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Pentegarn · #**601**

And here I thought magnets were just magic all up in this bitch

Babs · #**602**

More surgery

Pub Lover · #**603**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC News

Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell.
The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell.
The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species "dictated" by the synthetic DNA.
The advance, published in Science, has been hailed as a scientific landmark, but critics say there are dangers posed by synthetic organisms.

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Colonel Flagg · #**604**

This sounds like the plotline from "The Henderson Monster".

Fathom Zero · #**605**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pub Lover

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I caught him posting outside of the chat.

WINNER

Dimnos · #**606**

Colonel Flagg · #**607**

I

coffee/I

tea
I

the Java Jive and it loves me.

Respect the bean.

Tadao · #**608**

Pentegarn · #**609**

I

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Colonel Flagg · #**610**

Well, climate change is in the news again ...

Of course, the presence of the so-called proxy is not infallible, but if they're looking at a sufficiently long period of time, and the coverage matches currently available historical climate data, then there is a high probability that they're right. In which case, we might be in for some "new" oceanfront property.

Personally, I think the stated grand objective of getting ice coverage data spanning the past million years may be pushing reality, but what do I know.

Fathom Zero · #**611**

Cool beans. I live in Oklahoma, so it'll be nice to have to cover less of a distance to get to the beach.

Colonel Flagg · #**612**

Silver lining, my friend!

Dimnos · #**613**

http://bmgoau.cwahi.net/spitzer.html

Fathom Zero · #**614**

A panoramic photo of the universe?

Dimnos · #**615**

Zoomable panoramic photo of the galaxy.

Fathom Zero · #**616**

Well, if it was a higher resolution, it would be the universe, yeh?

Dimnos · #**617**

Um... Im going to guess no.

Fathom Zero · #**618**

We're not in the universe?

The Leader · #**619**

Higher resolution would not increase the field of view. It would just increase the quality of the image. It would still be the galaxy.

Dimnos · #**620**

Or an estimated 1/10^1000000 of the universe.

Fathom Zero · #**621**

Thus able to magnify better. And yeah, I was getting at the fact that it was a look at the damn near infinity of space. There's stuff billions of times farther away than that, and I was going to say that other celestial bodies, while resembling little more than grains of sand, could still be visible with a high-enough quality image.

Colonel Flagg · #**622**

We are one step closer to answering the ages-old question:

"Which will last longer - the home half of the 7th inning at a Mets game, or the head on a mug of Rheingold Beer?"