Genetically Modified Diseases: The Terrifying Future of Warfare

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Into the Shadows

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@IntotheShadows
@IntotheShadows Жыл бұрын
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@danielsantiagourtado3430
@danielsantiagourtado3430 Жыл бұрын
Love your work❤❤❤❤❤
@samwamm85
@samwamm85 Жыл бұрын
there was an attempt to release a deadly virus on my farm in Scotland. unfortunately for the perpatrator we are biologically immune to smallpox. this somehow caused an international incident requesting our execution. i wasn't aware that being immune to a deadly virus was a crime.
@grey7513
@grey7513 Жыл бұрын
I get you have to advertise, but claiming a VPN improves your privacy and security is just wrong.
@scottdoesntmatter4409
@scottdoesntmatter4409 Жыл бұрын
Uhm, Simon? You conveniently forgot something crucial. Viruses and bacteria tend to mutate rapidly and uncontrollably. This means that a bioengineered disease could easily lose its efficacy, or even wildly backfire. Lovely fearmongering you're sporting there. Don't do it again.
@archstanton6102
@archstanton6102 Жыл бұрын
​@@samwamm85is this s reference to a film. It is clearly fantasty.
@frtzkng
@frtzkng Жыл бұрын
Just so you know, with a VPN you're somewhat safe from being tracked - *until* your VPN provider decides to sell your data.
@Ass_of_Amalek
@Ass_of_Amalek Жыл бұрын
if they have thedata to sell. I have no idea what is or isn't credible, but probably most VPN providers do claim to not save individual customers' internet use data that could be sold.
@Jaysin412
@Jaysin412 Жыл бұрын
@@Ass_of_Amalek key word there.... claim...
@JJCanDes
@JJCanDes Жыл бұрын
I don't know how it works in other countries, but NordVPN admitted, that they will send the information they have on you to the government, if they ask them for it.
@TauGDS
@TauGDS Жыл бұрын
​@@Jaysin412you can actually verify it if you know what you're doing, and people have done so. Case in point, Nord actually had a breach several years back (before they finished moving to 100% owned servers) and there was basically no data released
@Brendan0114
@Brendan0114 Жыл бұрын
Mullvad vpn was recently raided by the Swiss police and they were left empty handed they didn’t have anything at all for them to even search, I don’t truly understand but Muddahar at SomeOrdinaryGamers posted a video about it a couple of weeks ago
@ATinyPlace
@ATinyPlace Жыл бұрын
I majored in Biotechnology and during a course titled Bioterrorism, out of the 26 students, 25 of them came to the conclusion during debates that the worst biological terror attack isn't a pathogen that targets humans but one that dismantles the agricultural industry in a given country.
@wendychavez5348
@wendychavez5348 11 ай бұрын
Sensible conclusion. That would be much more difficult to detect and trace, and with so many countries implementing sanctions on food lately I wonder if it's already being done. Yikes!
@ATinyPlace
@ATinyPlace 11 ай бұрын
@wendychavez5348 The USA would have to spend far more than their entire military defense budget into the biodefense sector to make the country slightly more secure against pathogens than what it currently is. This is due to the flexible and untraceable nature of genetic engineered pathogens. Look up the NBACC, National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan, NBAF (USDA), and all the money and effort it takes to run the programs and how those security measures were active during C*vid and the whole system failed in keeping the nation safe.
@oughv
@oughv 11 ай бұрын
Yeah because a pathogen that can end the human species is nothing compared to losing a food crop.
@SCP-173peanut
@SCP-173peanut 11 ай бұрын
Immagine spreading diseases like Mad Cow disease to animals
@dubuyajay9964
@dubuyajay9964 11 ай бұрын
Germs don't care about borders though. Mankind has learned nothing from the Black Death, Syphilis, The Spanish Flu, or the "Coof."
@tomduke1297
@tomduke1297 Жыл бұрын
everything mutates, so releasing any bioweapon is a massive gamble, it might be engineered to only target your enemy, but once its out there, there is no telling who it is going to target next.
@georgiamackinlay5706
@georgiamackinlay5706 9 ай бұрын
You'd have to have an antidote/preventative ready. Or they may not care if it gets the whole population and use it to control the masses
@bulgaria_681
@bulgaria_681 6 ай бұрын
If you are a mad man who has nothing to lose it won't matter
@BrianPseivaD
@BrianPseivaD Жыл бұрын
This all started with a sense of humour, a catapult and a sick poor villager in the Middle Ages. We’ve been throwing infectious sick people over castle walls for hundreds, possibly thousands of years.
@jonhall2274
@jonhall2274 Жыл бұрын
Multiple thousands of years is correct. 🙃
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
Actually it started with Myass
@gomahklawm4446
@gomahklawm4446 Жыл бұрын
We've....being the key word. Omly us...., the west, are willing to commit such atrocities. Proven time and time again. We're like a disease...
@charliethirteen3868
@charliethirteen3868 Жыл бұрын
Where I come from, it's sport... We call it Lob The Pukey Peasant. I'm from England, we are weird.
@chlorineismyperfume
@chlorineismyperfume Жыл бұрын
The visuals 😅 imagine having to front up for your civic duty as catapult fodder when you're down with a fever and flu. We humans may know the steps to infect our enemies, or our spouse at home, yet there was a collective tantrum about disease spread prevention methods in the latest pandemic.
@zachaliles
@zachaliles Жыл бұрын
Real question here. If there was a country or organization that had the technology to make this happen, what makes you think they'd let anyone know? We're constantly finding out that the military and such have been doing things decades before we even knew they were possible.
@Wokefolksuck
@Wokefolksuck Жыл бұрын
Are you not familiar with the ex soviet head scientist of bio weapons who defected to the west after he found out the USA had actually stopped making the stuff? He confirmed thousands of metric tons of anthrax, small pox, and marburg for certain had been produced under his watch. You think they really found and destroyed all of those weapons?
@post_ian94
@post_ian94 Жыл бұрын
This doesn't always happen, but thanks to the internet, whistleblowers have the potential to reach more people. Downside: most of them will potentially be taken as conspiracy theorists. Sometimes though, what humans do is more horrifying than the crazy shit they imagine.
@rhondasisco-cleveland2665
@rhondasisco-cleveland2665 Жыл бұрын
What do you think Covid was? It causes genetic mutations in some people, once you’ve “recovered” things could still be taking place. ✋🏼 long hauler.
@zachaliles
@zachaliles Жыл бұрын
It says there are three comments but I don't see any of them. What's going on?
@Genshinlmpact
@Genshinlmpact Жыл бұрын
@@zachaliles Bots, KZfaq is hiding them automatically, but not fully deleting them. Also well. C-19 most likely came from a lab leak, (no coincidence it originated right next to a lab of virology doing Gain of Function research). Interpret that however you wish.
@ganrimmonim
@ganrimmonim Жыл бұрын
An individually targeted bioweapon would be a bad idea, as the virus spread "harmlessly" though the population in search of its host there's a fair chance it could mutate on route.
