Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 20 minutes later[^][v]#1,122,110
All mutations are unlikely to happen. Weird shit happens though when you have a population of countless trillions of viruses all mutating. Some of these mutations will be beneficial (for the virus) and those viruses will propagate.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 24 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,122,149
Well then there's also mutations that are almost impossible to happen. Like, we're talking four mutations from its closest relative, four unlikely mutations.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 5 years ago, 10 minutes later, 55 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,122,158
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Think about it like this. Like flipping a coin heads ten times in a row. It's very unlikely. 0.1% chance of happening. 99.9% of times you sit down to flip a coin ten times, it won't happen.
Now imagine everyone on earth is flipping coins all day every day. Ten heads in a row is going to come up many times a day. Even though in any individual coin-flipping session, it's very unlikely.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 16 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,122,168
Yeah I get that, but the specific mutations themselves are suspicious, like there's mutations in areas that doesn't change much a lot of the time, then there's mutations in highly risky areas that will almost always be a unfavorable mutations where the organism is better off without it. The virus has mutations in those areas as i understand it.
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,122,169
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Those unfavourable mutations also happen all the friggin time. Mutations happen all the time in all different bits of DNA. The favourability or unfavourability of a mutation has no bearing on the likelihood of its happening.It's just that the organisms with those unfavourable mutations are less likely to survive.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,122,174
For the love of... Yeh mutations happen. A lot, thanks for letting me know. Mutations can still be suspicious though, i mean how the heck is it possible to know which happened naturally and which didn't? Obviously there needs to be a scale of likelihood and several none silent mutations are not very likely
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,122,177
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Has anyone studied which mutations are more or less likely to occur? Because mutations are random. They're not suspicious regardless of location.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,122,182
Don't let the name fool you and be a little humble in knowing that he's going over others research papers, spot on most of the time really. Talkin about stuff way before others.