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centrist democrat praises DJT; will not vote Pelosi for spkr of house
Shills please post pictures of your best bud
also knife collection
ty China anon
Comparison of H1N1 swine flu virus with other influenza viruses
>Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics that have claimed the lives of millions. The emergence of new strains will continue to pose challenges to public health and the scientific communities. A prime example is the recent emergence of swine-origin H1N1 viruses that have transmitted to and spread among humans, resulting in outbreaks internationally. Efforts to control these outbreaks and real-time monitoring of the evolution of this virus should provide us with invaluable information to direct infectious disease control programmes and to improve understanding of the factors that determine viral pathogenicity and/or transmissibility.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08157
what's to stop us from making our own virus and destroying our civilization?
Do we need an advanced degree?
Fully equipped lab?
100 thousand discrete pieces of specialist knowledge?
Nah.
$129.00 US Fiat currency for the Odin DIY Bacterial Gene Engineering CRISPR Kit
https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/
To destroy human civilization we need
1) malicious malignant megalomania
2) internet connection & device
2) $169.00 US Fiat currency or equivalent
3) Deadly virus code (recipe)
All information existing on networked devices is potentially accessible to all users of an inherently insecure anonymous network - like the internet,
>If you thought of organisms as computers with IP addresses, each functional group of cells in the organism would be listening to the environment through its own active port. So, as port 25 maps specifically to SMTP services on a computer, port H1 maps specifically to the windpipe region on a human. Interestingly, the same port H1 maps to the intestinal tract on a bird. Thus, the same H1N1 virus will attack the respiratory system of a human, and the gut of a bird. In contrast, H5 — the variety found in H5N1, or the deadly “avian flu” — specifies the port for your inner lungs. As a result, H5N1 is much more deadly because it attacks your inner lung tissue, causing severe pneumonia. H1N1 is not as deadly because it is attacking a much more benign port that just causes you to blow your nose a lot and cough up loogies, instead of ceasing to breathe.
powerful search "Flu 1918 Virus sequence" struck biowarfare gold!
This is one example of a non linear existential threat emerging from newly introduced technology.
The internet itself is a non linear technology whose risks emerged only after long use at sufficient scale.
Gene editing technology, 'narrow' artificial intelligence, synthetic bio organisms, are known existential threats
All new powerful nl technologies contain hazards that may go unrecognized or which emerge only upon interaction with existing technologies
Enormously powerful technologies like the CRISPR gene editing tech
Substrate agnostic viruses/synthetic life
every new nl technology X each pre existing nl technology X future nl tech = existential threat
the probability of new technology posing and existential threat is greatly enhanced by the internet.
Access afforded by anonymous universal networks by definition connects the most ruthless and cunning criminals in the world to the most vulnerable victims and the knowledge and technology necessary to exploit us.