MozeeToby

MozeeToby t1_jakmmir wrote

Yes, that's why this mission was important. Let's say we see an asteroid this size a few orbits before it's going to collide with Earth. We could launch a mission similar to this DART impactor and change the asteroid's orbit by 30 minutes per orbit.

That may not seem like much, but if it's still 2 orbits before impact that's an hour difference. The asteroid now misses Earth by about 60,000 km.

16

MozeeToby t1_j1c205i wrote

This is insane. I want to regionally well regarded private school for less than that and I'm 38. It was probably a mistake, but luckily worked out for me. The idea that this is now the average for my state is unthinkable. A couple decades ago we had one of the strongest state college programs in the country and now you're telling me a four year degree averages 120k? It's completely unsustainable.

10

MozeeToby t1_ivfpuys wrote

In addition to this, the human genome serves as a reference genome. You don't need to say "this patient has this string of 500 base pairs representing their variant" you can just say "at position 125 they have a GTA instead of ATA and at 244 they have 6 duplicated pairs"

156

MozeeToby t1_itat646 wrote

"No taxation without representation" was a rallying cry of the revolution, not government policy or federal law. There are lots of people in the US with no representation at the federal level who still pay federal taxes, the most obvious of which is the entire population of Washington DC.

11