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Something to Freak Out About: Synthetic Biology
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https://www.ted.com/...d_how_we_can_stop_it

Pretty terrifying that sometime in the near future someone with equipment that you might find in a high-school laboratory and a modicum of know-how could create a "super-bug" capable of killing hundreds of millions of people. Somebody recently told me that using CRISPR is a thing for current high school students which is... amazing.
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Re: Something to Freak Out About: Synthetic Biology [GreenPlease] [ In reply to ]
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Have you not been watching Designated Survivor on Netflix??? The new season just came out, and hits your topic right in the bullseye.

And yes, it is pretty scary what the possible bad deeds are going to be in the near future. This shit makes an atomic bomb look like Childs play..
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Re: Something to Freak Out About: Synthetic Biology [monty] [ In reply to ]
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I canceled my Netflix a few months ago. But, yeah, that’s pretty scary to think that thermonuclear war would be manageable and preferable compared to dealing with a super-bug (or, God forbid, multiple super-bugs).
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