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The Skeptics Guide #936 - Jun 17 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Limits of Proteins

Humans use about 20,000 distinct proteins. There's not enough atoms to create an example of each one of those. Only about one in a billion of those are actually stable and usable. And any of the other ones that were not would not have lasted long.

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