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We share half our genes with the banana. Granted the scientists are (probably) only talking about editing the 0.3% of the genome that makes humans different from each other, but with so much of our DNA shared with other eukaryote celled life, adding leaves may not be that difficult.

Looking up weights and DNA structures and such things in humans in wiki articles, I have calculated that 0.5% - 2% of the phosphorus in the human body is used in DNA. It seems reasonable to me that it would be at least within an order of magnitude of 1% in plants as well.

For this reason I doubt the phosphorus in DNA would make a significant contribution to evolving a shorter DNA sequence.

Or that the mix of Earth and Theia in the moon is very non homogenous and they took most of their samples from the Earths part.

Actually, now that I think about it, wouldn't the result of the collision cause most of Earths contribution to be on the surface of the moon? If it was otherwise, then Earth would have had an ring much like Saturn at one point which then collected into whole to become the moon. That couldn't be true since we would have easily seen evidence on the moon. This theory of mine would mean that almost any samples taken from the moon would would be originally from Earth.

There was commerce between the Romans and ancient china that took around 10 years one way. I don't remember what was being traded, except for the silk from china, but it shows that distance and time are not absolute limiters for trading.

This is pure speculation on my part about possible applications to measuring the Higgs.

Since it is the Higgs Field(?) that gives matter its mass, I suppose in the future, though this may be pure science fiction, that after our understanding of the Higgs is enough, we may be able to use it to change the mass of things, which would have an extreme amount of potential in transportation as well as other things I am not thinking of right now.

For me personally, if I have the opportunity to ask questions, I will think of questions to ask and as a byproduct, think about the lecture more critically. If I am unable to ask questions, I am less likely to think critically. Of course, I have just realized this and now that I am aware of this, I can possibly put a stop to this and get more out of video lectures and even real life lectures where questions are discouraged.

Gravity propogates at the speed of light. However, using gravity to send information will allow you to send information through most objects like Earth or the Sin without any satilites to redirect it around the object.

Changing everyones genes so we are all a lot more tolerant of each other and so bigotry is wiped out.

Also we need much, much faster transportation, like trains that can travel around the world in 3-4 hours. This way we can see our "neighbors" much more often and no longer have a sub-concious fear of the unknown.