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Try to feed that AGCT stuff to a DNA to aminoacid translation table. The result in single letter aminoacid code should mean something, as there are 20 different aminoacids coded by triplets of DNA bases, e.g. ACT=T (for Thereonin). I would try myself, if I wasn't late allready...

It would be refreshing in the meaning that to contract a STD you usually have to have sex. That would probably be the refreshing part. The STD less so.

Water? No, it's earth's juice!

Apophis will come by in 2029 and then back again in 2036. They could land some autonomous mining robots during the first close encounter and collect the mined raw materials during the second.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the stuff here, but I'm under the impression that they want to mine asteroids that already are in Earth's orbit. Why waste a shitload of money and energy to drag some piece of rock over (with all the delicate targeting and orbiting snafu opportunities), when you can have the same for free? You just have to wait for the right one, quickly mine what you can while it's within reasonable distance, and then let it float on, back where it came from.

You don't understand the theory of evolution.
We are no improved monkeys. Every species living today is the pinnacle of its own evolution. Our minds and civilisation are a glitch, a side product, not a evolutionary goal. The only goal of evolution is survival and reproduction.

You are as stupid (or troll) as the parent is.
Condoms help people, that already have AIDS, exactly how? How do they help children born with AIDS? The African rape victims? The recent Korean transplant patients, where they got infected organs because of some diagnostic snafu?
FYI, malaria is not a bacterium. Antibiotics help you exactly as much as condoms. There are antimalarics, but they are expensive, and their side effects can be as debilitating as malaria itself. Also, malaria is becoming resistant.
Not happy yet.

Hey, Kim Jong Il, is that you?

I have 2 personal favourites in similar vein: "Not tested on animals" on dog shampoo, and "Avoid direct exposure to sunlight" on sun cream.

Same was said about trips to the moon, back in the time.
Not to say you're wrong, just adding "We will see.".

Ever heard of "sport"?

So is cooking. And yet we don't call it science.

And ducks are fish.

A vaccine is just a mix of selected proteins (called antigens). You accidentally "vaccinate" yourself with thousands of such antigens every time you eat a hamburger.

You must be working for the TSA.