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Would an XNA based organism be immune to all pathogens?
It might complicate the existence of retroviruses, because they insert themselves into the host's DNA. RNA viruses would not be affected unless the RNA also changed.
Bacteria would not be affected at ...
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Would an XNA based organism be immune to all pathogens?
So would an organism that uses XNA not be affected by any bacteria, viruses, etc., that would affect a normal, DNA using organism?
Viruses yes; bacteria no. The "immunity" to these ...
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Would an XNA based organism be immune to all pathogens?
"Affected" is a broad term. If the creature operates under completely separate information carrying molecules, but everything else is familiar, then on a couple counts maybe. If not then the ...
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What thickness of human flesh would have the same protective value as 100mm of RHA?
Mythbusters did something tangentially like this:
[How much muscle is bullet proof][1]
Here's your problem - against muscle, 14 inches of Cow Muscle was insufficient to stop small arms fire - IIRC ...
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What thickness of human flesh would have the same protective value as 100mm of RHA?
About 300mm
This video shows various numbers of leather sheets stopping bullets of various calibers. He does not say how thick they are exactly; so, I will estimate that they appear to be about 3mm ...
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How fast can a cylinder spin, with a human on its inner wall, to NOT experience motion sickness?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity: It is generally believed that at 2 rotations per minute or less, no adverse effects from the Coriolis forces will occur, although humans have been ...
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Would an XNA based organism be immune to all pathogens?
Replacing the alphabet for how the organism internally work might make it safe from infections due to DNA/RNA based organism, making the two mutually incompatible.
However you cannot exclude that the ...
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How fast can a cylinder spin, with a human on its inner wall, to NOT experience motion sickness?
As of 2007, NASA refers to anything under 3rpm (section 3.2) as "low rotation rates". The limit isn't a hard one, as our vestibular systems aren't standardized, so it's common to add in some ...
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