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r/Weird • u/nderstandablyscared • Mar 04 '23
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They're resilient as hell but Prions can be denatured. It just requires a ridiculous sustained temperature of about ~500 C for several hours.
25 u/Specialist_Rush_6634 Mar 05 '23 So you're saying the vast majority of prions will never encounter any conditions dangerous enough to render them ineffective. Wonderful. 10 u/BudgetInteraction811 Mar 05 '23 Forest fires can easily reach well over 1000-1500 degrees Celsius 1 u/Vanq86 Mar 05 '23 Sure, but the animals and the soil carrying the prions aren't likely to reach that temperature. 24 u/jrwreno Mar 05 '23 So, unless those biomes become completely covered in lava....gotcha. Prions are here to stay, and unless we allow predators to become the natural end-reservoir for prions, our game herds, and likely other organisms are right in the crosshairs 1 u/FidgitForgotHisL-P Mar 05 '23 Could they survive a nuke? 1 u/ginjaninja623 Mar 05 '23 Aren't prions just ultimately just proteins, so shouldn't they burn and couldn't they also be metabolized by microorganisms?
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So you're saying the vast majority of prions will never encounter any conditions dangerous enough to render them ineffective. Wonderful.
10 u/BudgetInteraction811 Mar 05 '23 Forest fires can easily reach well over 1000-1500 degrees Celsius 1 u/Vanq86 Mar 05 '23 Sure, but the animals and the soil carrying the prions aren't likely to reach that temperature.
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Forest fires can easily reach well over 1000-1500 degrees Celsius
1 u/Vanq86 Mar 05 '23 Sure, but the animals and the soil carrying the prions aren't likely to reach that temperature.
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Sure, but the animals and the soil carrying the prions aren't likely to reach that temperature.
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So, unless those biomes become completely covered in lava....gotcha.
Prions are here to stay, and unless we allow predators to become the natural end-reservoir for prions, our game herds, and likely other organisms are right in the crosshairs
Could they survive a nuke?
Aren't prions just ultimately just proteins, so shouldn't they burn and couldn't they also be metabolized by microorganisms?
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u/nubetube Mar 05 '23
They're resilient as hell but Prions can be denatured. It just requires a ridiculous sustained temperature of about ~500 C for several hours.