Comment Re:fuck this (Score 1) 60
Amateur scientists aren't professional scientists; they don't make a living doing science. That's the distiction being made by the grandparent.
Comment Re:total disbelief (Score 1) 121
The modern meter was formally defined in 1983, the SI prefixes were standardised from 1960 to 1990.
Comment Re:total disbelief (Score 1) 121
Perhaps you'd prefer lengths in Smoots, or cubits?
But seriously, you're free to continue using 19th Centrury units if you want, just don't expect everyone else to put effort into enabling you.
Submission + - Synthetic Life! (sciencemag.org)
Dthief writes: He and his colleagues had previously made a synthetic bacterial genome, and transplanted the genome of one bacterium into another.
Now, the scientists have put both methods together, to create what they call a "synthetic cell", although only its genome is truly synthetic.
Now, the scientists have put both methods together, to create what they call a "synthetic cell", although only its genome is truly synthetic.
Comment Re:Pauling and Vitamin C (Score 2, Insightful) 144
Go look at the literature. Pauling showed that the mechanism virii use
Viruses, viruses, viruses. Virii is not the plural of virus.
Comment Same old. (Score 1, Insightful) 790
The moment drugs are being discussed, logic, sense and reason dissapear. And we're suprised every time.
Comment Re:Right, but... (Score 1) 347
Yup, Steam Reforming: methane and steam with a Nickel catalyst. Very cheap, about 90% of the methane is converted into Hydrogen.
