This is an interesting article about "mirror life" -- biologists have been hard at work making mirror imagine biomolecules and eventually it will be possible to make mirror image lifeforms, perhaps in 10 years, a threat that can cause human extinction perhaps:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158
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So Covid was a baby step?
I am sure that the US will fund some lab in China to work on this. Some good news is we can work form home again after this gets out.
As I recall there were previous blog posts pointing out that something like the blight in the movie Interstellar could happen due to experiments such as this. Also that the Christian Bible makes claims of the "seas turning to blood" in the end times and so on, which could be an outbreak of bioengineered algae.
It was also pointed out, on a hopeful note, that most good physicists believe in the many worlds theory, and some of these worlds would dodge the problem, and that many Americans believe in a so-called "rapture" prior to anything bad happening.
Furthermore, of course, Americans have a deep dislike for various authoritarian forms of governance hence the statement "better dead than red". This indicates a possible utility of a so-called doomsday device in case of a communist takeover.
At the same time, of course, global governance of an intrusive nature may be necessary in the future to prevent the development of dangerous technologies such as this.
"that most good physicists believe in the many worlds theory, "
No, they don't.
Also is the 7.04 AM a bot? Is it possible that a bunch of postings on blogs, Reddit, and Facebook are not not from real people. For about a year or so, I keep seeing posts like 7.04 AM that seem to be off. Weird.
This is a much longer report on the topic that goes into all the details:
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
It does mention some of the hypothetical ideas previously discussed on this blog, for example, an overgrowth of cyanobacteria taking CO2 out of the atmosphere so that there is a global ice age, other species in the oceans could die out, and similar to the blight in interstellar ordinary plants would not be able to grow. See section 8.5, which claims the full extent of this is uncertain but can't be ruled out.
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