anyone with extensive knowledge in microbiology, with enough money, can create a super virus to wipe out human-kind. saw it on the discovery channel
2007-01-18 06:05:41 · 10 answers · asked by J J 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I don't worry about things like that.
2007-01-18 06:17:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not so easily. Because this microbiologist needs to find a weakness in Homo sapiens, and then build a virus that can use this weakness. Then, as a matter of fact, if a virus is there to kill, it can not spread as good as a flu. It needs a phase to use the person as the primary host and spreads. Then there is the immune system. Its there to kill any and every foreign things. Viruses like HIV use complex ways to fight or run away from our immune system. So dont be afraid, as far as I know, if your sentence was true, we were not talking right now!!!
2007-01-18 15:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by Snikayin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet you a bunch of terrorists are working on it right now. Some arrogant terrorists would love the idea of wiping out Europe and America, despite the fact they need us to survive. If we didn't exist, the Eastern world would probably still be in the state we were in in the 1500s. Technology wouldn't exist thats for sure..... No industrial Revoulution..... No computers.... No cars or good transport.... No electricity..... the list goes on.
2007-01-18 14:17:51 · answer #3 · answered by ukcufs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very scary. They don't even need the knowledge as long as they have the money they can pay someone else to develop it for them.
2007-01-18 15:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not all that easy to do you know, even with the proper resources and finances... Listen to the virologist above he should know... don't you think?
Quit trying to scare the uneducated masses into a panic. There are things called immune systems and antibodies too you know...
2007-01-18 14:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is very scary!!!!! Some wacko out there may just attempt this one day.
2007-01-18 14:13:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no they can't. Trust me, I've been a virologist for 15 years, it's not that simple.
2007-01-18 14:15:25 · answer #7 · answered by floundering penguins 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure they can lets hope a rich microbiologist was not watching
2007-01-18 14:11:19 · answer #8 · answered by peg42857 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't we have enough to consume our energies!?!?!
2007-01-18 14:13:09 · answer #9 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES AND IT MIGHT HAPPEN
2007-01-18 14:11:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