@tinaherr3856
@tinaherr3856 7 ай бұрын
Yeah, even in fiction that has been a plot point (FoxDie from Metal Gear Solid)
@johnpatz8395
@johnpatz8395 Жыл бұрын
I’ve long said that nuclear and chemical weapons are far less scary that bio weapons, as unless they are used on a large scale, the death tolls will be fairly limited, but one minor lab leak at a bio lab could cause massive worldwide deaths
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
Well nuclear and some chemical too even on a small scale if you extrapolate the timeline out long enough
@TheSilmarillian
@TheSilmarillian Жыл бұрын
Or its deliberate release aka the con virus that the elites used as a social engineering tool enough said
@creativeideas012
@creativeideas012 Жыл бұрын
Especially when 'cured' with everything other than the actual curative treatment
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 11 ай бұрын
@@creativeideas012 what gender is your mother
@georgiamackinlay5706
@georgiamackinlay5706 9 ай бұрын
We've already experienced that in recent years
@AlldaylongRock
@AlldaylongRock 6 ай бұрын
As someone with a Biochemistry BSc and some interest in this topic and gaming, the most terrifying scenario i can come up is the scenario of how Days Gone's pandemic started. In the game, a researcher breaks into a lab, unknowingly infecting himself, and passing the virus to others during a convention. The virus was insanely infectious and could be transmitted through basically everything.. Air droplets, fomites, sexual contact, saliva... In the game, it's said that the virus quickly spread through the world because of returning convention participants using airports. Well, a bioterrorist could simply infect himself (in a suicide-bomber kind of thing), and just stroll into a busy international airport. In there, he could simply act in a way to maximize contagion. Cough on people. Touch everything. Use the toilets. Take a taxi and infect the driver. A virus with a large asymptomatic, but infectuous period would be optimal. By then, high lethality and severity could kick in, easily overwhelming hospitals.
@ProbablyNotLegit
@ProbablyNotLegit 6 ай бұрын
Massively underrated game, yeah essentially viral gene therapy is what made the freakers
@AlldaylongRock
@AlldaylongRock 6 ай бұрын
@@ProbablyNotLegit Yeah. My personal headcanon is that what Cloverdale wanted is what is seen in the true ending, but it ended up badly because the virus was incomplete. For me, THE «zombie» that is most likely/realistic. And the game itself was awesome on top. Loved the sciency bits about the Freakers sprinkled with the Nero storyline
@ignitionfrn2223
@ignitionfrn2223 Жыл бұрын
2:50 - Chapter 1 - The history of biowarfare 5:35 - Chapter 2 - DIT Gene editing 7:55 - Chapter 3 - Designer genes 9:45 - Chapter 4 - Binary biological warfare 11:05 - Chapter 5 - Stealth viruses 12:00 - Chapter 6 - Host swapping diseases 12:55 - Chapter 7 - Gene therapy 14:00 - Chapter 8 - Designer diseases 16:15 - Chapter 9 - What stands between us & a genetically modified war ?
@emeraldfinder5
@emeraldfinder5 Жыл бұрын
thanks.. Ignition [FR] n2?
@scottdoesntmatter4409
@scottdoesntmatter4409 Жыл бұрын
Uhm, Simon? You conveniently forgot something crucial. Viruses and bacteria tend to mutate rapidly and uncontrollably. This means that a bioengineered disease could easily lose its efficacy, or even wildly backfire. Lovely fearmongering you're sporting there. Don't do it again.
@someoneonyoutube6255
@someoneonyoutube6255 10 ай бұрын
2:49 - Chapter 1 - The history of biowarfare.
@Herootime-ii8eb
@Herootime-ii8eb 5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@josephjones4293
@josephjones4293 Жыл бұрын
Simon: “don’t write down your crimes” Also Simin: “here’s how you can assassinate someone without any trace back to you”
@k31than
@k31than Жыл бұрын
@9:20 I just find it almost unbelievable that people/humans are really that devious and can be that desperate to kill someone they'd create an incurable virus/disease without considering the risk/possibility that it can eventually become indiscriminate.
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
Dude …really…. I mean how old are you???? Do we live on the same planet or your joking and i just feed right into it ???? Right
@k31than
@k31than Жыл бұрын
@@jayjay-gl4fj Boy, you really took that word "unbelievable" quite literally, seriously, and perhaps even personally, didn't you?
@leakingamps2050
@leakingamps2050 Жыл бұрын
Need I remind you about the Cold War? The current political climate? Nukes? MAD? Russia trying to make a bioweapon from anthrax? Etc
@simplylethul
@simplylethul Жыл бұрын
​@@k31thanyou did say it, as if you were super shocked.
@k31than
@k31than Жыл бұрын
@@simplylethul 🤭 I sounded super shocked? Compared to my comment, am curious as to what you think about how he sounded in his reply. 😅
@duhnay
@duhnay Жыл бұрын
One of the most interesting books I've ever read about a disease originally created for biowarfare is called "Bitten" by Kris Newby. Absolutely fantastic and well-researched. Even congress is using this research to help create more effective laws about tick-borne diseases
@rochi_mochi_co
@rochi_mochi_co Жыл бұрын
I'm going to look it up! Thanks 👍🏿
@jwstevens123
@jwstevens123 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the reference, just purchased 😊
@partlycloudy7707
@partlycloudy7707 Жыл бұрын
Yea I hate this book. She makes half baked theories and searches for evidence to fit them.
@user-mf4xm2sf6v
@user-mf4xm2sf6v Жыл бұрын
UW Madison along with U Minnesota have already created 4 New Tick disease's and Deliberately put These Diseased Tick's around Wisconsin and northern Minnesota !! 😠😡 Wasn't that Nice of Those Stupid Fukn PiecesOfSh!t to use Us as an Experiment Platform 😡🤬
@chickensalad3535
@chickensalad3535 Жыл бұрын
​@@partlycloudy7707Could you explain further or link a source debunking these claims?
@kevinmcqueenie7420
@kevinmcqueenie7420 Жыл бұрын
I'm more and more convinced that we are our own Great Filter. We can't help ourselves. Our natural curiosity, crossed with those who wish to do harm, seems to make it inevitable we will do ourselves in at some point in the not too distant.
@ryanroberts1104
@ryanroberts1104 Жыл бұрын
Story time with Simon is always so much fun! "Today I found out" there are more horrible things than full nuclear war.......
