Man Made Virus to Wipe out half of humanity! (Your already dead) - Polidicks

engineer it to only affect mutated humans. [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpw3fdPG0I1r1nhono1_500.jpg[/img]

They could have atleast made a cool virus, like the T-virus, but a virus which makes you have a cold is just shit.

[QUOTE=smidge146;33473399]They could have atleast made a cool virus, like the T-virus, but a virus which makes you have a cold is just shit.[/QUOTE] ...you are aware that most colds are caused by rhinoviruses?

[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];33470080']Shit, I just started watching Stephen King's The Stand miniseries too.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=GMOD ftw;33470434]Did anyone else think of The Stand?[/QUOTE] Thread music/best intro for a miniseries ever/next Tuesday: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAvTn3uz5w[/media]

[QUOTE=dogmachines;33469148]Why even consider releasing the recipe? Why even do this period?[/QUOTE] We do it for science, to understand how making something terrifying like this is done. Know how you do it allows for regulation and if it was released publicly this regulation would be [i]forced[/i]. I do not want 'ethical' science, so I don't want this shit released. [QUOTE=Kuro.;33469204]Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Hell, this sounds like the kind of cockamamie science Aperture would do just to see what would happen. "Just a heads up, we laced your coffee with a VERY contagious strain of avian flu. Not gonna lie to you, it will probably kill you. Horribly. Fortunately for us, the lab boys say the results should be highly informative. Just don't cough on anything please, we just redecorated this conference room."[/QUOTE] Ow, my sides. [editline]28th November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Contag;33472995][B]if you can get the virus to jump from ferrets to human while retaining lethality and infectivity, you'd be able to 'create' a flu virus with similar characteristics without needing to know this research[/B] calm down guys[/QUOTE] Actually they created it to kill ferrets then switched to humans later. No human test-subjects yet, obviously. So yeah, it's been created already.

Airborne? No problem, we got this. [img]http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9989/gasmask10fh.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Radley;33473716]Airborne? No problem, we got this. [img]http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9989/gasmask10fh.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] If we engineered it a tad more we could make it airborne and contagious on skin touch. Their hands.

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;33473728]If we engineered it a tad more we could make it airborne and contagious on skin touch. Their hands.[/QUOTE] Gloves and duct tape. They prolly just make it acidic and goes through cloths later.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;33472825]I want to know why the fuck they made it in the first place.[/QUOTE] So they could create a vaccine for it!

Thread title reminded me of Fist of the North Star :v:

A US biosecurity committee is [B]deciding whether[/B] crucial [B]research on H5N1 bird flu is too dangerous to publish[/B]. The work shows a few mutations that might allow H5N1 bird flu [B]to cause a lethal human pandemic.[/B]

[QUOTE=Radley;33473734]Gloves and duct tape. They prolly just make it acidic and goes through cloths later.[/QUOTE] Virus's are smaller than cells, if the cloth is loose it still won't work. :v: Acidic virus's are not possible, at least to my knowledge. [editline]28th November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Flem;33473770]A US biosecurity committee is [B]deciding whether[/B] crucial [B]research on H5N1 bird flu is too dangerous to publish[/B]. The work shows a few mutations that might allow H5N1 bird flu [B]to cause a lethal human pandemic.[/B][/QUOTE] If you read the whole thing, it's suggesting that he did make a human-strain. Most likely it's been destroyed already.

[quote]Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe[/quote] What. How is this an option.

[QUOTE=Paulendy;33473792]What. How is this an option.[/QUOTE] Read my post a tad up the page.

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;33473690] Actually they created it to kill ferrets then switched to humans later. No human test-subjects yet, obviously. So yeah, it's been created already.[/QUOTE] how do you reliably switch it to humans while retaining lethality and infectivity without testing it on humans?

I let a maniacal laughter go when I read it.

snip.

[QUOTE=Rocko's;33473900]Fucking science, even Bill Nye wouldn't do shit like this. Destroy it, burn it, flush the recipe. This is fucking insane to create a VIRUS that can kill us.[/QUOTE] You can't be serious, right? like... wow

[QUOTE=Contag;33473935]You can't be serious, right? like... wow[/QUOTE] I just woke up and I'm a fucking retard.

[QUOTE=Flem;33473770]A US biosecurity committee is [B]deciding whether[/B] crucial [B]research on H5N1 bird flu is too dangerous to publish[/B]. The work shows a few mutations that might allow H5N1 bird flu [B]to cause a lethal human pandemic.[/B][/QUOTE] Well, if they really have that much difficulty deciding whether it should be released or not, it sounds like, in the grand scheme of things, we're fucked. Proper fucked. Gentlemen, it has been a privilege posting with you tonight. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLcZ5Rk3Lg&feature=related[/media]

[QUOTE=Radley;33473734]Gloves and duct tape. They prolly just make it acidic and goes through cloths later.[/QUOTE]Goddamit, just blow us all up with nuclear bombs already!

[QUOTE=ewitwins;33469302]Better question: Who would FUND this?[/QUOTE] The US Government. No really, the US government paid for this.

[quote] Now Keim, who chairs the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), and other members of the body, have a very difficult decision to make. Fouchier wants [B]his study to be published.[/B] So does virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who led similar research in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo, and reached comparable results. And it is up to NSABB to give them the green light. Many academics and biosecurity experts are naturally cautious about releasing information which could provide [B]any bioterrorist with a ready recipe to hold the world to ransom.[/B] Some argue that such work should never have been done in the first place and call for international monitoring of potentially harmful research.[/quote] You want to publish your study yet, this can be a problem? Hell no.

It's incredible how people completely missed that releasing this would mean they could do research against it. Sooner or later it will develop and spread anyway.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;33469353]Keep it secret[/QUOTE] yeah that went pretty fucking swell

I think people are misunderstanding what they mean by public.

I'm really surprised noone has mentioned this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g[/media] Good movie, but scary as hell.

[QUOTE=dergon;33475708]I'm really surprised noone has mentioned this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g[/media] Good movie, but scary as hell.[/QUOTE] I recently saw that, it was literally the worst movie I have ever seen. I'm not even exaggerating, it was really really bad.

I think you might be misunderstanding what they mean by public? All it takes is one badly managed garage bio-chemist with a license, and boom. The most deadly strain of avian flu the world has ever seen will be seeded across the earth by every fucking migratory bird that is susceptible to it (Read: Most Migratory Birds)

Why would you even try to make something more horrible then it actually is, these people are insane.