[ExI] thinking about the unthinkable

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>>... Not if it was a Mirror Life virus, all forms of life would catch it, even bacteria. It would be like the movie Andromeda Strain only worse.

>...Yes, even if it was a mirror life virus.  All forms of life could catch it, but the geographical isolation and other factors that explain why some isolated groups wouldn't catch a normal virus would apply at roughly the same strength to a mirror life virus.

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I can think of no plausible explanation for mirror life destroying extant life, rather than the other way around, since we outnumber it by dozens of orders of magnitude.  Surely in all this time it has been tried and found it didn't sell.

spike