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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Chipkin9
It would be nice if all this Biological research was indeed intended to be used to detect and treat animals, but my tinfoil hat is on.
It would be nice if this were not even conducted in climates or environments where loss of containment could EVER lead to a living pathogen crossing into outside life of any kind. There is only really one place on Earth I think Bio-Level IV Labs should be permissible and that's Antarctica. Perhaps one of it's best uses, in fact. It's the only place on our planet where #1, it's hard freeze conditions in the open air, 365 days a year and #2 where humans cannot get in and out quickly, making a sort of natural time transition for infection control as a last ditch to everything else.
Kansas and Georgia are temperate climate areas for at least part of the year. Anything man makes, breaks. Time is the only question. So, why have them anywhere that means epidemic or pandemic purely by "oooops! did we do that?"
* BTW.. Your welcome for the additional info and of course, the great stuff Jude already had on the thread. I learned as much or more than I shared on this one and that made it fun.edit on 21-7-2013 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Chipkin9
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Chipkin9
It would be nice if all this Biological research was indeed intended to be used to detect and treat animals, but my tinfoil hat is on.
It would be nice if this were not even conducted in climates or environments where loss of containment could EVER lead to a living pathogen crossing into outside life of any kind. There is only really one place on Earth I think Bio-Level IV Labs should be permissible and that's Antarctica. Perhaps one of it's best uses, in fact. It's the only place on our planet where #1, it's hard freeze conditions in the open air, 365 days a year and #2 where humans cannot get in and out quickly, making a sort of natural time transition for infection control as a last ditch to everything else.
Kansas and Georgia are temperate climate areas for at least part of the year. Anything man makes, breaks. Time is the only question. So, why have them anywhere that means epidemic or pandemic purely by "oooops! did we do that?"
* BTW.. Your welcome for the additional info and of course, the great stuff Jude already had on the thread. I learned as much or more than I shared on this one and that made it fun.edit on 21-7-2013 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
Thanks for your input Wrabbit (And indeed Jude), you are 2 posters who's opinions I respect and value very much.
My own personal opinions on matters seem to resonate with both of yours.
This post by you Wrabbit was very enlightening and insightful also.
I'll retract my question of "Why don't America do this in US?" now, If I may?
Originally posted by SoulSearcherBlue
reply to post by intrptr
That is a scary perspective you just laid out. We forget sometimes how easy it would be for any Nation with these type of weapons to create a World Wide epidemic.
There is only really one place on Earth I think Bio-Level IV Labs should be permissible and that's Antarctica.
You're assuming, of course, that the system we have will always have the people in their place to do their jobs and keep everything running perfectly, indefinitely. No serious or long term breaks in time or maintenance to see a major failure in systems.
Nuke plants will be popping their corks for years and labs like these will be losing ability to contain anything as time carries on. Where better to have that? A rock/cavern lab in the Central Antarctic Ridge/Mountains or.....central Kansas?