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Reply to comment by silverfox762 in Lead Plates and Land Claims in North America and Europe: When did the practice begin of burying lead plates to establish ownership of land, and why did it die out, and was it ever used successfully in a court of law to establish ownership? by whyenn
What are PG&E benchmarks?
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Reply to comment by Sinemetu9 in How does DNA encode 3d space/information? by Rit2Strong
Cells have a variety of processes going on inside of them to do things like maintain homeostasis, replicate, fix DNA errors, produce power, etc. They even have machinery to self terminate when something goes wrong.
In a cancer cell one of the processes has broken down and the self termination process has ALSO broken down. Once that's happened you essentially have a rogue cellular factory inside of your body that can hijack the resources you need to survive and can replicate itself going from one cell to enough to kill you by any number of factors. The cancer could just physically put pressure on organs like the brain. It could produce a wild amount of signaling hormones therefore causing secondary non-cancerous cells to follow erroneous instructions. It could also take over resources that other parts of your body need to survive.
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Reply to comment by Magnergy in Is any "movement" visible in the fluctuations of the CMB over time, or does it appear static? by JarasM
One of the reasons we know the universe had to have been much smaller and closer together in the past is that to have that uniform temperature over such a large scale (the entire cmb) those parts needed to be close together at some point to "coordinate" on what temperature they should all be.
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Reply to comment by Tuna_Bluefin in Why are specific monkey/ape species suitable for biomedical research while others are not ? by Sleevvin
I mean you can just probe its butt and look at its colon again and again!