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Otteration posted:Don't remember the exact history, but the common cold may have started off as thoroughly fatal, but evolved into one of huge genetic successes* after it stopped killing it's hosts. Syphilis. It used to kill tons of people and supposedly evolved so it's not such a fast-killing thing. Hard to infect another host if you keep killing them before they can make another person sick.
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I had pet leeches until my cat ate them all
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Pick posted:I had pet leeches until my cat ate them all Now it's called...Josh Allen
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Otteration posted:As with most pathogenic organisms, it's kind of unhealthy for your offspring if they kill off their hosts before they can produce their own offspring. Not aware of any maggots that eat living tissue, but if there are any, they're probably rare. Would not keep maggots as pets, but if there are any people that do, they too are probably rare. A maggot is just a term for fly larve. Boyfly larve most definitely eat living tissue and are maggots.
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Scathach posted:Syphilis. It used to kill tons of people and supposedly evolved so it's not such a fast-killing thing. Hard to infect another host if you keep killing them before they can make another person sick. Usually the nastiest, killiest viruses don't evolve in whatever it is they're killing. This is why things like swine flu are so nasty; human flu doesn't want to kill you for exactly that reason so it usually doesn't unless you're dealing with some other issue. Mostly you'll just have a lovely few days or a week or two and then you'll be fine. Same with swine flu for pigs; it doesn't do much other than make them miserable for a while and then they're fine. But when swine flu mutates just enough to infect a human it isn't where it belongs so it fucks you up really badly. HIV succeeded in spreading because it takes so long to kill its host but really doesn't have much effect early on. The current thought is that it originated in chimps and somebody hunted and ate a chimp that was infected with a version that mutated just enough to jump species. It really doesn't do a lot to chimps but fucks up humans really badly.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:A maggot is just a term for fly larve. Boyfly larve most definitely eat living tissue and are maggots. I thought botflies just burrowed in as part of their maturation process? Reminds me of at least two incidents, one more recently on twitter, where an entomologist studying in a tropical area ended up with a botfly strike and were excited to see themselves parasitized and watch their larval pal mature.
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Phlegmish posted:Boyflies will be boyflies It's the drat fuccboiflies that get me Pathetic
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WoodrowSkillson posted:A maggot is just a term for fly larve. Boyfly larve most definitely eat living tissue and are maggots. Yep, sorry, forgot to mention the boy bots. They don't typically infect en masse like e.g., house flies though. I hear they'll be at Pride in Minneapolis this summer though, so that'll be fun. 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Usually the nastiest, killiest viruses don't evolve in whatever it is they're killing. This is why things like swine flu are so nasty; human flu doesn't want to kill you for exactly that reason so it usually doesn't unless you're dealing with some other issue. Mostly you'll just have a lovely few days or a week or two and then you'll be fine. Same with swine flu for pigs; it doesn't do much other than make them miserable for a while and then they're fine. Oops, also forgot to mention that I was only thinking about long-term theoretical trends. Viruses and bacteria reproduce and mutate so quickly they can and do mutate against their theoretical greater long-term interests all the time, sometimes randomly in our guts (yak!). Of course, our antibiotic overuse will play out three ways or another....bacteria kill us all off (yak!), we kill all of them off (not!), or we find a middle way (happy guts for all!). Life will go on, somehow in any case.  Edit: Maybe? Otteration has a new favorite as of 02:47 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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there's a kind of maggot that will absolutely eat you alive, it's called a screwworm. there was a successful program to exterminate them in the USA and in Latin America but I think they are starting to come back now. I only learned about them because long ago I read a sci fi story called the Screwfly Solution in which alien invaders apply the screwfly program to humans.
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uber_stoat posted:there's a kind of maggot that will absolutely eat you alive, it's called a screwworm. there was a successful program to exterminate them in the USA and in Latin America but I think they are starting to come back now. I only learned about them because long ago I read a sci fi story called the Screwfly Solution in which alien invaders apply the screwfly program to humans. Screwfly Solution was also made into a Masters of Horror episode that's worth checking out!
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uber_stoat posted:there's a kind of maggot that will absolutely eat you alive, it's called a screwworm. there was a successful program to exterminate them in the USA and in Latin America but I think they are starting to come back now. I only learned about them because long ago I read a sci fi story called the Screwfly Solution in which alien invaders apply the screwfly program to humans. Coldly Compiled Lists › PYF Creepy Images Thread: Do Yourself A Favor, Never GIS 'Screwworm Infestation'
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Someone trained a neural network (pix2pix) to take input and adapt it to a specified output, in this case “Turn these sketches into human faces”. Janelle Shane of aiweirdness.com calls this set “Pix 2 Abomination.”    
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Please don't post the dick pics I pm'd you.
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jobson groeth posted:Please don't post the dick pics I pm'd you. This? 
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At least post my seasonal one 
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Lampreys are cool, though. All the other jawless fishes (besides hagfish, of course) have been gone for millions of years, but they keep truckin'.
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Awww, they look so apologetic for being a legless lizard (or whatever that is)
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Awww, they look so apologetic for being a legless lizard (or whatever that is) Scale-less snake!
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He looks like he's freezing. Put a sweater on him!
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Awww, they look so apologetic for being a legless lizard (or whatever that is) Sssssseath the Scaleless.
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Busket Posket posted:Someone trained a neural network (pix2pix) to take input and adapt it to a specified output, in this case “Turn these sketches into human faces”. Janelle Shane of aiweirdness.com calls this set “Pix 2 Abomination.” AllTomorrows sequel looking baller
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BigGAN, show me horses. Oh, you don’t have parameters for “horse” but you do have “horse cart” — let’s do that! Hmm. We need fancy horses! Mix in some hornbills and flamingos!  Too fancy! Dial it back! Mix “horse cart” with “anemone fish” and “great grey owl.”     
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My wife was over my shoulder, looked at the screen then said "nope, enough of that" and walked away when your post came up. So, kudos.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why, was your monitor off oh holky gently caress
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why, was your monitor off Hahaha
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why, was your monitor off The best "turn your monitor on/off" joke I've seen in ages 
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It's true. I'm now divorced. Thanks Richard.
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Otteration posted:
I am not a microbiologist, but as far as I understand the reason that there is no cure for "the common cold", is that there is no singular cold virus, instead a million or three different viruses that have as their symptoms minor sore throats and the sniffles. So without extensive testing there is no way to know which specific one you have. So the best option is to just treat the symptoms and let it blow over, as the viruses/bacteria are no longer life threatening.
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JGdmn posted:It's true. I'm now divorced. Thanks Richard. Did you show her how you brought laughter and merriment to all (by getting owned)
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Imagine not having jaws lol That fish (if you can call it that) will probably cry when it reads these posts
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Phlegmish posted:Imagine not having jaws lol I guess you could include them under fish, but you'd probably have to include the entire tetrapod clade.
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Randaconda posted:Lampreys are cool, though. All the other jawless fishes (besides hagfish, of course) have been gone for millions of years, but they keep truckin'. I saw a segment on lampreys where they used their horrible sucky mouths to move river rocks to make nests for their eggs. They instantly went from from  to  for me.
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