the responsibility for things that go wrong. Be willing to admit, ‘I goofed,’ and learn from your mistakes.
6 OPTIMISM
Geniuses never doubt they will succeed. Deliberately focus your mind on something good coming up.
7 ABILITY TO JUDGE
Try to understand the facts of a situation before you judge. Evaluate things on an open-minded, unprejudiced basis and be willing to change your mind.
8 ENTHUSIASM
Geniuses are so excited about what they are doing, it encourages others to cooperate with them. Really believe that things will turn out well. Don’t hold back.
9 WILLINGNESS TO TAKE CHANCES
Overcome your fear of failure. You won’t be afraid to take chances once you realize you can learn from your mistakes.
10 DYNAMIC ENERGY
Don’t sit on your butt waiting for something good to happen. Be determined to make it happen.
11 ENTERPRISE
Geniuses are opportunity seekers. Be willing to take on jobs others won’t touch. Never be afraid to try the unknown.
12 PERSUASION
Geniuses know how to motivate people to help them get ahead. You’ll find it easy to be persuasive if you believe in what you’re doing.
13 OUTGOINGNESS
I’ve found geniuses able to make friends easily and be easy on their friends. Be a ‘booster,’ not someone who puts others down. That attitude will win you many valuable friends.
14 ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE
Geniuses are able to effectively get their ideas across to others. Take every opportunity to explain your ideas to others.
15 PATIENCE
Be patient with others most of the time, but always be impatient with yourself. Expect far more of yourself than of others.
16 PERCEPTION
Geniuses have their mental radar working full time. Think more of others’ needs and wants than you do of your own.
17 PERFECTIONISM
Geniuses cannot tolerate mediocrity, particularly in themselves. Never be easily satisfied with yourself. Always strive to do better.
18 SENSE OF HUMOR
Be willing to laugh at your own expense. Don’t take offense when the joke is on you.
19 VERSATILITY
The more things you learn to accomplish, the more confidence you will develop. Don’t shy away from new endeavors.
20 ADAPTABILITY
Being flexible enables you to adapt to changing circumstances readily. Resist doing things the same old way. Be willing to consider new options.
21 CURIOSITY
An inquisitive, curious mind will help you seek out new information. Don’t be afraid to admit you don’t know it all. Always ask questions about things you don’t understand.
22 INDIVIDUALISM
Do things the way you think they should be done, without fearing somebody’s disapproval.
23 IDEALISM
Keep your feet on the ground—but have your head in the clouds. Strive to achieve great things, not just for yourself, but for the betterment of mankind.
24 IMAGINATION
Geniuses know how to think in new combinations, see things from a different perspective, than anyone else. Unclutter your mental environment to develop this type of imagination. Give yourself time each day to daydream, to fantasize, to drift into a dreamy inner life the way you did as a child.
Glean from it what you will.
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
No underestimating here.
Didn't actually mean KBLB was going sideways just saying that was better than going down. But, you are correct, it's working it's way up!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
Thanks for the correction!
I was being sarcastic, Hope.
Without news? How? Is that possible? But, but...
EXACTLY!
Thank you, Mr. Thompson!!!
The Chompster Speaks!!!
I'm happy to be the choir you're preaching to there, brother!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
Exactly, Fastlane! No denying...WE ARE GOLDEN!
Well, that starts on Monday, so, let's hope it's Early, Early.
I just asked my Magic 8 Ball and it said...SOON!
The question?
When will KBLB stock price shoot above $1?
There you have it! Take it to the bank!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
Sideways is better than down.
^^^Understatement of the Year^^^
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
That's exactly what everyone should expect, Jetow.
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
Question for the board...
Is there anyone closer to bringing Spider Silk to Mass Production than Mr. Kim Thompson, aka, CEO of KBLB?
According to research, Spider Silk is even more waterproof than normal silk.
Every day a new Spider Silk use is brought to the public's attention, it seems. Here's another one:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/amino-acids-make-beautiful-music-to-design-novel-protein-structures/
Amino acids make beautiful music to design novel protein structures
MIT scientists transposed amino acids' resonant frequencies into audible notes.
Jennifer Ouellette - 6/26/2019, 4:22 PM
Nearly seven years ago, MIT scientists mapped the molecular structure of proteins in spider silk threads onto musical theory to produce the "sound" of silk in hopes of establishing a radical new way to create designer proteins. That work even inspired a sonification art exhibit, "Spider's Canvas," in Tokyo last fall. Artist Tomas Saraceno created an interactive instrument inspired by the web of a Cyrotophora citricola spider, with each strand in the "web" tuned to a different note.
