As we are now using Genetics to provide food, combat diseases and control pests, how long is it before someone develops a Genetic weapon. We are looking at a virus that will only kill people of a Chinese disposition or short people or even blondes!!! I bet somewhere in a 'government lab' someone is working on something like this. Let's just hope it is us doing the research!!!
Thursday 7 February 2008
Thought for the Day....
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I'd be prepared to bet one is already developed. The issue with such technology is that someone could easily break into the lab overnight and nudge the direction its aiming a little - to give a random example, to take out all Northeast Norfolk bloggers.
Robert A Heinlein wrote a novel called 'Sixth Column' in around 1950 about a world in which the Chines (maybe Chinese Communists, I forget) had pretty much taken over the world. Six American scientists in a hidden lab developed a 'ray' that operated only on Asiatics. Basically, it was a genetic weapon.
Today, it might be possible to develop, say, a retro-virus that attached something nasty to the gene for the epicanthic fold found basically only among Asiatics.
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