One: citation 55 is a studydemonstrating that actual sea grasses have been disappearing at an accelerating rate. Please don't make claims without doing basic research.
Two: scientific hypotheses and speculation are generally built from plausible extrapolations from available data. Please don't pretend that we know so little about the universe that we can't predict basic elements of the near future of a closed system. You're insulting thousands of years of work in mathematics and science with your shamanism.
This colony is believed to have clonal members hundreds of kilometres across. Makes it difficult to figure out exactly how divided up they are... and also makes you wonder if we should even bother drawing the distinction.
Borrow the car?! Borrow the car?! How about cleaning your room, young man? You can't receive guests, much less alien civilizations, in a mess like this!
Newsflash: clones are never perfect anyway. The thing is, they've been physically attached this entire time. A plant 'clonally reproducing' is nothing more than one organism putting up a bunch of completely redundant backups. It may or may not partially die off due to an accident, but the thing is that it's a single network that's been fragmented by the passage of time, not an organism deliberately reproducing. Since the distinction where one organism ends and the next begins is a made up human one, you probably shouldn't waste your time trying to figure it all out. You should know, however, that biologists consider this to be or have been one organism.
It's actually addressed meaningfully in the journal article. I won't quote the section at you since that would be spam, I've already done it, and I'm just compulsively replying to people because people being wrong on the Internet is clearly the noblest cause ever, but there you go: it is, in fact, the rate of change in environmental conditions, not merely that it's occurring.
Nevertheless, even though such phenotypic plasticity possibly evolved across millennia, it may well be challenged by the unprecedented rate of environmental change imposed by current global climate change [55], including temperature increase and ocean acidification, and recent anthropogenic pressure on coastal areas resulting in changes in water quality, eutrophication, and nutrient load, particularly in seagrass meadows [56].
Please spend the rest of the day in silent introspection.
Mother nature called. She said that was very quaint and reminded humanity as a civilization that it would not be getting any dinner for the next five hundred years unless it smartened up, bathed, and cleaned its room, and stopped making excuses about imaginary friends that live in the sky.
Transcription errors are inevitable in small quantities, but in general plant clones are considered one organism. Since we humans don't (except in severe obesity) generally grow by spreading around, it's hard for us to understand sometimes exactly what's going on here, but what happened is that the plant just kept putting down more roots and foliage, gradually covering a large area of the ocean floor. Then, chunks died off. It's not like it's some kind of sporing or budding process; except due to accident, the parts of a huge plant like this are always connected. Wikipedia's being unresponsive right now, but the largest trees and fungi in the world work the same way—and since their roots are buried way down underneath so much soil, we're not sure if they're still connected or not.
No, it's like saying you're 80,000 years old because a Neanderthal with the amazing ability to grow back both halves when cut up like a sea star/starfish has left you behind.
But don't take the Telegraph article too seriously: they couldn't even get the species name correct. (There's an 'a' on the end that's missing.) Here's the journal article in PLoS ONE.
'fraid there is: it's called Redundant. And I would have spent a point to express that, were the opportunity to point it out not more enticing. There is no need to make a reference that everyone is already aware of.
Nah, you're overthinking it: It's dramatic irony. We the readers realise that this tragedy is unfolding because the US's spending priorities are from Cuckoo Land. Presumably the policy makers themselves toil desperately in ignorance of reality. Sadly, there will probably be no peripeteia.
I think it was the "pulling out of a cost-saving strategy to save costs" part that was ironic. Don't let that stop you from continuing to believe that people communicate in mechanically parsable language with a consistent order of operations. And that falling objects experience linear motion under normal Earth gravity and atmospheric conditions. And that the world is flat. And that P = NP. And that the halting problem will be solved some day.
No, no, no, you've got it backward. That's the accessibility of voting The accessibility of an election is how easy it is to steal it. The US EAC is looking for ways to make manipulating election results more accessible to disabled lobbyists, goons, and crooked politicians. I'm sure such respected election-stealing industry leaders like Diebold will bid quite viciously for any contract relating to giving their products an edge in the accessibility-conscious jurisdictions.
