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I had that moment when I tried to google about repairing my lawnmower and got instructions on how to connect my phone to a robotic mower so I can check in on it via video. Did you see about the solar flares driving the robot tractors mad? I'll take dystopian sci-fi over Stephen King tho...
You have no idea how amazing that skin immune system research is for me. I have an absolutely crippling phobia of needles, so every time I have to get a vaccine I need to basically be tranquilized on calming drugs to even manage, and that doesn't help with the panic-stress nausea. I want to stay healthy, but as a result I'm typically behind and lacking on yearly boosters. But with vaccine creams, I can finally get fully boosted and immunized! I mean, I'm not crazy about creams and ointments, but they're more just gross and icky, and less panic-inducing and traumatizing. Even thinking or talking about needles illicits an unpleasant and stressful physical sensation, I should really stop writing this. But yeah, I'd really like vaccine creams so I can stay healthy and immunized without taking three days off my lifespan per vaccine from sheer stress and trauma.
"yearly boosters" I mean we get one injection for chicken pox. One for measles, mumphs and rubella... What kind of yearly boosters do you need? Unless you're like in the military and need constant vaccines for horrifying tropical diseases, it's not that much of an issue.
I had very good results with EMDR for desensitization with PTSD and can go to the dentist without having a meltdown now. Perhaps you might find it helpful. 💜
Considering the first item in the video... Maybe the scientists should print out a picture of Ian Malcolm with the caption "Your scientists were so preoccupied that they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." and look at it every day before they decide to do such... Things.
The situation with the Finnish seals is interesting from a conservation point of view. First, big props to the volunteers for putting in the work to protect these animals. You're heroes and it's inspiring to see generosity like that in action. BUT. What is the plan here? If these seals can't reproduce effectively without human intervention, then their 'natural' lives are over. The global temperature probably isn't going to be lowered any time soon, so an arrangement wherein humans actively care for the seals and provide resources they need to survive is going to become permanent. "Traditional" natural selection where the species survives or dies on its own merits, no human intervention involved, won't take place anymore. The seals are essentially living in a large free-range zoo from here on in. What is my point? I don't know. This isn't inherently a good thing or a bad thing, just... a thing. This is how evolution plays out in the Anthropocene. For lots of species, obviously, not just the seals. It's new and it's weird.
When logging got rid of all of the hollow trees in the forest man started making birdhouses. When global warming got rid of all the snow for the seals man started making seal houses.
Eh... I see plenty of bird nests in the woods. Bird feeders are a nice touch so long as you aren't too concerned with bears in your area. I think most critters are more resilient to climate and ecological changes than most people think they are.
Skin having different immune explains why I am no longer allergic to my cats (my distemper has gotten used to them so my eyes, nose and lungs no longer react) but if they scratch me it will always welt up
From what I understand, DNA and only interact with molecules that are opposite-handed to them. And that this means that alien life forms with mirror DNA would show up to earth, there would be nothing with any nutritional value to them here because all life on earth has right-handed DNA and left-handed proteins, with which their fundamental bio-chemistry can not interact. So I would assume that this would so be the case for mirror-DNA bacteria; besides taking up physical space, there would be little to no interaction or competition for molecules with nutritional value. But not a scientist and only studied the whole subject as a hobby, so don't quote me on it.
Yeah. If it would be hard, or impossible, for our immune system to fight mirror life, that should mean that it would be hard, or impossible, for mirror life to infect us.
Yeah yeah we've all read the story about the astronaut from a parallel earth that can't process foods because his body chemistry functions on mirrored molecules
Seeing Saturn through a telescope is so amazing. Pretty interesting to think that evidence appears to show the Earth used to have a ring. Make sure to check out Mars Guy each Sunday for Mars rover updates. Also, those sample tubes are never coming back until SpaceX sends people to pick them up by hand.
