Sonovabich Posted February 16, 2013 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5198 Achievement Points: 131537 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 9 Device: Windows Posted February 16, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TtOL5OiWTNI http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TtOL5OiWTNI Markoff can you translate Wow
Astronomer Posted February 16, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted February 16, 2013 Awesome for the folks in Russia if this is true. I participated in a grid search for pieces of meteorite a couple of years ago with a team from the local university's Astronomy and Earth Sciences department, headed by a friend of mine. One of the pieces struck and smashed a car windshield. Our team didn't find any, though we got to hike through beautiful vinyards and up the Niagara Escarpment. Beautiful views. Do you think anyone will become sick like a plague or other kind of illness as their are theories that many catastrophes in our time are the fault of meteors that carry these viruses? I doubt as well but just in interesting thought. So if we see many people get sick in time... maybe it is true. Nope. Not a chance. The odds of anything biological coming in from space are near zero. If in the remotest chance that something biological did come in, the odds of it having the exact biological pathways to infect something that evolved here would be as close to absolute zero as one could imagine. Viruses infect us because we're of the same biosphere - they evolve in an arms race against our defences so they have learned to "trick" receptors on cells etc. Remember - we (viruses, fish, plants, elephants etc) all evolved from a common ancestor in the remote past (all have DNA. Plant, animal, it doesn't matter. DNA is DNA), so that common origin means that we're alike enough that DNA can be transferred, defences can be broken. Anything from not around here would have no pathways to infect us. Gesssusss Mate..what a Lecture...!!! ..and you play among us Idiots...???? ;-) I'm a science nerd. Awards
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