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Comment · 1 year ago
If viruses usually aren't considered alive, why would obelisk? I'm also curious how we know these are independent structures versus a by product of our own or our resident bacteria's cellular function. The mRNA seems unrelated to our own, but perhaps there's an unknown process that either generates new extracellular mRNA to create these protiens referenced in the article. Alternatively, could these be mRNA strands that escaped the cellular destruction process?
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Who's hiding the sun through transparent glass?
Comment · 1 year ago
Having the government do anti -DEI purity tests for research is the exact opposite or reducing bureaucracy.
Comment · 1 year ago
The analogy breaks down in that rate of infection of a disease is historical but very much informs ongoing public health measures that should be taken.
Comment · 1 year ago
Seems like publicity is the point. Getting headlines is a lot more likely to change something then just skipping the tournament.
Comment · 1 year ago
What a weird last sentence.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't see how you could say that's more likely without evidence, lack significant gaps in archaelogical finds between eras of human presence in a region.
Comment · 1 year ago
You think the study of archeology, anthropology, genetics, and ecology across the entire Western academic system is being subverted to support DEI using a theory that existed long before the time "DEI" was a known acronym? And you can't provide evidence?
Comment · 1 year ago
Out of Africa was fought by the majority of Western scientists during the early 20th century because of their pro-European biases. The reason its accepted is because the preponderance of evidence supports it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think a group of people living somewhere for thousands of years would be "getting it wrong." You're embedding an assumption that evolution has been working toward an end goal of getting humans to spread globally, which isn't how evolution works.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just look at likelihood you are going to die each mile traveled. Using that method, passenger planes are 750 times safer than cars.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, that's true, thanks.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Pressure" as a concept doesn't apply to black holes. They are the size they are because of their mass. The bigger the mass, the larger area where their gravity is so great light can't escape. Scientists model black holes as only have a mass and a spin on the inside because that's all the external universe cares about. Information being inscribed on the exterior is an artifact of tike dilating as an object approaches a black hole, iirc.
Comment · 2 years ago
Just because you can't record something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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