Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 03:02:08 -0500 Message-ID: <55F138FC.21EF@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:02:04 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus References: <55F0B557.55D0@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-8b2YlMoVCBiEwcgRoPk8Wk8vgdBVWp3pG7ACIW9yV4uskml8CZHdGnlicf7upEfTsRgEbbHvci+KNjr!YUzUwVp7WJN9OMV76q3VIf7wJl27MrauxRspuSKuEB8TgtluEBzymIxeYKrhKv1TEtoAM5lgTa7u!gkQdG814 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2602 X-Received-Bytes: 2714 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2290435042 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:422379 sci.physics:520087 sci.physics.relativity:363637 alt.astronomy:275422 Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > > In article , > Quadibloc wrote: > >On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 4:40:05 PM UTC-6, The Starmaker wrote: > >> http://www.cnet.com/au/news/scientists-waking-up-30000-year-old-giant-virus/ > > > >> I always thought it was their goal to get rid of viruses... > > > >> but maybe I got it backwards. > > > >Reading the article, the idea is: > > > >Viruses like this are going to be awakened anyways by oil companies exploring > >the area. They won't take the precautions necessary to prevent the viruses > >getting loose! > > > >So before they start, we had better wake up some of these viruses now, in a > >sealed lab where they can't get out, to study them - so that we will understand > >them well, so that if the oil exploration (which is hard to stop, the oil > >companies have lots of money to bribe politicians) does let an ancient virus > >loose... we will have a good enough understanding of that kind of virus to be > >able to quickly make a vaccine for it! > > > >See - they are trying to stop disease, not make it! > > 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.) The Earth is a virus.