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Thread #83262 Message #1529188
Posted By: Donuel
27-Jul-05 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: A gene weapon for peace
Subject: BS: A gene weapon for peace
Today I speculated the most powerful weapon on Earth.
I can't say I invented this weapon because it has been imagined by dozens of people through the ages. Even Agatha Christie created a plot involving this weapon in the 1970 'A passage to Frankfort'.
But today with the brand new discovery of RNAi (basicly a RNA security function that removes suspicious DNA copies and any DNA copy that resembles the suspicious DNA) we can turn off genes at will.
Finding the genes or the matrix of genes respondsible for revenge, hatred and violence would enable people to deliver copies of those genes via a virus "delivery service" and thus cause the RNAi "security system" to turn off those genes.
The list of diseases in which this method is being tested is : Macular degeneration, Aids, Alzheimers, Arthritis, Cancer ... over 30 in all. Test macular degeneration subjects have regained vision with RNAi treatments but a child with a single cell gene abnormality that had RNAi treatments died as a result of gene treatments despite the belief this treatment was low risk.
The human genome was once beieved to have vast stretches of non functional DNA that was compared to a desert. I believe these areas are gene codes that are in our library but turned off until conditions might render them again useful.
While the department of Defense might want gene research to create the most ruthless blood thirsty soldier on earth, I believe that making ones enemies more peaceful, compliant and forgiving to be far more effective.
Afterall, it might spread ...
Peace, the final solution and most powerful weapon on Earth.