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You also need a compatible cell to implant the DNA into. The egg provides functioning organelles, which you obviously can't recover from ancient samples. I don't know if ribosomes and mitochondria would function well enough across a species for complex eukaryotic life (like an animal) to come to term. Even if it did, you could argue that the mitochondrial genome from the host cell means it is not exactly the same organism as the one you recovered the DNA from.
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regulargonzalez posted:How far off are we from being able to create an animal based on its DNA? Like, if such and such a species of tiger goes extinct but we have (hopefully) been sequencing their DNA for the last couple of decades and that's stored on a server somewhere -- how difficult are the remaining technical challenges that could turn raw genetic code into an actual animal? Are we 20 years away or 100 years away from being able to do that? It's theoretically pretty close for the de-extinction of woolly mammoths. But the result won't be a clone of a dead frozen mammoth, but an elephant that had its DNA engineered to have the same traits as a woolly mammoth. The reason is that you can't just put a chunk of dead mammoth into a machine that spits out a sequence you can synthesize and put into an elephant egg cell. That's not how the technology works (yet), and it's not how DNA works. Neither can you just take the dna of any random cell of a dead mammoth, put it in the elephant cell and expect it to form into a foetus. The situation for cloning living species is really quite different. This video explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1GAQLKXZj8
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McCracAttack posted:Does anyone remember a WW2 movie about American and Japanese soldiers getting stranded on an island and having to form a truce in order to protect the only fresh water spring on the island from flooding with sea water during a storm? I don't remember that specific scene, but it might be Hell in the Pacific. Otherwise, try here.
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jjack229 posted:I don't remember that specific scene, but it might be Hell in the Pacific. Well that's certainly the same plot. But I remember it being groups of soldiers. Not just the two of them. I'll ask in that other thread. Thanks.
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what is the name for this style of house? i've never seen it anywhere else
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actionjackson posted:what is the name for this style of house? i've never seen it anywhere else Looks like a normal house with a mansard roof to me. I live in a building with one in Atlantic Canada, they were very common in Edmonton, Alberta as well. Don't seem to be very fashionable anymore though.
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lol https://architecturalobserver.com/scary-mansard-roofs/ 
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actionjackson posted:what is the name for this style of house? i've never seen it anywhere else Mansard roofs like that one combined all the problems of flat roofs with the problems of shingled roofs. Truly a marvel of architectural engineering.
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Is there a house plant thread somewhere?
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Rick posted:Is there a house plant thread somewhere? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3951612&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=66
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actionjackson posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3951612&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=66 Thank you!
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ultrafilter posted:You also need DNA from enough individuals to ensure a viable breeding population if you want more than one generation. As an aside, what is this threshold? What is the absolute minimum number of people to sustain a breeding population? I'm recalling the end of The Matrix Reloaded where the Architect tells Neo he's to select a few dozen people to start Zion over again, I don't think that's rooted in fact but it's something that always got me curious.
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Mister Speaker posted:As an aside, what is this threshold? What is the absolute minimum number of people to sustain a breeding population? I'm recalling the end of The Matrix Reloaded where the Architect tells Neo he's to select a few dozen people to start Zion over again, I don't think that's rooted in fact but it's something that always got me curious.
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Mister Speaker posted:As an aside, what is this threshold? What is the absolute minimum number of people to sustain a breeding population? I'm recalling the end of The Matrix Reloaded where the Architect tells Neo he's to select a few dozen people to start Zion over again, I don't think that's rooted in fact but it's something that always got me curious. It depends heavily on your assumptions, but 98, 160, 500, and 14,000 have all been mentioned. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-many-humans-would-it-take-keep-our-species-alive-ncna900151 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1936-magic-number-for-space-pioneers-calculated/#.VBiC_XtDLwo
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Mister Speaker posted:As an aside, what is this threshold? What is the absolute minimum number of people to sustain a breeding population? I'm recalling the end of The Matrix Reloaded where the Architect tells Neo he's to select a few dozen people to start Zion over again, I don't think that's rooted in fact but it's something that always got me curious. This documentary says the ratio of males to females is important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEmLhO4KO4
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I found some of these little slides of works of art. Anyone know what sort of machine was used to view or display these?
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litany of gulps posted:I found some of these little slides of works of art. Anyone know what sort of machine was used to view or display these? A slide projector can probably display those slides. Now I feel old.
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litany of gulps posted:I found some of these little slides of works of art. Anyone know what sort of machine was used to view or display these? Both are pretty common finds in thrift stores (though more the former than the latter).
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litany of gulps posted:I found some of these little slides of works of art. Anyone know what sort of machine was used to view or display these? This is violence
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litany of gulps posted:I found some of these little slides of works of art. Anyone know what sort of machine was used to view or display these? i seem to remember an old comedic trope where someone would show projector slides of photos they took while on vacation and whoever was the victim of the presentation found it incredibly boring that makes me wonder if having projection slides of your photos created was a common thing back then or if it was something only well-to-do people did (since going on vacation implies this)
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You could choose to buy slide film or negative film. Slide film was developed directly and framed to make slides, negative film was developed into negatives and then prints were made from them. More “serious” amateur photographers used slide film. Honestly don’t remember the advantages but it was a thing. I guess one less step?
