Isekai Yakkyoku - Vol. 6 Ch. 27.1 - A miraculous omen and Actinobacteria in the limelight Part 1

[rokegle135]

@primrosea
KEKW

 

[cullinaire]

That last panel is missing a big old PAAAAAAAAAAAA

😀

 

[KageKaiser]

Reminds me of my grad thesis.

 

[Artaris]

Stay safe guys

 

[Liquidxlax]

@Vectorius Don't think I could have said it any better. I wonder what kind of "science" the stuff government contractors peddle to keep getting government contracts for lots of money while producing nothing of note or value. Money is thrown at them continually and still... I can understand "whats the point of working so hard only to have some cunt steal your research and work to make money off of it" Which is a problem with china and wanting to manufacture in china. Shit is really complicated

 

[mcfucksauce]

bacteriophages when

 

[NamelessSoldier]

This is what every scientist toils away for.

Most research shows little to no benefit in the immediate present, but the value of science is that by layering multiple discoveries on top of each other, your work will eventually bear fruit in one way or another.

Research and science are long-term. It's a shame that few funding agencies and governing bodies see the value in that.

 

[Glomoro]

Research and science are long-term. It's a shame that few funding agencies and governing bodies see the value in that.

We definitely have a tendency towards desiring immediate results for everything. All kinds of things even outside of research are negatively impacted by that part of human nature, I suppose.

 

[Cero90]

If an isekai protagonist can wear a mask so can you 😒✌️

 

[dskilly]

This manga has quite the few heartwarming, very wholesome moments like this chapter spread around... my natural instinct is to suspect that something bad is going to happen... but then again each time I have had that thought it would be resolved very briefly, which I have no qualms about actually. I don't know if to hope for that to stay the same or some kind of change... I just don't know with this manga XD I just want more of what the author is trying to depict and create

 

[KingsMan12]

Now, that's a good professor, treating her research stuff as her own child.

 

[anonaddict]

@nigredo just make sure you call it as your own child, and is aware of the scientific name it has in another (more technologically advanced) universe so you can identify it from a piece of paper about it with said name and pictures drawn using a stronger magnification than you have ever used to observe it.

I wanna address this more in depth for anyone who is actually interested since no one else seems to have brought it up (its an issue with tl, the official english has no issue)

As written here there is no way she would understand anything he says. Taxonomy is inherently arbitrary in terms of naming, its just a set of rules and conventions many have agrees upon so we can accurately reference things. there is nothing inherently scientific about the nameTyrannosaurus rex
from wikipedia:
The generic name is derived from the Greek words τύραννος (tyrannos, meaning "tyrant") and σαῦρος (sauros, meaning "lizard"). Osborn used the Latin word rex, meaning "king", for the specific name. The full binomial therefore translates to "tyrant lizard the king" or "King Tyrant Lizard", emphasizing the animal's size and presumed dominance over other species of the time.[6]

of course people often do name things based on what they look like, in this case "big and scary"

while others are named after famous people the taxonomist like eg

A new insect species, Sciophilia holopaineni, discovered by a Finnish biologist named Jukka Salmela of Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife, has been named after Tuomas Holopainen, because of Holopainen's love for nature.

(Tuomas Holopainen is a keyboard player and songwriter/composer for the metal band Nightwish)

It could just as well have been named John Scarylizard, what matters is the system. many species have also been described independently by many different authors and has several recognized names but with only one official. the official name is generally decided by consensus, typically the first person to describe a species gets to pick the name, but sometimes exceptions happen, like if the first guy to describe it did a really bad job and the next guy did a really good job. all that really matters is it having a name to refer unambiguously to that species.

however all these names and framework would probably be completely different in another world, if they even had the concept of taxonomy at all.

in the english release he says:

ACTINOBACTERIA ARE MOLD-LIKE MICROORGANISMS THAT EXTEND THEIR HYPHAE RADIALLY AS THEY GROW. OF THEM, I'D LIKE TO FIND THE STREPTOMYCES, THE VARIETIES THAT HAVE QUALITIES AS DEPICTED IN THIS DIAGRAM.

which is exactly what taxonomy is about: describing things in great detail with many drawings pictures and diagrams, then presenting the name you will be using to refer to them

this is a obviously minor detail since we live in his old world so we understand what he is referring to.

in regards to magnification microscopes have been distributed so that shouldnt be a problem. and as others have mentioned its very common for things to be studied for a long time before suddenly having a new use discovered