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8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus
An anonymous reader writes "About 8 percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our ancestors, according to an article by University of Texas at Arlington biology professor Cédric Feschotte, published in the Jan. 7, 2010 issue of Nature magazine."
Eight percent, I consider that a fair return on an investment.
8% of my Windows code comes from Viruses.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Doesn't Norton protect me from such stuff?
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here, Mr. Malda. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague and we are the cure.
They really need to stop using thier gene sequencers to search for porn.
She told me she was TESTED!
Humans are a virus!
Before the Matrix, there was Bill Hicks: "I'm tired of this back-slapping 'isn't humanity neat' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay?"
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
The moral of the story is, cannibalism really does allow you to take your enemies strength. That's why we eat Jesus' flesh on Sundays, so we can absorb his holy virus and become like God.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
8% of the Linux kernel code comes from Linus... Don't shoot the messenger.
That's why I eat copious amounts of pasta, so that I, too, may be touched by His Noodly Appendage.
It's the Y Chromosome
Commit yourself daily to serving The Lord
With some fava beans and a nice Chianti, fthfthfthfth.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Actually I'm pretty sure 100% of our DNA is basically crap that only exists because at some point in the past it was better at copying itself ;)
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
They are just jealous because they never got that transubstantiation miracle to work right. That or the 2000 year old zombie flesh tastes conspicuously like unleavened bread... which tastes conspicuously like cardboard. Frankly, I think that they would do a lot better if they started out with a pork roast. At the very least it would require a bit less suspension of disbelief when the Saviour is rolling around in your mouth.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Turning people into newts.
Hey, he got better.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Amen
"That's the way God wanted it" isn't the only way to support the observation of genes existing in multiple species, in a way that seems to imply inheritance. How about "God made life using OO programming"? Why would he start from scratch for every species, instead of just using copy & paste? If you really think about it...hacked together in 6 days, spaghetti code where 80% seems to be junk that doesn't even do anything, and is incredibly hard to decipher...God made us in PERL! Perl supports multiple inheritance, which explains the appearance of "viruses" transplanting genes from one species to another, unrelated species!
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
I think I'll call in sick!
You know, there's a real easy way to tell: If when the source is raising the dead, if you hear beautiful and calming and serene music in a major chord mode, then it is good. If you hear banging on a piano or dissonant violins, then evil.
"They said I probly shouldn't fly with just one eye," "I am Bender. Please insert girder."
The Creator is actually an infinite number of monkeys?
OK a new size TV
Frankly, I think that they would do a lot better if they started out with a pork roast.
Well then you'd start another holy war over whether or not it's sacrilegious to smother the Host in barbecue sauce.
The enemies of Democracy are
The fact that he finished ahead of schedule seems to support this. Why custom tailor DNA when you can use that whole 7th day to rest?
"That's the way God ... using copy & paste? If you really think about it...hacked together in 6 days, spaghetti code where 80% seems to be junk that doesn't even do anything, and is incredibly hard to decipher...
So what the Creationists are saying is basically...
God is a either a chump working at Microsoft, or a really bad software contractor who writes Perl?
This sucks, I want a refund.
"...spaghetti code..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
So with more MSG from all the chinese food I might become the next Buddha? About time, I already have had his body for a while.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.