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Ah yes, a rival nation would want a whistleblower that brings bad press on their rival to be silenced right before further hearings. Funny how that works out in Boeing's favor more than anyone else.

Yes but also 33% of those surveyed have heard of a fake study and less than 1/4 of them were aware of the DEFUSE proposal

>There is more than enough evidence now to make a strong conclusion

I would disagree, all the evidence we have right now supporting zoonosis is circumstantial. The evidence being a mapping of early cases to around the market but given the shortcomings of this early evidence it's hard to rule out sampling bias: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/a5102da1-9b47-4e11-...

But so far we have not found an intermediate host nor any closely related viruses in any animals yet. By contrast for the two previous spillovers SARS and MERS they not only identified an intermediate host, but they have found many closely related viruses in animals due to the fact the virus is circulating and thus branching off into many variants. Just take a look at the phylogenetic trees of MERS: https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-... and SARS-CoV-1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1212604/

I honestly find this to be unforgivable it should have been obvious early on by how fast the virus spread that it was airborne and many people died because policy and guidelines were set up around a contact spread model. IMO I think it's better to run with worst case scenario early on and then relax guidelines once proven to be less transmissible than to pretend a deadly virus is not airborne when the spread obviously points towards it.

For Python to work in the browser via WebAssembly you'd need to have python itself compiled and running to execute python. It would consume a lot of energy and be much slower, I see no upsides. WebAssembly is meant to have lower level languages and programs run in the browser, not so Python devs do not have to learn a second language.

Plus Python is not suited for event driven systems.

Javascript works in browsers though, and it's a better async language that makes javascript APIs superior to Python.

> Unless we find the zoonotic reservoir (which might no longer exist

Which would be shocking given that highly infectious viruses do not simply just disappear after a cross species spillover. Did covid stop spreading amongst humans when dogs/deer/cats got infected? Not only should an independent ancestor branch still be circulating but it should be circulating amongst intermediate species all throughout Asia. It's like a virus pre-adapted towards humans magically appeared and then vanished without a trace, I heard on virologist coin it as the "immaculate infection"

I feel like on has been so inundated with bots and shill accounts from PR firms, non profits, and state actors that nuanced opinions get shutdown via mass downvoting by bots they also artificially boost fake shill posts as well.

So when the sources contain inaccurate information then Wikipedia does so as well. I don't see how that is a good thing people view Wikipedia as the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica which was curated by experts. Wikipedia should strive for the truth since finding truthful and factual information is becoming increasingly more difficult online.

This technology can also be used to turn cancerous cells into healthy cell Michael Levin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g798Mck7dPk

That's interesting, I got downvoted. Is someone pro regulatory capture?

I hate regulatory capture! The officials heading these agencies are often picked by the industry they are meant to regulate and often become highly paid lobbyists after they retire

Well we spent over a decade and millions of dollars studying SARS coronaviruses and yet none of that work was of any help in fighting the pandemic. For example Ecohealth which was publicly funded with our tax dollars has still to this day refused to share it's research/samples/data despite being legally obligated to. The most charitable interpretation for refusing to share this information while millions of people are dying is that it is simply useless.

So why continue to fund such dangerous research if the research will be hidden when we actually need it?

But a human and chimp's have over 3 billion nucleotides in our genome. SARS2 only has 30 thousand, so the genetic distance between the two are at most decades, but with recombinants the timeline is much shorter

Yeah but there are about 20 billion G and K type stars in the Milky Way so it's not that rare.

because you need 3 transits for a positive detection of a exoplanet. And given that the habitable planet around a sun like star is anything from 250 - 700 days the observation time is too expensive so they focus on red dwarfs instead. I also find it pretty annoying as well, especially when science communicators try and extrapolate observations on red dwarfs on what is typical extrasolar system.

Just like how Youtube will demonetize videos with things like violent retro video games. But they don't take down the video or hide it, they just collect all the ad revenue for themselves.

