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jwhouk:
I've used that "search" box on my toolbar maybe a grand total of once, maybe twice?
LTK:
Which is why Chrome does away with a seperate search box entirely.
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 10 Apr 2012, 06:09 ---I have a google search box, and a yahoo search bar. All the male members of my family have expressed varying degrees of horror and disgust, but it collects nectar points for me. 1 point to every 2 searches up to 50 points a month. I'm quite happy to sacrifice two centimetres of screen for free money.
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Interesting. What are those points good for? And do you take a minute or five every first of the month to do 100 arbitrary searches to fill the quotum?
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 10 Apr 2012, 05:58 ---I'm no biologist either. The spine might survive - the remaining half would only need to support half the original weight. The brain most likely would not. Also, don't most cells need all (or nearly all?) of the genetic material to function properly? For the purposes of this gedankenexperiment we may treat DNA as a single molecule, but if each cell loses a randomly selected half of its chromosomes, something is bound to go wrong.
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Every human has 2n chromosomes; 23 paternal, 23 maternal. Take 23 of those away, and you'd be in trouble, yes. But every strand of DNA is really two molecules bound together by reversible polar forces, so you can just split every chromosome down the middle and have the cells rebuild the other strand according to the template with any nucleotides that they have lying around.
Gnomes2169:
They won't have the ability to rebuild them, as you are also splitting the deconstructor/ reconstructor codons as well (Killing them instantly). This prevents natural reconstruction of the cell's DNA, since the things that are meant to recreate the DNA are sort of in need of repair themselves.
Also, when the cell is dividing and making more chromosomes, there are completed strands of DNA for that specific purpose. But by splitting those completely, you are no longer able to code any new strands and the cell dies.
So you would end up with two piles of relatively rapidly decomposing somethings that look vaguely human-ish if we implemented that idea...
schimmy:
It occurred to me today that there should be a joke involving a coke dealer and the phrase "blow job." Is there one that I just haven't heard?
Patrick:
I sincerely wish I could wear the same shoes every single day, but the fact that I've already been doing so for over a year is exactly the reason my shoes smell so bad that I always take them off in the doorways of friends' houses just so that I don't trail footsmell every time I take a step
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