07-24-2016, 09:09 AM | #1281 |
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The CIA is hiring.
https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/cia-jobs Wow. There must be a hundred jobs there. |
07-24-2016, 09:18 AM | #1282 | |
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07-24-2016, 09:24 AM | #1283 |
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Traditionally a bit of both. The main purpose was to act as boundary markers or prevent stock from straying but it would certainly have been a convenient use of stone coming off the fields.
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07-24-2016, 09:27 AM | #1284 | |
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Occam's Razor tells us to accept the least contrived explanation that fits the facts. And there is no reason to resort to a mythical race of men to explain plain stone walls when the obvious solution is staring us right in the face. It was the aliens. |
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07-26-2016, 09:36 PM | #1285 | |
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07-27-2016, 06:34 AM | #1286 |
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08-02-2016, 08:15 AM | #1287 |
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It appears HeLa cells have not been mentioned yet. Let me rectify this.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor african american tobacca farmer in virginia who died from cancer. Before her death, her cancer cells were harvested for research (in the days before both civil rights AND informed consent), and have proved to be immortal. Most cancer cultures will eventually die, but not Hela cells! Also, Yesterday was her birthday. Her cells have made it into all sorts of places, and been spectacularly mislabeled Hela turned out to be the source of 24 acedemically recognized independent strains in the US, and when Russia shared their own 'immortal' cells with the US, (supposedly from russia), all 6 strains turned out to be from one Henrietta Lacks. Biomass estimates on the order of magnitude of 100 empire state buildings... Hela's greatest contributions are in the study of Viruses, and the cells were pivotal in creating both the Polio and the HPV Vaccine, and that's just the big notables so far. In a world where the supernatural is a thing ... lots of possibilities. Psi. Magic. Souls. Or perhaps HeLa isn't from Henerietta at all...
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08-02-2016, 08:24 AM | #1288 |
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08-02-2016, 10:03 AM | #1289 | |
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(You could get an entire season of Supernatural out of that one, especially if the increasing rage makes the trapped soul more powerful, as time passes.)
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08-02-2016, 05:28 PM | #1290 |
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Also weird in that their genes and chromosomal structures have adapted to single celled lab life so well they really shouldn't classify as human anymore.
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