baja_blast

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by baja_blast 1y ago
I really wish more research was funneled into vaccines that target T-cells instead of B cells which produce antibodies. You see viruses mutate quickly and antibodies produced by the b cells can be evaded pretty quickly, but T-cells the whit
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by baja_blast 2y ago
So the article references the market samples with Raccoon Dog mtDNA with some SARS2 within it. But here is the problem when you look at the samples there is a high abundance of animal viruses such as bamboo rat CoV, canine CoV HeB-G1, rabbi
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by baja_blast 2y ago
I still tip very generously for food delivery and table service but I will never tip a cashier at checkout and in fact I actually avoid stores that use the tip screen checkout system because I hate being guilt tripped when buying gum.
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Nature publishes groundbreaking study on artificially designed virus receptors(en.whu.edu.cn)
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by baja_blast 2y ago
This paper's argues that due to half of the early reported cases being linked to the market and the presence animal DNA showing animals were at the market that this is strong evidence. But this is just circumstantial evidence, there is
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by baja_blast 2y ago
What politics of today in any way fit with a 500 story about a magical Monkey fighting monsters? I just want a compelling game, no one is going to change their politics suddenly after playing a magical monkey game. For politics there is a t
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by baja_blast 2y ago
To attack a Chinese developer about covid is totally wrong, regardless of what happened they like the rest of us had no control over what happened.
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by baja_blast 2y ago
Interesting that we seem to find SARS-CoV-2 circulating in animals from reverse zoonosis(humans to animals), but we can't find any precursor virus circulating in any animals that would explain the zoonotic spillover in the first place.
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by baja_blast 2y ago
I just want to point out that anyone who tries and make arguments about the rare earth or the uniqueness of our solar system based off of observed exoplanets and solar systems should note that due to time and technical limitations we almost
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by baja_blast 2y ago
And what is this consensus based upon outside of what is most beneficial for their field of study? As stated in the article we have not found any infected animals, no antibodies or samples pointing to infected animals, no precursor viruses
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by baja_blast 2y ago
And here is the alternative perspective https://michaelweissman.substack.com/p/an-inconvenient-proba...
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by baja_blast 2y ago
But you're refactoring an existing codebase so it's not prematurely dry. You know exactly how these classes diverge.
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by baja_blast 2y ago
The microtubules were from a pigs brain according the material and methods. These proteins exist in all animal cells. So this probably explains why single cell organisms are so intelligent despite not having a brain
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by baja_blast 2y ago
>the many-worlds interpretation is basically the result of saying it doesn't Few problems with this, the state that a particle can be in after the collapse of the wave function follows a probability distribution, so if all states ar
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by baja_blast 2y ago
Penrose argues just in terms of classical computers
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by baja_blast 2y ago
>interesting uses in cognition or otherwise are in fact extremely rare in biology How would you know that when we just started studying such effects?
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by baja_blast 2y ago
People have said the same thing many times yet we keep discovering extremophiles thriving the some of the most hostile environments. And in 2020 they conducted an experiment on the ISS that exposed Earth bacteria to direct cosmic radiation
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by baja_blast 2y ago
> This was not true of the Martian soil; on Mars, the second and third nutrient injections did not produce any further release of labeled gas But that's probably because martian microbes are less tolerant of high temperatures when c
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by baja_blast 2y ago
Yeah I never liked the panspermia as a solution to how life started so quickly on Earth because it just kicks the can down the road. But hey it has been speculated that DNA may be almost 10 billion years old https://phys.org&#x2F
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by baja_blast 2y ago
Given how long it took for Earth to develop multicellular life, Mars was probably pretty dead before it could take off(although it's very likely microbes still exist on Mars). But who knows, maybe Earth was late to the multicellular pa
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by baja_blast 2y ago
One thing that has annoyed me is in the 1970s the Viking landers did experiments to check for the presence of life on Mars known as the Labeled Release experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_lander_biological
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by baja_blast 2y ago
Biggest issue in my eyes was authorities denying that covid was airborne until it was scientifically verified. It should have been treated as such in the beginning until proven otherwise, it's better to be safe than sorry and it should
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by baja_blast 2y ago
But he did
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by baja_blast 2y ago
It's expensive in terms of opportunity costs.
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by baja_blast 2y ago
I kind of like that it flows with how real conversations go. But I can also see how it's annoying if you're hoping for in-depth discussions.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
It really is if you consider that only considering zoonotic origin helps prevent any meaningful regulations on dangerous research.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> every of your former friends hates you Ah yes, people hate it when people call out corruption that results in the planes they fly to kill people! >your family isn't super supportive either for what you caused to the rest of the
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by baja_blast 3y ago
And not to mention a potential criminal trail from the DOJ. He would be a key witness against individuals for a criminal case that bubbles up to the top brass.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Sure he may have already aired out what Boeing was doing, but he was only talking about general actions. But given that DOJ is looking into a criminal investigation that means he can name names, and testify against individuals which would b
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I was about to come in and say this. I feel we greatly over estimate the intelligence of Chimps and underestimate crows and parrots.

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