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  1. Leadfoot J. McCoalroller

    Leadfoot J. McCoalroller Senior Member

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    It's gotten a lot of attention very quickly. I'm hoping that's enough to keep it from doing much more harm.
     
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    SARS was what, 2003? Killed about 800 and really revised how folks treat new disease jumps between species.
     
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    the bit I'm worried about is that I keep hearing about a 14+ day incubation before symptoms. So even though the news has been blowing up for the past 72 hours or so, the real damage was long since done.
     
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    Yes, as with measles, if the early days don't knock you flat, you get to act as a mobile transmitter. All the best viruses go that way.

    World Health Org (WHO) stopped one step short of going nuclear on this one this week.

    Wuhan is building a new hospital :) in a couple of weeks :)

    Virus-marred city to speed-build 1,000-bed hospital - Chinadaily.com.cn

    I'm going to family-required dinner party tonight and you betcha there will be masks.

    PS: sleepy Kunming now has 2 but I don't know if 2 is in the same tank as 1.
     
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    2019-nCoV virus will surpass 41 (disclosed) dead and ~1400 (disclosed) infected. Looks pretty frisky now. Unless preceded by someone else here I will start a separate thread.

    Y'all ought to know something about how virus, bacteria and other critters cause diseases in humans. How we fight back, and how that fight may need to change. It is actually a bit complicated and I may put more effort into a brief for Current Biology (journal) than for you freeloaders :)
     
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    i dreamt last night that i was invited to a party in a room with 20% norovirus. i tried to decline...
     
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    stop eating live animals, problem solved
     
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    We may have difference perception. I thoroughly agree that solar is our primary heat source. A speculated solar minimum and orbital solar influx is possible. But orbital mechanics is not trivial.

    We, our species, may be carbonized CO[2] and species subject to the the results.

    I and my peers will subject to none of these effects.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    I enjoyed this article,

    Was thinking the other day we as humans sometimes think we are disconnected from other species or better than other species.

    Who is better prepared for life - a human with all their intelligence or a sparrow who is content in bitter winter or hot summer with nothing but its natural feather covering, feeding by aerating the earth looking for insects or worms and fertilizing the earth as it goes about its business.

    Who is smarter and more environmentally friendly, a Phd scientist who drives a Tesla or a squirrel who humbly goes about his business hunting for acorns and walnuts burying some for winter that eventually sprout into trees and spawn even more forest, a squirrel is comfortable in his own skin in winter,summer,spring or fall never using fossils fuels to warm himself and only produces waste products that naturally decompose to nourish the earth.

    Wonder if we as humans have very inflated opinions of ourselves and our place in the natural world
     
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    I can't vouch for this source, but this appears to be some rare good news from Team USA.
     
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    I have no problems with IEA. If I see some other report that agrees or disagrees, I'll add it. IEA is not the only C counter.
     
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    the animals and insectsare always trying to get into my house. obviously, we're on to something
     
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    "These oscillations of the baseline solar magnetic field are found associated with a long-term solar inertial motion about the barycenter of the solar system ... "

    o_O

    If any planets exist, then the central body always orbits around the barycenter. (So do the planets.) That is almost the definition of a barycenter.

    If there are some oscillations, they must be in something about the orbits of the planets.
     
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