Try to feed that AGCT stuff to a DNA to aminoacid translation table. The result in single letter aminoacid code should mean something, as there are 20 different aminoacids coded by triplets of DNA bases, e.g. ACT=T (for Thereonin). I would try myself, if I wasn't late allready...
It would be refreshing in the meaning that to contract a STD you usually have to have sex. That would probably be the refreshing part. The STD less so.
Apophis will come by in 2029 and then back again in 2036. They could land some autonomous mining robots during the first close encounter and collect the mined raw materials during the second.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the stuff here, but I'm under the impression that they want to mine asteroids that already are in Earth's orbit. Why waste a shitload of money and energy to drag some piece of rock over (with all the delicate targeting and orbiting snafu opportunities), when you can have the same for free? You just have to wait for the right one, quickly mine what you can while it's within reasonable distance, and then let it float on, back where it came from.
You don't understand the theory of evolution.
We are no improved monkeys. Every species living today is the pinnacle of its own evolution. Our minds and civilisation are a glitch, a side product, not a evolutionary goal. The only goal of evolution is survival and reproduction.
You are as stupid (or troll) as the parent is.
Condoms help people, that already have AIDS, exactly how? How do they help children born with AIDS? The African rape victims? The recent Korean transplant patients, where they got infected organs because of some diagnostic snafu?
FYI, malaria is not a bacterium. Antibiotics help you exactly as much as condoms. There are antimalarics, but they are expensive, and their side effects can be as debilitating as malaria itself. Also, malaria is becoming resistant.
Not happy yet.
A vaccine is just a mix of selected proteins (called antigens). You accidentally "vaccinate" yourself with thousands of such antigens every time you eat a hamburger.
I think his taste isn't affected much. The electro shocks are inadequate signal for the taste buds, which are chemoreceptors. The cells reacting to the shocks may be mechanoreceptors, like the cells responsible for the sense of touch in skin. The shocks are inadequate signals for them as well, but still closer. The brain just started to "see" meaningful information in those shocks. It's similar to the guy (link lost, lazy to google) who made himself a kind of belt with vibrating motors around it coupled to a compass. The motor oriented north vibrated, giving the man a new, previously unknown "sense of north".
What is this "real meat" everybody keeps talking about? Is it the product we buy in supermarkets, the lumps of chicken that grew in 4 weeks stuffed with growth hormones and antibiotics? The only difference between this lab grown meat and the stuff we eat today is that the new product has no head. An improvement, if you ask me.
I actually had thought that breaking in a regular car would disengage the engine... until I tried it.
Not a good idea. Disengaging the engine means lower control over the car, as the engine in lower gear actually helps you with braking. The injection system cuts the fuel flow, the engine is decompressing warm air, which slows the car down. Very convenient when going downhill. With the engine disengaged, the only thing that's slowing the car down are the brakes. Leaving the gear in saves fuel, brakes and the engine health as well. Additionally, in critical situations you can hit the gas pedal and accelerate immediately.
The use of things like rotating bearings and electric current (for transmission of energy) might enable a self replicating machine to operate much more efficiently than life.
I'm not so sure about this. Bacteria use something like a rotating bearing for anchoring the flagellum to the cell membrane. For some reason, this evolutionary feature is absent from eukaryotic organisms (their flagella are undulating, not rotating structures). Maybe they are not so much more effective.
A monstrous yet immobile creature who lives in an exposed pit in the middle of a lifeless desert, waiting for large animals to apparently feel suicidal and trek out to throw themselves in? Yeah, not so much. Not every Sarlaac can count on an intergalactic mob boss to feed it tidbits.
Has this guy never heard of the Antlion and it's sand-pits? (no, not the hl2 creature)
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Try to feed that AGCT stuff to a DNA to aminoacid translation table. The result in single letter aminoacid code should mean something, as there are 20 different aminoacids coded by triplets of DNA bases, e.g. ACT=T (for Thereonin). I would try myself, if I wasn't late allready...
It would be refreshing in the meaning that to contract a STD you usually have to have sex. That would probably be the refreshing part. The STD less so.
