/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12163746
>Tetrodotoxin
Ah, correction, tetrodotoxin tends to kill by first halting breathing.

>>12163762
>Like . . . what? What "target" can microwaves "act on," and in what way?
Calcium channel voltage sensor. Moving all the charge groups in the same direction simultaneously. Several papers are inclouded which imply other mechanisms, like the Soviet paper that found weakening of the heme-globin bonding when irradiation occurred in water.

>Any process that eventually produces free radicals must put in enough chemical energy to do so.
You can theoretically wipe out practically all life on this planet with a single movement of your hand, ie with nuclear weapons. What you're saying is ridiculous and shows you don't really understand organization and energy storage and transfer, in the abstract. Examples of signal based control in complex systems are endless. I can shine a light in your eye and make your entire body move, where did the energy come from to do all that?