Now MIT materials engineer Markus Buehler and his colleagues are back with an even more advanced system of making music out of a protein structure—and then converting it back to create novel proteins never before seen in nature. The team also developed a free app for the Android smartphone, called the Amino Acid Synthesizer, so users could create their own protein "compositions" from the sounds of amino acids. They described their work in a new paper in ACS Nano.
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Much like how music has a limited number of notes and chords and uses different combinations to compose music, proteins have a limited number of building blocks (its 20 amino acids) which can combine in any number of ways to create novel protein structures with unique properties. Furthermore, "Any genre of music has patterns," said Buehler. "You'll see universality in terms of sound, the tones, but you also see repetitive patterns, like motifs and movements in classical music. These kinds of patterns are also found in proteins."
"Any genre of music has patterns. These patterns are also found in proteins."
The ability to tailor materials with so-called "tunable" properties would enable scientists to create better synthetic versions of natural materials like spider silk, which has a number of excellent properties. It's incredibly strong—ounce for ounce, it's stronger than steel or Kevlar, although it's not as strong as fibers spun from carbon nanotubes. It's waterproof, and it's able to stretch 30-40% before it breaks, compared to 8% for steel fibers and around 20% for nylon fibers. It may even have antimicrobial, blood-clotting, and other wound-healing properties. Since it's the structure that gives any material its unique properties, scientists would like to understand more about the protein structure of spider silk, as well as other kinds of proteins.
That's what Buehler's lab set out to do several years ago, demonstrating that silk gets its properties from the highly ordered, layered protein structures alternating with densely tangled clumps of proteins. Next, they went beyond the properties of the protein molecules alone to investigate how they combine to form a network on a larger scale. In the process, they discovered that music theory, combined with category theory, could be an invaluable aid in predicting how well new variations of a given material will perform based on said protein structure.
It turns out that the hierarchical elements of music composition (pitch, range, dynamics, tempo) are analogous to the hierarchical elements of protein structure. Thus, "The mechanism of spinning fibers from proteins can be translated into music through a process that assigns a set of rules that governs the construction of the system," the authors wrote in a 2012 paper published in Nano Today. "This technique allows one to express the structure, mechanisms, and properties of the ‘material’ in a very different domain, ‘music.’"
This latest work takes advantage of recent progress in AI methods to make the analogy between sound, music, and proteins more rigorous, according to Buehler, creating a better system for translating a protein's sequence of amino acids into a musical sequence.
"Musical instruments work via the vibrations of wood, or metal, or animal skins. All music is based on the vibrational structure that they create," he said. "Any molecule, if you look at it at the nanoscale, has continuous vibrations. We realized that each of the amino acid building blocks, which make up the proteins, which in turn make up the hierarchical structures—each of these has a particular sound signature, like a fingerprint."
They assigned each amino acid a tone based on its natural resonant frequency—actually more akin to a chord, since amino acids vibrate at several overlapping frequencies. The different 3D structures of the molecules determined the duration of each tone. Since there are 20 amino acids, this produced a 20-tone scale. Some electronic keyboards allow the user to make up any scale they wish, and that's what the MIT scientists used to create a keyboard with only 20 keys. They used that data to create a playlist of the sounds of many different kinds of simple proteins, so an AI could learn what each sounded like.
"Our human brain is pre-wired to understand things in a certain way, and it's hard to forget all that and learn from scratch," said Buehler. "AI has never listened to any type of sound or music." The AI can also reverse the process and use that acquired knowledge to design new proteins, both variations on existing ones and entirely new ones. "I was astounded when I saw the data come back," said Buehler. "It reproduced so perfectly the patterns with the proteins."
In short, the team was able to compute the unique fingerprints of all the different secondary structures of proteins and make them audible via transposition. "It sounds very different from anything humans have used in history, because we haven't been able to hear that until now," said Buehler. "Only with the tools of modern quantum mechanics can we compute these spectra and sonify them."
Buehler has become so familiar with those unique signatures that he can tell the difference between certain amino acid sequences by ear—a beta sheet, or an alpha helix, for instance. The Android app lets users create their own protein compositions, recording them automatically, with the option to share via email. "You can play mutations and hear how different variants of proteins sound," he said. "You can even fold the protein you've created, or analyze it using other methods."
