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2012-04-15 Science & Technology
Fears that amateurs might make deadly virus
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Posted by phil_b 2012-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336071 views ]  Top

#1 This is the danger of the 21 Century. Some terrorist is going to kill someone's loved one/s as just more collateral damage. That someone will have the capability to engineer a bug with just enough lethality to hammer third world populations from which these terrorists spawn. As the government dilly dally about and try to avoid doing anything that might upset some else, that third party will take vendetta to unimaginable levels.
Posted by Procopius2k 2012-04-15 00:19||   2012-04-15 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Tons of leftists and environmentalists want to eradicate humanity.
Posted by gromky 2012-04-15 01:21||   2012-04-15 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Turn it around P2K, you think among 1.3 billion Muslims there's nobody who can fallow these instructions?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-04-15 01:41||   2012-04-15 01:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I worry more about some idiot who accidentally or deliberately infects himself or his cat. Once some new capability gets into a spreading viral infection, anything could happen.
Posted by phil_b 2012-04-15 03:02||   2012-04-15 03:02|| Front Page Top

#5 g(r)omgoru, it's possible. However releasing said virus will have an effect proportional to the ability of the society to take effective remedial actions. A truly deadly pan epidemic will shut down outside help as transportation connections will be severed. Basics in sanitation, public health, not just at a nation level but local level will make the release of any such pathogen absolutely devastating when it reaches that population simply for those facts. In their case, it would be suicide for their culture, not that such an act is out of their behavior patterns, and remove a threat to all other civilizations.
Posted by Procopius2k 2012-04-15 11:14||   2012-04-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 not that such an act is out of their behavior patterns

We can agree on that.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-04-15 15:13||   2012-04-15 15:13|| Front Page Top

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