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Growing up in the 50s, I loved the 1951 movie The Thing. I learned from it to beware of what you find frozen in the ice! Seriously, viruses that we haven’t evo
by todd8 7y ago
Growing up in the 50s, I loved the 1951 movie The Thing. I learned from it to beware of what you find frozen in the ice!
Seriously, viruses that we haven’t evolved to fight off can be very dangerous.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoNever before did I think global warming would lead up to the end of life. Now I understand the connection.
- nomel 7y ago> For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China 15k years ago is a pretty small window in our evolution. My baseless assumption would be that we've seen something like it before. And, being "never seen before" could mean that all of the animal life that we know now is completely immune, eradicating it long ago. I'd be more worried of present/future virus and bacteria that have evolved with us.
- scohesc 7y agoI'd be worried after 15k years that the antibodies we originally developed have been "left out" or "ignored" if we haven't suffered from it after 15k years - if that's even a thing?
- weare138 7y agoWell the flip-side of that is there weren't that many humans around circa 13,000BCE and we were geographically isolated. For all we know this virus could have killed the all humans living on the Tibetan Plateau back then.