Exciting times, for sure, Silk!
Simply remember our CEO's remark:
"Kim is not an idiot and very likely much smarter than anyone invested in KBLB."
I second that!
No matter how you look at it, it still ends up with Mr. Thompson being a Genius.
Some believe there should have been a pr last week..should have had one mon, tue or wed...should have one tomorrow...But, Mr. Thompson believes there shouldn't have been. Proof is in the fact there hasn't been one. YET. Maybe tomorrow. Possibly not.
There is a basket of pr news overflowing...but no news is being released until the time is right per Mr. Thompson's philosophy on such things: "When announced then it's solid."
Supposedly Mr. Rice was there making deals days before the signing on the 17th which makes perfect sense considering it would probably have made a bad impression had he showed up late or not at all. That definitely would have hurt that deal and probably all future deals. Smart of him to show.
Here we are 9 days later, I mean 7 business days because it wouldn't make sense to release the news on the weekend...Mr. Thompson hasn’t said a word...nothing...zipping do da...Because, apparently, his schedule is full of game-changing, life-altering things which require his immediate attention.
There may be a varying amount of good news...but it sure doesn’t look like there is anything material...or is there something material and a reason Mr. Thompson is holding back?
Mr. Thompson is a GENIUS!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
It was a joke, Silkmaster.
A strategy definitely worth following, IMO.
I add in some personal wisdom gleaned through the years. Both on the job and through various information outlets.
There's a certain "gut feeling" applied as well. Some call it hokey, but, I put that into the mix as well.
Whatever I can do to assess the viability of an investment is what I will do.
Overall, to each their own. I am glad to be Holding the Golden, though.
Perfect summation, Banana!
IMO, nothing more needs to be said until Mr. T says it. Because then we will know WE'RE SOLID!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
Surely it will all settle itself in due time. Competition is good.
No problem, W2R. Patiently waiting for KBLB News!
DISCLAIMER: ALL INFO ON MESSAGE BOARDS SHOULD BE BACKED BY PERSONAL DUE DILIGENCE.
I hear Mojo's got the jump on that.
The word is a Kickstarter Campaign is in the works which is supposed to put KBLB out of business.
I think NASA is backing the project. But you'll have to check with Mojo on the details.
Nice little find, Silk.
Did I hear correctly that Vietnam's minimum wage is $170/MONTH??? Those workers in that plant we're earning $280/mo. Mr. T can hire the entire province for less than the cost of the next iPhone! Just kidding, of course (barely).
Holding the Golden!!!
Exactly, Rayo!
Like signing up for an iHub message board grants one exclusive access to important company information. It sure would make due diligence a lot easier!
I'll settle for Holding the Golden!!!
Dwiskup, check out Post #158574.
I think that's what you were asking?
Good luck to you and ALL! Holding the Golden!!!
Interesting...Wholly Owned Subsidiary Company:
No, Red, You Da Man!
Thanks for the intel and insight. Always greatly appreciated!
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
You forgot the most important part: Please tell how it gets done.
That's gotta be in the "About" section before we can even think about raising the $10 mil you require. $10 mil, though? We're gonna have to line out what you need the $10 mil for. People won't buy in unless they have faith in you. I know, I know, how could they not? Just the rules of Kickstarter.
Ok, so let's get started...
Your plan to get it done? Go...
SEC does. Sorry, you don't. Guarantee our CEO does.
So, you don't know the Execution Date on what was "signed?"
May 20, 2019 PR Stated 3Q/4Q Production:
So you know what the Execution Date is on those supposed signed contracts?
Unless speaking out poses insider trading ramifications.
I mean, how can we, on a message board, who aren't privy to the insider moves within KBLB, even know why information hasn't been released yet?Especially if it is of a sensitive nature? Or because all the i's haven't been dotted or t's crossed? Just because we want it, means we have to have it? I don't think so.
It might be the unpopular opinion, but, I would say running the company as a whole is paramount to ensuring the shareholders get the information they desire. Regardless of how much they want it.
Look, we have been told by the CEO himself: "When announced then it's solid."
I believe he means in more ways than one. Most likely from every possible, scrutinized angle he can think of which will protect him and the company frontwards, backwards, sideways, and any other way one can imagine.
GLTA! Holding the Golden!!!
My meditations include all annoyances anyway.
Thanks for the tip, though, Gruber!