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Comment Adapt and Overcome (Score 1) 74

So-called temperature-sensitive vaccines already exist for a few viruses. An influenza vaccine called FluMist, for instance, consists of a weakened flu virus that can't grow at 37C, the temperature inside the lungs, but that can reproduce in the slightly cooler nose and throat. As it does so, it triggers a protective immune response.

Key Words:
- Virus
- Grow
- Reproduce

Oh and one more they didn't mention ...
- Adapt and
- Overcome

Side-Note:
Unofficial mantra of the Marine's: Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
(Tough little suckers huh? ... Yeah. I mean both of them)

Comment Patterns (Score 1) 306

Patterns are evident throughout the "natural world" (including space) - from same level (e.g., similar human-social development from groups that never cross each other) to different levels (e.g., cell formations and a bird's eye view of rural housing layouts).

In this natural world, many systems "clean" themselves. Examples include living cells, natural water filtration, and even "social systems" (e.g., jails).

What if we are the particulate matter collecting on the "mucous" layer of the Earth and the Earth ... clears its throat every 26 million years or so?

(puff - puff - pass)

Comment Re:Why (Score 2, Funny) 226

Because this guy believes that most advancements in science are cooperative efforts, and that recognizing individuals for merely putting the last piece in the jigsaw puzzle is intellectually dishonest

No, no, no, no, no. You got it all wrong. Please don't paint this with your opinionated brush about intellectual honesty.
It's simple. What USE does he have for money in the 8th dimension?! (It's pronounced Big-boo-TAY)

Comment Re:We All Wish (Score 1) 872

I never understood why it's so hard to find other people who don't subscribe to one extreme or the other when it comes to climate change.

It's hard to see the forest through the sleaze. There are agendas to be pushed, power to consume, and money to be made. If that's not convoluted enough, we're like a bar magnet where the polar opposites represent Dems and Reps - and we (the people!) are the material in between - aligning to their "fields" of influence ... ok, simply put: Many people are sheep content to have others think for them

Comment I hope this isn't too mean (Score 1) 112

... but oh well. Is the lung manufactured in such a way that it assimilates to a level that will affect its children's lungs?
The reason I ask is that maybe we can consider making the lungs function in such a way that it causes the mice to breathe slower and therefore _be_ slower and easier to catch ... cuz those sons-a-bitches move like greased lightning and I almost killed myself in my garage trying to catch one.

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