@usonumabeach300
@usonumabeach300 Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure that an immune response will ever stop radiation sickness or a few thousand degrees of temperature deviation, especially with the scale of a "nuclear war." The reality is that borders can be shut and isolation enforced, something akin to what happens in the film Outbreak. Nuclear warheads are a bit harder to stop from throwing inordinate amounts of heat and radioactive fallout everywhere. I think it would be very, very difficult, if not impossible, for any human or group of humans to realistically conceive a more destructive event than 2 nuclear powers going hot, at least currently. I would venture that blowing up the moon, with nuclear weapons, is the closest, and I am fairly certain that there simply isn't even remotely enough material to make this implementable. Even if it were, it's still nuclear war, but with the added bonus of destroying ALL life on earth, guaranteed, as tidal forces would scour the planet of life. Every remotely conceivable event that would outstrip an exchange of nuclear weapons would still involve the large scale use of those very same weapons, and would be even more effective in making mutually assured destruction the eventuality, with a greater likelihood of making the planet uninhabitable relatively quickly. Life has survived viruses for as long as they have been around. Extremely virulent pathogens burn themselves out too quickly to spread effectively, and if (hell even in spite of) it ISN'T that lethal, evolutionary biology WILL overcome it. Immune responses to viruses and the like are a perpetual arms race. If it weren't, we wouldn't exist.
@scottdoesntmatter4409
@scottdoesntmatter4409 Жыл бұрын
Uhm, Simon? You conveniently forgot something crucial. Viruses and bacteria tend to mutate rapidly and uncontrollably. This means that a bioengineered disease could easily lose its efficacy, or even wildly backfire. Lovely fearmongering you're sporting there. Don't do it again.
@northleedspoppa
@northleedspoppa Жыл бұрын
Not really You can cure a disease you can't get a jab to stop being melted
@SCP-173peanut
@SCP-173peanut 11 ай бұрын
Try to play plauge Inc and defcon.
@lazydroidproductions1087
@lazydroidproductions1087 Жыл бұрын
Luckily, there is one minor issue that biological warfare might have and it’s that it’s effectively uncontrollable. It’s still incredibly difficult to actually make something more dangerous than it gets by evolving, if something is too deadly then it can’t actually spread because it kills everyone first, and most importantly, especially with viruses which are the types of pathogens that actually can spread fast enough to be an effective weapon: they mutate a lot. It’s even if you design them one way they won’t stay that way
@blackzero786
@blackzero786 Жыл бұрын
So something like 270+ Corona Virus Bat Variations?
@lazydroidproductions1087
@lazydroidproductions1087 Жыл бұрын
@@blackzero786 Yeah, something a little bit like that, and that is lower than most viruses. Coronaviruses are an uncommon type that actually have some form of correction capability to counteract them being so large for viruses and thus having much longer DNA (or RNA, I forget if coronaviruses are DNA or RNA viruses, im no immunologist myself). We were actually caught somewhat surprised by the rate of variation by COVID-19, but if there’s one thing you can count on in nature, it’s that you can count on nothing for certain
@nochannel1q2321
@nochannel1q2321 Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure where he got the idea that using explosives would kill a meaningful amount of the biological material. The USSR/Russia, the US, France and the UK have all developed many kinds of low-explosive ordnance for effective delivery of biological agents. The Army found that filling a light bulb with an innocuous bacteria and dropping it onto the tracks of the NY Subway made for a very effective distribution throughout all of NYC. Planes were developed, as well, that would just mist the weapons like a cropduster. It's very similar to the mechanism attached to helicopters during the Vietnam War to spray Agent Orange.
@lazydroidproductions1087
@lazydroidproductions1087 Жыл бұрын
@@nochannel1q2321 did you mean to respond to a different comment? I’m not sure where I mentioned explosives or talked about distribution of biological agents
@nochannel1q2321
@nochannel1q2321 Жыл бұрын
@@lazydroidproductions1087 I responded to your OP as it was closely related to the video content.
@vic5015
@vic5015 Жыл бұрын
Addituonally, the Soviet Union signing the bioweapons convention did not stop it from having a bioweapobs program, Biopreparat.
@gtRELIC
@gtRELIC Жыл бұрын
If you were a doctor your name would sound like a bond villain.. Dr Whistler
@robertwilloughby8050
@robertwilloughby8050 Жыл бұрын
Or, jokily, a Bond ally. Just imagine the fun Bond would have if he had to join forces with "Dr Whistler" - the one-liners would almost write themselves!
@Radioactivepaladin0703
@Radioactivepaladin0703 8 ай бұрын
The fact that humans go this far to harm each other says enough about us as species.
@craindrelescuillieres6629
@craindrelescuillieres6629 Жыл бұрын
Theres a whole episode of Fringe based exactly on the designer bioweapons spoken about.
@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462
@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Жыл бұрын
God imagine if one of these got out and started a world wide pandemic.
@SRC267
@SRC267 Жыл бұрын
2037
@cclayton70
@cclayton70 Жыл бұрын
Like Covid 19
@gregbors8364
@gregbors8364 Жыл бұрын
@@cclayton70that’d be a pretty crappy bio weapon considering that it only killed like one-half of one percent of the people it infected
@debbiep.allison263
@debbiep.allison263 Жыл бұрын
@@gregbors8364 the real killer is still on the loose ,slowly day by day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@gregbors8364
@gregbors8364 Жыл бұрын
@@debbiep.allison263 What? 🤷‍♂️
@TR41N_OF_THOU9HT
@TR41N_OF_THOU9HT Жыл бұрын
I love how creative humans get when it comes to destruction 👍. Innovation is an understatement.
@mothgames9466
@mothgames9466 Жыл бұрын
I saw you’d uploaded, read the title and said aloud “Ah perfect” At this point Simon you’re practically my baby’s dad as he recognises your voice, I discovered your channels last year when I was pregnant and now when I put your videos on my 4 month old gets excited 😂 don’t worry he doesn’t look at the screen, just listens to the soothing voice 😂
@fredblonder7850
@fredblonder7850 Жыл бұрын
Now Simon will be inspired to start a children’s channel.
@neuralnetwork17
@neuralnetwork17 Жыл бұрын
@@fredblonder7850 Why bother, when horrifying tales about weapons of mass destruction seem to do the trick just fine? 😆
@briandstephmoore4910
@briandstephmoore4910 Жыл бұрын
Until his first words are genocide or anthrax 🤣
@Black-Sun_Kaiser
@Black-Sun_Kaiser Жыл бұрын
​@@briandstephmoore4910hah. That made me chuckle.
@wendychavez5348
@wendychavez5348 11 ай бұрын
Today I Found Out how to father children with women I've never met!
@rsteegs9284
@rsteegs9284 Жыл бұрын
lucky for us that in order for specifically viruses to work they have to not only attach at a receptor site, but also be accepted by a cell! it would be very hard to find a receptor that only one particular ethnic group uniformly has while also having no other defense mechanisms. especially on the level of cell chemistry, we’re way more alike than we are different ❤
@keelo-byte
@keelo-byte Жыл бұрын
What if certain cultures / races / political groups etc were less inclined to choose to be vaccinated? Maybe you could influence an enemy population to be anti vax by a persistent disinfo campaign over few decades?
@NullHand
@NullHand Жыл бұрын
@@keelo-byte Yes, but what if that results in just making the target nation or population a more hardened enemy? By removing the gullible useful idiots from the populace?