I just saw something called a smart telescope, or electronic telescope? But it looked like it was something definitely very cheap. Never saw a price, but the way it used your phones camera and computer for a lot of the work, it just reminded me of VR goggles about 10 years ago. Where you could turn your phone into a VR headset for about $20 with their kit.
If in ten years we still haven't learned our lesson from AI and all the other evil technologies, this world is doomed. And all I or anyone else can hope for is better luck next time. Unless the evils of this world rob us of even that...
Well, as a compromise, we could whip up a quantum computer to simulate the exact quantum mechanics behind the creation of mirror life. All without having to create mirror life ourselves, and even if we do, it would only be to further advance our understanding of how such things would actually work. Taking things slow & steady in other words.
Why should we not create mirror lifeforms if they have such a cool title? "Mirror lifeforms"... I'm going to be the mangled corpse of a scientist in a absolutely fucked up lab if they keep on making it sound so cool.
Now make a scifi horror movie where an evil mad scientist creates "mirror life" that like anti-matter threats to eat away all "normal" life on the planet.
I’m sure its totally safe and effective science. There’s no way they would ever alter a life form to gain some sort of function. Thank you for your fantastic content!
If mirror DNA would be a problem, nature would already do it, it would be called evolution. It is not like there are any real obstacles on evolving something like that, while it "sounds" like there are quite obvious incentives.
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What a fun video title! Gives such warm and fuzzy feelings. This is exactly what we need right now.
Oh boy! Man-made Horrors beyond my comprehension! Who had that on their apocalypse bingo card??
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@KaiserV-2 😂 Unless they want a basket of eggs as payment I don't think I will!
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So what your telling me is that biochemists just theoretically found the anti-life equation?
Darkseid about to track down their ahh
The fact that we can now confidently say that synthetic life is ONLY 'at least a decade' away is ludicrous to me. We are living in a sci fi book
Specifically, a Sci-fi dystopia.
I had that moment when I tried to google about repairing my lawnmower and got instructions on how to connect my phone to a robotic mower so I can check in on it via video. Did you see about the solar flares driving the robot tractors mad? I'll take dystopian sci-fi over Stephen King tho...
Yep!
Note that the vast majority of sci-fi is dystopian. When will the science addicts learn... Hopefully before it's too late.
@@GustafUNL I'm assuming the military are wondering how they could possibly use it to their advantage 😂
Jurrassic park effect meets andromeda strain 😂
That's just _Species_. DNA from space, and mad government scientists hybridise it with humans because of course they do.
"Finnish him!!!" I couldn't help it. Yeah another awesome 7DoS vid❤
As a Finn I am impressed by your pronunciation.
You have no idea how amazing that skin immune system research is for me. I have an absolutely crippling phobia of needles, so every time I have to get a vaccine I need to basically be tranquilized on calming drugs to even manage, and that doesn't help with the panic-stress nausea. I want to stay healthy, but as a result I'm typically behind and lacking on yearly boosters. But with vaccine creams, I can finally get fully boosted and immunized! I mean, I'm not crazy about creams and ointments, but they're more just gross and icky, and less panic-inducing and traumatizing. Even thinking or talking about needles illicits an unpleasant and stressful physical sensation, I should really stop writing this. But yeah, I'd really like vaccine creams so I can stay healthy and immunized without taking three days off my lifespan per vaccine from sheer stress and trauma.
"yearly boosters" I mean we get one injection for chicken pox. One for measles, mumphs and rubella... What kind of yearly boosters do you need? Unless you're like in the military and need constant vaccines for horrifying tropical diseases, it's not that much of an issue.
@@N0sf3r4tuR1s3nflu, covid, possibly pneumonia (I think that's 6 years til a certain age) all come immediately to mind
I had very good results with EMDR for desensitization with PTSD and can go to the dentist without having a meltdown now. Perhaps you might find it helpful. 💜
“You know you’re scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they never stopped to think if they should.” ~ Ian Malcom, 1993
Nothing like paraphrasing something gramatically wrong for someone that doesn't apply into this situation
@ Sorry.
