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Comment Re:Grabs popcorn (Score 1) 518

Have you actually seen a newish 18 wheeler, RV or UPS truck without them? They make so much sense to professionals (and well heeled but insane RV drivers) that this has pretty much already happened.

Personally, I can't imagine driving a pickup truck sized vehicle without one. It's been game changer 4 wheeling - you know exactly where that cliff is....

Comment Re:Not "thousands" (Score 3, Insightful) 53

No,they're not required. That's the funny part. There are primates which do a wonderful job of going from fertilized egg to organism without the viral DNA. It's just that the viral DNA is very active in a class of stem cells and not active in other cells. It was thought that all of this 'junk DNA' - which includes most of the incorporated retrovirus DNA - didn't do anything.

Now they know it does something. Only in stem cells. That's weird. And fun. But it's not clear that this is useful or will cure cancer or allow you to get a date.

As usual, it's interesting science hyped beyond measure.

Comment Re:Projections (Score 1) 987

Yep, I just did. I live on the side of a 3500 foot mountain at an elevation of about 200 feet. No traditional floods are likely short of a Noah-level deluge, but national flood insurance does cover mass wastings (like the recent disaster in Washington state) as long as damage is from water or mud, not debris or trees (and the damage encompasses more than one acre but less than 20,000 acres). But it only cost $300 a year, so I think it's worth it.

But the flood insurance program in general is just batshit insane, like most US government policies.

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