Rogers is going to stop throttling because they've lowered all their monthly caps to ridiculously low levels. To invoke Godwin: "The Third Reich has stopped killing Jews! We ran out!"
And? What's your point? This is a medical procedure. It belongs in a medical process. Relatedly—and you may want to hold onto your knickers for this onepeople would also get upset about the TSA asking them to strip naked, but not a doctor asking them to do the same. Is your mind boggled yet?
The drug design process takes too long for this approach to yield profitable results: first you have to do a genetics workup on all of the mutations to find out which ones are important and which ones are spurious; some may even have novel mutations that aren't fluff either. Drug companies don't generally fly into action until medicine is sure of what they need to target; it's far easier to justify that sort of spending to their shareholders, as there is less risk involved (and drug design is an extremely risky business, as it is.)
For the time being, I imagine they have their hands full with enough other projects and approaches—although you can be sure they'll be interested in the data and results this endeavour generates. At any rate, the patients will be long dead before anything based on their genomes hits the market.
Ha, ha. No. I promise you it's not just about actual counterfeits. I know precious little about American football (and I have no intention of learning more), but one thing that is apparent is that the NFL, moreso than any of the other national sports leagues, is obsessive about controlling anything that might be linked to a team. If you want to show that you're a fan, either you made your memorabilia yourself, or you bought it from an approved vendor; there is nothing in between. No vague cultural links are permitted. It's like Righthaven, only without the whole "hilariously tragic disbarment forever" part, because they have money and cultural clout, and Righthaven did not.
It's not a waste of time, it's an IP-related evil comparable to the MAFIAA.
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One: citation 55 is a study demonstrating that actual sea grasses have been disappearing at an accelerating rate. Please don't make claims without doing basic research.
Two: scientific hypotheses and speculation are generally built from plausible extrapolations from available data. Please don't pretend that we know so little about the universe that we can't predict basic elements of the near future of a closed system. You're insulting thousands of years of work in mathematics and science with your shamanism.
...and ends with Assange. I'm pretty sure I've seen WikiLeaks used for this before.
This colony is believed to have clonal members hundreds of kilometres across. Makes it difficult to figure out exactly how divided up they are... and also makes you wonder if we should even bother drawing the distinction.
Borrow the car?! Borrow the car?! How about cleaning your room, young man? You can't receive guests, much less alien civilizations, in a mess like this!
You will probably find the real article more informative.
Newsflash: clones are never perfect anyway. The thing is, they've been physically attached this entire time. A plant 'clonally reproducing' is nothing more than one organism putting up a bunch of completely redundant backups. It may or may not partially die off due to an accident, but the thing is that it's a single network that's been fragmented by the passage of time, not an organism deliberately reproducing. Since the distinction where one organism ends and the next begins is a made up human one, you probably shouldn't waste your time trying to figure it all out. You should know, however, that biologists consider this to be or have been one organism.
It's actually addressed meaningfully in the journal article. I won't quote the section at you since that would be spam, I've already done it, and I'm just compulsively replying to people because people being wrong on the Internet is clearly the noblest cause ever, but there you go: it is, in fact, the rate of change in environmental conditions, not merely that it's occurring.
It says the following in the journal article:
Nevertheless, even though such phenotypic plasticity possibly evolved across millennia, it may well be challenged by the unprecedented rate of environmental change imposed by current global climate change [55], including temperature increase and ocean acidification, and recent anthropogenic pressure on coastal areas resulting in changes in water quality, eutrophication, and nutrient load, particularly in seagrass meadows [56].
Please spend the rest of the day in silent introspection.
Mother nature called. She said that was very quaint and reminded humanity as a civilization that it would not be getting any dinner for the next five hundred years unless it smartened up, bathed, and cleaned its room, and stopped making excuses about imaginary friends that live in the sky.
