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1 posted on 10/12/2011 6:26:09 PM PDT by decimon
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2 posted on 10/12/2011 6:27:08 PM PDT by decimon
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It has changed the White House!


4 posted on 10/12/2011 6:31:44 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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In before screenshots from Mony Python And The Holy Grail.


8 posted on 10/12/2011 6:38:51 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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I would consider this a successful adaptation.


10 posted on 10/12/2011 6:40:23 PM PDT by allmost
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Interesting that one of the articles on this Black Death Plague DNA stated that it was not connected with the Justinian Plague that killed 100 million and threw the West into the Dark Ages. It did, however, start in Western China.


14 posted on 10/12/2011 6:50:21 PM PDT by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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Natural selection leading to the evolution of resistant traits in humans? Say it ain’t so! /s


18 posted on 10/12/2011 7:05:50 PM PDT by archaicoldschool (.)
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basically wiping out people who couldn't deal with the disease

So marxism can theoretically be exterminated through bio-engineering.

Finally, a solution.

19 posted on 10/12/2011 7:10:04 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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This line of reasoning doesn’t come up nearly as often as it should.

I’ve read countless journals in which it is stated that organism X causes death in y% of its victims, and the analysis stops there. My question has always been, what is it about the victims that caused them to die? What enabled the survivors to live? But I never see research designed to answer those questions.


20 posted on 10/12/2011 7:20:24 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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I said the very same thing about the 1917 influenza pandemic and was scoffed and laughed at. I wonder if I was right.


23 posted on 10/12/2011 7:38:11 PM PDT by Oratam
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About ten percent of Europeans are totally immune to it, they could go swimming in a pool full of the stuff and walk away without even a sniffle.

They have a mutation called Delta-32 that does something to the cell membranes around their immune system cells, and the bacteria can’t get past it.

And this same mutation makes them totally immune to another killer - HIV.

Thing is, you have to have two copies of the gene, one from your mom and one from your dad. If you only have one copy, you have a much, much better chance and higher resistance to both diseases, but you are not 100% immune.


39 posted on 10/13/2011 7:59:14 AM PDT by djf (Soon you will need a prescription for EVERY SINGLE VITAMIN.)
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Delta 32 bookmark....


44 posted on 10/13/2011 10:33:05 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ("And I'm actually happy to be, for us to be the moat with alligators party." -- Mark Steyn)
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