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Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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Sentagur
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Gotta admit, had to google this shit too as my last biology class was some 20+ years ago
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Was just coming here to post this same link. I wonder if it is possible we could over use it.
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ORNL is a cool place. I meam all the NL's are. Wonder who sponsored/funded the work.
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They probably did a cost analysis and found out there wasn't quite a big a market for people willing to buy a car that costs as much as a Mercedes, drives like a Lada, can only go forwards (cos who want's to go backwards?), and uses special iFuel that costs $10 a gallon.
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What? No. The NLs are "owned" by DoE and often have a contractor who "runs" them, like Battelle. Researchers and divisions at these labs often do RDT&E work for DoD, DHS, DoE, etc...meaning they get MIPR money from another government entity. I was asking who eas the sponsor for example if say DHS HSARPA was funding it.
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Yeah Sentagur, you got me right. You said it right. We can not just plug a plant into a wall. I see what Tuco's getting at, but it subverts the process of photosynthesis, the first part of which is 'photo'.
Photons are needed, not just electrons. An electron is a wonderful thing that carries electromagnetic energy, but it is not the only thing. Earthly chemistry requires that a photon hit it, in the finale, in order to complete the act that ends in a sugar molecule. And without sugar we have, like Zy said, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Life? Yes. Sentient mammals that can ask questions about plugging plants into walls? No way. Not without the mass production of sugar that is beaming at us from the sky in the form of photons.
Good question by the way Tuco. Honestly. Well done. Made me think about how you were wrong but it was fun to think the process through! But as a biology sort of guy, I don't think what you are suggesting is a way to keep a plant alive.
Photons are needed, not just electrons. An electron is a wonderful thing that carries electromagnetic energy, but it is not the only thing. Earthly chemistry requires that a photon hit it, in the finale, in order to complete the act that ends in a sugar molecule. And without sugar we have, like Zy said, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Life? Yes. Sentient mammals that can ask questions about plugging plants into walls? No way. Not without the mass production of sugar that is beaming at us from the sky in the form of photons.
Good question by the way Tuco. Honestly. Well done. Made me think about how you were wrong but it was fun to think the process through! But as a biology sort of guy, I don't think what you are suggesting is a way to keep a plant alive.
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All the curious non bio majors should go to their local used book store and pick up a used Campbell Biology textbook. Great illustrations in easy to understand language.
Start off with cellular respiration, aerobic and anaerobic and then go mosey on into photosynthesis. It will give you a great foundational understanding of how life goes from CO2, O2, and sunlight to complex organisms. After that check out action potentials and learn how our nerve impulses are governed by electrochemical gradients and aren't simply electron movement in the way that we normally envision.
Start off with cellular respiration, aerobic and anaerobic and then go mosey on into photosynthesis. It will give you a great foundational understanding of how life goes from CO2, O2, and sunlight to complex organisms. After that check out action potentials and learn how our nerve impulses are governed by electrochemical gradients and aren't simply electron movement in the way that we normally envision.
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If you have a basic understanding of chemistry then go down the protein folding rabbit hole. Just about everything going on inside your body is regulated by the shapes of a bunch of proteins and how they fit together (or don't). CRISPR gets all the big headlines these days but our ability to accurately model proteins composed of hundreds, sometimes thousands of amino acids has been a real game changer and will continue to be at the forefront of biochemical research.