@joearledge
@joearledge 11 ай бұрын
Close, but no cigar... MOST viruses require a receptor site and MOST enter the cell via endocytosis or similar actions... NOT ALL. The great thing about playing with viruses, is that they basically act as nano syringes, and if you choose the right one for the job, and you know what you're doing, you can load just about anything into them, most commonly genetic material. Usually, when playing with viruses, you can use the surface proteins(receptors) to your advantage to target certain cells. The cells you target can be broad or narrow, depending on what you want to do. But this is where the magic comes in. You can infect every living creature on earth with your creation, but if you did it correctly, only those with the genotype or other trait that you're targeting will be affected, all of the others just carry it and pass it along silently. We did experiments with these concepts in my biochem program. 2 strains of E-coli, 1 virus, make and insert an RNA strand, into the virus, that codes for the death of 1 strain but not the other... This can be used for good or evil or neutral purposes, just like a hammer...
@NullHand
@NullHand 11 ай бұрын
@@joearledge Eukaryotes without a cell wall (non-plants) tend to use endocytosis, so viruses exploit the receptors that can initiate this. It is an easy in. Like using a stolen keycard. Prokaryotes and plants don’t use endocytosis, and are usually packing armor. So their Viruses and phages have to "drill the lock".
@joearledge
@joearledge 11 ай бұрын
@@NullHand lol yep, you nailed it!
@AV9647-
@AV9647- Жыл бұрын
Never thought Simon could top the last video on doomsday scenario, but here it is!
@scottdoesntmatter4409
@scottdoesntmatter4409 Жыл бұрын
Uhm, Simon? You conveniently forgot something crucial. Viruses and bacteria tend to mutate rapidly and uncontrollably. This means that a bioengineered disease could easily lose its efficacy, or even wildly backfire. Lovely fearmongering you're sporting there. Don't do it again.
@atomicskull6405
@atomicskull6405 Жыл бұрын
How about a video on nuclear "contingencies" e.g. the UK's letters of last resort, Russia's Perimetr (aka "dead hand"), etc. The doomsday systems nations with nuclear arsenals have developed to ensure the nukes will still get launched even if the command structure to authorize them is already destroyed. (in the UK's case the sub commanders are pre authorized to launch if England goes quiet)
@moneybilla
@moneybilla Жыл бұрын
Perimeter *
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
I would watch a contingency’s video!!! Thank you for all the videos Simon
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
That’s wild af who said England was allowed to do that we need to have a chat the nukes these days aren’t real none of them we can’t have people shooting real nukes around how would we get the free labor from the poor there’s so many of them
@Caelia7
@Caelia7 Жыл бұрын
When we were children, we were afraid of the monster under the bed. Now that we are older, we know that we are those monsters.
@pmchad
@pmchad Жыл бұрын
r/im14andthisisdeep
@Caelia7
@Caelia7 Жыл бұрын
@pmchad4828 thanks, I'm here all week.
@doclewis8927
@doclewis8927 11 ай бұрын
Bats are reserviors for many, many diseases. That's why their systems are being studied to see if they can help humans also be less likely to die from certain diseases.
@Ass_of_Amalek
@Ass_of_Amalek Жыл бұрын
the terrifying presence of accidental lab leaks 👀
@new_age_citizen
@new_age_citizen Жыл бұрын
Yes, Accidental🤫
@Ass_of_Amalek
@Ass_of_Amalek Жыл бұрын
@@new_age_citizen yes, accidental. even if one decided for some strange reason to release a highly infectious not very deadly disease, rather than one that is very deadly but not very infectious so it can be used in a targeted way and not spread globally, you wouldn't do it in a giant city at the center of your own country, within walking distance of your country's main virology lab known for studying that group of viruses.
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
Accident is not real…. Things happen when things happen for a lot of different reasons but they just don’t happen
@markzuckergecko621
@markzuckergecko621 Жыл бұрын
And if it were intentional, they would probably want to make it seem accidental.
@Ass_of_Amalek
@Ass_of_Amalek Жыл бұрын
@@markzuckergecko621 no, they would want to make it seem natural, by releasing it within the natural range of such viruses, which they didn't.
@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115
@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Жыл бұрын
I bet many a civilization, not only on this planet, walked this same very path, and now it's not even a distan memory in a cryptic epic poem. *laughs in Fermi paradox*
@cindygr8ce
@cindygr8ce Жыл бұрын
Yep this is the stage. The nuclear age depended on an entire country deciding to end the world this will take only a few nutjobs with basic science no how to end humanity.
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
And all the ones on this planet in the past….
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
But no matter what happens to us our Golden disk on Voyager will go on into interstellar maybe even intergalactic space further than we could ever go for hundreds of billions of years if it’s lucky
@andy30765
@andy30765 Жыл бұрын
Tom Clancy's The Division games is a good fictional source of how an EPPP can turn our society upside down quickly
@augustopinochet.
@augustopinochet. Жыл бұрын
And Rainbow six 1 and the novel that was based off.
@tylerwilson4951
@tylerwilson4951 Жыл бұрын
Please don’t stop making videos. They are literally the only thing I have to live for right now.
@sw9881
@sw9881 Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget about grilled cheese, they’re also worth living for.
@SirHalifax
@SirHalifax Жыл бұрын
Dude. There's much more to life than Simon.
@Im_Gay_But_Straight
@Im_Gay_But_Straight Жыл бұрын
​@@sw9881not if u make them
@scottfraser706
@scottfraser706 8 ай бұрын
​@@sw9881grilled cheese with maple syrup and bacon. And a poutine on the side. You cant go worng with that combo
@scottfraser706
@scottfraser706 8 ай бұрын
Get a dog or a cat i did and it giving me more to look forward and live for also i started a food Forest witch also hive be something to look forward to and build 😀🙂😄
@mcguckin13
@mcguckin13 Жыл бұрын
Anyone else wish the Syphon Filter franchise was still going? ☣ 🎮
@isbestlizard
@isbestlizard Жыл бұрын
Lets ask ChatGPT to tell use the base sequence for airborne rabies :D
@cahntwhoat7351
@cahntwhoat7351 Жыл бұрын
Blackrock already did it. Catch up with the news
@amemooress6291
@amemooress6291 Жыл бұрын
😂
@30cal23
@30cal23 Жыл бұрын
Zomboid IRL? In project zomboid there is the airborne straine that kills and turns most of the people around and you play as the few that are immune to it, or with the susceptible mod you can play as the not so lucky folk wearing a mask constantly and worrying about any form of CQC
@xoan2107
@xoan2107 Жыл бұрын
Humanity it's only living being that works to destroy itself
@beeftec5862
@beeftec5862 Жыл бұрын
I think it may be a common theme in life across the universe; when you have the power of knowledge of the fundamentals of life there will always be one to spoil the party.
@xoan2107
@xoan2107 Жыл бұрын
@@beeftec5862 I totally agree with you and it's sad that's a reality
@naheleshiriki5496
@naheleshiriki5496 Жыл бұрын
No, not really. A lot of animal populations do the same thing. Simon even did an episode about how rats and mice were given an absolute utopia only for them to destroy each other for no freaking reason... then they all died.
