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moebius2778 posted:Finally, the last thing I don't like is that there's no geographical modeling - both the plague and the allele frequency have strong geographical correlations, from what I understand. And, again, from what I understand, they're opposed - Black Death hit southern Europe the hardest, while the allele frequency is the highest in northern Europe. I thought the point was that it wasn't the bubonic plague that caused the resistance but some other hemorrhagic fevers that were later mistaken for bubonic plague by historians.
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Yo disease lords, has the question of "was the Black Death for sure bubonic plague" been settled yet?
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Munkeymon posted:I thought the point was that it wasn't the bubonic plague that caused the resistance but some other hemorrhagic fevers that were later mistaken for bubonic plague by historians. Have a good talk from this year: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/29/267598868/ancient-plagues-dna-revived-from-a-1-500-year-old-tooth Maybe we can take this to the outbreak thread and make it a general epidemiology info station?
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Aug 29, 2014 19:57
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If I got to choose I think I'd pick nuclear war over biblical disease outbreak.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:16
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Let's not kid ourselves, it's gonna be one, then the other.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:17
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i wish i could believe in an apocalyptic event. things are just going to slog on, staying terrible, but never reaching a dramatic status which would inspire us to collectively do something about it.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:24
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There will be when the sun goes red giant and slobbers up the Earth like Palin does a big gulp. Finally.... Peace.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:28
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DemeaninDemon posted:If I got to choose I think I'd pick nuclear war over biblical disease outbreak. Yeah but what if it was radiation and not fireball that got you. I'd pick Earth shattering asteroid.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:29
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Gigantic Coronal Mass Ejection. ...or even better, galactic-scale Gamma-Ray Burst. We'd never even see it coming until it baked everything off Earth miles deep. Well, baked isn't the best word but you know what I mean.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:40
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Dr. Faustus posted:...or even better, galactic-scale Gamma-Ray Burst. We'd never even see it coming until it baked everything off Earth miles deep. That's one of the least-likely-while-still-technically-possible doomsday scenarios I think I've ever heard.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:00
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Munkeymon posted:That's one of the least-likely-while-still-technically-possible doomsday scenarios I think I've ever heard. Thinking about more of this stuff, the moon is receding from us every year. At some point it will escape and how will we maintain our orientation without it? The seas all sloshing around, radiation from the sun moving all over the place. That sounds pretty bad! And I dunno about the core, but what about all the liquid iron under the mantle? It changes direction and flips the magnetic poles periodically, doesn't it? That sounds like it could be bad, too, especially if it suppresses the magnetic field that protects us from the sleet of hard cosmic rays and solar radiation that would give us all cancer and stuff. Right? Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Aug 29, 2014 21:01
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More or less likely than if the core of the Earth stopped spinning?
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Aug 29, 2014 21:03
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Grey goo is where it's at.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:04
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Or like a genocidal alien intelligence, because at least then you'd know.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:08
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Dr. Faustus posted:...on a long-enough timeline... Sure, but long enough for a supergiant star that happens to be close to going nova to move anywhere close enough is long enough for the sun to burn out before anything of the sort happens, too
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Aug 29, 2014 21:12
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zoux posted:Or like a genocidal alien intelligence, because at least then you'd know.  Munkeymon posted:Sure, but long enough for a supergiant star that happens to be close to going nova to move anywhere close enough is long enough for the sun to burn out before anything of the sort happens, too Why you harshin' my buzz, bro?
