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Comment Re:I cannot wait (Score 1) 139

There was a day when /.ers didn't need to be spoonfed everything.

Can't sell it one way? Change the definition and force it down their throats.

"To our knowledge, there is no current precedent for an mRNA-based immunotherapy such as the type we are developing being approved for sale by the FDA, European Commission or any other regulatory agency elsewhere in the world. Although we expect to submit BLAs for our mRNA-based product candidates in the United States, and in the European Union, mRNA therapies have been classified as gene therapy medicinal products, other jurisdictions may consider our mRNA-based product candidates to be new drugs, not biologics or gene therapy medicinal products, and require different marketing applications. "

" in the United States, and in the European Union, mRNA therapies have been classified as gene therapy medicinal products,"

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1776985/000119312520022991/d838504df1.htm

Comment Re:I cannot wait (Score -1, Troll) 139

The desire to have unfettered biological control over their populations? I don't want to live in a country that has to follow the edicts of unelected, international bureaucrats in forcing genetic modification onto the populace. We won't know the damage from by the last round of wildcat genetweaking for two generations.

Note, Pfizer described their mRNA technology as genetic therapy in their SEC filings, not as a vaccine or other prophylactic.

Comment Yes but (Score 1) 90

only occasionally as Piracetam creates a two week boom-bust cycle in brain chemistry and they don't make Vasopressin anymore. Biggest piece of advice is to make sure you know how whatever you're dosing interacts with your internal chemistry and any other foods or drugs you are intaking.
1. Take nootropics
2. ???
3. Profit!

Comment Same old, same old (Score 1) 576

People were saying the same thing in the '80s and it hasn't happened. We were supposed to be living in a polluted desert hellscape by now. Before that, people were saying industrial pollution was going to trigger an ice age.
This all assumes that both humanity and Earth biota are somehow fragile.

Comment Re:Switch to skinsuits (Score 1) 181

Skinsuits are a great idea, if they can be made to work in full vacuum. Dr. Webb's SAS tests were only to 38,000' in a vac chamber. A more current option would be something lighter based on Final Frontier's suit or the old Apollo Extension Suit from Elkins. One thing to consider with any lighter suit is the opposite need, that these are suits used in heavy construction and need to be built tough. NASA almost went with the AX5 hardsuit for station.

Comment Conduct/Conflict (Score 5, Insightful) 326

The only Code of Conduct that makes sense is explicitly encouraging disagreement and challenging each other. This is the only way to make mission critical systems. You can't hugbox, gold star and safe space your way out of some obscure processor overflow or failing turbopump. Note this movement has grown in places where nothing mission critical happens, like app and game developers and is now spilling over into critical systems.
NASA engineers used to say "Always question, never defend."

Comment Other (Score 1) 224

We've already found it but don't know that we found it. Viking' Labeled Release surface experiment showed a biorhythm in the data, for instance. Not saying that's a confirmation but we already have tons of data that likely contains a bacterial signal. Intelligent life will probably have to wait until we can listen to some kind of tachyonic signal.

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