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
There are lots of ways to think about that…every thing that lives has to eat something that lives to stay alive….
@xoan2107
@xoan2107 Жыл бұрын
​@@jayjay-gl4fjbut the human doesn't kill another human to eat..
@lanzknecht8599
@lanzknecht8599 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately anything that can be done, is done somewhere on this planet, regardlessly how dangerous it might be. 😟
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
And nobody wanted anyfuckingbody to do any of it!!!!!
@Lauren_C
@Lauren_C Жыл бұрын
Truly, the human mind is the strongest tool, and the deadliest weapon, that we possess. When brought to bear, there is no power, nor law of man, that can stop it.
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
No it’s done in China regardless of how dangerous it might be
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
@@Lauren_Cno a bioweapon is
@creativeideas012
@creativeideas012 Жыл бұрын
@@nothanks9503 so you haven't come across the months old news of a you-ess university lab developing the strongest strain yet?! Try searching on utube you might be able to find it
@MrChristianDT
@MrChristianDT Жыл бұрын
Well, between this, AI & mind reading tech, the future sounds virtually inhospitable for any groups of humans who don't like or trust one another.
@Jayjay-qe6um
@Jayjay-qe6um Жыл бұрын
So basically if we're not careful we might actually see a real life Zombie Apocalypse.
@harrisonbergeron9764
@harrisonbergeron9764 Жыл бұрын
What do you mean the Future of Warfare. Least we forget a two year lockdown.
@oteris2924
@oteris2924 Жыл бұрын
Future? I think that ship had sailed about 3 years ago.
@apocalypsator6
@apocalypsator6 Жыл бұрын
Humans are amazing. A cosmic horror waiting to be unleashed.
@TheSilmarillian
@TheSilmarillian Жыл бұрын
The cosmos will contain us me thinks but nicely put a cosmic horror waiting to be unleashed nice indeed
@scottfraser706
@scottfraser706 8 ай бұрын
Thats why we dont visit the moon anymore. The intergalactic federation keeps us contained 😅
@benjamingamache6441
@benjamingamache6441 Жыл бұрын
Captain Trips... coming to a less than secure bio-weapons lab near you!
@JimAllen-Persona
@JimAllen-Persona Жыл бұрын
Loved that book
@keelo-byte
@keelo-byte Жыл бұрын
The first 80% was great, but in true king style he botched the ending. Literally dues ex machina.
@darknight1220
@darknight1220 Жыл бұрын
Your part on genetically targeted bioweapons targeting a specific person or persons is a sub plot from the Metal Gear Solid series and the FoxDie virus implanted in Solid Snake to kill various people like the Darpa Chief, and some bad guys like Revolver Ocelot and Liquid Snake among others.
@TheRealness408
@TheRealness408 6 ай бұрын
I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a Foxdie reference.
@47f0
@47f0 Жыл бұрын
And the cause need not be malevolence. A common soil bacteria might be modified to break down cellulose for the production of biofuels, which would be a handy use for all of the high cellulose plant waste we produce every year - but if leaked into the wild might attack all plant material.
@Megan-sf5vf
@Megan-sf5vf Жыл бұрын
Another terrifying video to lose sleep over! Thank you, Simon!
@scottdoesntmatter4409
@scottdoesntmatter4409 Жыл бұрын
Uhm, Simon? You conveniently forgot something crucial. Viruses and bacteria tend to mutate rapidly and uncontrollably. This means that a bioengineered disease could easily lose its efficacy, or even wildly backfire. Lovely fearmongering you're sporting there. Don't do it again.
@fredblonder7850
@fredblonder7850 Жыл бұрын
Robert Heinlein wrote about targeted diseases in one of his stories back in the 1940s or 50s.
@harrisonmiller6475
@harrisonmiller6475 Жыл бұрын
Can you do an episode on the Orphanages in Romania during the communist era?
@daggaswiss
@daggaswiss Жыл бұрын
Please no.
@patrickhasachannel
@patrickhasachannel Жыл бұрын
Years of following and enjoying Simon's content and I am finally hearing the nearby construction clearly 😅😅
@keip4568
@keip4568 Жыл бұрын
Can I be generally modified to leave this world?
@schwarzer9523
@schwarzer9523 Жыл бұрын
I love you❤
@jrmckim
@jrmckim Жыл бұрын
Hurry and fix generally to genetically before the grammar police show up
@naheleshiriki5496
@naheleshiriki5496 Жыл бұрын
I mean I suppose, but you'd leave earth the same way that all of us do eventually.
@goatwarrior3570
@goatwarrior3570 11 ай бұрын
The really scary part is that anyone who raised the possibility that the disease was engineered in a lab would be shamed as a conspiracy nut, fined or in the cause of Australia, sent to an internment camp.
@SCP-173peanut
@SCP-173peanut 11 ай бұрын
Are you comparing the freaking corona to a bio weapon?
@thomasnunya1438
@thomasnunya1438 11 ай бұрын
⁠@@SCP-173peanutAre you going to shame him if he is?
@SCP-173peanut
@SCP-173peanut 11 ай бұрын
@@thomasnunya1438 no? I believe everyone should have an opinion im just disagreeing with him
@metalpuppet5798
@metalpuppet5798 10 ай бұрын
​@@thomasnunya1438 yes and we all should shame people who spread such ridiculous lies. The lab creation theory of Covid was literally debunked weeks into the pandemic. Its a simple mutation of the original SARS virus. Mutation always was a thing and unfortunately always will be a thing. No one is to blame for it.
@metalpuppet5798
@metalpuppet5798 10 ай бұрын
The lab creation theory of Covid was debunked weeks into the pandemic. Sars-Cov-2 is a natural mutation of the original SARS virus. Natural mutation just happens unfortunately. No one is to blame for that because its unstoppable. What the governments did against it was the only way to slow down the spread. Lockdowns etc are very much legal in such cases where literally everyone is in danger. There was no other way to react to it.
@drewishaf
@drewishaf Жыл бұрын
You have no idea how much I want to see a fully realistic (with ALL completely real analogues, including the bodies) recreation of the siege tactics where they would launch the dead/decaying corpses via siege machines (catapults and trebuchets) into a castle. I don't know why, but just the absurd, grotesque nature of it feels absolutely hilarious to me. I know that it wasn't intended that way, but you know for a fact that the dudes launching decaying corpses over castle walls would be laughing and saying "take THIS you sons of whores!"
@commentas3684
@commentas3684 6 ай бұрын
Bulletin of the atomic scientists thinks this is a myth.
@GordonHakkar
@GordonHakkar Жыл бұрын
Holy shit, there are at least 10 sci-fi book plots in this video
@schadenfreude5683
@schadenfreude5683 Жыл бұрын
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) has an excellent book on this exact subject! Highly recommended!