Transcription errors are inevitable in small quantities, but in general plant clones are considered one organism. Since we humans don't (except in severe obesity) generally grow by spreading around, it's hard for us to understand sometimes exactly what's going on here, but what happened is that the plant just kept putting down more roots and foliage, gradually covering a large area of the ocean floor. Then, chunks died off. It's not like it's some kind of sporing or budding process; except due to accident, the parts of a huge plant like this are always connected. Wikipedia's being unresponsive right now, but the largest trees and fungi in the world work the same way—and since their roots are buried way down underneath so much soil, we're not sure if they're still connected or not.
The real deal is publicly accessible (I think.) You might find it more engaging!
No, it's like saying you're 80,000 years old because a Neanderthal with the amazing ability to grow back both halves when cut up like a sea star/starfish has left you behind.
But don't take the Telegraph article too seriously: they couldn't even get the species name correct. (There's an 'a' on the end that's missing.) Here's the journal article in PLoS ONE.
'fraid there is: it's called Redundant. And I would have spent a point to express that, were the opportunity to point it out not more enticing. There is no need to make a reference that everyone is already aware of.
we hav seen teh enemey, & he iz us?
Nah, you're overthinking it: It's dramatic irony. We the readers realise that this tragedy is unfolding because the US's spending priorities are from Cuckoo Land. Presumably the policy makers themselves toil desperately in ignorance of reality. Sadly, there will probably be no peripeteia.
I think it was the "pulling out of a cost-saving strategy to save costs" part that was ironic. Don't let that stop you from continuing to believe that people communicate in mechanically parsable language with a consistent order of operations. And that falling objects experience linear motion under normal Earth gravity and atmospheric conditions. And that the world is flat. And that P = NP. And that the halting problem will be solved some day.
Confucius say: man made of straw should not bait flame.
But the conflict occurred while the file was already open!
No, no, no, you've got it backward. That's the accessibility of voting The accessibility of an election is how easy it is to steal it. The US EAC is looking for ways to make manipulating election results more accessible to disabled lobbyists, goons, and crooked politicians. I'm sure such respected election-stealing industry leaders like Diebold will bid quite viciously for any contract relating to giving their products an edge in the accessibility-conscious jurisdictions.
Rogers is going to stop throttling because they've lowered all their monthly caps to ridiculously low levels. To invoke Godwin: "The Third Reich has stopped killing Jews! We ran out!"
Actually, blonde hair went extinct over a hundred years ago. Didn't you hear? It was in all the newspapers.
And? What's your point? This is a medical procedure. It belongs in a medical process. Relatedly—and you may want to hold onto your knickers for this onepeople would also get upset about the TSA asking them to strip naked, but not a doctor asking them to do the same. Is your mind boggled yet?
The drug design process takes too long for this approach to yield profitable results: first you have to do a genetics workup on all of the mutations to find out which ones are important and which ones are spurious; some may even have novel mutations that aren't fluff either. Drug companies don't generally fly into action until medicine is sure of what they need to target; it's far easier to justify that sort of spending to their shareholders, as there is less risk involved (and drug design is an extremely risky business, as it is.)
For the time being, I imagine they have their hands full with enough other projects and approaches—although you can be sure they'll be interested in the data and results this endeavour generates. At any rate, the patients will be long dead before anything based on their genomes hits the market.
Ha, ha. No. I promise you it's not just about actual counterfeits. I know precious little about American football (and I have no intention of learning more), but one thing that is apparent is that the NFL, moreso than any of the other national sports leagues, is obsessive about controlling anything that might be linked to a team. If you want to show that you're a fan, either you made your memorabilia yourself, or you bought it from an approved vendor; there is nothing in between. No vague cultural links are permitted. It's like Righthaven, only without the whole "hilariously tragic disbarment forever" part, because they have money and cultural clout, and Righthaven did not.
It's not a waste of time, it's an IP-related evil comparable to the MAFIAA.
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