Robotnikinin
A potential inhibitor of the Hedgehog signaling pathway has been found and dubbed "Robotnikinin", in honour of Sonic the Hedgehog's nemesis, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.[82]
Controversy surrounding name
The gene has been linked to a condition known as holoprosencephaly, which can result in severe brain, skull and facial defects, causing clinicians and scientists to criticize the name on the grounds of it sounding too frivolous. It has been noted that mention of a mutation in a sonic hedgehog gene might not be well received in a discussion of a serious disorder with a patient or their family.[13][83][84]
...huh.
Fruit fly geneticists loooove the smell of their own farts.
Rude! Did one of us kill your dog or something?
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Anyway, the actual answer for why so many genes discovered in flies have stupid names is that fly geneticists are huge idiots and we all have the same sense of humor as small children.
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Robotnikinin
A potential inhibitor of the Hedgehog signaling pathway has been found and dubbed "Robotnikinin", in honour of Sonic the Hedgehog's nemesis, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.[82]
Controversy surrounding name
The gene has been linked to a condition known as holoprosencephaly, which can result in severe brain, skull and facial defects, causing clinicians and scientists to criticize the name on the grounds of it sounding too frivolous. It has been noted that mention of a mutation in a sonic hedgehog gene might not be well received in a discussion of a serious disorder with a patient or their family.[13][83][84]
...huh.
Fruit fly geneticists loooove the smell of their own farts.
Rude! Did one of us kill your dog or something?
Search your feelings. You know it to be true
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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I don't know, did you mistake my dog for a fruit fly and engineer eyes on his butt? You monster?
I mean, my dog had eyes on his butt to begin with, I'm honestly just looking for someone to blame.
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Other disciplines also get stuck with silly names, physics has "big bang" and "black hole"
Hell you don't even have to be involved in the hard sciences, plenty of trades deal with sick filth like "cocks", "flanges", "rods", and other things too disgusting to mention in polite conversation.
I had a student with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. All correctly proportioned like a cartoon character. It was kinda neat. Didn’t stop her at all.
That would be so hard to really notice at first glance and I would not stop being fascinated by it after I discovered it.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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I had a student with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. All correctly proportioned like a cartoon character. It was kinda neat. Didn’t stop her at all.
That would be so hard to really notice at first glance and I would not stop being fascinated by it after I discovered it.
For a while I was slightly startled every time I noticed. Like my brain refused to process it.
elementary particles are basically magic, change my mind
What are they made of
Current theory is energy
Put enough energy together in a small enough spot and boom, you got yourself a quark. With enough rejiggering you've got yourself a proton, neutron, or electron. With enough rejiggering of that and you've got yourself Hydrogen.
Smash that together with some heat and pressure and boom, you've got helium, then carbon and oxygen, then get really explodey and you can make everything else.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Also “excitations” sounds like something a good Christian would steer clear of
Experienced medium-strong nocturnal excitations last night. I suspect the stubble-goose I indulged in to celebrate Mikelmas. Will dedicate the next fortnight to fasting and bloodletting to settle my sanguine humours.
Also “excitations” sounds like something a good Christian would steer clear of
Experienced medium-strong nocturnal excitations last night. I suspect the stubble-goose I indulged in to celebrate Mikelmas. Will dedicate the next fortnight to fasting and bloodletting to settle my sanguine humours.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
so i was wondering what the rotational period is for the sun (25 days at the equator apparently fyi) and it led me to google how long a solar revolution around the galactic core or whatever takes and i feel very small and finite now.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
man I always forget how big the sun is
dang, it is so big and it's not even the biggest kind of sun.
dang, it is so big and it's not even the biggest kind of sun.
it's mindblowing that there's enough hydrogen present that it has sustained fusion for billions of years, and will continue for a few more near around 10 billion, and the the next sequence in our star will last about 10 times as long as that
And that there is trillions of stars just like it doing the same thing right now
and that the universe will probably exist for countless billions of years too
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Stars are really interesting because they are fairly simple. They only really have a few parameters, their mass, how much nonhydrogen is in their cores, and stuff like their spinspeed.
And that makes into an incredible array of emergent properties, some counter intuitive.
Heavier stars burn bright and and die young, not because they run out fuel, but because the fuel doesn't reach the core.
Small stars have far more convection and burn more of their hydrogen.
And the difference in outcome is dramatic, a factor of 10000 or more. If we make it out of the solar system there is a good chance that eventually we migrate to tinier and tinier stars, closer and closer to a smaller candles that burns nearly forever.
The stars that have gone red dwarf will last so god damned long that they're a good place to set up shop. And they warm up new planets that once were dead. Earth is around a relatively young star in a relatively young universe, which gives me hope that the rest of our galaxy supports some kind of life.
The craziest thing is we're basically stardust that's trying to make sense of the universe. What's crazier is we've pushed electricity through rocks and glass to make it think too.
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Rude! Did one of us kill your dog or something?
Search your feelings. You know it to be true
I mean, my dog had eyes on his butt to begin with, I'm honestly just looking for someone to blame.
It was one time. One time!
Hell you don't even have to be involved in the hard sciences, plenty of trades deal with sick filth like "cocks", "flanges", "rods", and other things too disgusting to mention in polite conversation.
That would be so hard to really notice at first glance and I would not stop being fascinated by it after I discovered it.
For a while I was slightly startled every time I noticed. Like my brain refused to process it.
yeah but those are incredibly straightforward because astrophysicists are not clever, but they are precise
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tau are now called t'au
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Within an order of magnitude anyway
What are they made of
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All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Current theory is energy
Put enough energy together in a small enough spot and boom, you got yourself a quark. With enough rejiggering you've got yourself a proton, neutron, or electron. With enough rejiggering of that and you've got yourself Hydrogen.
Smash that together with some heat and pressure and boom, you've got helium, then carbon and oxygen, then get really explodey and you can make everything else.
I kind of hate this. Back in my day, stuff was made out of very tiny stuff, and that's the way we liked it.
Also “excitations” sounds like something a good Christian would steer clear of
Experienced medium-strong nocturnal excitations last night. I suspect the stubble-goose I indulged in to celebrate Mikelmas. Will dedicate the next fortnight to fasting and bloodletting to settle my sanguine humours.
Also physical reality seems to ultimately arise out of the vacuum but that's like "what happened at the Big Bang" stuff
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A wizard did it?
Oh, that must be why there's so many fucking shotguns everywhere...
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dang, it is so big and it's not even the biggest kind of sun.
it's mindblowing that there's enough hydrogen present that it has sustained fusion for billions of years, and will continue for a few more near around 10 billion, and the the next sequence in our star will last about 10 times as long as that
And that there is trillions of stars just like it doing the same thing right now
and that the universe will probably exist for countless billions of years too
The sun isn’t even close
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R136a1
It is both the brightest and most massive at more than 300 M
And that makes into an incredible array of emergent properties, some counter intuitive.
Heavier stars burn bright and and die young, not because they run out fuel, but because the fuel doesn't reach the core.
Small stars have far more convection and burn more of their hydrogen.
And the difference in outcome is dramatic, a factor of 10000 or more. If we make it out of the solar system there is a good chance that eventually we migrate to tinier and tinier stars, closer and closer to a smaller candles that burns nearly forever.
The craziest thing is we're basically stardust that's trying to make sense of the universe. What's crazier is we've pushed electricity through rocks and glass to make it think too.