htwins.net/scale2/ --I think this interactive demonstration with music could really help clear up a lot of the debates currently taking place on social media. While cursoring left and right in the visual interactive game, note that a strand of DNA is ~100x smaller than the largest virus known to humankind, as well as dozens of times smaller than a Hepatitis B viral particle. Thats not to mention how small those little tiny codons are inside the DNA strand that 3-dimensionally construct it. Now try and scan back out to the size of a sunflower seed or a grain of rice, and then try to make your way back to the size of the human being. Try to contemplate the complexity of microbiology and genetics as applied to the DNA strand with its millions upon millions of codon sequences as you scan back and forth between the level of the DNA strand, the grain of rice, and the human being (and keep in mind that the data models for all three of these are fully populated in databases around the world, but not in terms of active environmentally-affected epigenetics). Then, as you scan between the human being, the smallest viral particle known to Scale, and the human DNA strand, think about viruses you or your family members wouldnt ever want to have to contract in your lifetimes, compared to that strand of DNA. Keeping in mind that every non-epigenetic genetic sequence possible on any given strand of human DNA has been fully mapped/fully populated in computative data models in databases around the world (by the human genome project, which was completed years ago), think about how relatively easy it is for us to map/data-populate all the different kinds of viruses and their cross-bred cousins vs. all the different possible permutations of genetic codon sequences on DNA strands. Beginning to see how one would be exponentially more prone to error due to human data entry, than the other? :)
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:44:39 +0000
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