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baja_blast

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    Comment #43482694

    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 th…

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    Comment #43195765

    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 ani…

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    Comment #42659619

    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 syst…

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    Comment #41596708

    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 evide…

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    Comment #41294513

    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 af…

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    Comment #41294452

    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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    Comment #41101499

    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 w…

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    Comment #40927561

    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 shou…

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    Comment #40564531

    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…

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    Comment #40564453

    And here is the alternative perspective https://michaelweissman.substack.com/p/an-inconvenient-proba...

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    Comment #40536809

    But you're refactoring an existing codebase so it's not prematurely dry. You know exactly how these classes diverge.

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    Comment #40349401

    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 int…

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    Comment #40349315

    >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 fol…

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    Comment #40349204

    Penrose argues just in terms of classical computers

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    Comment #40349176

    >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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    Comment #40225632

    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…

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    Comment #40225490

    > 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 mi…

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    Comment #40224832

    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 …

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    Comment #40224715

    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 …

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    Comment #40224640

    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.wikip…

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    Comment #39783544

    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 oth…

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    Comment #39778761

    But he did

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    Comment #39766689

    It's expensive in terms of opportunity costs.

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    Comment #39766638

    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.