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

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In article <f9728a68-9680-4e4d-baa6-fe0090d3ad25@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> 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.)

-- 
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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