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Re:Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis by throwaway290 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @06:22AM (#32735152)
> the lab-leak hypothesis is comforting, because it means that nature with its own means did not manage to manufacture such a highly-transmissive disease

We are well past the point where nature is our greatest enemy.

A lab leak of such consequences has the attention of every hostile organization out there. Imagine the scale of hurt you could achieve, yourself remaining pretty much immune to detection and prosecution, by doing the same thing but intentionally. Bye-bye unrestricted travel.

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Re:Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis by jcims on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:27AM (#32736808)
Eh, a rogue planet could convert the earth into a small asteroid belt.
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Re:Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis by brippalcharrid on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:36PM (#32740362)
You'd need more than a few postgrads over the course of several weeks to synthesize a rogue planet, though.
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Re:Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis by dylan604 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:16AM (#32738247)
Luckily, before that happens, humans will have killed themselves off and turned the planet into Venus 2.0. That way, the rogue planet doesn't have to feel guilty of wiping out an advanced species.
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