attn: minxnim

[Josh Seipp]

let's talk science. you name the subject.

 

[minxnim]

ok here's something really crazy, you ready? the bacteria that causes common pneumonia also causes highly volatile spinal menengitis. crazy right? it's like, it just matters where it lands. bacteria is SO SKETCHY !!!!!!!!!! and viruses are even more in the 'loose cannon' department.

 

[minxnim]

errr menIngitis

 

[Josh Seipp]

seriously!!

it's like 'hey let's invade the lungs!!'

BAM, pneumonia. and then if any stray bacteria somehow infiltrates your spinal column you're stuck with bacterial meningitis. That's SO dicey! Thinking about htis stuff for too long makes me want to eat shards of glass. Although that might puncture my intestines. And then all the helpful bacteria in there would get out and kill me dead.

Talk to me about viruses!

 

[minxnim]

dude!!!!!!!!! what about strep! that virus is SO BIG (literally!!!!!!!!!) that if it gets into your blood it can scar your heart muscles! WTB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[minxnim]

OH MAN and don't forget about BEES! bees kill more people every year, statistically, than sharks or snakes!

 

[minxnim]

and mosquitos kill more people than all three of those above! WTF! with their little malaria VIRUS!

 

[Josh Seipp]

SELF REPLICATING CAPSULES OF DEVASTATING DNA THAT GO ABOUT ENACTING HOSTILE TAKEOVERS OF OTHER CELLS WILLY NILLY

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[minxnim]

it's sort of like republicans BUT IN A SMALL NANOTECHY WAY

 

[minxnim]

k i have a short meeting. back soon.

 

[Josh Seipp]

ok

ps it's the willy nilly part that scares me

pps YEAH it IS like republicans, like they just zip around muttering 'me now me now me now me now' under their breath

 

[xfer]

Josh, you should be a high school science teacher.

 

[lizard]

OH MAN and don't forget about BEES! bees kill more people every year, statistically, than sharks or snakes!

I'm allergic to bees.

BEES

 

[minxnim]

yea i think the replication without a conscious decision making schemata...... is the scary part!

 

[avi]

anyone ever hear of valley fevor? that's some crazy shit, too.

 

[Josh Seipp]

shit dudes I have to go to lunch I'll be back soon

 

[minxnim]

avi, is that the disease where the spores from a soil fungus are inhaled and grow into multi level spores in the lungs and literally EXPLODE in the lungs?

 

[avi]

yep. my father in law had it and they thought it was lung cancer at first. apparently x-rays of the stuff looks similar?

 

[minxnim]

yes because expansive spores look like undifferentiated cell growth!

 

[0sm0se]

I think lysogenic viruses are scarier than the quick-replicating viruses that immediately burtst your cells following commandeering your cellular machinery. Insidious little bastards incorporate themselves into your own genome to be copied unbeknownst to the cell, to be spread throughout the body without being detected, only to launch a synchronized attack on the body, based on a specific stimulus. Bush should be launching a war against those bodily terrorists.