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  • #451
    Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

    Wait, what?

    Throughout the history of life on Earth, the code of life has been writted with DNA combined with four letters – G (guanine), T (thymine), C (cytosine) and A (adenine) which are the molecules which match with the DNA helix which gives us all our unique code.

    However, scientists have now extended this code to add two new molecules – which the team have dubbed X and Y – essentially creating a new life form.
    OK, I figured they were just combining the old letters in new ways. But they're introducing new nucleobases. (1) Why? and (2) Wait, what?
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    • #452
      Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

      Bad idea man. Bad idea...
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      • #453
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Wait, what?



        OK, I figured they were just combining the old letters in new ways. But they're introducing new nucleobases. (1) Why? and (2) Wait, what?
        I watched the movie. Bad idea.
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        • #454
          Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          I watched the movie. Bad idea.
          No, the point is all the movies until now have been about playing around with GATTACA. (U is apparently the redheaded stepchild.)

          This is not just building new words, it's building new words using NEW LETTERS. What I would like to know from our genetic engineers is:

          1. What's the benefit of new bases? Are there particular properties that would be useful that the Original 4 don't have?

          2. Is there a reason the bases are limited to the 4 (or 5) we see in nature or was that just luck of the evolutionary draw?

          3. Is designing and building a new base "just" a matter of developing synthetic compounds like chemists do all the time or is it "special"?

          4. I'm scared, hold me.
          Last edited by Kepler; 01-26-2017, 07:18 AM.
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          • #455
            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            No, the point is all the movies until now have been about playing around with GATTACA. (U is apparently the redheaded stepchild.)

            This is not just building new words, it's building new words using NEW LETTERS. What I would like to know from our genetic engineers is:

            1. What's the benefit of new bases? Are the particular properties that would be useful that the Original 4 don't have?

            2. Is there a reason the bases are limited to the 4 (or 5) we see in nature or was that just luck of the evolutionary draw?

            3. Is designing and building a new base "just" a matter of developing synthetic compounds like chemists do all the time or is it "special"?

            4. I'm scared, hold me.
            Wierd Science or Species?
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            • #456
              Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

              http://gizmodo.com/university-very-v...ily-1791640725

              I'm not saying the comment section is lying, I'm just not buying a lot of the stories. Back in my early 20s, a buddy and I drank 100 cups of coffee in a weekend. It was a celebration of futurama and a watching marathon with a bunch of people. Not that weak *** crap you get in the office either, but full octane Starbucks. We had a friend who worked at Starbucks who brought two huge carafes to the party.

              We wanted to make sure we weren't going to OD on caffeine so we did the math. At peak we would have around 3 g of caffeine in our system which was well below the LD50.

              Neither of us had any side effects or goofy reactions like letters moving around on a book. Three monsters probably made you OD on some other horrible crap in those drinks.
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              Originally posted by SanTropez
              May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
              Originally posted by Kepler
              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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              • #457
                Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                Wierd Science or Species?
                Hmm. Was Species mixing alien DNA*, I forget? Because they could have new letters.

                I admit I have never seen Weird Science, which shows I lack character.

                * For that matter, which one was Species? I recall three very similar storylines from different movies:

                1. The one where the mad scientists make the hot girl who needs to f-ck to get pregnant to spread her genes. Michael Madsen is a sarcastic hitman.

                2. The one where they are splicing (possibly alien?) DNA and to be honest I forget except it also has a hot woman and I think it ends in like a farmhouse? I think that one's Splice. It's more recent.

                3. The one where there's a plague and the hot molecular biologist (see a pattern?) figures out a cure based on NYC cockroaches but then some years later there are Super Cockroaches and I think there's a blind black kid. This one is more a monster movie than a mad scientist genetic movie.

                I mix all three of those up all the time. I think Species is 1 above. 99% of the supposedly gorgeous women in B movies leave me cold, but IIRC the "new species" hot girl is legitimately beautiful.
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                • #458
                  Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                  Species is your first option.


                  Weird Science is when two high school geeks decide to play around with their computer, to make a woman from their programming and a Barbie doll, more or less. Oh, and there are bras on their heads. The result is the 1986(?) version of Kelly LeBrock.
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                  "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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                  • #459
                    Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                    Weird Science is when two high school geeks decide to play around with their computer, to make a woman from their programming and a Barbie doll, more or less. Oh, and there are bras on their heads. The result is the 1986(?) version of Kelly LeBrock.
                    Yeah, I know. I had seen neither that nor the cult classic Reanimator until a couple years ago I read all of Lovecraft and then saw all the movies based on his stories. The latter is based on "Herbert West–Reanimator," one of his best short stories. The movie made some obvious changes For The Kids but was actually fairly faithful to the general sense of the story.

                    I never had any desire to see Weird Science, although I am very happy that Danny Elfman's life has gone so well -- he serves it.
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                    • #460
                      Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                      I really enjoyed the Val Kilmer bit that I think was called Real Genius. Probably haven't seen it for nearly 30 years.

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                      • #461
                        Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                        Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                        I really enjoyed the Val Kilmer bit that I think was called Real Genius. Probably haven't seen it for nearly 30 years.
                        I love that movie! https://youtu.be/XPEWBEa8pqg
                        "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

                        "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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                        • #462
                          Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                          I really enjoyed the Val Kilmer bit that I think was called Real Genius. Probably haven't seen it for nearly 30 years.
                          Fantastic film.
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                          • #463
                            Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                            http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38800987

                            Most importantly,
                            The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
                            I propose the new name for this creature be assface.
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                            Originally posted by SanTropez
                            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                            Originally posted by Kepler
                            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                            • #464
                              Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38800987

                              Most importantly,

                              I propose the new name for this creature be assface.
                              I was going to go with Bucky Badger but same diff.

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                              • #465
                                Re: Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38800987

                                Most importantly,

                                I propose the new name for this creature be assface.
                                Name it after Trump.
                                Last edited by Kepler; 02-01-2017, 08:51 AM.
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