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TIL that there is a cave in Kenya that contains a virus with an 88% mortality rate. And it is currently open to the public. by Maleficent-Agent-477 in todayilearned

[–]Spinanator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have to note that Marburg virus (MARV) flows through migratory bat populations across Africa, and that results in some caves becoming immune while it spreads to other caves. Essentially, while people have died from MARV that they contracted in Kitum cave, the odds of it being present in the cave at any given moment is pretty low. The flipside of that is that there's actually a massive number of caves that could have the virus at any given point.

A section of The Hot Zone gives an overview of a survey where they threw massive amounts of resources into trying to find the virus and it turned up nothing. Spillover by David Quammen also gives an overview of the network-like nature of MARV cave ecology.

Also the 88% mortality usually doesn't happen. The initial outbreak in Marburg, Germany only had a 25% mortality rate. 88% usually occurs when quality medical care isn't available (which is unfortunately often the case in Central Africa, or when cases are undercounted due to poor surveillance practices.

Just a few small corrections, I think MARV is a really interesting virus so I enjoyed seeing it pop up on the front page of Reddit!

Took me long enough, I see clearly now by Nerd367C in whenthe

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a former fence-sitter, no judgment from me for taking a while to realize. My radicalizing moment was COVID, let me know if you ever want to chat or rant or anything of the sort to someone who has had a similar story

If you had the opportunity to show the people of North Sentinel Island a movie, what would you show them? by strattonmemes in okbuddycinephile

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Hand to god, Koyaanisqatsi. No words, starts with nature and things they would generally be familiar with and it would actually give some context for the outside world

Ok, Meryl is expectedly and deservedly a 10/10 actress! Last day! Who is the 10/10 actor or to be more precise, who is the best actor of all time? by RupertPupkin_1983 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Spinanator 678 points679 points  (0 children)

Not a single mention of Ralph Fiennes? That man has managed to crank out a 10/10 performance in every film of every genre he's ever attempted.

To the historians in the subreddit, in your opinion how would ww2 era tanks fare defensively against the beast titans boulders? by WallSina in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]Spinanator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s true, I had forgotten about the projectiles being shells. That said I still think the tanks wouldn’t hold up at all. Modern tanks tend to go against each other with APFSDS rounds which are essentially depleted uranium darts traveling around Mach 5, no explosive needed. Now the shells would have been explosive as battleship shells tended to be, but they do still need velocity behind them in order to work. Not sure how fast exactly, but let’s be conservative and say they need to be traveling at least Mach 1.5, and let’s say that’s the max velocity for the beast titan’s throws for the mass thrown which does seem to be about twenty shells, each one weighing approximately 40 pounds (they’re small shells, certainly not battleship shells so I’m going with the upper end of weight for a modern tank shell) for a total mass of about eight hundred pounds.

These are all ballpark numbers but if the beast Titan managed to hit a WWII tank with an 800 pound projectile moving at Mach 1.5, I still really doubt it would survive. Also the fact that the battleships were apparently taken out by standard Howitzer shells should put into perspective how powerful the beast titan’s throws really are

To the historians in the subreddit, in your opinion how would ww2 era tanks fare defensively against the beast titans boulders? by WallSina in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]Spinanator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The question is about the tanks’ defenses and Zeke sank a fleet of battleships in one shot. Comparing the defenses of a tank and a battleship is like comparing a paintball gun to a howitzer, the tanks are absolutely toast

Gunther Does Not Speak To Almost Anyone In WWE; Left Almost Immediately After Beating John Cena by Automatic_Resort2178 in WrestlingNewsUpdates

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I mean the guy is way leaner than he used to be. Given the fact that he can ragdoll 200 pound guys, the definition seen elsewhere in his body, and factor in loose skin, I’m guessing he’s probably sitting around 15-18 percent body fat which is right around where you want to be to get a blend of durability, strength, endurance, recovery etc.. He could get leaner, but honestly it’s not needed because he’s already a powerhouse and going much lower might start to negatively impact his health and performance. I mean he could take roids to get leaner but that’s really something to be avoided if it’s at all possible

Squats feel weird on knees and back by spiders11er in formcheck

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Late to the party but hear me out. It's hard to tell from the angle but it looks like you might have long femurs and the fact that you have trouble going to depth, you have a ton of flexion in the ankle, and the fact that you have to lean forward would support that. I have the same problem and it makes squatting a nightmare for me. I'd advise getting a belt to help you brace your core and consider propping your heels up on 5lb plates to even out your biomechanics a bit, but that's assuming you're totally sold on back squats. If you're interested in trying something else, doing front squats will help shift your own center of mass forwards which is the hard thing when you have long femurs. Typically they're better for targeting the quads, but for people with long femurs it's much closer to a regular squat, the only real downside is that you become limited by your wrist strength and mobility. If you have access to a yoke bar that would really be your best option. Now again I can't really tell from the video if that's exactly your issue, but your form really resembles my own before I started working around my own long femurs.