8:56 so Star Trek's hypospray could actually become reality too, another win for ST!
It already exists. See _jet injector_ in Wikipedia.
Considering the first item in the video... Maybe the scientists should print out a picture of Ian Malcolm with the caption "Your scientists were so preoccupied that they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should." and look at it every day before they decide to do such... Things.
We got Biological Dark Energon before GTA6
Accademia: "Most Deadly Threat to All Life!'"
Spinosaurus: "Hold my T-Rex."
The situation with the Finnish seals is interesting from a conservation point of view. First, big props to the volunteers for putting in the work to protect these animals. You're heroes and it's inspiring to see generosity like that in action.
BUT. What is the plan here? If these seals can't reproduce effectively without human intervention, then their 'natural' lives are over. The global temperature probably isn't going to be lowered any time soon, so an arrangement wherein humans actively care for the seals and provide resources they need to survive is going to become permanent. "Traditional" natural selection where the species survives or dies on its own merits, no human intervention involved, won't take place anymore. The seals are essentially living in a large free-range zoo from here on in.
What is my point? I don't know. This isn't inherently a good thing or a bad thing, just... a thing. This is how evolution plays out in the Anthropocene. For lots of species, obviously, not just the seals. It's new and it's weird.
Science community: "Don't do this it could doom us all"
Some scientist in Wuhan or Tennessee: "yeeeeeeeehaw"
Covid 19 wasn't made in a lab...
@SeverusFelix. 😂. Even most of us can honestly say that we've had the thought, "I wonder what would happen if......"
When logging got rid of all of the hollow trees in the forest man started making birdhouses. When global warming got rid of all the snow for the seals man started making seal houses.
Eh... I see plenty of bird nests in the woods. Bird feeders are a nice touch so long as you aren't too concerned with bears in your area. I think most critters are more resilient to climate and ecological changes than most people think they are.
Skin having different immune explains why I am no longer allergic to my cats (my distemper has gotten used to them so my eyes, nose and lungs no longer react) but if they scratch me it will always welt up
Always good to see sauropodamorph news, thank you🎉
"better to be safe than sorry about" now if only they also applied that to AI...
I wholeheartedly agree with you
Anyone else having issues accessing the curiousity box site? Ublock hates it, for a start, then it goes to a dead link even when I whitelist it.
Jesus. Scientist often ask if we could but some never asked whether we _SHOULD_
Jeff Goldblum not Jesus H. Christ.
Right. As the old saying goes, the road to ruin is paved with good intentions.
At least this time they're ahead of the curve- but generally yeah...
@matthewdavies2057 what does the H stand for?
Ahh yes, Jesus's famous teaching
New channel 👍You are all awesome 👍Merry Christmas 🎄
My introduction to the gorgonopisians was primeval and walking with monsters
Correct pronunciation of Saimaa! Woo!!
From what I understand, DNA and only interact with molecules that are opposite-handed to them. And that this means that alien life forms with mirror DNA would show up to earth, there would be nothing with any nutritional value to them here because all life on earth has right-handed DNA and left-handed proteins, with which their fundamental bio-chemistry can not interact. So I would assume that this would so be the case for mirror-DNA bacteria; besides taking up physical space, there would be little to no interaction or competition for molecules with nutritional value. But not a scientist and only studied the whole subject as a hobby, so don't quote me on it.
Better safe than sorry, I don’t the pretty birds in my back yard to disappear, we have already done enough and nature couldn’t take it anymore
Wow is like the biological equivalent to dark matter. I never thought of this but it makes a lot of sense.
7 days of fun! 🥳
That last story is awesome
2:07 This assumes a lot
Can life'R| consume |life'S| ? Visa versa?
Yeah. If it would be hard, or impossible, for our immune system to fight mirror life, that should mean that it would be hard, or impossible, for mirror life to infect us.
Well doesn't this sound like a fantastic idea!