Google 5 years ago was amazing, I would have never predicted Search and Maps to have gotten worse. It would have been better if they just stopped making changes altogether rather than whatever they are doing now. Does anyone have any insights on why this is happening?

I have made the switch to Apple Maps too, why Google seems to be destroying their key products is something I find extremely perplexing.

Anyone else feel that Google as a search engine has gotten really bad these past few years? Finding information outside of looking up restaurants, songs or products the results are often times completely irrelevant and limited now.

Considering that most of our models of how life arose on earth involve liquid water interacting with both an energy source and a rocky crust I wonder how a planet with an icy layer sparked abiogenesis. Or how the minerals and materials needed for life get circulated in the oceans. Perhaps there are cracks and vents spewing mantel material out into the oceans. And perhaps there are strong currents that circulate this material that the life feeds off of.

One thing I am sure of is that life is not as delicate or requires such specific conditions to thrive. Only liquid water.

Yeah, me personally I am more upset with how irrelevant and bad Google search results have become than I am worried about privacy. I know and have accepted that Google invades my privacy, but the trade off used to be I could find whatever I am searching for, but now I can't find anything on Google and it has made my job so much harder.

The Google search algorithm from 5 years ago was amazing, why they decided to change it for the worse is something I will never understand! And no I do not blame SEO entirely since that existed 5 years ago, what I am often looking for but can no longer find is information that has nothing to do with any products. It's not ads that I need to page through, but unrelated and bad results that are limited. I do not want to see the same results from page 1 on page 3.

But the environments that they evolved in and the environment we evolved is completely different. Earth to them would be unbearable for them to live on, and any resource they could possibly want would be readily available via asteroids. One last thing is the biology of Earth would most likely be toxic and incompatible with their biology.

That's probably the case for the majority of planets, also even with multicellular life there is no guarantee that intelligent life would evolve. Earth went 4.5 billion years with 700 million with multicellular life and imagine if early hominids got wiped out, would another intelligent species follow our trajectory?

Also I would like to point out that the vast majority of planets we detect happen to be around red dwarf planets since we need 3 transits for a positive detection which would require years for larger stars. Additionally to do atmospheric spectroscopy the solar system needs to be within a perpendicular line-of-sight of our solar system.

So keep in mind the planets/solar systems we are studying do not represent the typical solar systems around exo K/G type stars.

Lately I have found Google to be a less reliable search engine when compared to a few years ago. Whether I am trying to find an old meme, a piece of research or even googling errors it seems like the results are never what I am looking for. And it's not just SEO spamming since things like software errors are not something people try and game. It used to be I would paste in an error and I would get a Git Issues result for exactly what I was looking for, but now I just go to GitHub or Stack Overflow directly.

If you turn on the closed captions it won't pick up the grainy dialog, but instead picks up the static as applause.

And a hundred different identical products at vastly different prices from brand new sellers like `z-qq-yadonk-8771` that some how has 4.7k reviews at 4.5 stars.

> Everything in the solar system is extrasolar if you go back far enough

That is not true the composition and material of our solar system are the result of a Supernova remnants. The element composition of each nebula is unique since no star is exactly the same(although it could be quite similar), but outside of the other stars that formed alongside our sun 4.5 billion years ago, other solar systems have different element and isotope ratios.

>"Hard to find" is not the same as "vanished".

Which is strange for a virus as you stated. "found to have jumped to quite a few other animals; cats, dogs, hippos, anteaters, manatees; it's clearly not picky". So why is it so hard to find the virus that spilled over into humans, this virus would have been better adapted towards their own species and would have not been replaced by the human variants. We find SARS circulating in animals all the time, but they all descend from the human variant.

It is the Immaculate Infection!

>lauded experts

Almost all of the researchers throwing ad hominems at scientists who support a lab origin are NOT that lauded. Most had very low H-index scores prior to the pandemic. Especially Angela Rasmussen from the University of Saskatchewan.