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Aug 29, 2014 21:13
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That "into the far future" timeline page on Wikipedia is spooky as heck
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Aug 29, 2014 21:14
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zoux posted:That "into the far future" timeline page on Wikipedia is spooky as heck quote:7.2 Millions years from now: Without maintenance, Mount Rushmore will erode into unrecognizability.[140]  Lest we forget
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Aug 29, 2014 21:16
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quote:Earth's surface temperature, even at the poles, reaches an average of ~420 K (147 °C, 296 °F). At this point life, now reduced to unicellular colonies in isolated, scattered microenvironments such as high-altitude lakes or subsurface caves, will completely die out.[36][46][d] well that's not good
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Aug 29, 2014 21:19
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zoux posted:That "into the far future" timeline page on Wikipedia is spooky as heck I've never read anything sci-fi, hard sci-fi or fantasy, that made me feel so ill.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:19
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420 Kelvin reduce human life to cinders every day
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Aug 29, 2014 21:19
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Dr. Faustus posted:Why you harshin' my buzz, bro? I think it's more horrifying to consider what will certainly happen when the next big asteroid lands Death is certain, but hoo boy you picked a doozy of a way to go 
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Aug 29, 2014 21:20
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I wonder if the universe isn't a huge loop, maybe when I die, I'll immediatly be born again, repeat my life, etc... ad nauseam. Maybe I've written this post an infinity of times already.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:31
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imagine four poo poo posts on the edge of a cliff...
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Aug 29, 2014 21:34
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Why can't doomsday scenarious ever be fun? Like, sudden clathate rupture releases methane that unexpectedly rains down as 75% ethanol and 25% water all over the planet?
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Aug 29, 2014 21:36
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My Imaginary GF posted:Why can't doomsday scenarious ever be fun? Like, sudden clathate rupture releases methane that unexpectedly rains down as 75% ethanol and 25% water all over the planet?
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Aug 29, 2014 21:44
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My Imaginary GF posted:Why can't doomsday scenarious ever be fun? Like, sudden clathate rupture releases methane that unexpectedly rains down as 75% ethanol and 25% water all over the planet? Some people just want to watch the world burn (in a 150 proof flame)
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Aug 29, 2014 21:47
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My Imaginary GF posted:Why can't doomsday scenarious ever be fun? What time is it? ADVENTURE TIME!
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Aug 29, 2014 22:03
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zoux posted:Yo disease lords, has the question of "was the Black Death for sure bubonic plague" been settled yet? Nope, coulda been a combination of diseases including a smallpox update, I think it'll be settled as they're getting pretty close to start looking at dead viruses in medieval burial grounds.
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Aug 30, 2014 00:19
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Randler posted:You won't believe who is infecting Christians with Ebola to destroy Jesus and start a new age of liberal darkness Christians infect themselves by consuming the blood of Christ. It's really unsanitary.
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Aug 30, 2014 01:45
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had crab cakes for dinner lads, very good 
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Aug 30, 2014 03:36
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Northeast goons, what exactly is Grande-brand cheese, I see it all the time in New York pizzerias and self-styled New York-style pizzerias here in CA
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Aug 30, 2014 03:37
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Northeast goons, what exactly is Grande-brand cheese, I see it all the time in New York pizzerias and self-styled New York-style pizzerias here in CA Upstate NY representing here, this is the first I heard about it.
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Aug 30, 2014 03:59
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...now that I google it, I can see it's based in Wisconsin, not the East Coast 
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Aug 30, 2014 04:08
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:...now that I google it, I can see it's based in Wisconsin, not the East Coast Don't sweat it, Drylander, it's East enough for you. 
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Aug 30, 2014 04:11
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quote:Moscow doesn't want or intend to wade into any "large-scale conflicts," Putin insisted at a youth forum, state-run Itar-Tass reported. A few breaths later, he made the point that Russia is "strengthening our nuclear deterrence forces and our armed forces," making them more efficient and modernized. We are so hosed.
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Aug 30, 2014 05:29
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zoux posted:We are so hosed. Invading the Ukraine is self defense. As a Facebook friend says, the most horrible crime enacted on Ukraine right now is the West-controlled IMF offering them a loan. Seriously.
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Aug 30, 2014 05:35
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I bet the Poles are making GBS threads themselves right now. Every time Russia gets froggy the Poles get hosed.
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Aug 30, 2014 05:38
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zoux posted:I bet the Poles are making GBS threads themselves right now. Every time Russia gets froggy the Poles get hosed. The Poles are members of NATO, though. Article V.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The Poles are members of NATO, though. Yes and Slavic peoples have never been hosed over by governments and thus have a deep abiding trust in states and treaties. Seriously Russians and most all other Eastern Europeans have never ever had what we'd call a reasonable government.
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