Didn't know Malorca had Permian fossils
Yeah yeah we've all read the story about the astronaut from a parallel earth that can't process foods because his body chemistry functions on mirrored molecules
Spirals vs Anti-spirals for real!
Could mirror lifeforms potentially happen naturally, like could an alien planet have done that hypothetically?
Seeing Saturn through a telescope is so amazing. Pretty interesting to think that evidence appears to show the Earth used to have a ring. Make sure to check out Mars Guy each Sunday for Mars rover updates. Also, those sample tubes are never coming back until SpaceX sends people to pick them up by hand.
I guess we'll never get the samples then 😂
I just saw something called a smart telescope, or electronic telescope? But it looked like it was something definitely very cheap. Never saw a price, but the way it used your phones camera and computer for a lot of the work, it just reminded me of VR goggles about 10 years ago. Where you could turn your phone into a VR headset for about $20 with their kit.
new sci fi horror trope dropped
Oranges and lemons have mirrored molecules. That's how much difference it can make.
Yay Science
Ben and Emilia have yet to be carboarded
Poor mice… Great video though! I just hate animal testing.
Didn't Australian natives arrive at pretty much that time in Australia?
Wouldn’t mirror life be unable to digest food, in the same way that left handed sugar can’t be digested?
Important question: does anti-life have an evil mustache?
... am I the only one who heard "Let's go finish people" instead of "Let's go Finnish people"? 😳
If in ten years we still haven't learned our lesson from AI and all the other evil technologies, this world is doomed. And all I or anyone else can hope for is better luck next time. Unless the evils of this world rob us of even that...
For the skin immunity, we'd better call the new treatments hyposprays lol
It already exists. See _jet injector_ in Wikipedia.
Maybe Finland should rename that region to Flipperland.
Räpylämaa
It's been fun watching you Boys growing to be Men !:-)
AND
Well, as a compromise, we could whip up a quantum computer to simulate the exact quantum mechanics behind the creation of mirror life. All without having to create mirror life ourselves, and even if we do, it would only be to further advance our understanding of how such things would actually work. Taking things slow & steady in other words.
If you can give us a latin translation of 7 Days of Science, mybe a taxonomist will name a species after your channel.
Sept dies scientia? I'm sure the grammars borked.
I’m a therapsid
Lishulong wangi! Sounds a bit rude. :)
Playing God always ends well
Mirror Dna vs evolved A.I. Let them fight.
So… wait.. can we just.. not create synthetic life then?? What’s the purpose for all that??
I'd love non needles based vaccination.
Idk based on how the current universe is going, I think our "mirror life" might turn out to be the Federation...
Fascinating.
What? Another society-ending global event? I haven't even had dinner yet.
Why should we not create mirror lifeforms if they have such a cool title? "Mirror lifeforms"... I'm going to be the mangled corpse of a scientist in a absolutely fucked up lab if they keep on making it sound so cool.
Now make a scifi horror movie where an evil mad scientist creates "mirror life" that like anti-matter threats to eat away all "normal" life on the planet.
Mirror life is easily spotted by its goatee.
@@WaterShowsProd Hopefully the goatee and facial recognition will fix the issue. And clean your mirrors with disinfectant people!!
If Ben had a scientific name it would be, "gorgeousopisians:. He is handsome!
First!
It's okay, we're all doomed anyway.
I’m sure its totally safe and effective science. There’s no way they would ever alter a life form to gain some sort of function.
Thank you for your fantastic content!
Mirror life? They're talking about the Antispiral
Good luck creating life in a lab, you haven't done it yet, so we'll see.
Aw braw, let's just continue to create our own demise.
Brilliant.
Ffs.
Dont start being clickbaity lol your works good enough to stand on its own
If mirror DNA would be a problem, nature would already do it, it would be called evolution.
It is not like there are any real obstacles on evolving something like that, while it "sounds" like there are quite obvious incentives.
Elon Musk might be right about Mars, 3:57 if idiot scientists create life forms that kill off all life on Earth.