Donald Trump has said that current air traffic control issues were caused by the "incompetent Biden Administration," and called Pete Buttigieg a "total novice."
Hmm… Break shit, blame others, announce he will fix it, doesn’t fix shit.
Imagine you’re an astronaut for a national space agency on an exploration mission.
You are charting a usual star system named after an astronomer, Kepler.
Everything is normal but you detect trace gases of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Methane and Carbon Dioxide coming from the third planet orbitting the star.
News breaks about potentially organic compounds detected on an exoplanet and your space agency gives you authorization to approach and orbit for closer study.
When you get closer, you find an alarming sight – more than half of the planet, Kepler-3, has golden lights dotting the dark half of the planet.
Initially, it’s dismissed as natural atmospheric disturbances, but a few insightful individuals point out that they can see what look like geometric shapes, organized behavior of some kind.
It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.
Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.
No amount of medicine cures opposite handed chirals. So you do the smart thing, and turn around and leave.
Then, a few years later, an organism on their planet says:
“Lame. Bad event happened and not even any aliens”, being completely oblivious to the biological apocalypse their planet has been spared from.
It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.
Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.
Organisms on earth use right handed chirality without issue. Even humans manipulate some. Eating an alien would probably go poorly, but interacting with one (all you mass effect fans out there can lose the burgeoning boners, creeps, I mean in something as light as a ‘handshake scenario’) wouldn’t be some terrible biological curse. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10851380/ I’m trying to scratch my head to remember because it’s been a while, but I think there are archaebacteria that use the D forms even more than the normal incorporation into peptidoglycan. It’s not a death sentence.
He literally wears clown makeup. It’s just so bizarre.
And no aliens even? Lame.
Imagine you’re an astronaut for a national space agency on an exploration mission.
You are charting a usual star system named after an astronomer, Kepler.
Everything is normal but you detect trace gases of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Methane and Carbon Dioxide coming from the third planet orbitting the star.
News breaks about potentially organic compounds detected on an exoplanet and your space agency gives you authorization to approach and orbit for closer study.
When you get closer, you find an alarming sight – more than half of the planet, Kepler-3, has golden lights dotting the dark half of the planet.
Initially, it’s dismissed as natural atmospheric disturbances, but a few insightful individuals point out that they can see what look like geometric shapes, organized behavior of some kind.
It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.
Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.
No amount of medicine cures opposite handed chirals. So you do the smart thing, and turn around and leave.
Then, a few years later, an organism on their planet says:
“Lame. Bad event happened and not even any aliens”, being completely oblivious to the biological apocalypse their planet has been spared from.
Organisms on earth use right handed chirality without issue. Even humans manipulate some. Eating an alien would probably go poorly, but interacting with one (all you mass effect fans out there can lose the burgeoning boners, creeps, I mean in something as light as a ‘handshake scenario’) wouldn’t be some terrible biological curse. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10851380/ I’m trying to scratch my head to remember because it’s been a while, but I think there are archaebacteria that use the D forms even more than the normal incorporation into peptidoglycan. It’s not a death sentence.