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[Nerotysia]

Mutation doesn't drive evolution, natural selection does. And a vast majority of mutations are either neutral or outright harmful.

Natural selection has nothing to select for without mutations. This is especially true of asexual species.

Erm...yes it does. Shall I quote Wikipedia?

Genetic variation is the result of mutations, recombinations and alterations in the karyotype (the number, shape, size and internal arrangement of the chromosomes).

Asexual species are weakened severely by the lack of sexual reproduction, for genetic recombination is a big factor in natural selection.

[Zombie Adolf Hitler]

Mutation doesn't drive evolution, natural selection does. And a vast majority of mutations are either neutral or outright harmful.

Natural selection has nothing to select for without mutations. This is especially true of asexual species.

Did somebody say natural selection?!

In other news...
There was some kind of zombie scare over Ebola, apparently one of the patients came back to life before he was put down. Sounds like bogus infowars happily hoop.

[Digital Planets]

Natural selection has nothing to select for without mutations. This is especially true of asexual species.

Did somebody say natural selection?!

In other news...
There was some kind of zombie scare over Ebola, apparently one of the patients came back to life before he was put down. Sounds like bogus infowars happily hoop.

Source?

[Australian rePublic]

Only one million people?
Shit, I thought that there was more. You don know that one million is one out every seven THOUSAND humans right. I don't think that the world end with a disease that is effecting 1/7000 of humanity's population

[-Ebola-]

Natural selection has nothing to select for without mutations. This is especially true of asexual species.

Erm...yes it does. Shall I quote Wikipedia?

Genetic variation is the result of mutations, recombinations and alterations in the karyotype (the number, shape, size and internal arrangement of the chromosomes).

Asexual species are weakened severely by the lack of sexual reproduction, for genetic recombination is a big factor in natural selection.

Recombination is useless unless you have different gene variants to arrange in new combinations. Those different gene variants were originally created by mutations.

You'll have to forgive me if I don't fully appreciate the value of sexual reproduction. It comes with being a virus. Sometimes it's hard for me to put myself in someone else's shoes and understand things from the perspective of multicellular organisms.

[Wisconsin9]

Erm...yes it does. Shall I quote Wikipedia?



Asexual species are weakened severely by the lack of sexual reproduction, for genetic recombination is a big factor in natural selection.

Recombination is useless unless you have different gene variants to arrange in new combinations. Those different gene variants were originally created by mutations.

You'll have to forgive me if I don't fully appreciate the value of sexual reproduction. It comes with being a virus. Sometimes it's hard for me to put myself in someone else's shoes and understand things from the perspective of multicellular organisms.

Ficks'd.

[Reformed SU]

Nope.

Then I shall say the levels of stupidity in your post are quite infinite.

Signs of resistance to the inevitable...that can be very easily dealt with. One mile the virus gets closer, people fall on their knees and pray to their mythical God for forgiveness. I swear, someone just looked in the sky, saw a huge cloud formation of a man, and shouted the following:
"Sweet Goodness, there is a man in the sky who looks down upon us. Let us worship this newly found God!"…and all the evidence these people have is a book, most likely secondary source...quite impossible for a book to survive two thousand years without someone getting their tainted hands on it. Let us switch to religion if it'll keep you from worrying...geez.

[Wisconsin9]

Then I shall say the levels of stupidity in your post are quite infinite.

Signs of resistance to the inevitable...that can be very easily dealt with. One mile the virus gets closer, people fall on their knees and pray to their mythical God for forgiveness. I swear, someone just looked in the sky, saw a huge cloud formation of a man, and shouted the following:
"Sweet Goodness, there is a man in the sky who looks down upon us. Let us worship this newly found God!"…and all the evidence these people have is a book, most likely secondary source...quite impossible for a book to survive two thousand years without someone getting their tainted hands on it. Let us switch to religion if it'll keep you from worrying...geez.

What the everloving fuck are you talking about?

[-Ebola-]

Signs of resistance to the inevitable...that can be very easily dealt with. One mile the virus gets closer, people fall on their knees and pray to their mythical God for forgiveness. I swear, someone just looked in the sky, saw a huge cloud formation of a man, and shouted the following:
"Sweet Goodness, there is a man in the sky who looks down upon us. Let us worship this newly found God!"…and all the evidence these people have is a book, most likely secondary source...quite impossible for a book to survive two thousand years without someone getting their tainted hands on it. Let us switch to religion if it'll keep you from worrying...geez.

What the everloving fuck are you talking about?

I'm glad I was not the only one who was confused. It's embarrassing when everyone else knows what's going on and I don't understand it because I don't have a brain.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Signs of resistance to the inevitable...that can be very easily dealt with. One mile the virus gets closer, people fall on their knees and pray to their mythical God for forgiveness. I swear, someone just looked in the sky, saw a huge cloud formation of a man, and shouted the following:
"Sweet Goodness, there is a man in the sky who looks down upon us. Let us worship this newly found God!"…and all the evidence these people have is a book, most likely secondary source...quite impossible for a book to survive two thousand years without someone getting their tainted hands on it. Let us switch to religion if it'll keep you from worrying...geez.

