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Melting Permafrost, Deadly Viruses, Male Scientists: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Sept. 11, 2015
Word comes via ABC Australia that scientists (read: male necrotechnologists performing male-created necrophilia disguised as science) will will reanimate a 30,000-year-old giant virus (longer than half a micron) unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia.
A few viral particles that are still infectious may be enough, in the presence of a vulnerable host, to revive potentially pathogenic viruses, explained dick-tator Jean-Michel Claverie, one of the lead researchers desperately trying to co-opt the power of creation.
What could possibly go wrong?
Claverie added: If we are not careful, and we industrialize these areas without putting safeguards in place, we run the risk of one day waking up viruses such as smallpox that we thought were eradicated.
These areas the phallocrat speaks of are those where permafrost is found. As the New York Times reported in 2011: "Experts have long known that northern lands were a storehouse of frozen carbon, locked up in the form of leaves, roots and other organic matter trapped in icy soil -- a mix that, when thawed, can produce methane and carbon dioxide, gases that trap heat and warm the planet. But they have been stunned in recent years to realize just how much organic debris is there."
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Melting Permafrost, Deadly Viruses, Male Scientists: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | Mickey Z. (Original Post)
Tace
Sep 2015
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Gman
(24,780 posts)1. Very bizarre take on a scientific issue
Very weird.
Warpy
(111,169 posts)2. Bizarre, indeed. One would think Russia has no female microbiologists.
Viruses are generally species targeted, you are very unlikely to catch a cold from your dog or cat. Likely this one's makeup says "eat woolly mammoths" and would explain why they've found so many in Siberia who went splat with their stomachs full of undigested and plentiful food.
As for reactivating smallpox, that's unlikely, too, since the virus is a fragile one and can exist only in human tissue. Once outside the human body, its lifespan is in hours, and that's only in carefully controlled laboratory conditions.
Bacteria are different and can move between species.