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- diggduggj, on 01/26/2008, -2/+83The title of this article is highly misleading....
- AsSubtleAsABrik, on 01/26/2008, -15/+96man i am drunk right now.
- Dokument, on 01/26/2008, -2/+47ability-to-sit-in-one-place-for-extended-periods-of-time man
- otakushark, on 01/26/2008, -2/+24Really could have done without the telepathy bit. It only encourages pseudoscience types to misrepresent it as evidence for their baseless claims.
- omega255, on 01/26/2008, -5/+27Finally... I can join the x-men!
- Elliuotatar, on 01/26/2008, -2/+22Or you could read the article and see that it explains the cause.
- Zorn, on 01/26/2008, -1/+20Indeed—it has nothing to do with telepathy. The analogy is false.
- samssf, on 01/26/2008, -5/+21Evolution is a theory, it can never be "proven". It's a theory with tons of scientific evidence, and more supporting evidence found all the time. No evidence has ever been found to contradict evolution.
- solarisom, on 01/26/2008, -2/+17Interesting, but here's the clarification:
"To understand what researchers conjecture is really happening, think of double helixes of DNA as corkscrews. The bases that make up a strand of DNA each cause the corkscrew to bend one way or the other. Double-stranded DNA with identical sequences each result in corkscrews "whose ridges and grooves match up," said researcher Sergey Leikin, a physical biochemist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md." - TH3W1R3D, on 01/26/2008, -1/+15Lmao dugg for the randomness at 3am
- inactive, on 01/26/2008, -2/+16Maybe the doppelganger nucleotide sequences are just a slightly better fit versus the counter-part ones, seeing as the counter-parts are slightly different.
And I kind of resent the whole telepathy analogy, it doesn't make sense. I wouldn't even call it a concept, it's more of a science fiction idea. Also it's supposed to involve two minds, not two molecules. - antler, on 01/26/2008, -5/+18According to this logic, the magnets on my refrigerator are totally using ESP to stay attached. In fact, I think my colander is using psi energy to tell my macaroni not to follow the water through the holes. Think of the possibilities...
- baalzebub, on 01/26/2008, -0/+11morons like huckabee never listen to logic, they rather stay in their fantasy world...
- sfrench, on 01/26/2008, -2/+13Nothing novel or noteworthy in this article, it's simple electrochemical reaction chemistry.
What I find interesting is the similar problem of protein folding. When proteins are generated, they are put together one amino acid at a time in a serial fashion. As each amino acid is added to the protein chain, they have these natural electrochemical reactions they want to form with the other amino acids already in the chain (and form 3D structures). Nature knows that these short-sighted pairings are not correct for the desired result and special "helpers" called Chaperonins are employed to keep bonds from forming prematurely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone (generic protein class)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperonin - dhughes, on 01/26/2008, -0/+11 Geology rocks.
- Elliuotatar, on 01/26/2008, -1/+11How about you read the article, where it says exactly what causes it?
- gaijintendo, on 01/26/2008, -1/+11Wonderfully well informed as you may be, this is news to a lot of people. This is called Science Communication.
It is interesting stuff, and a healthy society should be informed and interested. The problem is, the public very often have an overly negative view of science... - judicar, on 01/26/2008, -0/+10It's a sad day when an article has to appeal to the lowest common denominator by referring to electromagnetism as "telepathy-like".
- garyinthehouse, on 01/26/2008, -6/+15actually, this is nothing relatively new.
- razorsedge555, on 01/26/2008, -9/+18More evidence that we do indeed live in a holographic universe.
- SanDaiFez, on 01/26/2008, -1/+10"Unknown mechanism for attraction" is not "telepathy", nor could it be "telepathy-like" as long as telepathy is just mere speculation in certain fringe/nutjob/new-age circles.
These guys are enablers for pseudoscience (see the comment above with the holographic universe).
Buried for *****! - Brad324, on 01/26/2008, -2/+11ah yes, not relatively new. Relative to the last 5 seconds of time, nothing is relatively new.