@thestevenjaywaymusic7775
@thestevenjaywaymusic7775 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this will happen. Bye, bye mankind. Or, maybe, that is the best thing to happen to planet earth. Give all the other millions of species a chance to live, unmolested by humans.
@markzuckergecko621
@markzuckergecko621 Жыл бұрын
I bet you're fun at parties.
@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj
@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj Жыл бұрын
​@@markzuckergecko621Hah! I know, right?
@yusavelli0448
@yusavelli0448 Жыл бұрын
It’s gonna be the best thing ever, I can not wait
@johnwolfen4243
@johnwolfen4243 Ай бұрын
The first rule of Bio weapons is have a cure before you deploy it. We've all seen the movies, it doesn't end well.
@Roy-cm1bh
@Roy-cm1bh 27 күн бұрын
Absolutely correct my friend, so so true! Too obvious isn’t it lol
@Adam-nv9zo
@Adam-nv9zo Жыл бұрын
Well, isn't that about a Beatrice.
@beeftec5862
@beeftec5862 Жыл бұрын
Great video Simon. Sad to see ultimately what is possible against other nations. Humanity's downfall could well be self destruction through technological progression
@Jaysin412
@Jaysin412 Жыл бұрын
Since we dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan, its been more self destruction through technological advancement, than it has anything else. That's why we have the doomsday clock, it's not for meteor impacts, or climate change, but when are we going to kill our own species?
@naheleshiriki5496
@naheleshiriki5496 Жыл бұрын
Oh it most definitely is because no matter how much we technologically progress evolution wise we're still the same stupid monkeys making the same stupid mistakes and being super self-destructive like every other animal species on the planet.
@markzuckergecko621
@markzuckergecko621 Жыл бұрын
I was at McDonald's the other day and they couldn't take my order because the computers were down. I told them that cheeseburgers and fries predate the internet by quite some time, the girl at the counter was baffled, she had no idea what I was talking about🤣
@Shadow__133
@Shadow__133 Жыл бұрын
@@markzuckergecko621Imagine today's employees taking orders and pay with pen and paper 😂
@user-mf4xm2sf6v
@user-mf4xm2sf6v Жыл бұрын
It will Be !
@davidlloyd3116
@davidlloyd3116 Жыл бұрын
I remember speaking to a bioweapons microbiologist in Moscow years ago. He told me the USSR managed to weaponise Tuluraemia, a waterborne organism, but still used against the Taliban. It killed all their donkeys and mules, and they now rely on motorbikes to carry weapons.
@creativeideas012
@creativeideas012 Жыл бұрын
Weren't their men being transported in large lorries as streamed on news channels?!
@SCP-173peanut
@SCP-173peanut 11 ай бұрын
A bio-weapon microbiologist?
@aleksaantonijevic8308
@aleksaantonijevic8308 Жыл бұрын
Great video simon, question any new biograhic video coming out?
@magus104
@magus104 Жыл бұрын
Recording this episode when you sound a little sick... You really go above and beyond
@briandstephmoore4910
@briandstephmoore4910 Жыл бұрын
You mean like cough cough
@pandahsykes602
@pandahsykes602 Жыл бұрын
Genetically modified disease - kind of like Covid 😂
@metalpuppet5798
@metalpuppet5798 Жыл бұрын
Just not at all. Sars-Cov-2 is a simple natural mutation of the original SARS virus. The lab theory was debunked weeks into the pandemic.
@anonymousrex5207
@anonymousrex5207 Жыл бұрын
I'll definitely sleep better tonight... thanks Simon!
@nerd4685
@nerd4685 Жыл бұрын
Stuff like this shows how much work and creativity people put into killing each other
@gregbon7589
@gregbon7589 Жыл бұрын
Cure The Genophage, Let The Krogans Live
@adenkyramud5005
@adenkyramud5005 Жыл бұрын
I was searching for this comment lmao
@qjames0077
@qjames0077 Жыл бұрын
Covid comments incoming:
@astonrichardson5288
@astonrichardson5288 Жыл бұрын
Hi Simon! When will the websites be updated so we can read the articles again?
@robertwilloughby8050
@robertwilloughby8050 Жыл бұрын
Think about this scenario. An actor releases a pretty much non-fatal but very fast spreading disease (5th disease is a favourite for this) that has no vaccine or antibiotic. But being mostly non-fatal, now you have a group of very annoyed (and rather unwell people) who are now against those who failed to protect them. So, rather than killing, wouldn't an aggressor be better to be "illing"?
@KodakYarr
@KodakYarr Жыл бұрын
Love how Simon and other creators casually promotes internet piracy using VPNs lol
@Pavlos_Charalambous
@Pavlos_Charalambous Жыл бұрын
Every day passes we are coming closer and closer to a zombie apocalypse 😏
@crashwave299
@crashwave299 Жыл бұрын
But which type it will be:night of the living dead slow moving zombies,wwz zombies that can RUN like psychopaths and CLIMB one another,CoD zombies that can use guns and reload?
@naheleshiriki5496
@naheleshiriki5496 Жыл бұрын
Best case scenario we get the mushroom people from the last of us.
@new_age_citizen
@new_age_citizen Жыл бұрын
Crazy zombies that can run and not feel pain, but could still be killed like a regular human.
@crashwave299
@crashwave299 Жыл бұрын
@@naheleshiriki5496 at least those cant see you but can hear you
@crashwave299
@crashwave299 Жыл бұрын
@@new_age_citizen if you had good aim you can snipe those bastards IF they are not in swarms
@titaniumteddybear
@titaniumteddybear Жыл бұрын
OMG! It's been ages since I stumbled across another part of the Simon Whistler cinematic universe ^_^
@rashedusman9717
@rashedusman9717 Жыл бұрын
The problem with biological weapons are the unforseen mutations that can cause them to backfire. For that reason militaries and even terrorist organisations don't really think about using them.
@memyself898
@memyself898 Жыл бұрын
for now yes. But if they can figure out a way to somehow target a specific people, or make their own people immune it could be devastating. I'm not smart enough to know if this is science fiction or something that actually may be possible one day, but nothing really surprises me anymore.
@rashedusman9717
@rashedusman9717 Жыл бұрын
@@memyself898 Maybe they figured it out how to make certain modifications to pathogens, but there is a huge risk for such microorganisms to mutate and attack unintended targets. Living organisms are not a joke. It's enough to think about all the invasive species that where introduced to certain habitats,some accidentaly, some with the intention of combating pests. Or in the case of flue virus that constantly mutates and new vaccines must be prepared every year.
