Eugenics

[Geronimo]

In the context of covid gof means making a bug gain additional functions, like spreadability, severity, etc. Once we have that bug we can research how to defeat it. One escaped the lab before we had the cure and millions died. Oh well... I'd say guinea pig is applicable, they played around with an unnatural virus fabricated in a lab that infected the world and then rushed thru a "vaccine" with god only knows what effects in the future - had to be rushed, time is $$$ when creating a panic. Bill Gates bought vax stock and dumped it when the panic he helped create was fading.

Gain of function research is dangerous and there is no room for error or accident. It has nothing to do with the covid vaccines or with my post to which you initially invoked gain of function research. You sound more like a crude early Naughties vintage non generative anti-vax bot randomly stringing anti vax talking points together at the moment. I'll wait till you can better collect your thoughts.

[Berzerker]

I thought gof was safe and prevented infection

oh wait, thats the other narrative... It was a wet market, a bat bit a pangolin or something. Our tax funded CIA said so.

[N35t0r]

Yeah, but we all know your thoughts are very suspect.

[BeBMan]

Electronics

[pchang]

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

[giblets]

I didn't know slaves were bred like race horses. I had always assumed they were used mostly for agricultural labor.

[Berzerker]

if you want valuable slaves, breed 'the best'

[Berzerker]

Isn't life strange? Watching a How the Universe Works marathon and they're talking about the hazards of traveling thru space. Cosmic rays not only go thru our ships and us, when they do hit a ship they create a shotgun blast of billions of electrons etc that destroy or mutates our cells. Will ships need powerful magnetic fields to protect astronauts? I heard one of the Apollo people said he saw flashes across his eyes when his eyelids were closed, those were cosmic rays. The Sun and Earth provide protection but what about interstellar travel? I suppose we'll have a solution by that time, maybe open space doesn't have the same density of cosmic rays.

[pchang]

Cosmic rays come from all over and so should not be anisotropic. The lucky thing for us is that the vast majority of those things pass right through us without interacting. But yes, any kind of long range space exploration will require shielding of some sort. A big block of ice would be quite useful for a multitude of reasons.

[Berzerker]

like a comet