Apophis will come by in 2029 and then back again in 2036. They could land some autonomous mining robots during the first close encounter and collect the mined raw materials during the second.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the stuff here, but I'm under the impression that they want to mine asteroids that already are in Earth's orbit. Why waste a shitload of money and energy to drag some piece of rock over (with all the delicate targeting and orbiting snafu opportunities), when you can have the same for free? You just have to wait for the right one, quickly mine what you can while it's within reasonable distance, and then let it float on, back where it came from.
You don't understand the theory of evolution.
We are no improved monkeys. Every species living today is the pinnacle of its own evolution. Our minds and civilisation are a glitch, a side product, not a evolutionary goal. The only goal of evolution is survival and reproduction.
You are as stupid (or troll) as the parent is.
Condoms help people, that already have AIDS, exactly how? How do they help children born with AIDS? The African rape victims? The recent Korean transplant patients, where they got infected organs because of some diagnostic snafu?
FYI, malaria is not a bacterium. Antibiotics help you exactly as much as condoms. There are antimalarics, but they are expensive, and their side effects can be as debilitating as malaria itself. Also, malaria is becoming resistant.
Not happy yet.
Hey, Kim Jong Il, is that you?
I have 2 personal favourites in similar vein: "Not tested on animals" on dog shampoo, and "Avoid direct exposure to sunlight" on sun cream.
Same was said about trips to the moon, back in the time.
Not to say you're wrong, just adding "We will see.".
...but why would anyone care if one blood strain is tougher than another?
Ever heard of "sport"?
So is cooking. And yet we don't call it science.
And ducks are fish.
A vaccine is just a mix of selected proteins (called antigens). You accidentally "vaccinate" yourself with thousands of such antigens every time you eat a hamburger.
The browser I'm using is AE (Arse Explorer)
You must be working for the TSA.
...if police is your friend.
OT - I have no idea what happened.
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If only more of them had a clit...
Like this one?
You can also filter the sound by training your brain not to notice the awful sound, by a process called autohypnosis. This video can help.
Poor old Ernesto. He was the Earnest of all the Hemingways. Too bad he's dead now.
I think his taste isn't affected much. The electro shocks are inadequate signal for the taste buds, which are chemoreceptors. The cells reacting to the shocks may be mechanoreceptors, like the cells responsible for the sense of touch in skin. The shocks are inadequate signals for them as well, but still closer. The brain just started to "see" meaningful information in those shocks. It's similar to the guy (link lost, lazy to google) who made himself a kind of belt with vibrating motors around it coupled to a compass. The motor oriented north vibrated, giving the man a new, previously unknown "sense of north".
Oh, we live in such enlightened times. Now you only get tagged flamebait instead of being set aflame.
What is this "real meat" everybody keeps talking about? Is it the product we buy in supermarkets, the lumps of chicken that grew in 4 weeks stuffed with growth hormones and antibiotics? The only difference between this lab grown meat and the stuff we eat today is that the new product has no head. An improvement, if you ask me.
I actually had thought that breaking in a regular car would disengage the engine... until I tried it.
Not a good idea. Disengaging the engine means lower control over the car, as the engine in lower gear actually helps you with braking. The injection system cuts the fuel flow, the engine is decompressing warm air, which slows the car down. Very convenient when going downhill. With the engine disengaged, the only thing that's slowing the car down are the brakes. Leaving the gear in saves fuel, brakes and the engine health as well. Additionally, in critical situations you can hit the gas pedal and accelerate immediately.
The use of things like rotating bearings and electric current (for transmission of energy) might enable a self replicating machine to operate much more efficiently than life.
I'm not so sure about this. Bacteria use something like a rotating bearing for anchoring the flagellum to the cell membrane. For some reason, this evolutionary feature is absent from eukaryotic organisms (their flagella are undulating, not rotating structures). Maybe they are not so much more effective.
A monstrous yet immobile creature who lives in an exposed pit in the middle of a lifeless desert, waiting for large animals to apparently feel suicidal and trek out to throw themselves in? Yeah, not so much. Not every Sarlaac can count on an intergalactic mob boss to feed it tidbits.
Has this guy never heard of the Antlion and it's sand-pits? (no, not the hl2 creature)