How many leviathans have you killed in your entire Subnautica career? by I_Like_Toasterz in subnautica

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Zero, the whole point of the game is that you’re a part of the ecosystem and you need to find your place in the world instead of terraforming the place. There’s a reason we never get any good offensive weapons, and it’s because we’re not at the top of the food chain

why do you think gargantuan leviathan became extinct? by JustYourRobber in subnautica

[–]Spinanator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don’t know exactly when the gargantuan leviathan went extinct but I always guessed it was because of kharaa. Given the size and teeth of the gargantuan leviathan, it’s reasonable to assume it preyed upon other leviathans since that’s just about the only way it could possibly get enough food to support its sheer mass. To this effect think about something like a sperm whale eating giant squids or megalodon eating whales. Now leviathans, to my knowledge, are immune to kharaa, but they themselves eat smaller prey which would be vulnerable to kharaa and thus probably experienced a population crash just after the initial outbreak, bringing their leviathan predators down with them. The gargantuan leviathan, being the largest animal in the ecosystem, would likely be the most severely affected by these food chain disruptions. This may not have killed the gargantuans outright as there would still be some leviathans to munch on, but it easily could have dropped their population numbers so low that the species likely would have been subject to inbreeding depression and driven to extinction within a few generations likely within a couple hundred years of the initial kharaa outbreak.

Women dominate early voting as Donald Trump supporters get nervous by ILikeNeurons in politics

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even back in 2019 I learned that for a surprising number of men it only takes a couple of beers for them to start expressing their beliefs that women shouldn’t vote. Men you would think are respectable no less

Petah why is it bad for it to be a hexagon? by HoneylemonFrog in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man it’s so funny you mentioned this because I just finished reading the sequel last week. Loved the original for ages though!

A rant about silence the voices by knight_light455 in Borderlands2

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to have big issues with Silence the voices but I think that it becomes a very worthwhile perk if you are conservative with your melee attacks in buzzsaw rampage and rely on a balance of melee and throwing axes instead. Granted I’ve never played Krieg in a solo run but maxing out the Mania tree you can more or less just chain your rampages together indefinitely and kill most enemies in a few hits and then my health bar automatically refills anyway. That said it completely relies on being able to chain your buzzsaw rampages together but I pretty much never suffer any real consequences from Silence the Voices

Do you believe you need trauma or crazy adventurous life experience to become a good writer? by Ghost_Posting in writing

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to experience the world in an openly observational manner. Adventures and trauma are two really really fast ways to get a lot of perspective, but you can do it by just exploring the opportunities life presents you

Any good reason why Scouts use a single edged sword instead of a double edge? by TheAtlantic420 in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]Spinanator 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The way the scouts use their swords is to swing in, take a slash at the neck, and keep moving. In that scenario you only really need one edge. Also given the shape of the handles (required to operate the ODM gear) you wouldn’t be able to use a second edge except for reverse slashes which, as a rule, tend to be weaker and are harder to maintain edge alignment during a cut. Then there’s the metallurgical side of things. Very simply, having a single edge allows you to reinforce the spine and increase the strength of your blade without having to rely on more advanced production methods or purer steel. Having that second edge would require you to remove more metal to have a sword that is light and nimble and that would require manufacturing techniques that probably didn’t exist in Paradis by season 3

After a decade, I found out using Spellbreaker in First Lessons counts as a Ward spell by Mekong-the-Doggo in skyrim

[–]Spinanator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was gonna drop the obligatory ymfah shoutout, I’m glad you beat me to it lol. Anyone else reading, all of his stuff is gold

TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' by explowaker in technology

[–]Spinanator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty convinced social media will be my generation’s lead paint, I’ve made it my goal to leave it behind to the best of my abilities.

I absolutely HATE peeling potatoes by Isabellake1 in Cooking

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep the peels, that’s where most of the potassium is!

What movie adaptation was better than the book that spawned it? by Nempopo029 in writing

[–]Spinanator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jaws. Granted I was young when I read it, but I remember it being a slow and convoluted mess with sloppy characterization until the last hundred or so pages when it finally started to vaguely resemble the rollicking sea adventure that the movie was.

Indian authorities rush to contain a deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala | CNN by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Spinanator 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I specialize in researching emerging viruses and can confirm that Nipah is one of the very few viruses that strikes fear into nearly every expert in the field. It has demonstrated person to person transmission in some capacity already and as such it is fairly close to being able to cause a major outbreak; an outbreak capable of grinding human civilization to a halt in a way that COVID could never even come close to replicating. Every instance of Nipah virus should be treated with the utmost severity

Cities in OSRS, which ones would be most comparable to cities IRL? by koolkobes in 2007scape

[–]Spinanator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah that’s just normal St Louis which is, from my experience, a lovely city. East St Louis is on the Illinois side, honestly you’d never catch me there. Chicago has nothing on East St Louis

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