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Originally Posted by RL Clown (Post 1900132)

Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)

I got you, bro.

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Originally Posted by RL Clown (Post 1900132)

Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)

The eggs we eat are a chickens period (after some reading, since they don't menstruate it's not actually a "period", but i still think it's a decent oversimplified analogy), but instead of flushing it down to the toilet, we put it in a frying pan.

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Originally Posted by RL Clown (Post 1899716)

I have an interesting question for all of you science lovers... Seriously, why don't blue foods exist? (I'm talking about natural foods.) Think about it... Blueberries are not really blue. Blue cheese is not really blue. So why don't blue foods exist??

What about blue mushrooms and potatoes?

I think that given the current state of science education in the states, I'm not sure that this kind of thing is the best idea, but hey still fun.

The finalists are in - vote for the People’s Choice for Breakthrough of the Year!

4 Finalists:

A drug for many cancers

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drug to treat advanced solid tumors with a specific genetic defect, no matter where in the body the cancer arose. The drug reflects a long-awaited shift from treating cancers based on their origins to one grounded in tumor biology.

Gene Therapy Success

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A treatment for a neuromuscular disease that usually kills infants before they turn 2 scored a dramatic initial success in a small clinical trial. The trial demonstrated the power of a new vector in ferrying genetic cargo across the blood-brain barrier.

Pint-sized neutrino detector

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Physicists used a detector the size of a milk jug to observe neutrinos pinging off atomic nuclei in a way never seen before. The achievement confirms a 40-year-old prediction and opens the way for portable detectors of these elusive particles, which could carry clues to new physics.

Fixing tiny mutations

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Biologists made a big advance in editing DNA and RNA, developing techniques to transform one nucleotide base into another at a precise point in a genome. A team in China used a version of the technique to correct a point mutation in a human embryo.

If you're interested, you can find the runners up here.

I would have voted for Artificial Intelligence Masters Poker because I've been working on a computer program that "plays" cribbage.

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Concrete evidence of Creation

Voyager 1 was launched 40 years ago. Just last month its thrusters were remotely fired for the first time in 34 years.

Voyager 1 is currently 11.8 billion miles away from the earth.

I didn't hear about the thrusters. Were they expending accumulated solar energy so it could recharge?

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Originally Posted by eric generic (Post 1902714)

I didn't hear about the thrusters. Were they expending accumulated solar energy so it could recharge?

What Voyager 1 uses for fuel.

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The spacecraft actually carry two types of fuel—one to power the thrusters, the other to keep the electricity humming. The propellant is hydrazine, a simple concoction of nitrogen and hydrogen that smells like weak ammonia. It was chosen—and remains favored today—because it's cheap and has a very low freezing point. The Voyagers' jets are used to orient the vessels; the geek term for the hydrazine is "attitude control propellant." (There's no need for constant propulsion, of course, because space is gravity-free, so the initial boost went a long way; the spacecraft additionally took advantage of the outer planets' gravitational fields, which act like slingshots to increase speed.) NASA estimates that the Voyagers' fuel efficiency is upwards of 30,000 miles per gallon of hydrazine.

2040 - AI will surpass humans.

Projecting 22 years out is foolish in my opinion. Shit is going to get weird (if we make it that far). IE: Transhumanism / Singularity.