Some Scientists Think SARS May Have Come from Outer Space

LONDON (Reuters) ^ | May 22, 2003 | Patricia Reaney

[Larry Lucido]

Here are the culprits.

[Consort]

I also think SARS came from a biolab weapon gone wrong......

I like that, but why "gone wrong"?

[liberalnot]

then why has china always been a generator of the flu?

[DB]

How about a little gene splicing gone wrong...

It isn't hard to believe that the Chinese are conducting these types of "experiments" in less than ideal conditions. We also know they are doing gene splicing experiments with live virus like so many others are doing, here included.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I have a hunch that SARS escaped from a bio-weapons lab in China.

[JenB]

"I think it is a possibility that SARS came from space. It is a very strong possibility," Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe told Reuters.

Isn't this the guy - with Fred(?) Hoyle, maybe - who believes bacterial or viral life fell inward from the Oort clouds? I read something about him a few years ago.

[chief_bigfoot]

Possibly an instance of life imitating art? Have you ever read "The Stand" by Stephen King? The book starts out exactly the same way, with a 'super-flu' that gets loose from the CDC. IMO that's the most plausible explaination, which would also explain the Chinese' secrecy when it first erupted. Maybe they were stonewalling long enough for it to take hold?

[TaxRelief]

Maybe it has a special coating that dissolves when it enters the atmosphere...

[AntiGuv]

I like that, but why "gone wrong"?

I would say, because the Chinese have no rational gain from killing themselves off and/or wrecking their economy..

[TaxRelief]

I read something about that pro-virus segment in schizophrenics and something about cat fecal matter. It always come back to fecal matter...

[AntiGuv]

It sounds as if she's being somewhat sarcastic..

[Gary Boldwater]

It would get all burned up from re entry. It probably came from inside a UFO.

[Betty Jo]

Remember how we all said the astronauts couldnt have survived the crash? That there would not be any body parts left because they would have all burned up? Well, there were body parts found wernt there?

Remember how few posters thought that SARS was/is biowar?

Look how many freepers think it might be now.

I'm predicting that more and freepers will come around to my belief, that SARS is from Binny.

[TaxRelief]

How can a virus which requires an earthly host survive in space?? Get real Chandra.

In little stasis chambers?

[mrsmith]

""It has a lipid (fatty) coat on the outside and it would tend to dry out in an atmosphere such as space," she told Reuters. "

Mrs. Sars Virus: "I think this lipid coat make me look fat!"
Mr Sars Virus: "Then why don't you wear your non-lipid coat on the trip, and take along the lipid coat just to wear if you get cold on Earth?"
Mrs. Sars Virus: "Oh, so I do look fat!!!!"

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[#3Fan]

Maybe it has a special coating that dissolves when it enters the atmosphere...

The scientist said that the coating would "dry" in the "atmosphere" of space. A poor choice of words for a scientist. An atmosphere is an planet-bound item consisting of a planet-wide sphere of gas. Space is mostly vacuum. There is an heliosphere which contains the solar wind and could possibly wear away the fatty coating, but it doesn't come close to having the consistency of an atmosphere. Just a poor choice of words for a scientist. Maybe she was surprised by the outlandish claim and didn't have time to think through what she wanted to say.

[AntiGuv]

Remember how few posters thought that SARS was/is biowar?

Look how many freepers think it might be now.

It's irrational to think that this could be the consequence of a bioweapons experiment gone awry. Any microbiologist attempting to engineer fatal coronaviruses would know that he's essentially making a doomsday weapon. There's no vaccine effective against them; there's no way to control the "bioweapon" from coming back and killing your own people. Why would anyone even experiment with coronaviruses as a bioweapon???

[aristeides]

Not only did human body parts survive the Columbia crash, but live worms (who had been in one of the experiments) were later found in the debris.

[myprecious]

I wait for them to come and see the end of what they started all that time ago when they engineered us for our own destruction.

Does this mean the Raelians' do not have a toll free number to the tech department for repairs? Even Microsoft can come up with a patch for (most) of their errors!