[Vicomte13]

You took the words right out of my mouth:

“By studying these extremely old viruses, we can tap into what happened in our ancestors millions and millions of years ago.”

Or maybe we can tap into what happened TO our ancestors millions and millions of years ago.

And pestilence was unleashed upon the world, not through a pale rider on a horse, but with the sound of breaking glass in a laboratory somewhere in New Jersey, and a single word:
“Oops!”

[SpinnerWebb]

tap into what happened TO our ancestors

Not to OUR ancestors... OUR ancestors had the mutation that kept it from working ;)

[socrates_shoe]

> “Oops!”

Same image that occurred to me when they set about resurrecting the 1918 superflu a couple years ago.

[shiver]