<div dir="ltr">Well, I'll tell you this much--the current virus revolving around the earth can we naturalized with hydrogen peroxide therapy. Also, increasing our tripeptide structure--most importantly our glutathione will most definitely hold a very strong defense. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:35 PM Robert G. Kennedy III, PE via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Not that I think anybody will respond, because there never is, but:<br>
<br>
Spike's scenario doesn't explain the crossover event.<br>
<br>
SARS-CoV-2 is not 100% bat content. Mostly it is -- 80%?? The balance, <br>
20%??, came from some other mammal. Pangolin (an Asian anteater, looks <br>
a lot like an armadillo) is the thinking, but, whatever.<br>
<br>
So a crossover event was necessary to create this hybrid. We know for a <br>
fact that virions, disrobed of their outer protective sheaths, submerged <br>
in a living liquid environment exchange chunks of genetic material, swap <br>
genetic material like crazy, with each other and with their hosts. You <br>
and I have a ton of junk DNA in our genome that originated in virions. <br>
Hell, I just interviewed someone who discovered a "lateral gene transfer <br>
event" between **fungi** and an animal (a tiny fly called a midge). <br>
Yes, the fungus among us. Not only that, but the recipient organism <br>
(the midge) *expressed* the new gene (!), in a functional non-lethal way <br>
(!! self-synthesizing the essential nutrient beta carotene, one of a <br>
very rare few animals on Earth that can do that), and furthermore, <br>
*transmitted* the new genetic capability to her progeny. This <br>
gene-swapping phenomenon is *especially* common for RNA viruses since <br>
they lack the redundancy / error correction of DNA viruses. (The whole <br>
point of a double helix is to catch the weird sh*t and nip it in the <br>
bud.) This phenomenon is common enough with two different animals <br>
(think, pigs and ducks wrt H1N1); highly unlikely with three different <br>
animals at the same time. So we'll go with two.<br>
<br>
So where did that crossover happen? /in vivo/ or /in vitro/? I have no <br>
intuition about the answer to that, haven't read enough yet. But one <br>
plausible scenario is that one single human being, Patient Zero, some <br>
schmo swabbing out some messy place, was simultaneously infected with <br>
*both* virions at the same time, either due to bad luck/carelessness, <br>
bad management/carelessness, or design. Then P.Z. walked around for <br>
awhile, a living laboratory, shedding a gift that keeps on giving.<br>
<br>
Robert G Kennedy III, PE<br>
1994 AAAS/ASME Congressional Fellow<br>
U.S. House Subcommittee on Space<br>
<br>
On 2020-04-14 12:56, <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-request@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-request@lists.extropy.org</a> wrote:<br>
> Message: 2<br>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:46:23 -0700<br>
> From: <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>><br>
> To: "'ExI chat list'" <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br>
> Cc: <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>><br>
> Subject: [ExI] virus scenario<br>
> <br>
> This scenario doesn't require a conspiracy.<br>
> <br>
[snippissimo]<br>
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