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Comment Quantum Computing Help Desk (Score 1) 145

....
[Phone recording] You reached the secure communications quantum cryptography help desk. We detected that you pressed "Reset my password". This option requires a transfer to teh 8th dimension. We are now connecting you to Lord John Whorfin ...

[Lord John Whorfin] May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined. How may I help you?

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)

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