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Comment Timebomb? Really? (Score 1) 146

Bomb implies an explosion, something that happens really quickly. Regardless of what impact microplastics have on mankind, wether it's lethal or benign, It's not going to happen like a bomb. It's gonna be slow and deliberate. Using such analogies in the title diminishes the articles trustworthiness.

Comment No worries (Score 4, Informative) 90

I'm not a rocket scientist but I am an organic chemist. They ain't gonna make no damn mirror life anytime soon. Even if they did manage to make a few of them, they would die of starvation almost immediately. There's nothing for them to eat. Bacteria and anything else living require all this current chiral pool for survival. This is a load of hooey. This is for stupid people to fret and worry about. Me, I'm sleeping like a baby.

Comment Re:Making drugs? (Score 1) 32

No. This is not applicable. I've run plenty of photochemistry reactions. In those cases, the energy goes into the molecules that end up reacting. This article was about capturing energy, like some energy harvesting method. The drug part was bullshit. If what you're saying is that this is the same as the J. Med. Chem article, then it's not new or news. But it's not. Again, the "making drugs" connection was gratuitous bullshit. Trust me.

Comment And? (Score 3, Interesting) 243

Most all of my life I've been hearing all this doomsday talk about the population explosion and how we can't sustain all the people on this planet and it's gonna be horrible. And now that we've figured out how to solve the problem, everybody is freaking out about that. The bottom line is that, more than anything else, we just like to be freaking out about something.

Comment Re:Making drugs? (Score 1) 32

Thanks for the info. I've been in drug discovery for 45 years. This was about capturing photons. It's a long way from capturing photons to making drugs. You might use this technology to heat a flask. Or you might use nuclear, solar, wind or whatever. The coupling of light capture to making drugs is bullshit.

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