In interviews, they said that while the Australian discovery was ominous, much remained unknown about whether the technique could be applied to human viruses and, if so, whether new classes of designer pathogens would become available.
They have been brought here not by a doctor's recommendation, by chest pain or the discovery of an ominous lump, but by a radio ad.
But when I listen to latter-day Glass operas on the subject of science, such as "Kepler" and "Galileo Galilei," it seems as though there's more spoon-feeding going on in his orchestra pit: when the scientist is under threat, the score deals out ominous, stomping progressions; when creative discovery is the point of a scene, more gracefully flowing arpeggios emerge.
But when I listen to latter-day Glass operas on the subject of science, such as "Kepler_"__ _and "Galileo Galilei," it seems as though there's more spoon-feeding going on in his orchestra pit: when the scientist is under threat, the score deals out ominous, stomping progressions; when creative discovery is the point of a scene, more gracefully flowing arpeggios emerge.
Despite the thrill of this discovery, the story hints at the ominous consequences of detecting radioactive fallout from a past society, even as nuclear sabre-rattling continues unchecked in human civilization.
It's not hard to imagine "The Machine" as an examination of the odd place we now find ourselves in our relationship to science: the very discoveries that can help us are also ominous.
And set against that ominous backdrop is a tender, touching, personal story of self- discovery.
In 1945, upon accepting his piece of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery and isolation of penicillin, Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming delivered an ominous warning.
Most intriguing was the discovery that these plant extracts were effective at controlling the growth of MRSA, one of the most ominous AMR strains, with MICs of 3.3-6.0 3.3-6.0
To remind us of how dangerous this all is, Discovery drops in a murky, shakily shot approximation of what an armed truffle poacher might look like, accompanied by ominous thunderclaps and recaps of scenes shown seconds before.
