Are we supposed to believe that the goverment surveillance drones* that were strategically placed around Antarctica aren’t there to prevent these brave explorers from discovering the truth? Wake up, people!
*Birds aren't real. Especially the ones wearing tuxedos. https://birdsarentreal.com/
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“That’s where I think we’re at. A healthy body is about these simple things: healthy diet, sleep, and exercise,” he said.
I take it that a “healthy” diet and too much exercise don’t make him sick.
I can’t find out what he considers a “healthy” diet.
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Of course, the optimal dose is probably zero. Still - that’s a huge error.
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So, I can go back to sucking on black plastic kitchen utensils? Coolio! The other colours just don’t taste right.
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No kink shaming here.
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I’m not sure which thread to post this in. It’s Science, history, cute animals and Music, all at once:
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My wife calls these a “spoonula.”
Which reminds me (due to random neuron firing) of an episode of Morton and Hayes, a short-lived series based on Abbott and Costello created and hosted by Rob Reiner.
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I like how the first thing in the article is:
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Kind of sets up a false expectation… 
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Trans warp corridor.
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Let the sci-fi begin!
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Be prepared for a litany of “we need more data,” but none of the news is particularly good…
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Make Space Empty Again!
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[Looks at headline] 
Maybe they’ll act like preservatives?
[Starts reading article]
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I don’t understand how creating an artificial cell that can’t interact with our biochemistry to the point where it can’t even digest sugar is supposed to make it a good bioweapon. Sure, it would have no predators, but it would also have no food.
As a rule the dangerous microbes aren’t ones completely alien to us – none of the archaean extremophiles are pathogens – but ones that have been around us and adapted. Like you find at say wet markets. But hey, why worry about that kind of threat when we can talk about purely hypothetical lab leaks that don’t really make sense instead. 
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I think the worry is the inverse. An organism that can freely interact with any living thing with no natural mechanisms to stop it.
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The natural mechanism would be that it’s not suited for our world, as opposed to all the competing organisms that are. Maybe if you made mirror cyanobacteria that could happily grow off carbon dioxide and light, the absence of predators would give them some edge. But what would say a mirror E. coli inside our gut do to survive when every molecule in the environment is wrong for it?
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I was interested in the first section, about the possibility that the acceleration of expansion of the universe could be decreasing.
Acceleration is the change in velocity, while velocity is a change in position. A change in acceleration is formally called “jerk,” because it can cause a literal jerk, as in whiplash when struck by behind in a car.
Thus if the universe’s accelerating expansion is indeed decreasing, then the universe is suffering a “jerk.” Which is appropriate because of all the jerks on earth.
A change in jerk is called “snap,” and further changes are (seriously) called “crackle” and “pop.”
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