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Like a prion

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨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!

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    • Gutek8134@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Spaghettification!

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    • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you take every grain of sand on Earth and stack them in a single column…

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  • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And that distance is miniscule and insignificant.

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    • Doombot1@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shut

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      • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Kindergartencop.gif

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your mom would like to think.

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  • sneezycat@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    human.7z

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  • palordrolap@kbin.run ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        1 + 1 = 2, or sometimes it’s 6, you know things can move sometimes

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    • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like a prion

    Folded for the very first time!

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    • Raverbunny@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know it was Like a Surgeon, but I heard that comment in Weird Al voice.

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      • pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Prions are so scary and so fascinating

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  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d argue that a prion is folded badly.

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not from a free energy standpoint.

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    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I was thinking more like a tangled knot of DNA. Which would be a good username.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        BadlyFoldedProtein (prion for short) would also be a good name

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  • Owl@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you took all your DNA, straightened it out, and put it end-to-end, you would die.

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also you would die, but let’s not think about that.

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    • onwardknave@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One’s neighbor’s DNA would also work…

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All dna from one cell? Or all dna from all cells?

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    • No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨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/

      2 livescience.com/…/how-many-cells-are-in-the-human…

      3 space.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-jupiter…

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now look here… Is not meant to be actually thought about, just be impressed dammit!

      Surely it’s DNA from all cells??

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re not small you’re just really well folded

    Basically a plot point for Three Body Problem

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨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? :::

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Had a good snort at that title. Well played.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a stupid comparison, because earth and Jupiter change their distance all the time. Orbital mechanics and so on.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I took all my DNA out of my body, wouldn’t I be dead? 🤔

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    • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This can’t be true! Really?

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    • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      feddit.de/comment/10614517

      Apparently it’s closer to 100 times even.

      You can fit a lot of very thin long thing into a small 3d space

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  • Abrinoxus@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thought it was Uranus

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    • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus gets sad when you get DNA in Uranus, or so they say

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  • bananabenana@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone is always talking about spider silk as ropes. What about DNA huh? Mass strawberry extraction for a DNA space elevator when?

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