Can you Believe This???

[Japher]

Not that anyone here has, but don't you hate it when ppl say "HIV virus"?

[Urban Ranger]

What, would you prefer "human immunodeficiency virus" instead?

[Arrian]

No, I think he's saying it should just be HIV. HIV + Virus is redundant, and clearly redundancy is a pet peeve.

Right, Japher?

By the way, is there really a decent chance this could lead to a cure?

-Arrian

[Japher]

I hate redundancy because it just reveals their ignorance...

This may lead to a cure, but sooner it could lead to a vaccination. Very good discovery to find it in people. Didn't they find it monkeys some time ago?

[Az]

Why was retroviral engineering research discontinued?

They tried it on kids, and it worked, until one of them, #15, died of complications. This is obviously terrible, but that doesn't mean we should stop research into this.

[Urban Ranger]

I much rather they make nanomachines that attack the viruses.

[orange]

Let me guess Bodds...they're this way becuase they've been possessed by the devil, just like all Africans?

[Sava]

We should test to see if Bod's has this gene... we'll find you a nice African girl

[Ming]

Now now folks... enough

[Az]

I much rather they make nanomachines that attack the viruses.

I'd rather have little gnomes attack the viruses, but that's not feasible.

Seriously, This is easier. plus, a ****load of viruses already change our genes all the time, why should this be different?

[Dinner]

I've never heard of this mutation occuring in pure blooded black people before. I had read the mutation arose in Europe after the fall of Rome when civilization and city sanitation systems broke down resulting in hundreds of years of endemic outbreaks of every sort of illness.

If you kill most people who don't have the mutation then the people left are much more likely to have the mutation. I guess the mutation didn't occur in Europe but the break down of civilation resulted in a strong selective pressure which increased the genes appearance in the population.

[Lorizael]

I think the mutation is Delta 32, not 23.

[Az]

Correct, I always get them confused.

[Lorizael]

Does that mean you know what Delta 23 does? The only reason I know it's Delta 32 is because I just saw a show about this the other day.

And boy was that program boring. So repetitive. I could have learned the same amount of information in about a tenth the time by just reading a news article on the subject.