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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if USA and Europe were at war, with article 5, they could arrange it so that Europe fought Europe and USA fought USA, singe they are allies and must help. It would save a lot of transatlantic logistics and make things much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sure is, but on google maps, it looks as big as northern America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Trump want Greenland so bad because he thinks it’s huge due to a map projection?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It says you still need eggs. Can you replace them and make it from blood, beer, flour and blood?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little dude ATP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realised I have a sort of explanatory image at hand.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little dude ATP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a part that is embedded in a mitochondrial membrane and works as a rotor. The other part is sticking out from the membrane and is responsible for synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate. An off-axis part of the rotor pushes the stator, it changes shape and pushes ADP and phosphate together, until they fuse to ATP.

  To make the rotor move, it makes use of membrane potential. One side of the membrane has a lot more H⁺ (just protons, really) than the other. The excess H⁺ want to go to the other side. The membrane doesn’t let them through. It is hydrophobic on the inside, so it does’t let through anything charged (like H⁺) or polar (like water). This is the potential and it has quite a lot of energy. ATP synthase lets the H⁺ through by binding them to the rotor in the membrane in a particular place and releases them in another in such a way that forces the rotor to turn almost a full turn before they can leave and stops it from rotating the other way. As mentioned, the rotation is transfered to the stator, changing its shape and thus creating ATP. As a side note, multiple H⁺ are bound on the rotor along its circumference, so each rotation is powered by the potential energy of multiple protons.

  Of course, it’s a bit more complicated than that, but I don’t think there’s anything downright wrong or misleading in what I wrote. I hope I managed to make it understandable. Also, I recommend animations of the synthase on youtube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let him go!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, thank you. I stopped reading when it started to talk about someone else 9 years later, I thought it would be some other controversy. I wish he crowdsourced the $150 though. I wonder how many citations it could have gotten…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let him go!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn’t say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROteen Gamerz⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think pokemon used to be an oncosuppressor gene, but since its mutations caused cancer, Pokemon owners threatened (or mayvbe even sued), until the name was changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Pocketbook. It opens just about anything - epub, mobi, pdf, pdb, and many more formats. Just get a book anywhere and copy it via USB. Or send it as an email attachment to your special address and it will download automatically. You can even replace the reading app with another relatively easily, if you want.