@pieterveenders9793
@pieterveenders9793 Жыл бұрын
That's not really true, only RNA virusses are notoriously unstable mutation wise, however DNA virusses (such as smallpox) and bacteria are fairly stable. Your last sentence is definitely incorrect, militaries don't think about using them because they're banned internationally and they could suffer serious consequences even for researching them, let alone stockpiling or even worse actually using them. And terrorists definitely do think about using them, we've just been lucky thus far that none of them had the intelligence, funding, materials, etc needed for producing them. For example, Aum Shinrikyo mentioned in this video tried to release bacillus anthracis but failed to achieve any effects not because of the weather as Simon incorrectly stated, but because they had used the vaccine strain acquired from a veterinarian, as it was the only strain that was somewhat easy to get. And mind you Aum Shinrikyo had vast resources of up to €100 million and was comprised of many hundreds or even thousands of highly educated members, after all they succesfully managed to produce sarin nerve agent in the end. Both Al-Qaida and IS tried to acquire and unleash bioweapons too but thankfully have been too dumb to develop them.
@commentas3684
@commentas3684 6 ай бұрын
But you could spread existing diseases e.g. measles to first nations people or bubonic plague from a rural area within a country to a city in the same country. We already use denial of treatment as a weapon e.g. Israel targeting COVID vaccination centers in Palestine, the US targeting a pharmaceutical company in Sudan or disallowing charities from delivering polio vaccine in Afghanistan
@rashedusman9717
@rashedusman9717 6 ай бұрын
@@commentas3684 That's not really what the video was about, but yes, it's definately something that it's used to make target populations lives more miserable. Denying treatment and prevention can be just as bad as spreading deseases.
@kcrichton7485
@kcrichton7485 Жыл бұрын
We learned this in 2020...
@cdrew36
@cdrew36 Жыл бұрын
🎉❤ I absolutely love the idea of this. Thanks!
@jrmckim
@jrmckim Жыл бұрын
Laughs in psychopath*
@mooseman3727
@mooseman3727 Жыл бұрын
Max (Sepultura) said it best and said it decades ago. “Biotech is godzilla.”
@parable2788
@parable2788 Жыл бұрын
Sadly I can totally see this becoming a reality in the near future :(. Stay safe everyone.
@sorryplease5071
@sorryplease5071 Жыл бұрын
Maybe we’ll get lucky and the nano machines will kill us first.
@TlD-dg6ug
@TlD-dg6ug Жыл бұрын
It already has, COVID 19
@parable2788
@parable2788 Жыл бұрын
@@TlD-dg6ug I mean something more detrimental.
@user-vq9tq1wm3j
@user-vq9tq1wm3j Жыл бұрын
Bro thinks telling people on KZfaq to stay safe will keep 80iq Europeans from licking windows
@parable2788
@parable2788 Жыл бұрын
@@user-vq9tq1wm3j it’s the thought that counts right :D
@TheGrinningViking
@TheGrinningViking Жыл бұрын
If the US followed international law everyone involved in gain of function research, bioweapons research, would be executed. It would set a very good precident. We haven't been the good guys for a while though.
@naheleshiriki5496
@naheleshiriki5496 Жыл бұрын
We stopped being the good guys after like world war II, maybe even world war l. Considering how world war II was in part started by us blaming Germany for everything the first time around so they became even worse. Now anytime the US invades a country for democracy or anything.. they botch it worse than celebrity plastic surgery.
@nochannel1q2321
@nochannel1q2321 Жыл бұрын
We signed the Bio Chemical Weapons Convention in the seventies and immediately stopped chemical weapons product and we're still not even close to having gotten rid of our chemical stockpile. USAMRIID (Army CDC basically) actively manipulates and develops biological weapons. They claim it's done solely to develop more sophisticated vaccines and antibiotics, but the fact remains that the only thing that differentiates that from an active biological weapons program is the quantity of material crated. I remember reading a terribly written book that described Iran beginning a biological attack on the US by sending about a dozen people, each with a device that looked like a can of shaving cream, to cities with massive conventions. They then activated the devices after finding places where they wouldn't be found and after a five or ten minute delay for the person to get clear the biological weapon was misted into the convention area. During the cleanup of the convention the empty shaving cream can would be discarded by cleaners and all of the people exposed would be moving around inside the country and their home countries and infecting many other people. That's fairly realistic and would require the biological material, ball mills to render the powder into a fine enough form to allow it to enter the deepest part of the lungs, then some clever packaging and basically a squirt top, a reservoir of material and a compressed gas canister at the bottom to propel the weapon into the air. Scarily realistic.
@raybod1775
@raybod1775 5 ай бұрын
Fauci funded gain of function research in a certain city in C h i n a where a C…. virus spread out into the world.
@liamo2463
@liamo2463 Жыл бұрын
This is one of the best bedtime story channels
@lilesmw
@lilesmw Жыл бұрын
Love the new intro!!
@maxdanielj
@maxdanielj Жыл бұрын
Airborne rabies 😮
@paulovinanti9187
@paulovinanti9187 Жыл бұрын
No, hemorrhagic fevers.
@michaelmayhem350
@michaelmayhem350 Жыл бұрын
Here's to hoping this happens sooner rather than later so the rest of the planet can try to survive climate change
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
True, true….. ya its a different way of looking at it…. Hope i don’t get sick tho …..butt iv been pretty healthy so fuck it bring it on 🙂
@markzuckergecko621
@markzuckergecko621 Жыл бұрын
Good lord you people are depressing. It's amazing how easy it is to manipulate stupid people into hating themselves.
@mustangcody
@mustangcody Жыл бұрын
Climate change has happened before, its nothing new to the planet, we're just accelerating the date.
@zephie531
@zephie531 Жыл бұрын
Well unfortunately we might have tipped the scales far enough that the albedo (basically the proportion of light and heat that’s reflected instead of absorbed) of the Earth is low enough that even if humans all disappeared climate change would carry on anyway. Not to mention the whole trapped methane thing. The Earth is pretty good at fixing itself but it takes a while and would probably get worse before it gets better.
@buinghiathuan4595
@buinghiathuan4595 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Simon, what a wonderful video to start a day 😂
@soundslike8454
@soundslike8454 24 күн бұрын
The E. Coli Kit made me spit my drink out.... that is so insane given e coli has such issues with resistance already. I cannot believe out of everything they could have done to teach people how to irresponsibly play around with genetics they chose "lets contribute to bringing about a doomsday situation just a bit faster shall we" kits.
@ajmijangos925
@ajmijangos925 Жыл бұрын
as a Indigenous person, I don’t know why, but this fucking scares me. My government literally want my people gone and they probably wouldn’t think twice about doing this.
@usefulcrackhead2485
@usefulcrackhead2485 Жыл бұрын
Imagine if a drug compnay bio-enginered a weapon,discovered the cure,then released it on the worlds population. You' basically have the entire species hostage
@paulovinanti9187
@paulovinanti9187 Жыл бұрын
That is how they make vaccines. Take the germ, weaponize it, take it apart, see how it works and make a vaccine against it.
@nothanks9503
@nothanks9503 Жыл бұрын
That is what happened jk lol
@usefulcrackhead2485
@usefulcrackhead2485 Жыл бұрын
@@nothanks9503 LMAO if COVID was their secret weapon they didn't think it out enough. Thing was basically a bad flu/Pneumonia
@myrlyn1250
@myrlyn1250 Жыл бұрын
Or the plot to Mission Impossible 2...
