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Many years ago, when I was working on Telecommunication Network Management - and ISO ideas of layering still was a reality - we bought a box of Lego for our project. We built triple towers of user, control and maintenance protocol stacks, lego bricks of different colors representing each layer, with wool threads between the towers, of colors representing the protocol layer.
It may seem like a childish idea, but to us, it most certainly helped us visualize how messages flowed at different protocol levels. And the distinction between user data, control and maintenance.
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Figuratively speaking, they certainly did. For them, the bricks were computer-aided molecular modelling program(s). There are quite a number of them around. There are languages that describe molecules and their bonds and the programs can display them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Long ago, before PC graphics simulations, we use "Framework Molecular Models[^]"
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The carrier structure (for lack of the actual word). Both are mRNA (modified to use a novel base), but as loose mRNA is pretty rapidly scavenged/destroyed, it needs to be in a container. As far as I know, they're both distributed in liposomes, but different ones. The stability of the two differ and lead to the temperature requirements. (from what I've read, anyway)
TTFN - Kent
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We need a lot more than just 2. When Nature looked at the 10 most promising candidates a few months ago, their makers collectively expected to have 11bn doses available by the end of 2020. Most of them are 2 dose products though; so that total probably falls short of global needs even before factoring in that some wastage will be inevitable and that assuming all of them will work is probably being overly optimistic.
The unequal scramble for coronavirus vaccines — by the numbers
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Do people go to the Dark Side because they have no electricity bills?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Please, no questions about VBScript!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Does The Love Boat have a dock side to the farce?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: Dark Side
Are you referring to political events? No politics in the Lounge matey! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The dark side? Vader you thinking? Oh - I get it - "where the sun don't shine". Seems a little too kinky for me.
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modified 16-Nov-20 14:15pm.
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I'd rather be phishing!
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Oh.. we were not talking about it?
Allow me to start then...
And I say that with the nicest feeling, that in fact gave me a good chuckle...
I am reviewing again and again (and again) Master of Orion 2 technology tree for a table top pen and paper RPG home project... And I can see how they are very good at creating scientific and impressive sounding name that make absolutely no sense! 
Like this latest one:
The discovery of "Neutrino Physics" lead the the following applications: "Neutron Blaster", "Neutron Scanner". Confused now.. is that Neutrino Physics? or Neutron Physics? As everyone knows, those are 2 very different beast! 
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Yes, but you need good knowledge of Neutrino Physics in order to construct the subspace waveguide manifold that makes a Neutron Blaster possible.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wow, you are one of those next level expert as well, ain't ya?!
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How about phase cloaks, the time warp faciliator and auto repair in combination? You can decloak, fire and cloak again in the same round. Then the opponents get another turn not being able to shoot at anything and next turn we do everything over again. The auto repair is for occasional reaction fire that hits you when you decloak. You are almost invincible.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Unfortunately I don't have the patience to play much with those..  
Because it requires to have some battle at the highest possible level of tech and I generally crush them like insects by then!
But, the few times I did, I did quite enjoy it...
My favorite special thing are the stasis field (maybe phase cloak + stasis field). One can put one or 2 stasis field on a frigate!
Ideally when you are all but doomed with just a few planets left, quickly build a swarm of phase cloaked frigate with stasis field and slowly kill them all without them being able to do a damn thing
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Yeah, but you need a flux capacitor and I haven't seen one of those round here in decades.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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So, you are not a fan of the Achilles Targeting Unit? Or course you are screwed when your opponent is not Achilles...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ooooo... Monsieur is a connoisseur of the fine arts hey!  
I always like to have my High Energy Focus and Achilles Targeting Unit work in tandem! Do wonders!
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Plus heavy auto fire disruptors. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well.. I personally favor Mauler Device... But I guess it's personal thing!
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As to your game, since I have been there and done that already[^], how about a somewhat wacky weapon?
It's a gravity weapon that does more damage the bigger the target is. Tiny fighters take only little damage from it, while huge dreadnaughts suffer severe damage to their structure. At the beginning huge ships would have been extremely hard to kill. Later in the game a small fleet of agile smaller ships could beat them, especially with such weapons. It's also quite hard to point huge guns at a small agile target. Bigger is not always better.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That reminds me of the black hole gun in Saints Row 4
Real programmers use butterflies
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