- inactive, on 01/26/2008, -2/+11you just made my day; this is better than the random "Ron Paul" comments
- DesertDude, on 01/26/2008, -12/+20It's even more fascinating if you're an atheist. All this and those molecules aren't even designed by an intelligent entity; they just "evolved" from pure simplicity. How miraculous.
- glinsvad, on 01/26/2008, -2/+10Not really:
"Although it looks as if spooky action or telepathic recognition is going on, DNA operates under the laws of physics, not the supernatural."
http://www.xkcd.org/373/ - skinfitz, on 01/26/2008, -1/+8'Finally'? Evolution has been proven to be a fact for some time now.
- realyst, on 01/26/2008, -2/+9No. From what I understand, the wavelengths in cellphone signals are far too large to meddle with such little things as your DNA. Walking around the room(even if it was lined with lead) is likelier to provide a stronger impact. Your body's cells, for the most part, don't even notice the warble of cellphone communication, since the scale of the waves are just so large compared to the forces acting on those tiny proteins, any impact is far far more gradual and infinitely less dramatic then what natures regularly throws at you ever minute anyways. Many physicists and radio technologists believed this would be the case for a while(which is probably why the tech was developed in the first place), but even then, many many studies have been conducted independently to confirm it.
Equally, the charges repel the strands from each other at all times. What they found is that matching strands repel less due to their shape. They also cling when they do hit each other inevitably in a way similar to velcro. So even if the radiation off your Razr messed with it, it wouldn't provide a noticeable impact anyways as the worst it can do is cause everything to repel itself more(at which point you just scaled things up so the processes themselves still function as usual) or less(scaled down, same deal). - cruzlee, on 01/26/2008, -0/+7Gravity sucks
- trogdoor, on 01/26/2008, -1/+7*rules
- 15thPD, on 01/26/2008, -3/+9In Soviet Russia, it's pretty damn cold and covered in snow.
- fhornplayer, on 01/26/2008, -2/+8and yet, if a christian were to bring up the completely irrelevant topic of religion, he would be dugg down.
- Detritus, on 01/26/2008, -0/+5The article itself is also highly misleading. Even after explaining how it works they continue to use the telepathy analogy.
- Esstee, on 01/26/2008, -1/+6Fascinating theory. Will definitely grab this one.
thx - Dokument, on 01/26/2008, -6/+11i knew you were going to type that.
- sinisterD, on 01/26/2008, -1/+5celebrating Australia day?
- razorsedge555, on 01/26/2008, -2/+6See Michael Talbott's book or visit this site: http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html
- Netrilix, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colander
- samssf, on 01/26/2008, -2/+6Yeah, this article seems pointless.
- h3lx, on 01/26/2008, -1/+5I've yet to understand this bury effect... someone asks a legitimate, interesting question, somewhat relative to the science discussed in the article and BAM! Bury Time. Excellent Question. There is no consistent science suggesting cell phones cause brain cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x ... - chaosium, on 01/26/2008, -1/+5You'll never be a journalist with that attitude, buddy.
- SlimFastForYou, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4It's the guy dat helps you land da plane.
- noumuon, on 01/26/2008, -1/+5wow. first, this article has nothing to do with telepathy. rtfa before commenting. second, you have little to no idea what you're talking about. you have little to no idea what science has to say about these occurrences. and for the love of all things, don't try and mention quantum mechanics unless you can mathematically explain to me a feynman integral.
- holograverse, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4I picked up The Holographic Universe at around age 15, but didn't read it until I was about 20, exactly the right time for me to be able to digest and process the information. I find myself coming back to it again and again. It's a great book :) My username is based off the title, heh.
- Encablossa, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3I agree, lets not believe the earth is still flat just yet.
- Ingulit, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3I utterly agree with h3lx above; I'm much more interested in this conversation that learning about the man who was drunk at 3 in the morning.
Perhaps it's just me. - cyroxos, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3Evolution is a FACT, it has been observed. The mechanism CAUSING evolution is the THEORY of natural selection. and that is what is debated.
- Ingulit, on 01/26/2008, -1/+4I agree with fhornplayer; this post is nothing more than flamebait for the number of non-atheists who post on Digg (believe it or not, there are a few).
- baalzebub, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3welcome to the primordial soup bowl...
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