I'm not sure what I just read...

[Sun Wukong]

Then I shall say the levels of stupidity in your post are quite infinite.

Signs of resistance to the inevitable...that can be very easily dealt with. One mile the virus gets closer, people fall on their knees and pray to their mythical God for forgiveness. I swear, someone just looked in the sky, saw a huge cloud formation of a man, and shouted the following:
"Sweet Goodness, there is a man in the sky who looks down upon us. Let us worship this newly found God!"…and all the evidence these people have is a book, most likely secondary source...quite impossible for a book to survive two thousand years without someone getting their tainted hands on it. Let us switch to religion if it'll keep you from worrying...geez.

You summoned Yog-Sothoth didn't you?

Don't do that. It's not good for your sanity.

[Martean]

I have the first person infected by ebola outside Africa less than a kilometre away...

Can you make yourselves an idea of how nervous the people in my neighbourhood are?

[Farnhamia]

I have the first person infected by ebola outside Africa less than a kilometre away...

Can you make yourselves an idea of how nervous the people in my neighbourhood are?

I'm sure they are nervous but remember, the ebola virus spreads through bodily fluids. It is not an airborne virus. Unless that person is spewing blood and mucus and other ... fluids over a circle with a one kilometer diameter, you should be safe.

[Martean]

I have the first person infected by ebola outside Africa less than a kilometre away...

Can you make yourselves an idea of how nervous the people in my neighbourhood are?

I'm sure they are nervous but remember, the ebola virus spreads through bodily fluids. It is not an airborne virus. Unless that person is spewing blood and mucus and other ... fluids over a circle with a one kilometer diameter, you should be safe.

Yeah, I know, but whenever I try to calm down people they just say our government is full of retarded people and that this is going to get out of control, or that they have heard that it can go through water...

[Farnhamia]

I'm sure they are nervous but remember, the ebola virus spreads through bodily fluids. It is not an airborne virus. Unless that person is spewing blood and mucus and other ... fluids over a circle with a one kilometer diameter, you should be safe.

Yeah, I know, but whenever I try to calm down people they just say our government is full of retarded people and that this is going to get out of control, or that they have heard that it can go through water...

I don't know that that's true, about water. Anyway, here's the Wiki thing on transmission: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_viru ... ansmission

[Torisakia]

I have the first person infected by ebola outside Africa less than a kilometre away...

Can you make yourselves an idea of how nervous the people in my neighbourhood are?

I'd assume people are preparing to gather their inadequate friends and flee. Flee in the name of Lance the rhubarb.

[Grand Britannia]

I have the first person infected by ebola outside Africa less than a kilometre away...

Can you make yourselves an idea of how nervous the people in my neighbourhood are?

Good prices for fully enclosed hazmat gear on ebay if you got a few bucks to spare; some bring the respirators, some don't, but good if you're into the paranoid side.

I. myself, was interested in one but my budget doesn't allow it at the moment(admittedly I just wanted one because they look cool).

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Yeah, I know, but whenever I try to calm down people they just say our government is full of retarded people and that this is going to get out of control, or that they have heard that it can go through water...

I don't know that that's true, about water. Anyway, here's the Wiki thing on transmission: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_viru ... ansmission

IIRC, water is not a vector for it.

[Roski]

Did somebody say natural selection?!

In other news...
There was some kind of zombie scare over Ebola, apparently one of the patients came back to life before he was put down. Sounds like bogus infowars happily hoop.

Source?

So There was, it was a coma, but the extent of the medical technology they have couldn't forsee that.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/09/26/real-life-zombies-dead-ebola-victims-come-back-life-liberia-even-possible/

[Grand Britannia]

Source?

So There was, it was a coma, but the extent of the medical technology they have couldn't forsee that.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/09/26/real-life-zombies-dead-ebola-victims-come-back-life-liberia-even-possible/

Tie to get the money for that suit, then.

[The Stalker]

It's true, the Zombie Apocalypse has begun! There are several confirmed reports of Ebola bringing people back to life. It's an alien made versus the Lizard people who run the UN created.

Believe it, I read it on the internet, it must be true.

[The Serbian Empire]

Source?

So There was, it was a coma, but the extent of the medical technology they have couldn't forsee that.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/09/26/real-life-zombies-dead-ebola-victims-come-back-life-liberia-even-possible/

They drink Ebola cola?

[Torisakia]

So now Ebola's got people thinking zombies exist?

What's next? Is Ebola going to prove that 9/11 was a 'hoax'?

[Scomagia]

If I had any respect left for CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, their coverage of this "Ebola Crisis" has killed it, pissed on the corpse, and set it on fire.

[United States Kingdom]

So There was, it was a coma, but the extent of the medical technology they have couldn't forsee that.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/09/26/real-life-zombies-dead-ebola-victims-come-back-life-liberia-even-possible/

They drink Ebola cola?

Your joke is so funny,