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Re:Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched by mrleinad on Saturday February 25, 2012 @06:41PM (#3634225)
Is the process to convert glucose into Vitamin C understood? Would it require something that could be seen as a tradeoff in our case?
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Re:Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched by maxerickson on Saturday February 25, 2012 @08:20PM (#3634450)
Probably not a tradeoff. Scurvy is devastating and Wikipedia says an animal like a 70 kg goat makes ~13 grams of Vitamin C a day (which isn't very much of anything).
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Re:Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched by jonhendry on Saturday February 25, 2012 @10:58PM (#3634757)
Scurvy might be devastating, but it's ridiculously easy to prevent. Especially nowadays.
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Re:Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched by maxerickson on Sunday February 26, 2012 @07:57AM (#3635524)
Sure. I was responding to the tradeoff question. It just doesn't seem very likely that some animal survived because it wasn't making Vitamin C (the other case is some animal surviving even though it didn't properly make it).
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