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Velvia is a slide film. That’s why people used slides. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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smackfu posted:You could choose to buy slide film or negative film. Slide film was developed directly and framed to make slides, negative film was developed into negatives and then prints were made from them. As a somewhat knowledgeable film hipster. Slide film has worse dynamic range, so it's less forgiving. You need to have the exposure right. With negatives you can under/over expose a lot more and still end up with a good shot after correcting it in the development phase. You can look at the slide with your bare eyes and see what it looks like in terms of colors. With a negative it's not clear what the image should look like. Slides are not too relevant anymore, but my mom still has several of these slide reels full of photos my dad took of us as a kid. So the one big advantage was to be able to project the photos onto the wall.  Yeah, Velvia is the hit product in the slide film category and it has nice properties, but projectors were the main reason to use them in the olden days. Negatives you only got as small prints. And like you said the one less step in the developing process removes one step where things can go wrong in terms of final result, but the downside is that slides cannot be printed easily (in the old world). There's nothing like sitting through a proper slide show of vacation photos. lobsterminator fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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Velvia became hot poo poo, but slides were mostly popularized by Kodachrome, especially in the heyday of people actually giving a gently caress about slideshows Imagine going over to someone's house and they have a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation telling you about how they went to Martha's Vineyard for a weekend That's what people did for fun back then, and then they ate bananas wrapped in ham covered with hollandaise sauce
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postmodifier posted:Velvia became hot poo poo, but slides were mostly popularized by Kodachrome, especially in the heyday of people actually giving a gently caress about slideshows There's an entire lucrative industry based on slideshows though, it's called consulting. The absolute massive advantage of slide photos is that you could swap a few of the slides with porn (read: topless lady) in the slide deck while no one was looking.
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postmodifier posted:Velvia became hot poo poo, but slides were mostly popularized by Kodachrome, especially in the heyday of people actually giving a gently caress about slideshows In retrospect, most of the seventies was unacceptable.
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in kirby 64, what the hell is the blurred out enemy in the boss fight against adelaide. I'm assuming it's a localization thing, but I'm afraid the only way to find out what it's supposed to be is by buying a japanese copy of the game along with an original japanese N64
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kalel posted:in kirby 64, what the hell is the blurred out enemy in the boss fight against adelaide. I'm assuming it's a localization thing, but I'm afraid the only way to find out what it's supposed to be is by buying a japanese copy of the game along with an original japanese N64
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litany of gulps posted:I found some of these little slides of works of art. Anyone know what sort of machine was used to view or display these? Oh my god. I'm going to retire now.
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Does anyone know of a good program that I can use to quickly scroll through mkv's and extract clips from? I don't need a big fancy suite like adobe media encoder, and it doesn't accept .mkvs, which is one of the two file types that OBS can produce that survives through crashes.
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You can extract clips using VLC
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I use avidemux for simple editing (trimming or merging files)
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Dysgenesis posted:Oh my god. I mean, I'm almost 40. My parents never used these, and they're clearly labeled 2006, which is hardly ancient. I just somehow missed this whole thing.
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Boba Pearl posted:Does anyone know of a good program that I can use to quickly scroll through mkv's and extract clips from? I don't need a big fancy suite like adobe media encoder, and it doesn't accept .mkvs, which is one of the two file types that OBS can produce that survives through crashes. Davinci Resolve. It has a free version.
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Dysgenesis posted:Oh my god. Want to feel even older? My sister's kids were watching a Simpsons rerun, and a scene came on where Lisa's class in school was watching a film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISoNYxeaqo And my nephews asked what the heck that strange machine was at the back of the room, that Miss Hoover was using. Want to feel even older than THAT? This happened ten years ago.
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I have a 32" 1440p monitor which I calculated to be ~91 dpi. It's recommended that you should print at 300dpi if you want a clean, sharp print. I have a jpeg image which when viewed at 100% on my monitor looks perfectly fine and sharp and good so, if I were to print it out physically at 90dpi, should it look equally sharp?
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kalel posted:in kirby 64, what the hell is the blurred out enemy in the boss fight against adelaide. I'm assuming it's a localization thing, but I'm afraid the only way to find out what it's supposed to be is by buying a japanese copy of the game along with an original japanese N64 I think it's just a Japanese censorship joke, she painted something gross so it got censored. The same thing happens in manga where they'll censor out things that don't legally need to be censored, like poop or cockroaches, because the censorship makes the joke funnier.
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bltzn posted:I have a jpeg image which when viewed at 100% on my monitor looks perfectly fine and sharp and good so, if I were to print it out physically at 90dpi, should it look equally sharp? From a similar viewing distance and keeping in mind the (likely) lower contrast of a print vs your screen, yes. ~100 dpi is fine for something that won't be looked at from closer than few feet.
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Prolonged Panorama posted:From a similar viewing distance and keeping in mind the (likely) lower contrast of a print vs your screen, yes. ~100 dpi is fine for something that won't be looked at from closer than few feet. Yep, I think the 300dpi guideline is for stuff that goes into like a magazine or a flyer that you'll hold in your hands. I printed a 1200 by whatever image on an A4 sheet and it looks fine on the wall.
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Are there any websites that allow you to combine driving and public transit? I'll be visiting the DC area soon, so it'd be nice to be able to figure out which metro station would be the fastest to combine driving and rail. Google Maps doesn't seem to make this easy.
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