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gregory mgregory m Posts: 99
edited December 1969 in The Commons

For many centuries in northern Scotland there was local problem with the sheep, if the sheep get this problem they will scrap themselves to death. In 1970's they found what cause this problem they found new life form smaller than any virus it between chemical molecule of non life to less than virus. There is barriers that kept this new life with sheep, then people found if ground up dead sheep it make cheap protein feed for animals. Then over the years past feeding these sick sheep with this problem to cattle or cows then barriers came down and you got made cow disease that eat the brain away. Human get this same problem when one eats other person brains which some do in New Guinea They call this new life for pions there is three tries know to mankind that will kill you over time, remember there million different kinds of virus and there little is know about pions

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200
    edited December 1969

    unfortunately since my mother died from CJD 13 years ago, I know way too much about Mad cow disease more than I ever wanted to know.
    She did not actually have that varient it turns out but the 1/2 000 000 naturally occuring mutation version.
    Learnt that later through post mortum pathology.
    It is still my greatest fear that I will get it.

  • RoguePilotRoguePilot Posts: 239
    edited December 1969

    It's Prions, and where have you been for two decades.

    Sorry to hear that Wendy, it's a bad thing to see someone go through.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited March 2013

    Yeah, it's prions. Sort of a molecule that triggers some very specifically shaped protein molecules to flip to a mirrored shape that in turn is itself a prion than can continue to affect other specific proteins of the same type. They don't actually "reproduce" but they are catalysts to create more of themselves and they tend to stick together in masses or long chains.

    Many of them are not fragile and cannot be easily broken up by heat or radiation or poisons. They just accumulate in flesh and the soil and when taken up by plants or ingested by animals will migrate to places where they accidentally come in contact with exactly the right type of flippable molecule. It seems that brain matter produces just the right environment.

    Doomsday prophets and vegetarians love this sort of thing. But in it's favor it does provide a great reason to not be a cannibal.

    As we look closer and observe more we find more and more ways to die, but my humble opinion is that in the great scheme of things the greatest cause of death is life. Fortunately the totality of life always finds a way to continue despite the terrible setbacks it has experienced.

    Life after all, has been an unbroken thread since it first appeared on this planet three billion years ago, assuming that it didn't migrate here from some even more ancient long dead planet disbursed as dust in the cosmos before our sun existed.

    The tragedy of life is becoming attached to it.

    The Universe is the body, Wisdom is the mind, and Life, all life everywhere, is the process of the Spirit discovering self.

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  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,144
    edited December 1969

    As we look closer and observe more we find more and more ways to die, but my humble opinion is that in the great scheme of things the greatest cause of death is life. Fortunately the totality of life always finds a way to continue despite the terrible setbacks it has experienced.

    Back years ago the group I run with came to the conclusion that life was sexually transmitted and terminal.:cheese:

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited March 2013

    namffuak said:
    As we look closer and observe more we find more and more ways to die, but my humble opinion is that in the great scheme of things the greatest cause of death is life. Fortunately the totality of life always finds a way to continue despite the terrible setbacks it has experienced.

    Back years ago the group I run with came to the conclusion that life was sexually transmitted and terminal.:cheese:

    And oxygen is the most addictive substance we know. One snort and you're hooked for life, but without it you die in minutes.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    namffuak said:
    As we look closer and observe more we find more and more ways to die, but my humble opinion is that in the great scheme of things the greatest cause of death is life. Fortunately the totality of life always finds a way to continue despite the terrible setbacks it has experienced.

    Back years ago the group I run with came to the conclusion that life was sexually transmitted and terminal.:cheese:

    And oxygen is the most addictive substance we know. One snort and you're hooked for life, but without it you die in minutes.

    And let's not forget the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide...

  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,800
    edited December 1969

    *Looks at DAZ MM pitch and back at this topic*

    Are you sure this is the BEST time to suddenly be discussing this? ._.

  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    hehehe ... well, it's 'on topic' ... Skull Cove and a hearse!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200
    edited December 1969

    I might have actually taken offense a few years ago to Daz's rather tasteless promo, moved on a bit though now, still jarred me a bit however.
    Reason I responded to this.
    I was not about to start a flaming thread on it though.

  • RCDescheneRCDeschene Posts: 2,800
    edited March 2013

    Really? What was the promo? That is, if you're alright telling us.

    Post edited by RCDeschene on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200
    edited March 2013

    Mad cows for Mad March, bovine spongiform encephalitis is a varient of CJD which my Mum died of, it turned her from a highly educated woman to a vegetable within about 3 weeks. She died in a coma of pnuenomia about 3months later.

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