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I would much rather tend a field of poppies than a mamba snake ranch. Poppies hardly ever run away from thunderstorms.
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On one side, this is an incredible medical advancement and opens the door to a lot of other developments, but on the other side if my doctor said I was getting injected with snake venom...
Your doctor wouldn’t say that. Your doctor would prescribe you polylepiscin or some other vaguelly medical and scientifical sounding name. You wouldn’t know that the compound originally was found in black mamba venom unless you like geeking out on medicine history. (And if you like geeking out on that you would already know that nearly all drugs comes from weird things.)
FTA: They admit to being completely baffled about why the mamba would produce it. I would guess it keeps their target calm. A panicking prey is more likely to injure the snake than one that dies before it realizes it got seriously bitten.
>> FTA: They admit to being completely baffled about why the mamba would produce it. It's because they are scientists. Scientists are always "baffled", in the news.
the impeded stream is the one that sings"
-- Wendell Berry
FTA: They admit to being completely baffled about why the mamba would produce it. I would guess it keeps their target calm. A panicking prey is more likely to injure the snake than one that dies before it realizes it got seriously bitten.
>> FTA: They admit to being completely baffled about why the mamba would produce it. It's because they are scientists. Scientists are always "baffled", in the news.
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On one side, this is an incredible medical advancement and opens the door to a lot of other developments, but on the other side if my doctor said I was getting injected with snake venom...
Your doctor wouldn’t say that. Your doctor would prescribe you polylepiscin or some other vaguelly medical and scientifical sounding name. You wouldn’t know that the compound originally was found in black mamba venom unless you like geeking out on medicine history. (And if you like geeking out on that you would already know that nearly all drugs comes from weird things.)
I really hope this goes somewhere. I've been left on the curbside with a caduceus up my backside because of self-righteousness, paranoia and hysterics. If an analgesic can be created without committing the atrocity of inadvertently imparting a synthetic sense of wellbeing too, much suffering would end. Just don't poison it with acetaminophen! Maybe I'll abandon my unfruitful hunt for opium lettuce and raise snakes in…
To those who through inhibition of self expression see all subjects as an arrow facing north or south, I pose a question for you to silently grate your arrows edge upon: Is it for the greater good that pain be palliated with the chronic use of ibuprofen and perforated ulcers, or acetaminophen and failing livers, or any nsaid and heart disease? Is insomnia now in fashion? Is lethargy and unproductivity encouraged? Or…
I don't know if you're getting down voted due to people disagreeing or merely not understanding what your point and data is. It is possible if you contributed more clearly you'd find a more receptive audience.
I find frequently when there is topic near to people's heart aNd they spend a lot of time thinking about, they start at a hundred with a very strong and flowery language. My suggestion would be to understand others don't have same context and start at 1 and build your way up, whether logically or emotionally. You Gotta ask yourself are you writing for your own sake and enjoy your metaphors and alusions and poetry without regard for others (even finding gratification and martyrdom in not being understood), or are you actually trying to educate, persuade, build understanding. If the latter, focus on that goal most clearly and directly.
(I could be wrong - merely my 2 cents).
FTA: They admit to being completely baffled about why the mamba would produce it. I would guess it keeps their target calm. A panicking prey is more likely to injure the snake than one that dies before it realizes it got seriously bitten.
>> FTA: They admit to being completely baffled about why the mamba would produce it. It's because they are scientists. Scientists are always "baffled", in the news.
There's "we don't know" (and we have no idea why), there's "we don't know" (just because we didn't prove it yet, but our money is on that) or (we think it's because so and so but haven't looked into it) and in-betweens.
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Your doctor wouldn’t say that. Your doctor would prescribe you polylepiscin or some other vaguelly medical and scientifical sounding name. You wouldn’t know that the compound originally was found in black mamba venom unless you like geeking out on medicine history. (And if you like geeking out on that you would already know that nearly all drugs comes from weird things.)
Yes exactly. Bacteria in probiotic yoghurt come in from the guts... no one says “fancy like eating your own shit”?
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To those who through inhibition of self expression see all subjects as an arrow facing north or south, I pose a question for you to silently grate your arrows edge upon: Is it for the greater good that pain be palliated with the chronic use of ibuprofen and perforated ulcers, or acetaminophen and failing livers, or any nsaid and heart disease? Is insomnia now in fashion? Is lethargy and unproductivity encouraged? Or…
Fwiw - I enjoyed your posts The way I enjoy poetry : lovely, but largely incomprehensible. I don't know if you're getting down voted due to people disagreeing or merely not understanding what your point and data is. It is possible if you contributed more clearly you'd find a more receptive audience. I find frequently when there is topic near to people's heart aNd they spend a lot of time thinking about, they start at…
Two 1943 wheat pennies, I'd say. Thanks.
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I would guess it's just a genetic glitch and not some conscious decision or purposeful design.
It doesn't have to be a conscious decision or purposeful design to be "there for a reason". Evolution tends toward solutions because the population that happens to be closer to a solution are more likely to survive. Nothing the op said was incompatible with evolution.