I’m a mechanical engineer. well, by education anyways, and I’m unemployed at the moment. I’ve literally zero specialty and I pretty much don’t know shit and while I’ve got time to endlessly masturbate in my parent’s house and read, I might as well get some inspiration on what fields I should pursue.

Right now I’m reading this Molten Salt and Thorium reactor textbook

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3443A53C8E110C4700A45CBC34CE3328

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

The RNA world! It's a theory that before there were proteins or DNA, there was what is commonly thought of as the intermediary stage between the two - RNA. It's a theory of abiogenisis by which life came about in a primordial soup animated by lightning strikes until an organic molecule occurred. Then, by time one molecule began to replicate itself, it was the most likely to occur over time and the rest is history. I'm always very thankful that I took a detour in my degree in MKUltra-ing to take a virology class. I learned about RNA in depth before I got exposed to people talking about mRNA in the context of being anti-vaxx like they know shit about fuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world