Posted on 11/28/2011 8:39:53 AM PST by PghBaldy
A group of scientists is pushing to publish research about how they created a man-made flu virus that could potentially wipe out civilisation. The deadly virus is a genetically tweaked version of the H5N1 bird flu strain, but is far more infectious and could pass easily between millions of people at a time. The research has caused a storm of controversy and divided scientists, with some saying it should never have been carried out.
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When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come and see!" I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Gee, are we close to the realization of the statement: “ Except those days be shortened, no flesh will be saved” ?
According to your link, it is NOT banned. It theoretically has peaceful purposes: studying birdflu and preparing for possible dangerous mutations.
As if we needed any more evidence that the State is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
The ultimate in late term abortion and population control.
A better question, IMHO, is why you would tell anyone you made it.
You can advance a political agenda by creating fear, and then promising to save people from whatever it is they're afraid of. I can't think of a reason for any sane person to create such a virus, but I can think of reasons they'd claim they had. None of them are good.
Sebellius won’t be too concerned. She stated once that she thought a “depopulating” event would be a good thing.
Laws, yes. :)
(I'm reading The Stand right now).
That is my favorite Stephen King novel. What really grabs me is that he wrote something that’s very religious if you think about it. He took the Tribulation story and made it into something different and, somehow, scarier.
News from the What The Hell Were They Thinking department.
Just wait’ll this one gets out of the lab.
PING!
[ The Great Filter theory tries to explain why there is no evidence of extraterrestrials. Advanced civilizations reach a point where wiping themselves out is unavoidable.
“Perhaps the most likely type of existential risks that could constitute a
Great Filter are those that arise from technological discovery. It is not farfetched to
suppose that there might be some possible technology which is such that (a) virtually all
sufficiently advanced civilizations eventually discover it and (b) its discovery leads
almost universally to existential disaster”
http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf ]
Agreed, especially in cases where the ETs create one world governments and their rule is complete. Compartmentalising the species is actually a good idea, it creates a scenario where if one country goes all looney tunes the others have a good chance of surviving it.
This is one of my fundemental arguments against Globalisation. If you have one large planetary state you end up with pandemics running wild, where if you have seprate countries they can effectively quarantinme themselves if they are already somewhat isolated.
Also different countries will have different survival strategies for surviving SHTF events, and a diversity of survival plans is a good thing.
The people who want Global governence are those who don’t care about the eventual survival of the species.
Many here on FreeRepublic lampoon or outright ridicule Stephen Hawking’s demand we get off this rock, but he is absolutely 100% correct.
If we don’t, some idiot will end it all on the rock, and there will be none or too small a population of us out in space to continue the race.
I can’t wait until we have long range space travel capability. I will be one of the first coach class ticket purchasers.
It’s just getting too weird around here, in terms of the level of technology vs. the mindset of those controlling it.
Interestingly, I am OK with nuclear weapons, but that’s because they still have limited effects, and the pollution can be worked around. Not so with a virus. You can only hope and pray either that you have natural immunity, and you’re not the only one with that genetic code around, or that we master genetic manipulation quickly under the gun of mass extinction and learn how to add resistance to our own DNA.
Personally speaking, dying of flu cannot be fun. It is already deadly enough as is, with the only reason we don’t die from it now is that we have a decent healthcare system in place if we can’t turn it around on OTC meds. Wait until the hospitals are clogged, die-off will dramatically increase.
That is a very interesting point--I'll keep that in mind as I continue. I'd like to rent the mini-series when I finish it--I think Gary Sinise played Stu Redman and I really like Gary Sinise. :)
The old cover was the best one.
“You can advance a political agenda by creating fear, and then promising to save people from whatever it is they’re afraid of”
Thesis.
Antithesis.
Synthesis.
Hegel wept.
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