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Dr. Clayton Forrester's Science Roundup

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Just a tad older than 6000 years...

Astrophysicists at Caltech say they’ve detected the oldest, most distant galaxy known so far. It’s 13.2 billion years old — just over half a billion years younger than the universe itself — and the discovery may change what astrophysicists know about the early history of the universe.
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Yeah that's actually terrifying. We haven't had immunity to these diseases in millennia. Yeesh.
 
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Kepler said:
So. This is how we end it all. And I had my money on grey goo.
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Scientists plan to reanimate a 30,000-year-old giant virus that has been found preserved in the frozen wastelands of Siberia, one of several pre-historic viruses to have been unearthed in the last 15 years. But while the researchers believe the finding will be of great scientific interest, they warned that the effects of climate change were likely to unearth more such microscopic pathogens, a reality which could pose an increased threat for the spread of disease.
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So yeah, let's reanimate another virus that no one has natural immunity to. Clearly, scientists who have never seen these pre-historic viruses before, know how to fully contain them after a mere 15 years in the global context. :rolleyes: :p

But the item about unearthing new diseases, in addition to the mutation of existing ones under new environment conditions, could be a fair point.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
So yeah, let's reanimate another virus that no one has natural immunity to. Clearly, scientists who have never seen these pre-historic viruses before, know how to fully contain them after a mere 15 years in the global context. :rolleyes: :p

But the item about unearthing new diseases, in addition to the mutation of existing ones under new environment conditions, could be a fair point.
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We probably do have an immunity to it - or some of us do. Genetic memory is pretty powerful.
 
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joecct said:
We probably do have an immunity to it - or some of us do. Genetic memory is pretty powerful.
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That assumes that the virus was ever capable of infecting humans or anything close to human--statistically, that's a really bad assumption.
 
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joecct said:
We probably do have an immunity to it - or some of us do. Genetic memory is pretty powerful.
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Because there's no selective pressure to get rid of the immunity once it's no longer needed? The immunity doesn't cost any genetic overhead?
 
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Because there's no selective pressure to get rid of the immunity once it's no longer needed? The immunity doesn't cost any genetic overhead?
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Wish I knew that, but I'm guessing 15,000 years is a short time. Heck we still have an appendix.
 
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Looks to be the best since the 40s and best until 2024. Even then we won't see one cross this much of the states until 2045.
 
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Fascinating find in South Africa. 15 skeletons that may be among the oldest ever found in the homo genus. Under 5 feet tall, primitive pelvis and shoulders, small teeth, and a brain one-third the size of modern man. Homo gopherfanus.
 
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burd said:
Fascinating find in South Africa. 15 skeletons that may be among the oldest ever found in the homo genus. Under 5 feet tall, primitive pelvis and shoulders, small teeth, and a brain one-third the size of modern man. Homo gopherfanus.
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You're here all week?
 
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burd said:
Fascinating find in South Africa. 15 skeletons that may be among the oldest ever found in the homo genus. Under 5 feet tall, primitive pelvis and shoulders, small teeth, and a brain one-third the size of modern man. Homo gopherfanus.
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I laughed. But then realized I didn't know what laughing was. Or how to use a computer. Who said that?
 
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Read The Martian in preparation for seeing the movie. Very good story and sufficiently geeky to make it entertaining. Nothing that's not currently in the pipeline or in use is used in the book.

I recommend it.
 
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Kepler said:
Uh oh.
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<strike>Let me get this straight. Two mega-corporations said we need to ground these aircraft </strike>

Nix that. That's a really clunky headline. It should have read, "Boeing and GE were Warned..."

Getting back to the story. Yeesh, that's not good. Now what?
 
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