Posted: 9/6/2016 10:03:54 PM EDT
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For the first time ever, DNA was successfully sequenced in microgravity as part of the Biomolecule Sequencer experiment performed by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins this weekend aboard the International Space Station. The ability to sequence the DNA of living organisms in space opens a whole new world of scientific and medical possibilities. Scientists consider it a game changer.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/dna_sequencing |
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Just like half of NASA. Fraud programs. Quoted:
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Stupid article about stupid experiment is stupid Short answer: No discernible or useful benefit Actually, NASA is a fraud. The classified space program is decades ahead in technology. |
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Quoted: Actually, NASA is a fraud. The classified space program is decades ahead in technology. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Stupid article about stupid experiment is stupid Short answer: No discernible or useful benefit Actually, NASA is a fraud. The classified space program is decades ahead in technology. |
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The benefit is we can do it in space. Quoted:
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What are the benes over sequencing on the surface of a planetoid? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile The benefit is we can do it in space. What there any doubt that it could be done? The only question in all of this was the technology being capable of being put into space., i.e. money and hardware. |
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Sequencing DNA on the space station is a game changer? No, it's of very minor usefulness.
Article is utter bullshit. Just another fluff piece designed to convince the public that spending on the International Space Station is producing valuable results when in reality it isn't. It's a huge waste as this "make work" DNA sequencing experiment demonstrates. Almost all of the experiments conducted on the ISS are of similar uselessness. That orbiting white elephant needs to be defunded and deorbited. I look forward to the day when I can sit out in a lawn chair some evening and have a beer while watching the flaming remnants of the ISS streak across the sky as it reenters the atmosphere. |