Author Topic: Holy Crap! Mad Science Thread! (or disastrous events) (Read 8624 times)

ThePerm · « **on:** November 28, 2011, 08:58:46 PM »

You know how we have a thread for good technological advances, this is one for bad ones.

http://www.doctortipster.com/6952-dutch-researcher-created-a-super-influenza-virus-with-the-potential-to-kill-millions.html

I'm sure they were researching this stuff to cure the flu, but you know at any time some crazy PETA people can break in and release the ferrets.

nickmitch · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2011, 09:12:30 PM »

Any number of doomsday movie mishaps can be used to release that kinda ****. It needs to destroyed. Why is it even a question of whether or not to publish that ****? Should be an obvious no.

Stogi · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2011, 10:44:58 PM »

That's extremely naive. The first thing that'll happen when this is released and replicated is a cure will be found; better now then when it actually mutates into a dangerous pathogen.

Furthermore, there is no telling what we can find out as we cure it.

nickmitch · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2011, 10:56:29 PM »

Yeah, I guess that'd be good too.

Morari · « **Reply #4 on:** November 28, 2011, 11:43:23 PM »

Quote from: ThePerm on November 28, 2011, 08:58:46 PM

I'm sure they were researching this stuff to cure the flu, but you know at any time some crazy PETA people can break in and release the ferrets.

Better to just test on humans anyway. They're obviously a closer genetic match, and there are plenty of them to go around. Between death row inmates impoverished citizens willing to make a quick buck, you'd never run out. Then you don't have to worry about the ethical issues of subjecting unwilling and non-consenting creatures to often deadly procedures. Besides, what's a handful of human lives really worth when resources are being depleted at a record rate?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #5 on:** November 29, 2011, 12:08:05 AM »

Quote from: Stogi on November 28, 2011, 10:44:58 PM

That's extremely naive. The first thing that'll happen when this is released and replicated is a cure will be found; better now then when it actually mutates into a dangerous pathogen.

Furthermore, there is no telling what we can find out as we cure it.

I think we have our first volunteer! Step right up and get your injection!

Stogi · « **Reply #6 on:** November 29, 2011, 12:11:54 AM »

Hell if I survive it, I'll never get sick with the flu again.

ThePerm · « **Reply #7 on:** December 18, 2011, 02:22:00 PM »

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-12-16/strange-nuclear-waste-lint-might-be-biological-nature

this is like some horror movie

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 27, 2012, 10:15:44 PM »

Grape Seed Extract....
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-grape-seed-neck-cancer-cells.html
It kills cancer.

Who would have thought?

http://www.amazon.com/Foods-Grape-Extract-250mg-Vcaps/dp/B000NL8XTQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327719863&sr=8-1

ThePerm · « **Reply #9 on:** July 25, 2012, 11:32:18 AM »

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/greenland-ice-sheet-melts/

apparently 97% of the ice in Greenland melted this July.

bustin98 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 25, 2012, 12:45:04 PM »

Quote from: ThePerm on July 25, 2012, 11:32:18 AM

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/greenland-ice-sheet-melts/

apparently 97% of the ice in Greenland melted this July.

97% of the ice sheet experienced some melt. Its not that all the ice is gone.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #11 on:** July 25, 2012, 12:46:08 PM »

No, 97% of the surface area covered in ice showed some thawing.

Damn it, bustin beat me again.

ThePerm · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2012, 02:50:37 PM »

Quote from: bustin98 on July 25, 2012, 12:45:04 PM

Quote from: ThePerm on July 25, 2012, 11:32:18 AM
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/greenland-ice-sheet-melts/

apparently 97% of the ice in Greenland melted this July.
97% of the ice sheet experienced some melt. Its not that all the ice is gone.

i didn't exactly not say that

problems with plural words like ice creating ambiguity.

nickmitch · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2012, 10:51:05 PM »

Quote from: ThePerm on July 27, 2012, 02:50:37 PM

problems with plural words like ice creating ambiguity. . .

. . .are fixed with other words.

ThePerm · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2012, 03:54:11 AM »

...like ices. Is that proper?

I know Fish and Fishes actually have use. Whereas if you are talking about the plural of one type of fish its just fish, but if your talking about multiple types of fish then its fishes.

nickmitch · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2012, 08:22:57 PM »

Hey, English is an evolving language.

ThePerm · « **Reply #16 on:** July 28, 2012, 11:54:20 PM »

true that

Ceric · « **Reply #17 on:** July 29, 2012, 11:02:49 AM »

I remember when Persons wasn't consider a proper word.

ThePerm · « **Reply #18 on:** July 29, 2012, 11:08:09 AM »

yeah, i still don't like that... People.

One time I had a conversation about the use of third person possessive adjective. They were telling me "Their" was wrong, and they said use "his or hers", and I was like "no"

edit: wait nevermind

it was using the word "they" to refer to a singular with an undetermined gender, for which he said "use he or she", and I said no. I have a good argument for using "They", what if the singular person was intersex, a transsexual, or just androgynous?

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #19 on:** July 29, 2012, 11:17:08 AM »

Then you use "he, she, he-she, or shim."

ThePerm · « **Reply #20 on:** July 29, 2012, 11:43:31 AM »

any situation where I can use one word to express an idea... I use that. Thats the English way. I don't call a Tanuki a racoon dog, i don't call a Panda a mottled bear.

nickmitch · « **Reply #21 on:** July 29, 2012, 05:00:40 PM »

I use "they" (and its forms) to refer to people when I don't know their gender. I think that should be ok because saying "she or he" or "his or hers" is awkward in conversation. Also, using they establishes that I don't know the person's gender just fine and enables the person to let me know in their next sentence.

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Author Topic: Holy Crap! Mad Science Thread! (or disastrous events) (Read 8624 times)