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Extinction-level pandemic caused by the Venusian microbes they will soon bring to Earth.
by lurquer 6y ago
Extinction-level pandemic caused by the Venusian microbes they will soon bring to Earth.
- vmception 6y agoWe need a moon base
- api 6y agoWe already have the ISS
- zaptrem 6y agoHow likely would it be that extraterrestrial microbes evolved for living in clouds would have just happened to evolve to also be pathogenic in humans?
- stupendousyappi 6y agoHow likely is it that a virus evolved for living in civet cats just happened to evolve to also be pathogenic in bats and humans?
- mullingitover 6y agoWe get infected by bird viruses all the time, and they're not even mammals. A virus that evolved in mammals infecting different types of mammals is very likely.
- rsynnott 6y agoQuite likely; we’re pretty closely related to those, and multiple species viruses show up all the time. It would be more surprising, though, to find a virus which was pathogenic to, say, both us and archaea, and any Venus life is probably more different to us than archaea are. A bacteria analogue is possibly more of a risk; those can be less fussy.
- aortega 6y agoNot likely, except if it were somehow, coerced to evolve, like, in a lab.
- lurquer 6y agoHow likely would it be that terrestrial immune systems evolved to fight Venusian microbes?
- Grangar 6y agoIt could be as simple as a microbe that eats an elementary molecule in our bodies that is so foreign our immune system can't spot it. No need to target us directly.