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This is why future wars are going to be fought with robots.
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Burt Sexual posted:Idc really, just want her better. She said the doc said it may be some flu that starts with P. She couldn’t recall. The real answer was pneumonic Anyway it's sad she's going to be surpassed by Corona-chan, your Wuflu Waifu
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Feb 19, 2020 02:52
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How long will she be sick? E I gotta go to bed
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Feb 19, 2020 02:59
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unpacked robinhood posted:There's lots of people I need to infect, c ya ! Is it suicide if you die of complications from a disease you contracted by going to see a comedian who you know broke quarantine?
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Feb 19, 2020 03:14
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just another posted:Is it suicide if you die of complications from a disease you contracted by going to see a comedian who you know broke quarantine? Nah, just plain old death by stupidity.
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Feb 19, 2020 03:20
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just another posted:Is it suicide if you die of complications from a disease you contracted by going to see a comedian who you know broke quarantine? Don’t write jokes for him.
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Feb 19, 2020 03:29
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Shaocaholica posted:This is why future wars are going to be fought with robots. Can't wait to pilot a platoon of mobile dolls with my mind.
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Feb 19, 2020 03:31
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bones 4 beginners posted:Can't wait to pilot a platoon of mobile dolls with my mind. Chinese drone horde gonna roll over you tho
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Feb 19, 2020 03:34
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Nurge posted:On a strategic level it's totally idiotic because there's no sensible way to control anything that can reach enough people to matter. There are some really good tactical variants out there though. There's (supposedly) a modified strain of rabbit-pox targeted to humans that's aerosolized and you just cannon it over to the enemy lines. It only has a very limited lifespan but makes people who contract it poo poo themselves out for a week or two. Massive logistics strain. Again though it's ridiculously difficult to research and manufacture those compared to chemical weaponry, which is why the US dropped all overt research into the stuff in the late 60s. Bioweapons are very much a 'I swear to god I'll kill us all if you gently caress with me' tier retaliatory weapon. 200 people who are deliberately infected and ordered to spread it maliciously as far as possible can cause a complete pandemic in short order. At some point in the future, the fact that the entire smallpox genome has been mapped and is available for download will let college-tier labs re-create it, then go dicking around with protein markers to get it around the normal vaccine. Imagine the chaos if Aum Shinrikyo managed to just ride every line of the tokyo subway while infected with a novel new smallpox virus. That's the kind of poo poo that keeps epidemiologists up at night.
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Feb 19, 2020 03:53
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I wonder how much sales of Corona beer have been affected by this
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Feb 19, 2020 04:12
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Spinz posted:I wonder how much sales of Corona beer have been affected by this How dumb are people who drink Corona?
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Feb 19, 2020 04:26
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Spinz posted:I wonder how much sales of Corona beer have been affected by this I bought a sixer for the novelty... My boyfriend (rightly) shunned me for it  Shaocaholica posted:How dumb are people who drink Corona? 
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Feb 19, 2020 04:32
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Burt Sexual posted:How long will she be sick? When I got H1N1 I was down for the count for two weeks. Delirious, vomiting, pain, dehydrated, etc. It just sucked.
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Feb 19, 2020 04:44
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:
How the gently caress is this allowed?
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Feb 19, 2020 04:44
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Charlz Guybon posted:How the gently caress is this allowed? You can't stop the signal, man!
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Feb 19, 2020 04:49
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Shaocaholica posted:This is why future wars are going to be fought with robots. Well, one side will be robots, at least. Rising up to destroy us
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Feb 19, 2020 04:51
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Lol sky net probably going to come out of China and not the US.
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Feb 19, 2020 05:02
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Charlz Guybon posted:How the gently caress is this allowed? Just knowing what makes it up doesn't make it easy to manufacture. If any bob joe can make smallpox we're at a situation where any joe bob can make sarin gas or VX gas or gently caress why not Von Neumann machines, or a thousand other hideous things. Diseases are the least of our problems if you can start 3D-printing molecules at will. Either way we're a long way away from that. e: The point is that ain't no one without massive funding and bio degrees making smallpox today even if you have the "blueprint". Nurge fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Feb 19, 2020 05:09
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We're still decades away from the point, but in the future manufacturing spreadable bits of RNA in a protein capsule probably isn't going to be difficult, and will likely involve strains much more sophisticated than smallpox. It's not impossible that the people of 2080 will react to "Sudden appearance of a novel virus! Who will claim responsibility?" the same way we respond to car bombs and now mass shootings.
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Feb 19, 2020 05:46
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Nurge posted:On a strategic level it's totally idiotic because there's no sensible way to control anything that can reach enough people to matter. There are some really good tactical variants out there though. There's (supposedly) a modified strain of rabbit-pox targeted to humans that's aerosolized and you just cannon it over to the enemy lines. It only has a very limited lifespan but makes people who contract it poo poo themselves out for a week or two. Massive logistics strain. Again though it's ridiculously difficult to research and manufacture those compared to chemical weaponry, which is why the US dropped all overt research into the stuff in the late 60s.
