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1. https://www.sciencealert.com/lightning-bolts-could-have-delivered-a-key-ingredient-to-start-life-on-earth
2. https://www.sciencealert.com/more-twins-are-being-born-now-than-ever-in-history-here-s-what-could-be-happening
3. https://www.sciencealert.com/four-bacterial-strains-discovered-on-the-iss-may-help-grow-better-space-plants
4. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-amazon-rainforest-could-now-be-making-climate-change-worse
5. https://www.sciencealert.com/preserved-plant-matter-has-been-discovered-buried-beneath-the-greenland-ice
6. https://www.sciencealert.com/antibody-study-shows-that-the-us-might-have-double-the-covid-19-cases-reported
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NagateTanikaze
#1 lightning sparked life, bit late Dr. Frankenstein already knew that
Bonsaipanda
#6 Try 75-80% more cases. This was noticed when Italy and Spain got hit in the beginning.
trepernat1
3: alien microbes?
opindersaini
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PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
What I learned from #1 - we're all just Frankenstein's monster
thevortexmaster
My two best family friends both had twins at almost 40
BlockyJ
That lightning one is cool
CreatureFromtheBlackLegume
#5 was done at the UVM Geology Department (among others) but UVM wants to defund the it. Please consider signing http://chng.it/VvfbcZrFNG
Senguie
As a twin myself, I welcome our new twin overlords
CheetahLegs
RVME
My son was conceived when I accidentally made a spark on my battery charger attempting kinky sex. Is that creating life science style?
MetaSomma
.......... story time
smilefromaveil
Schreibersite: is that where Liev and Pablo were born? I'll leave now.
JadeNB1729
Yes. Lightning struck twice there.
WeAreTheRobots
Always upvote Science!
drdildamesh
"asymptomatic infections" and straight up lying/
CirB
Well... #4 almost triggered an anxiety attack... I think I'll go away now to... medicate myself a bit (ie. drink myself insensible)
kibbypie
#3 Nope, that’s how we lose Ryan Reynolds
ViliciousTheFirst
I read "donuts" instead of "droughts." Damn.
ViliciousTheFirst
No punchline, just hungry.
LifeConfessionguy1
mormacil
Yikes are all these spiders
EvilPidgey
LifeConfessionguy1
yeaaadude
#last headline: this is what I was thinking for a long time. U can have blood clots and not know until they cause a problem
YouWillNeverFindMe
It's also good news that the virus could be (percentage wise) half as lethal as previously thought, considering it could become seasonal.
YouWillNeverFindMe
Or did they go back on the possibility of it becoming seasonal?
YouHaveNoodsAndIHaveAnInbox
I havnt heard anyone talk about it being seasonal since it failed to dip in the slightest over the summer.
sysaphiswaits
Usually these make happy, but this one was kind of a bummer.
legalisegaymarijuana
If you give even the slightest shit about the Amazon rainforest, stop eating beef and dairy.
sweetnaivety
you mean palm oil?
legalisegaymarijuana
I also religiously don't consume palm oil, the 2nd biggest cause of deforestation after animal agriculture (mostly beef & dairy farming)
BavarianGuy
I put pork on my beef and dairy
HeadTurdL
Please leave the Amazon alone.
legalisegaymarijuana
Everyone needs to stop eating beef and dairy. It's the main cause of deforestation there.
HeadTurdL
Please leave cheeseburgers alone also.
MrRandom314159
Wasn't there a thing a long-ass time ago where scientists put together a box of pre-historic elements (water/gases) and ran an electric >
MrRandom314159
current through it and found that proteins had actually formed as a result?
MetaSomma
I seem to remember that as well...
makeaPiBreaker
You may be referring to the Miller Urey experiment which they created an organic molecule (urea) from Early Earth inorganic compounds.
MrRandom314159
YES! That's exactly it! I could never remember what it was called.
BronzeOnion
Lol my fiance is pregnant with twins right now.
ObliqueRay
Tell your kids good luck with the environment. I'll be dead by the time it gets really bad.
Consolidatedheadmelter
Congrats on the sex!
TheCrispiestNoodles
Seriously though. I’m due in September and the group I’m in, more than half of them are having twins. I had twins too but one was vanishing.
TheCrispiestNoodles
And the majority of them were unexpected. So no fertility treatments and no family history.
Panserclaw
The Amazon rainforest is screwed?
Lleonharte
born yesterday?
Golgothanworm
legalisegaymarijuana
Everyone needs to stop eating beef and dairy. It's the main cause of deforestation there.
TheBasementNerd
I thought it was already widely assumed that lightning strikes helped start it?
MetaSomma
Yeah I remember hearing that decades ago
genericus
There was "science" taught in 60-70 school regarding an expirament to duplicate the impact of lightning on 'primordial soup'.
genericus
https://evolutionnews.org/2012/12/top_five_probl/
MarleafChef
More twins are due to now easy access to Twix and Double Mint Gum.
DistortionWorldGod
How it feels to chew 10 gums
AstronautChicken
The Lucas Brothers have something to say about your joke.
Willowknowsall
IVF and cesareans
cleverlydisguised
Good thing I don't eat kit-kats
nugenki
Kit-Konjoined Twins
cleverlydisguised
I was thinking quadruplets
Waitihavesomething4this
I’m pregnant and next in line for twins and had dream (nightmare??) that I gave birth to twin... beagles. I woke up weirded tf out
Cyberpope67
& no shortage of DP videos. . .
