I guess I should have said why do they not look like rungs on a regular ladder but a ladder that is twisted? And how does one side know which spot to connect to on the other side?

Companies that are leading the market are already profiting from existing science, and new discoveries threaten to disrupt the market—it’s often in their interest to prevent new advances from coming to market even if they’d be the ones selling them. (Say, a cheap vaccine that prevents a disease they sell highly profitable drugs to treat.)

If they make these potentially disruptive advances privately, they can patent them to preemptively keep anyone else from introducing them. But if the advances were made using public funding, they have to make the case that whatever they do with it is in the public interest (which can conflict with their own).

The more important factor isn’t the funding or lack thereof, it’s the ability to control the results.

1. Because long-term strategy in the current US basically doesn't exist. Voters want the results immediately and if they don't see them they don't vote the representative back in. The next representative wants to do their own thing and thus tears down what has been done to put their own stamp on it.

2. companies don't want to do the starting line work that leads to a product. Failure rate is too high. Companies come in once government and academic scientists have developed things to a greater point. The guy who invented the blue led did a whole bunch of experiments in direct contradiction to his company execs following the results of an academic scientist.

Generics are not anything new, they can only get made once a patent has run out.

No.

TNT is a different chemical and is safe on its own. Nitroglycerine isn't.

Nitroglycerine soaked into sawdust and diatomaceous earth is called dynamite which is different from TNT

Yeah same one. He created the prize after his brother died and some newspapers thought it was him and ran scathing Eulogies of him. He had a come to Jesus moment and decided he didn't want to be remembered as "the merchant of death" as the papers called him. So he donated part of his fortune to the prize committee.

TNT wasn't even know to be an explosive for some 30 years after its invention. Surprisingly it was first used as a yellow dye for clothing and other products. Source

The reason nobody realized it was an explosive is because it's extremely stable. You can light it on fire and shoot it with a gun and it still wont go off. It takes heat and an intense shock far greater than a bullet (keep in mind I'm also referring to the black powder period from 1863 when TNT was invented to 1891 when they first realized it was explosive. No smokeless powder yet) to make it detonate.

Also nitroglycerine is a completely different compound. Trinitrotoluene is TNT's full name. 3 nitrogen dioxide groups attached to toluene. Nitroglycerine is 3 nitro groups attached to glycerine. Calling them the same thing (as someone else commented) is like calling a cat a dog because they have canine teeth.

TNT and dynamite are completely different just so you all know. Dynamite is nitroglycerine soaked into sawdust and diatomaceous earth to make it safer to handle and less likely to spontaneously explode. TNT is called TNT and is so safe it's a struggle to detonate it. You need a much more sensitive explosive to seto ff TNT by providing the initial energy needed.

What is always burnt into my mind is I think it was NDT who showed a dollar bill and used a red pen/marker and the amount that goes to nasa and scientist. But as a society we cannot invest in scientific groups to better society. We just throw money at these corps and expect results. But that money goes from top down. Trust me I know it's why I lied on my taxes for like 10 years and gave the money to my uncle who is a safety coordinator. The thing is I don't get is how he went from a pepsi saleman/deliver for 15 years to nasa. And how they gave him a safety coordinator job.

See that's what I don't get. Not calling you a liar or anything cause I hear the argument a lot. But if they are aligned with the government wouldn't it behoove the government to dump a shitton of money into these companies scientists so that way they can come up with more drugs, generic or name brand, and the companies would have about 100 year life span.

Because the US government is aligned with companies that exploit science for profit, and publicly-funded science is harder to exploit.

A lot of people think like you used to. Also, plenty actively don't want citizens to be smarter, whtether they say that out loud or not. The former are generally the ones voting in the latter. Because people who question what you say don't necessarily go along with you. They just want people to believe what they say, no questions asked.

The main reason we don't do editing in humans is ethical. Gene editing in cell cultures and model organisms is absolutely routine.

Them also covers the other options :)

Thanks for the reply but can I rephrase? Sometimes its just the first thing that comes to my head...thank welbutrin

Of the Nobel Peace prize?

him or her

Them

the word is themself

why is DNA in a helix?

The nucleotides that make up DNA have a natural angle that they attach together at. So they will stack in a helix unless that angle is exactly 90 degrees, and why would it be?

how come we can’t gene edit?

Most traits are affected by many genes governed by complex gene regulatory networks; and likewise, most genes affect many traits at once. That makes it difficult or impossible to change an isolated trait by making a few point edits to the genome (the exceptions are traits that arose recently due to novel mutations that haven’t yet found their way into deeper GRNs).

Yep.

I think making Nitroglycerine safe to handle was the entire point of TNT if I recall correctly?

Lol today you learned about the existence of gene editing.

Something I heard is that peripheral visions dies quicker than central vision for the tunnel aspect. I should probably verify it though

I've read that, as the brain shuts down, it is flooded with a chemical called DMT, which creates a euphoric and other-worldly feeling.

We dont know exactly, but the current working theory is that the brain pulses extremely strongly when dying, which produces extremely vivid images, including the famous "light at the end of a tunnel".

fym "normal"? But also we can DNA Edit, using CRISPER CAS 9, just not that big of parts. Things like Down Syndrome are caused by a whole missing or extra chromosome which we can't do.