Re:Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
by bee_rider on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:43PM
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The website looks like it hasn’t been updated in decades, but did they add the bit about the epidemic recently or should we be worried that these folks just about predicted the present?
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Re:Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
by s0adex on Monday May 06, 2024 @06:46PM
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Looking at the wayback machine, it seems the Epidemic text is there as early as 2001. But you shouldn't be worried, as the prediction has been made earlier than that and it's just simple mathematics (Population*Time=Pathogen Evolution)
Re:Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
by hadlock on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:42AM
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That doesn't take into account zoonotic crossovers like covid and the handful of avian flu cases in recent the
Re:Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program
by genewitch on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:28AM
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from 1995, i present La Grippe, by the Squirrel Nut Zippers...
Specifically this part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O8iOBW6JBM&t=31s
So either this random ska band was prophetic, or there was already a notion that this sort of thing could happen (and did in the mid 2000s iirc and nearly did again in 2013?)