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Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus

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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
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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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scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-09 15:40 -0700
  Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-09 16:36 -0700
  Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-09 17:47 -0700
    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
          Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-09-10 13:16 -0700
          Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-09-10 13:28 -0700
  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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