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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
| Subject | Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus |
| Message-ID | <nuH8FF.EtF@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-09-10 19:50 +0000 |
| References | <55F0B557.55D0@ix.netcom.com> <f9728a68-9680-4e4d-baa6-fe0090d3ad25@googlegroups.com> <nuFwMA.1wEt@kithrup.com> <20150910a@crcomp.net> |
| Organization | Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. |
In article <20150910a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote: > >Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: >> >> ObSF: _Doomsday Book._ >> >> (I was working for a molecular biologist when that came out, so I >> asked him, Could a virus lie dormant in fourteenth-century ruins >> till the twenty-first century and still be infectious? And he >> said, Probably.) > >Great _Doomsday_ tie-in, Dorothy! And thank you for the pertinent >information about dormant viruses. > >Starmaker, you sometimes mention the "Andromeda Strain" movie. There's >another movie about pathogens named "The Navigator." In the movie a >group of people time travel to the future to find a way to keep Black >Death out of their village in the distant past. Wait a minute ... people in the fourteenth century time travel? Really?? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you? > >AFAIK Prince Philip wants to be reincarnated as a killer virus so that >he can depopulate the earth. Um ... where did you read that interesting tidbit? -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-10 02:37 +0000
Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-10 01:02 -0700
Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-09-10 17:53 +0000
Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-10 19:50 +0000
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Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-10 00:43 -0700
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