Small Galaxy. More the shame, since there would be fewer opportunities for life to begin.
So, are you theorizing that somebody vocalized something that went through a random hole in space time and became the SARS virus, and somehow landed in China?
Stranger things have happened.
Speaking of strange, World of the Strange newsletter is sort of back. Website and Yahoo groups.
Not theorising anything myself.
But I wouldn't be surprised more the same anymore.
This is a strange and disturbing universe we live in, and we understand and 'know' so very little about it.
I read an article awhile ago about pro-virii and wrote a short story about it.
It kinda tickled my humor to do so.
I honestly didn't expect it to be so.. thought provoking.
Now I'm seriously thinking of rewriting it to make it longer.
I am getting all kinds of ideas from this thread for it, and that may be a bad thing actually.
But that IS a particularly horrifying thought, if we are intellectual property- what is to keep our 'owners' fromdeciding we've outlived our usefulness and flipping the proverbial switch on us? Or, in our case in the story, we get too smart for our own good and do it ourselves?
Too many possibilities to chase down in a single storyline.