NSFW: off-topic discussion

[Timblesink]

Originally Posted by Appleskates

What exactly happened here while I was gone?

We found out that Ronan's actually an alien, 1944's going to be a game about fish and there's a girl here now.

[Ness]

AND: Not to step on Ants :P



*waves* hello I am the resident girl.

*SHOCK, HORROR, OH THE HUMANITY*

[napalmi]

Oh look a manatee

[Timblesink]

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi
You: Prepare for trouble!
Stranger: heloooooooooo
You: Make it double!!
You: To protect the world from devastation...
You: To unite all peoples within our nation...
Stranger: Ok
You: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
You: To extend our reach to the stars above!
You: Jessie!
You: James!
Stranger: hahahha
You: Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
Stranger: James
You: Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
You: Meowth, dat's right!
You: Give us the Pikachu, and no one gets hurt!
Stranger: Ok
You: Oh... well that was easy...
Stranger: pic the pikachu
You: *takes Pikachu*
You: ... uh...
You: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaaaaain...!
You have disconnected.

[CBowling]

Oh omegle.com....Such a great time-waster.

[Katulobotomia]

DONT TEACH THEM KUNG FU!!!1!!!

[Ness]

You: I have a penis and a vagina
You: I woke up this morning and my penis slipped in it
Stranger: crazy....
You: I know right?
You: I'm worried I may have impregnated myself
You: because I came
You: do you think that's possible?

[css2d]

If i may:

Originally Posted by DavidUpton

That's messed up.

[Ness]

Come on im funny :P

[css2d]

Never doubted it

[Katulobotomia]

Check this out!
I think Soviet soldiers were better at dancing than fighting O_o

...theres some pretty good moves at the end.

[Oddvin]

Ok wtf, why do they do that dance?

[napalmi]

It's russian folk dance.

[Oddvin]

So break dancing is russian folk dancing? Nice.

[napalmi]

No no It's break dance only because of the music. I presume they are dancing polka.

[Ness]

Ahahahahaahaha

[Katulobotomia]

Did you know:

Count all the cells in your body, and only 10% of those cells are your own, the 90% are bacteria.

Take all DNA in your body and only 1% of the DNA information inside you is human DNA.

[Lord Justin]

The first one can be misleading, as I'm pretty sure it's by number but people tend to think it's by mass or volume. Bacteria is much more numerous but also extremely smaller than our own cells.

Also, please elaborate on the second one, it sounds like it's another one of those misleading scientific popular facts. Does it mean that 99% of our DNA is junk DNA? I've never heard that one so I'm curious

[Roby]

Ya I'm pretty sure all the DNA inside me is mine. besides pathogen's or otherwise.

[Katulobotomia]

Originally Posted by Roby

Ya I'm pretty sure all the DNA inside me is mine. besides pathogen's or otherwise.

Well the first one means what it says...count all the cells and nine out of ten are bacteria....BUT only about 1,2kg of our mass is bacteria.

The second one I might clarify: Take all DNA material inside your body....and you come up with 100 times more bacterial DNA than your own bodies DNA.

PS:and not even your "own" DNA is your own. Most of it has no function what so ever and are most likely a left-over junk from viruses. 98% of YOUR DNA is called "junk DNA" . They do not produce any protein and are most likely a left-over from ancient mutations and viruses leaving their traces on our DNA, making almost all of the DNA mostly "junk". Now there are theories that some small part of that junk DNA might have some regulatory function in relation to other genes, but most of our genes that actually have an affect on our bodies are separated with HUUUUUGE deserts of "junk DNA".

Testing this "junk DNA" which is about 98% of your DNA is very hard, since changing it doesn't seem to cause any effect on the host...thus it is referred as "uncoding DNA".

[Lord Justin]

I know that geneticists have realized that much of what we once thought was "junk" DNA is actually DNA switches which control the timing and intensity of the activation of important genes. Apparently it's hard to detect sections that are "switches" because their functions are so specific and individual that we don't know when they get turned on for what. But these switches explain why we share such an enormous amount of DNA with every living thing from fir trees to oysters to oyster-trees. Every gene's activation can be delayed or amplified enough to create the huge range of characteristics in the world, using only a very small amount of genes. Like the variables in an algebra equation.

I'm not sure if that was what you meant by "theories that some small part of that junk DNA might have some regulatory function in relation to other genes," and I'm sure that only accounts for a small amount of the seemingly useless DNA anyway.

Take all DNA material inside your body....and you come up with 100 times more bacterial DNA than your own bodies DNA.

Doesn't the first fact sort of imply this though?

[Katulobotomia]

Doesn't the first fact sort of imply this though?

I hate you.

j/k, yea it kind of does

[Roby]

There is no such thing as junk DNA, I just finished a genetics course this past semester and the professor told us "if there is one thing that you learn this semester it's that there is no such thing as junk DNA"

The DNA that doesn't seem to code for anything does exactly what Lord justin said. These parts are referred to as "enhancers" and affect the way the DNA codes some how.

and I think this thread is turning into another science and shiz thread O.o

[Katulobotomia]

Discussion moved to here

[Katulobotomia]

You realize Nivek is spelled Kevin backwards!

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[Onearmy]

Originally Posted by Katulobotomia

You realize Nivek is spelled Kevin backwards!

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Heh, I never noticed that before...

[biggles]

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[DavidUpton]

What is it with people and having their usernames as words spelt backwards around here? Nivek, Ekoms, Biggles... It's crazy.

[metsapeikko]

Well, I'm glad that Markus sounds bit silly when spelled backwards.

[Ness]

ssen just doesn't look right.....