And that distance is miniscule and insignificant.
Like a prion
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VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Doombot1@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Shut
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your mom would like to think.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
human.7z
palordrolap@kbin.run 11 months ago
"If you took all the DNA out of a person and laid it end to end, that person would die."
The distance to Jupiter from Earth is but a mere blip though. Even the galaxy is small compared to what's beyond.
Thanks to chaos theory, what we do here can have some effect on the far future of the Universe, at least, for those places within causal reach. How meaningful that effect can be remains to be seen.
But do bear in mind that even, say, a cow farting in a field in France last Tuesday might have as much effect as everything you ever do.
Allero@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I’d start with the notion that the distance from Jupiter to Earth is very much not a constant value, and can be many times different depending on both planets’ positions around the Sun.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
1 + 1 = 2, or sometimes it’s 6, you know things can move sometimes
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Has anyone ever done a quick calculation about the above with the population?
8 billion people x distance to Jupiter = Anywhere close to Proxima Centauri?
I’ll be not lazy when I’m done shitting then someone can come in and correct my math after.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Like a prion
Folded for the very first time!
Raverbunny@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I know it was Like a Surgeon, but I heard that comment in Weird Al voice.
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I so much want you to be a person that didn’t realize Al Jankovic was writing parody songs of other popular songs.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Prions are so scary and so fascinating
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’d argue that a prion is folded badly.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Not from a free energy standpoint.
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I was thinking more like a tangled knot of DNA. Which would be a good username.
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
BadlyFoldedProtein (prion for short) would also be a good name
Owl@hexbear.net 11 months ago
If you took all your DNA, straightened it out, and put it end-to-end, you would die.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also you would die, but let’s not think about that.
onwardknave@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
One’s neighbor’s DNA would also work…
Pulptastic@midwest.social 11 months ago
All dna from one cell? Or all dna from all cells?
No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 11 months ago
One cell contains 2 meters of follded dna 1 A human has 36 trillion cells 2 The distance between Earth and Jupiter varies from 588 million km to 999 million km and averages at 601 million kilometers 3
36 trillion * 2 meters / 0,6 trillion meters
120 times to Jupiter (or 60 times back an forth) on average
Or 72 times to Jupiter (36 times back and forth) at the highest distance
1 Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 4th edition. New York: Garland Science; 2002. Chromosomal DNA and Its Packaging in the Chromatin Fiber. Available from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26834/
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Now look here… Is not meant to be actually thought about, just be impressed dammit!
Surely it’s DNA from all cells??
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You’re not small you’re just really well folded
Basically a plot point for Three Body Problem
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
::: And closely related to the biggest plot hole in the books and tv series Sophons are sent to Earth at near light speed, presumably accelerated in a particle accelerator. They are the size of and very like protons. How would they slow down? How would they change direction? :::
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh yeah, they never explain the slowing down part huh? But they also seem to be self propelled somehow since they are zipping all over the place and slamming into particles inside of our particle accelerators.
Aviandelight@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Had a good snort at that title. Well played.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 11 months ago
That’s a stupid comparison, because earth and Jupiter change their distance all the time. Orbital mechanics and so on.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
If I took all my DNA out of my body, wouldn’t I be dead? 🤔
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Not immediately, your cells could continue to function without the DNA in the nucleus, until they try to divide. Then you will turn into soup, it’s basically what happens when someone is exposed to extreme radiation.
secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This can’t be true! Really?
LwL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Apparently it’s closer to 100 times even.
You can fit a lot of very thin long thing into a small 3d space
Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Thought it was Uranus
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jesus gets sad when you get DNA in Uranus, or so they say
bananabenana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everyone is always talking about spider silk as ropes. What about DNA huh? Mass strawberry extraction for a DNA space elevator when?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
If I take a three dimensional thing, and stretch it such than one or even two of those dimensions approach zero, the measurements in the other dimensions get extremely large!
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Spaghettification!
Clent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you take every grain of sand on Earth and stack them in a single column…