Comment on great grandaddy bur oak

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ajmaxwell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We won’t know until we try

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Scientist 1: “How are things coming along with our test subjects?”

    Scientist 2: “I don’t know, it’s about time to check back in with them.”

    Scientist 2: “Hey, Mike? How’s it going?”

    Mike: “Not too bad. There have been some challenges, but I think we got a few things worked out.”

    Scientist 2: “Oh…my. was that it’s–”

    Mike: “No, I don’t think so, but it seems like it was mutually enjoyable, though, so write that down.”

    [Trilling noises in the background]

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But think of the splinters… Oh god… Think of the splinters… Mike should get hazard pay

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      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Bold of you to assume Mike isn’t paying for the privilege.

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• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Incredibly. Even very closely related organisms can have a hard time breeding

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I know I’m having a hard time breeding

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s extremely unlikely that their DNA has the same translation semantics into proteins.

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not unless there is a common ancestor, which is theoretically possible. But yeah, extremely unlikely.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wow. So I went looking if people actually knew when our codon system appeared.

      Turns out that there are 26 slightly different systems on Earth right now, and there are good reasons to expect random alien life to have a system that looks like ours, but is different enough to not be compatible.

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• blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well it seems safe to say it’s at least as unlikely as a terran species being able to breed with some randomly selected other terran species.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even when possible, it’s often inadvisable as we learned from the monkapotamus in Drew Carey’s famous documentary: youtu.be/BLbJC7LeC8E

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