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Feb 19, 2020 05:48
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Shaocaholica posted:How dumb are people who drink Corona? At one point, Google searches were redirecting to Corona beer instead of Corona virus. They had help.
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Feb 19, 2020 05:48
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i dont "get" sick 
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Feb 19, 2020 05:53
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Charlz Guybon posted:How the gently caress is this allowed? Because it was unthinkably difficult 20 years ago, and therefore it will be unthinkably difficult forevermore.
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Feb 19, 2020 05:57
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Sten Freak posted:I read a book about the Amerithrax attacks that had a bit on Russian bio weapons. It’s been a while but the summary is they were working with anthrax and in the course of it poured unwanted samples into the drain which simply went into the common sewer system. This in turn caused an anthrax outbreak in the sewer rats. They went down and got specimens and used the way more contagious strain as a new development point for weapon research. That is a frustratingly brilliant way to make something more contagious.
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Feb 19, 2020 06:04
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sincx fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2020 06:06
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Pack it in y'all, the threat is over. This virus just got DESTROYED 
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Feb 19, 2020 06:08
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Shaocaholica posted:Don’t write jokes for him. Influenza infects people like 🆃🅷🅸🆂 but coronavirus infects people like 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈
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Feb 19, 2020 06:18
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just another posted:Influenza infects people like 🆃🅷🅸🆂 but coronavirus infects people like 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 ~uwuu. corona-senpai noticed me
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Feb 19, 2020 06:23
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yeah i had coronavirus back in college [expectant look at the audience] but back then we called it rush week [holds for smattering of chuckles]
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Feb 19, 2020 06:24
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Funny man got fired! https://www.kptv.com/news/oregon-comedian-breaks-quarantine-flies-back-home/article_cb431a52-52af-11ea-9c13-f72de419c6d9.html quote:King says he's checked in with his doctor and the Linn County Health Department as well. 
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Feb 19, 2020 06:25
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Sten Freak posted:I read a book about the Amerithrax attacks that had a bit on Russian bio weapons. It’s been a while but the summary is they were working with anthrax and in the course of it poured unwanted samples into the drain which simply went into the common sewer system. This in turn caused an anthrax outbreak in the sewer rats. They went down and got specimens and used the way more contagious strain as a new development point for weapon research. That’s amazing, lmao.
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Feb 19, 2020 07:02
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rip Burt, got cruiseified and died for our sins
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Feb 19, 2020 07:59
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spacetoaster posted:Building/using germ warfare seems kinda like setting fire to your neighbor's apartment. I think a bug like this one is useless. You would use something hosed up but fixable, like antrax. You would spread it by literally dropping antrax powder over a city with a plane. The objetive is not to kill the enemy, but obliterate their health system with their hospitals full of people and people demoralized. Not to kill, but wound. A soldier wounded is better than a soldier (or civil) killed, because the wounded soldier require extra effort from your enemy (food, doctors, medicines... all expensive). Bugs that kill or spread too far and fast are useless.
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Feb 19, 2020 08:17
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Tei posted:I think a bug like this one is useless. You would use something hosed up but fixable, like antrax. You would spread it by literally dropping antrax powder over a city with a plane. The soviet scientist who I saw interviewed said that they did develop one or two things that were completely useless like that and were only meant to be used as a retaliation for nuclear attacks when it doesn't really matter that much any more. Most of the things they came up with in the 70s and 80s were meant as front line deterrents with barely any or no spread and nonlethal like you said.
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Feb 19, 2020 08:30
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If you kill most of the civilians, you greatly decrease the amount of food required, so they'd probably be fine. You want to cause mass chaos, kill off the food supply without (directly) killing people. If someone wanted to bio-engineer a plague to destroy America, it would be a corn blight.
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Feb 19, 2020 08:39
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Jabor posted:If you kill most of the civilians, you greatly decrease the amount of food required, so they'd probably be fine. You want to cause mass chaos, kill off the food supply without (directly) killing people. Corn is a poo poo crop and could be replaced readily by any of a dozen of others.
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Feb 19, 2020 08:40
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Feb 19, 2020 08:45
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sincx posted:A generic cereal crops blight (like in Interstellar) would be devastating
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Feb 19, 2020 08:57
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Jabor posted:If you kill most of the civilians, you greatly decrease the amount of food required, so they'd probably be fine. You want to cause mass chaos, kill off the food supply without (directly) killing people. Haha...funny you mention that...For awhile I worked closely with people over at Fort Detrick in Maryland. That place used to be the center of the US Biological Weapons program. Do you know what they study there a lot now? Plant pathogens. During the Cold War, American bio-warfare people weren't so much scared of a human pathogen as they were of different kinds of smut or rust fungi. Their nightmare scenario was a couple of Soviet agents renting crop dusters and contaminating wheat crops in the bread basket with spores from assorted fungi. After a few fields got infected, the wind would carry spores from those plants and the cycle would repeat. There was theoretically no chance the pathogens could accidentally hop over to the Soviet's fields and it presented no direct dangers to humans but could destroy the American economy very easily. They STILL study plant pathogens at that place, mostly to protect against natural outbreaks, but also just because...you never know.
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