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Comment Did you misunderstand? (Score 1) 100

You'd be wrong if you assumed that he intended to inject the vaccine to the mosquitoes directly. He actually suggests to give humans the antibodies, which will then be picked up by the mosquito when it bites the person.

From TFA

The next question was how to get the mosquitoes to pick up the antigen. Since it is easier to get people to take injections than it is to find mosquitoes, the answer was to allow people to transmit it to mosquitoes when they bite. The antibody itself doesn't protect against malaria, but when a mosquito bites a treated person, the parasite can no longer use the mosquito's gut to reproduce.

Comment Re:It's true! (Score 1) 150

Skydiving without a parachute will be similar to climbing Mount Everest while being in just jeans and t-shirt without anything else. I am sure he didn't do this.

Of course not all dreams are equal, but downplaying someone's courage because he pursued a dream which is a bit too dangerous and pointless to you is not fair either IMHO. And that was my whole point.

Comment Think again.. (Score 1) 206

This perhaps explains why the NSA has its own chip fabrication plant."

If you are implying that all of the hardware used at NSA, even all of their computers contain semiconductors fabricated by themselves, I would say Yeah Right

Comment Re:It's true! (Score 1) 150

Well the word Hero shouldn't be just reserved for people who apparently do something selfless, or violent/inhumane acts in the name of the country or religion.

It takes a great deal of courage to even think of putting yourself through this much hardship, and even a greater deal of courage to do so while having wife and kid. For me, this qualifies as a Hero as well. And on a side-note, where would the world be without people trying to do seemingly impossible things just because it was their dream or downright silly at the moment

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Submission + - 40 million years old Primate fossils found in Asia (wired.com) 2

sosaited writes: It has been widely believed that our ancestors originated out of Africa, but a paper published in Nature by Carnegie Museum of Natural History scientists puts this in doubt. The paper is based on the fossils of 4 primate species found in Asia which are 40 million years old , during which period Africa was thought to not have these species.

The diversity and timing of the new anthropoids raises two scenarios. Anthropoids might simply have emerged in Africa much earlier than thought, and gone undiscovered by modern paleontologists. Or they could have crossed over from Asia, where evidence suggests that anthropoids lived 55 million years ago, flourishing and diversifying in the wide-open ecological niches of an anthropoid-free Africa.


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