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[QUOTE=Gnomical;42968366]Only problem with this would be that our bodies get dependent on this artificial immune system, meaning a natural one wouldn't develop. Then if for whatever reason the artificial one doesn't work, we are super fucked. (For example, say a company has a 3 month shot of nanites that act as an artificial immune system. You would be at the mercy of their pricing and business.)[/QUOTE]You can't exactly develop a natural immunity if the infection kills you.
if we're ever gonna mess around with artificial immunity then they should extend upon what we already have, not creating something entirely new even though it would mean that it wouldn't be 100% efficient from day one.
[QUOTE=PredGD;42963848]madagascar has closed it's borders[/QUOTE] I see one of these posts [I]every single time[/I] there's a story like this. Am I the only one who doesn't get this joke?
[QUOTE=slayer64;42969917]I see one of these posts [I]every single time[/I] there's a story like this. Am I the only one who doesn't get this joke?[/QUOTE] play pandemic or plague inc, then you'll get it
[QUOTE=slayer64;42969917]I see one of these posts [I]every single time[/I] there's a story like this. Am I the only one who doesn't get this joke?[/QUOTE] [url=http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything]Enjoy a little light reading[/url]
Time to invest in chlorine treatment.
Oh, fuck [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q[/media]
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;42968393]what, and end up at the mercy of needing Ambrosia to cure sickness like in Deus Ex?[/QUOTE] I might have the wrong idea but that thing people are mentioning about using a virus to kill the bacteria. Would it be possible for the virus to then spread/have side effects. Then we would be at the mercy of whichever company sold drugs to supress the virus.
Knowing facepunch we will all be safe due to the stockpiling of gas masks.
[QUOTE=Quark:;42968483]That's just how it starts. If we can't stop it, we have no way of protecting ourselves other than pure isolation of any infected individuals. If even one cell escapes and has time to reproduce on a surface, we are back to square one when someone gets infected from it.[/QUOTE] Someone died, but maybe that guy was like 80 or someone with a busted immune system.
Welp, gg. You win, evolution.
Government NIH R&D [B]GOOOOOOOOOOO![/B] [editline]25th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=J!NX;42968408]one death is like, nothing really even 20 or 40 is very low for a "super bug"[/QUOTE] Its not even a superbug. Its merely a bacteria, completely different.
I just coughed fuck
If you wanna be informed and entertained at the same time, [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/"]Contagion[/URL] is a great movie about the subject.
[QUOTE=Judas;42976801]I just coughed fuck[/QUOTE] "New disease spotted in US" every fucking time someone even blinks
[IMG]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Reag_1385438288.jpg[/IMG] Fuck y'all
FFUCK that picture in the OP creeps me out
[img]http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/36/d7/fd/36d7fd80-4482-628f-9154-0184f83d096b/screen568x568.jpeg[/img] and I was just playing this game.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;42975007]I might have the wrong idea but that thing people are mentioning about using a virus to kill the bacteria. Would it be possible for the virus to then spread/have side effects. Then we would be at the mercy of whichever company sold drugs to supress the virus.[/QUOTE] I laugh at every post that's like LOL BIG PHARMA research the shit. It's not hard. It's physiologically impossible for bacteriophages to attack eukaryotic cells, hence the term [I]bacterio[/I]phage
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;42963890]I bet it isn't resistant to burning napalm[/QUOTE] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Evolution_movie.jpg[/img]
Oh dear God get me off this planet
I'm sorry but why are we putting huge funding into alternatives? They do exist so it's not like it's not possible. Cut some useless military budgets (unless the military project is dealing with this) here and there and put the money into a problem that needs an immediate solution. Of course that would be the logical thing to do.
[QUOTE=Whiterfire;42979569]I laugh at every post that's like LOL BIG PHARMA research the shit. It's not hard. It's physiologically impossible for bacteriophages to attack eukaryotic cells, hence the term [I]bacterio[/I]phage[/QUOTE] I've not done much research into them at all, and know they're not going to attack eukaryotic cells, but wouldn't bacteriophages attacking healthy fauna in the body (which is crawling inside and out with billions of useful and necessary bacteria) be a potential issue, or can they be tailored to be specific to certain virus types?
[QUOTE=Terminutter;42980955]I've not done much research into them at all, and know they're not going to attack eukaryotic cells, but wouldn't bacteriophages attacking healthy fauna in the body (which is crawling inside and out with billions of useful and necessary bacteria) be a potential issue, or can they be tailored to be specific to certain virus types?[/QUOTE] It's unlikely, but still not as bad as leaving resistant bacteria around. Some countries have been using this treatment for a while, like Georgia.
I'm allergic to every single anti-biotic, so does this even effect me?
Made me remember that 28 Weeks Later movie.
Playing that Pandemic Game, I got EVERY country. But that one country, that ONE country, Madagascar, stood there and watched.
[QUOTE=Chaoswolf725;42981633]I'm allergic to every single anti-biotic, so does this even effect me?[/QUOTE] You are bacteria
[QUOTE=PredGD;42969942]play pandemic or plague inc, then you'll get it[/QUOTE] I've played both, and from what I can tell, their gameplay concepts are more-or-less the same. Which one was around first? Because with similarity like that, one of them had to be a cheap knockoff.
[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;42982881]I've played both, and from what I can tell, their gameplay concepts are more-or-less the same. Which one was around first? Because with similarity like that, one of them had to be a cheap knockoff.[/QUOTE] pandemic was the first one, then plague inc came as an alternative for mobile devices
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