On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 03:03:42AM +0200, Joacim Persson wrote: > > Completely off-topic: > > I'm far more worried of the coming of the day when bioinformatics and > micro biology has advanced to a point where it will be possible for the > people who today spend time designing computer viruses, with their > specific psychological profile, to produce synthetic /biological/ viruses, > bacteria etc; organisms which evolution, i.e. the immune system of living > creatures, never has encountered before... Life on Earth has only seen a > tiny fraction of all proteins DNA is capable of coding for. Suppose the HIV > virus could be modified to be stable enough to spread via air as a normal > cold, and still have a long incubation time and high mortality. > Hey, well, it's too late -- they've got a long, long headstart on you. Check out the previous post on Monsanto and GMOs. And this is just the stuff on the commercial market -- we can only imagine what fantastic things they're cooking in the lab, eh? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com - Gasification List Archives: http://www.crest.org/discussion/gasification/200202/ Gasification List Moderator: Tom Reed, Biomass Energy Foundation, Reedtb2@cs.com www.webpan.com/BEF List-Post: <mailto:gasification@crest.org> List-Help: <mailto:gasification-help@crest.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gasification-unsubscribe@crest.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gasification-subscribe@crest.org> Sponsor the Gasification List: http://www.crest.org/discuss3.html - Other Gasification Events and Information: http://www.bioenergy2002.org http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1010424940_7.html Bioenergy http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975339_7.html Gasification http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975672_7.html Carbon
