Slashdot Mirror
Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication
Pierre Bezukhov writes with this excerpt from an article at Doctor Tipster: "A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet's population. Now, researchers and experts in bioterrorism debate whether it is a good idea to publish the virus creation 'recipe'. However, several voices argue that such research should have not happened in the first place. The virus is a strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious ... created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza that took place in September in Malta."
I wonder what effect this will have on the Doomsday Clock?
just without a Judea christian god pushing a bunch of nobodies to a neo-las veges(forgetting that they have no one keeping the water flowing) where they can witness the same god picking up a nuke and wiping it off the map. like some new Sodom and gemora.
It's always been a bunch of leftists that happened to have a few people who did things vaguely related to atomic science. Even back when the leftist issue of the day actually was nuclear weapons, knowing the physics had nothing to do with knowing how close the world was to destruction by it--that's a political question, not a scientific question.
The number of minutes is completely arbitrary and is just stated as a number because numbers sound accurate to the general public. And it's particularly ludicrous when you compare the numbers to previous years--do you *really* think we're closer to destruction than we were in 1969?
Because all intelligent adults recognize it as a threat to the continued existence of our civilization, that's why. Since it is in fact already happening and already damaging large sections of our ecosphere, and may run away at some point if unchecked and re-map our entire climate.
But, hey just keep listening to that fat retard Rush Limbaugh and hoping it will go away.
One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / the next it's rolling over me / I can get back on / I can get back on
Rush Limbaugh and hoping it will go away.
Limbaugh listeners aren't hoping it will go away, they are certain that it is all a lie, a liberal plot to get grant money to study the problem and other such nonsense. There's no need to hope for the tooth fairy to go away, is there?