From one invisible being to another: I fail to see the connection. |
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Read this: |
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From one invisible being to another: I fail to see the connection. |
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Can you see me now?
The difference here being that the microbe is a... microbe, and the thing is a... shape shifting alien. |
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Let me be the first visible person, then, to clarify: The article says we may learn some stuff or other about living things living on other planets, and the movie is about one example of some such possible thing (aka an alien). |
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Gracias, Mes Tarrant. Just think, some people are fiddling around with this now-thawed microbe in some college lab . . . never even asked for the publics consent. |
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Anyone know toxoplasma gondii? |
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Wow, this thread is one big exercise in non sequiturs. |
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Don't get your panties in a twist. |
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Is 'the public' somehow more competent in making decisions about that than 'some college kids? |
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Interesting in itself, but the article is complete bollocks like pretty much every science article I've ever seen on an American news website. Such a recent microbe gives us no idea about alien life forms at all. |
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True, but it's still useful to study it as it can show how life adapts itself to conditions of extreme cold. |
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I hate to hijack the thread, but I'm getting really tired of the negative stereotypes of Americans that I see fairly frequently around the board. With regard to the above comment I'll just point out that the popular science articles coming out of other countries don't have track records any better than those coming from American sites. Check out the archives of the popular Bad Science blog, written by a London doctor who very frequently takes critical aim at popular science articles primarily coming out of the UK. The phenomenon of poor press coverage of science topics is a global one. |
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Mainstream American media does not equate to 'Americans'... |
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Last edited by Xei; 06-18-2009 at 01:15 PM.
A perusal of the 33 Bad Science articles tagged with BBC suggests otherwise. So much for Britain's last bastion of reliable science reporting. |
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