DaveTBull
Go sit in the corner and think about that bad pun
godcixelsyd
https://youtu.be/73lueEtB0hs
967Evil
What's Twix ?
Cyberpope67
a breakfast food not for wabbits.
bumCandle
Biscuit topped with caramel then covered in chocolate. Comes with 2 sticks of twix to a pack
MarleafChef
You can either get packs with two left Twix or two right Twix. You're obligated to pick a side of the debate.
bumCandle
Obviously the lefties are the sane choice, not like those filthy righty scum
967Evil
Oh , you talking about Raiders .
bumCandle
If we were living in 1967 yes
967Evil
It did exist before 1967 according to the wiki , it was created in that year ! Looks like I haven't eaten it since the year 2000 (Denmark)
jargonmon
So....we're fucked. But life...finds a way.
legalisegaymarijuana
If you give even the slightest shit about the Amazon rainforest, stop eating beef and dairy.
DeathAnGravity
Our current way of life is f'd (coastal cities, geo-agricultural regions). Bright side: if you've never met a Floridian, you're about to.
rkingesd365
The planet will be just fine though.
malbec
Yes... “life.” That doesn’t necessarily include you and me... but some germs? Sure.
GodzillaBoomingMarketOfDiabetes
So there's a chance
Greenskeeper1869
Some blind leading the blind idiot is going to come around and blame the rainforests, with a solution to the problem, remove the rainforests
Okebel
Humans will die out. Rainbow octupuses will be the dominant species.
oldscrotumthewrinkledretainer
Life Jim but not as we know it
AlmightyThor117
My exact reaction reading #3
Jinxies
The planet will be fine ... it's us who are well fucked.
Dinos91
And if the atmosphere hits too much CO2 plants start to die so we will take pretty much anything above and inch long with us when we go
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
We finds a way to fuck life!
AnotherReplyToIgnore
We've already set life back quite a ways, and world war 3 would doom this world. The sun will swallow it before new intelligent life forms.
lostandlonelyguy
You assume that there’s truly intelligent life here now. There are those who would question that assertion.
goatamon
Extremely unlikely. Of all the complex forms of life on the planet, humans are BY FAR the likeliest to survive. A shitload of us might die,
goatamon
but at this point there's approx. 7,5 shitloads of us to go around.
monkofblame365
Mass extinction events don't pick favorites. Purely on numbers most insects have a better shot, and are generally more adaptable.
TZARHINO
stolenmemepolice1
Being human is a crime, we just keep messing things up. I don’t think I want children.
chiefrunswithscissors
I had a thought. Evolution is designed to make us proliferate. Can we actually stop that process even if we want to?
HistoryDogs
Evolution designed us to proliferate within a range of conditions. If we make conditions on Earth outwith that range, we die as a species.
my1rstlaptopwas34inchscreenup
don't know about that. ocean acidification, changing gulf stream. this shit will mess up the base of the food chain
MaddMatter
Human life might not.
DaveTBull
Base of the food chain being buggered with is more than a human problem.
DaveTBull
Hell an algae/moss bloom has caused an extinction level event before
terrasono
And well keep electing people that want money and don't care about the working class.
legalisegaymarijuana
If you give even the slightest shit about the Amazon rainforest, stop eating beef and dairy. Has nothing to do with politics.
Psiberdragon
YayItsMillerTime
BreakTheCode
Yes even with everything going on, number of humans keep increasing by millions
KnightWhoSaidNi
Until one day it doesn't. But then it's too late
Sjama
The rate at which population is increasing has been decreasing slightly over the last few decades. The decrease 2019 to 2020 (in%) was one
BreakTheCode
Yes from 1.10 percent to 1.05 percent or something. That still comes down to 80 million more people per year.
Sjama
of the largest since End 20th century. However, at the 2000-2020 rate in might take ~100 years for pop to stop growing.
DanFendi
'The rocket streaking towards us has slowed down by 2%!' is not the comforting fact you make it out to be.
rumpleforeskinforthewin
Yes, as long as we accept that human life may not.
GodzillaBoomingMarketOfDiabetes
I disagree
BamboozleInsurance
Humans are a pest, sadly we will find a way
manulofdoom
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rumpleforeskinforthewin
I’m thinking we’ll take ourselves out. And the planet and life will resume without further interference from us.
ElioNope
Do you realise just how many, how scattered, and how damn stubborn humans are? Wiping them out is basically impossible.
JadeNB1729
… did … did you experience a global extinction in the middle of that comment?
Myowngrampa
Yup
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JadeNB1729
I hope everyone appreciates your work to make that comment hit 140 characters exactly one letter before the expected end. It's beautiful.
Winter23
I figure humans will be harder to get rid of than that, but a total collapse of civilization and tech would not shock me.
Misterdruglicious
Me it would I honestly think it'll divide itself into clusters
AlmightyThor117
Don’t worry civilization will collapse when I I’m around 60-70 and can’t survive it
MindRape
Don't tease me with promises you can't keep!
JadeNB1729
No worries! You probably couldn't survive it now, either!
BamboozleInsurance
Now now, I think I'll do fine selling memes during the apocalypse
GrondWillBreachIt