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Originally Posted by walpurgis

I seem to recall that it was sheep carcases processed into cattle feed that caused it. The sheep had Scrapie, a prion disease. The prions are a protein that fool the host into replicating it I believe and this transferred into cattle. Prions are not a virus or bacteria, they are not an organism.

Just the gist of what I remember, I didn't Google anything.

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Yes that rings a (cow) bell. They were bulking up the winter feed with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxSbTlH0K4w

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

I seem to recall that it was sheep carcases processed into cattle feed that caused it. The sheep had Scrapie, a prion disease. The prions are a protein that fool the host into replicating it I believe and this transferred into cattle. Prions are not a virus or bacteria, they are not an organism.

Just the gist of what I remember, I didn't Google anything.

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yup it was misfolded prions. probably from meat and bone meal from cows or sheep i remember. humans could catch creuzfeldt jacob, the human version of 'mad cow disease'. i remember many butcher products being banned like beef on the bone and maybe blood pudding too.. i think you had to have a certain gene susc eptability too to catch it. it was a fairly scary thought at time, which needless to say produced a lot of jokes.. cooking didnt kill it either, or render it harmless. dont think you could kill it as it wasnt technically a living source like bacteria etc

That's interesting as years ago I read a book about how life started and one of the definitions of what made something alive was the ability to replicate. I can't remember what else there was that presumably a prion wouldn't meet. I seem to recall something about mutation but that doesn't feel right, as if all our genes stopped mutating and our children were exact clones of us, it would be a bit off to tell them they're not alive.

I wonder what a prion based lifeform would look like. I'm surprised Kirk didn't encounter one in Star Trek.

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Originally Posted by Lawrence001

I wonder what a prion based lifeform would look like. I'm surprised Kirk didn't encounter one in Star Trek.

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I don't know, but I bet it would want to claim benefit :).

... and they are self replicating :eek:

Man says he's going to end it all, so police shoot him dead. Par for the course I guess :rolleyes:

https://news.sky.com/story/dagenham-...olice-13014698

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

Man says he's going to end it all, so police shoot him dead. Par for the course I guess :rolleyes:

https://news.sky.com/story/dagenham-...olice-13014698

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a cry for help and alas this time he got it

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

Man says he's going to end it all, so police shoot him dead. Par for the course I guess :rolleyes:

https://news.sky.com/story/dagenham-...olice-13014698

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'Get homicide on the line, we got a situation, I said homicide, not suicide!'

After spilling a glass of good whisky over my good laptop..grr
I've had to step up and purchase another. Old one does work but keyboard doesn't. It occasionall has fits too.
New one is a good spec dell with 17 inch touchscreen. 16gb ram and a 1tb SSD.
It's in very good nick too.
It seems ok but will need to go through it.
Looks like a decent buy.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...acd2aea918.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4d10ee7be4.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e02f84f85e.jpg

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Originally Posted by struth

After spilling a glass of good whisky over my good laptop..grr
I've had to step up and purchase another. Old one does work but keyboard doesn't. It occasionall has fits too.

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Bummer. Waste of whisky too!