DNA Sequencing Megathread! Neanderthals, Denisovans and other ancient DNA!

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derspiess

#480
December 01, 2017, 04:36:49 PM
Found another ancestor that was knighted by Elizabeth I.  Apparently he was also good friends with Hugh O'Neil.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#481
December 01, 2017, 04:46:46 PM
Awesome!

Wait he was friends with somebody who betrayed God's appointed Queen of Ireland? TRAITOR!
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#482
December 01, 2017, 05:05:57 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 01, 2017, 04:46:46 PM
Awesome!

Wait he was friends with somebody who betrayed God's appointed Queen of Ireland? TRAITOR!

Yeah, his rivals went after him for that but nothing stuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garret_Moore,_1st_Viscount_Moore
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

katmai

#483
December 22, 2017, 04:01:53 PM
So the we're related app sent me  notification today of possible cousin....Margaret Atwood :lol:

I mean it's like 8th cousins and all.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Grinning_Colossus

#484
December 22, 2017, 04:10:05 PM
Cool. IIRC, Malthus's aunt is Ursula Le Guin or something. We're all related to sci fi writers. :)
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Admiral Yi

#485
December 22, 2017, 04:15:35 PM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on December 22, 2017, 04:10:05 PM
Cool. IIRC, Malthus's aunt is Ursula Le Guin or something. We're all related to sci fi writers. :)

Margaret Atwood is Malthus' aunt.  Malthus and El Frijole Grande are kin.

garbon

#486
December 22, 2017, 04:20:11 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 22, 2017, 04:15:35 PM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on December 22, 2017, 04:10:05 PM
Cool. IIRC, Malthus's aunt is Ursula Le Guin or something. We're all related to sci fi writers. :)

Margaret Atwood is Malthus' aunt.  Malthus and El Frijole Grande are kin.

I assumed it was a joke. Calling Atwood a science fiction writer would be skipping a lot (most?) of her body of work.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

#487
December 22, 2017, 04:23:24 PM
Quote from: garbon on December 22, 2017, 04:20:11 PM
I assumed it was a joke. Calling Atwood a science fiction writer would be skipping a lot (most?) of her body of work.

Could be.  Alternatively, you might be so used to throwing shade yourself that you assume everyone else is too.

garbon

#488
December 22, 2017, 04:33:29 PM
True.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

#490
December 22, 2017, 04:55:54 PM
Upward of 1,024 people are ancestors of mine, who cool is that for them.   :cool:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Valmy

#491
December 22, 2017, 05:29:04 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 22, 2017, 04:55:54 PM
Upward of 1,024 people are ancestors of mine, who cool is that for them.   :cool:

I find it rather disturbing that if I calculate my mathematical number of ancestors in the year 1400 it is well over twice the estimated population of the world at the time. Which means I am: extremely inbred.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

mongers

#492
December 22, 2017, 06:22:56 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 22, 2017, 05:29:04 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 22, 2017, 04:55:54 PM
Upward of 1,024 people are ancestors of mine, who cool is that for them.   :cool:

I find it rather disturbing that if I calculate my mathematical number of ancestors in the year 1400 it is well over twice the estimated population of the world at the time. Which means humanity is: extremely inbred.

Makes our artificial divisions all the more stupid; think less national achievements, more like weird family resentments.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

derspiess

#493
January 10, 2018, 09:32:15 AM
The family resentments angle actually makes are artificial divisions all the more explainable IMO.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

The Minsky Moment

#494
January 10, 2018, 11:25:17 AM
It's the old joke.  A Jewish sailor is shipwrecked on a desert island a Jewish Robinson Crusoe.  Many years later he is found by a passing ship.  His rescuers notice that the sailor constructed three separate buildings, and inquire why. 

"That's my house, where I live" he says, pointed to the first one.
"What's the one next to that?" the rescuers ask. 
"That's the synaogue where I go to pray to God." 
"And the third?" 
"That's the synagogue I don't go to."
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson
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