Failed 700 times, steal someone elses idea..

"Hey guys, I got it to work!"

I love it when I learn something new.

Thank you!

Skin is rarely intact but we have examples, so we can tell what the texture of those examples was.

However you are right that currently we cannot determine the pigmentation.

Unless you're in some places where they're butchered for magic potions.

GLONASS a rival to GPS..

Should tell the russian military who use civilian GPS recievers.

Also who is going to fund this 😂 millions will go in and every step of the way funds will shrink, eventually a tin can with chinese radio will be launched by firework.

Yep the inherent limitation of spiracles..

But the alternative is 8 foot tall insects, so i'll take that.

Efficient takes into account many factors, having to grow a massive organ for gaseous diffusion isn't very efficient.

Insects that rely on diffusion through spiracles, have an upper limit on size as diffusion is so slow

Diffusion is energetically cheap however, so systems evolved around it

It's via diffusion, the deoxygenated blood has a higher affinity for the oxygen and the haemoglobin will bind to the oxygen easily.

Diffusion isn't very efficient, hence needing a very high surface area and very thin capillary walls in the alveoli.

The blood travels along enough of this diffusion-optimised path to ensure (in a healthy person) that almost all the blood becomes saturated.

Pffft..

looks under router

pops in the ISP set password

"Are you saying my ass is big"?

Well, it picked me up a GF..

So.. yeah.

Do you have a boyfriend?

Want one?

The one time I used this, I ended up marrying her.

More accurate, but heavily tied to urban environments and mobile infrastructure..

Will be of immense use with automated drones however.

Truth

technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Every time I see one of your posts, I am amazed.

thank you, and thanks to everyone that lets you take these pictures and keeps what you do in the public eye.

What the hell happened here?

Banned in China

My record was 3, sometimes 2, but I prefer to concentrate on 1.

My limited time now means that even 2 would take forever.

An asteroid MAY be a problem,

without looking, we don't know.

and without having a plan saved for a rainy day, it's basically planning to fail.

no one is looking to travel to an asteroid, this is about coming up with a really good plan and look out for something that might kill millions and harm the earths ecosystems (i'm talking about smaller than planet killers here, which there are many more)

it's also not an exclusive thing.

and each chunk is checked a few times, so it all helps!

Every country on the planet would be pissed at the one who launched that.

everyone who uses GPS in their car, or company that uses GPS time stamps (google for one)

GPS has literally become a mission-critical piece of human life.

(and by GPS i'm referring to all the positioning systems, not just the American system, they would all be wiped out)

Good analogy btw.

To use your computer analogy, modifying a protein would be like modifying a program class, without fully understanding the full program, might work, might cause huge issues 😂

Yes, the computer analogy is pretty good, but the proteins can be for signaling, enzymes, or other purposes..

Can the old co-exist with the new? Thats a question i have no idea about (I will be honest)

There are a few reasons why viruses from other species can't infect human cells (or well) generally it's a matter of the virus gaining entry to the cell to hijack cellular machinery (i will admit, it's been a few years since my virology courses) so physically differences at this stage generally prevents entry.

Interestingly there is a line of thought that some poorly adapted viruses can be oncogenic (causing cancers)

To everyone with more knowledge on this, please correct and accept my apologies if I butchered anything!

CRISPR is a scalpel, able to excise and introduce new DNA, potentially it's possible to change all the DNA in a mouse cell, but it would be like trying to change a painting with a single hair paintbrush.

Given the number of times you'd need to conduct the protocol, you'd need to culture the cell line for quite a while, to be honest I think that would be a limiting factor.

My wife has actually used CRISPR on mouse lines for genetic studies but they have always been for small knock-ins and knock-outs.

EDIT: Sorry, missed a part to expand on..

If we presume that you could wave a wand and change the DNA using CRISPR all at once, you would have a situation where proteins being created would be different from the existing proteins, not sure what the ramifications of this would be, I shall ask my better half.

Gut feel is there is a possibility that the cell might undergo apoptosis during the change over, for a few reasons..