"apptech" wrote:
> "Genetic Engineering" is the second equal greatest potential threat to 
> human
> life. Just like the other threat, it may come to nothing within say the 
> next
> 1000 years, and it may deliver on it's promise. [...]
>
> What is "required" is something with infectiousness
> and initial symptoms (if any) similar to that of the common cold, the
> incubation characteristics of HIV and the payload of something like Ebola.
> Untidy and unstable design (like HIV) would help against attempts to 
> defeat
> it but, properly done, it should arrive too silently, lurk too long and
> deliver in too much volume for countermeasures to be viable. Gross planet
> wide spread would occur at just under the speed of sound via Mr Boeing and
> friends airborn vectors and infection could be expected to be largely
> complete within about a year. Give it then anything from 10 to 30 years to
> get well embedded into all generations and then the payload starts
> delivering.

Gee, thanks Russell!  I'll pass the info on to our local terrorist cell.

Vitaliy

P.S. Watch out, infidels. 

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