Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

Re:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 by baktubi on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:37AM (#28747296)

Hard disagree your hard disagree.

If you throw a vase in the air it will fall down and shatter: like, duh it’s gravity. But how many years to figure the equations? To tie the how/why to the obvious?

Don’t trivialize their work because your work didn’t receive a Nobel. K thanks.

These discoveries could be game changers for prosthetics, brain computer interfaces, augmented reality, etc.

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Re:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 by ramraj07 on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:27AM (#28747932)

I’m trivializing their research based on their inherent triviality. Any new gene could be game changers for a plethora of ailments. The correct gravity comparison would be trying to celebrate someone finding the value of g in Oxford when the original measurement was in London.

I didn’t say I am sour I didn’t get one. When did a film critic need an Oscar before he could criticize moviemakers?

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Re:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 by phnofive on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:51PM (#28753879)

I've no background in the field but tend to agree. "Humans have thousands of different kinds of sensor mechanisms, and here are two of them" - seems like an award that could be given repeatedly, no?

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