@usefulcrackhead2485
@usefulcrackhead2485 Жыл бұрын
@@myrlyn1250 Never watched it.
@russellfitzpatrick503
@russellfitzpatrick503 Жыл бұрын
There is a rgeory, amonst astrophysisists, of a 'great filter' (whic is one of the reasons why we haven't been able to see signs of civilisations across the galaxies); this is that developing civilisations encounter a particular barrier which prevents development into a space-faring race (or wipes them out before they reach that stage).. When you watch this video, and most others of this nature, you get the horrifying impression that we are hurtling rowards this point ourselves
@JDUK71
@JDUK71 Жыл бұрын
Well... that cheered me up no end.
@IKilledEarl
@IKilledEarl Жыл бұрын
This is the main plot point of Dan Brown's book, "Inferno". [Spoiler alert] I thought it was an excellent solution to Earth's human overpopulation problem (as long as it remains completely random, that is... I'd never advocate for targeted sterilization of any specific group as all humans generally suck equally, so isolating a certain population is a ridiculous concept to me). Although if we fixed the broken education system in the US and other countries (which would also decrease the rates of poverty, religiously, and ignorance--all of which perpetuates high birth rates), there would be no need for a biological weapon like the one proposed in the book (although the fancy super cootie would be much faster). I have no doubt we'll find a clever and abhorrent biological method of mass destruction that will result in our ultimate demise. It's just a matter of time and hubris. The best and worst of humanity can often be found smeared inside of a petri dish.
@jayjay-gl4fj
@jayjay-gl4fj Жыл бұрын
The problem is not to many people in the world …humans are awesome there is nothing we can’t figure out ….the problem is stupid fucking people that think they are smart…..just because you can do something don’t mean you go ahead and do it
@astreaward6651
@astreaward6651 Жыл бұрын
"The Cobra Event" by Richard Preston sounds quite similar to this, too. That was back in the 1990s, I think. Biowarfare has been a concern for decades. It's just the hypothesized methods that change. Yes, we're developing new tech all the time. But with new tech comes new roadblocks, too. I'll start worrying about it when verified evidence of its use is presented. I agree that fixing our education system would be a positive move. Especially to counter the impact of rampant religiosity and its hyper-fearmongering. Watching this video didn't necessarily horrify me. Watching "Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets" did.
@IKilledEarl
@IKilledEarl Жыл бұрын
@@astreaward6651 Holy crap, me too. In Shiny Happy People when they were talking about the IBLP pushing their "curriculum" into prisons and law enforcement training, my blood ran cold. Neo-fascist Christian Nationalism disguised as soft-spoken saccharine moral majority advocates popping out spawn every year for a decade? You can most certainly miss me with that shit. We've been killing each other with bioweapons since some caveman poked a poison dart frog with a stick and accidentally poked that same stick in his friend's eye. The caveman's homeboy didn't learn anything, but I bet our hypothetical primative amphibian assaulter did. Smallpox blankets, plague-infested corpses catapulted over castle walls, arrows tipped with snake venom, anthrax saboteurs sending contaminated mail in both world wars... it's nothing new. That being said, naturally evolving super cooties do scare the bejeebus out of me. A man-made cutie would most likely be created in tandem with an antidote. To do otherwise would be a level of stupidity and pathological hubris I can't begin to fathom. But we don't know what kind of fresh hell has been frozen under Siberian permafrost for a millenia. As the ice melts, all those newly thawed microorganisms will be born into a world where nothing alive today would have ever experienced them--a myriad of helpless immune systems to infect and conquer. No fucking thank you. Mega-corporations better hurry up and start hugging trees because our planet will kill us way before we have time to invent something that'll kill us instead.
@augustopinochet.
@augustopinochet. Жыл бұрын
And don't forget about Rainbow 6 the novel
@LL-yt7xv
@LL-yt7xv Жыл бұрын
Sleep tight! Don't let the bed bug bite!
@evantambolang3052
@evantambolang3052 Жыл бұрын
This whole topic is just like a mix between Resident Evil and Metal Gear all over it.
@Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots
@Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots Жыл бұрын
I was looking for a comment like this lol
@liamwinter4512
@liamwinter4512 Жыл бұрын
All these people getting gas lit by 3D gun manufacturing when this is actively being done.
@jormungand72
@jormungand72 Жыл бұрын
thanks Fauci for funding (with taxpayer money) Chinese labs to do just this..
@keelo-byte
@keelo-byte Жыл бұрын
I thought it was "just the flu" ?
@wandilemsomi
@wandilemsomi 3 ай бұрын
South Africa had a BIO Weapon's program called Project Coast... this all sounds like an operation call "The Black Bomb".
@JimAllen-Persona
@JimAllen-Persona Жыл бұрын
I’m thinking about Karellen in Childhoods End talking about the “powers that science had rashly given you”.
@trickshotcandy2495
@trickshotcandy2495 Жыл бұрын
Simon, were they drilling again while you recorded this? Either that, or I'm hearing things. Also, thanks for the nightmare fuel. Holy crap!
@benjaminchute1602
@benjaminchute1602 Жыл бұрын
So I’m not the only one who heard that lol
@trickshotcandy2495
@trickshotcandy2495 Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminchute1602 I think they are looking for a safe, but haven't been able to find it. Yet.
@UmatsuObossa
@UmatsuObossa Жыл бұрын
"Why should you care if the govt has your DNA if you're not a criminal, lolololol" ....yeah....this is why.
@MistaLiir
@MistaLiir Жыл бұрын
Why is this magnificent man, not on National Geographic or some other TV Channel?! .. you are brilliant Simon, simply BRILLIANT!
@forestspirit-ql4nv
@forestspirit-ql4nv 9 ай бұрын
He's too chill, kicking back in a chair, it would make the bigwigs burst a blood vessel
@MistaLiir
@MistaLiir 9 ай бұрын
@@forestspirit-ql4nv But that is what makes him so good.. he captivates people with his calmness and knowledge!
@forestspirit-ql4nv
@forestspirit-ql4nv 9 ай бұрын
@@MistaLiir 100% but based on the track record of these shows they'll try and make him into something he's not because they think they know best
@MistaLiir
@MistaLiir 9 ай бұрын
@@forestspirit-ql4nv Yeah, i see your point.. maybe this is for the better.. i mean, KZfaq.. not changing him..
@katthawthorne1027
@katthawthorne1027 Жыл бұрын
Genetically modifying diseases. Do you want Kellis-Amberlee? Because that's how you get Kellis-Amberlee.
@REIN-carnation
@REIN-carnation 11 ай бұрын
Gotta say, it’s really weird seeing a narrator for a KZfaq channel that makes pretty dark content also narrate the sponsors and get kinda excited over them…idk, hearing him use the term “big brain” just makes me smile
@HyBr1dRaNg3r
@HyBr1dRaNg3r Жыл бұрын
I’ve been terrified of this stuff since reading Demon in the Freezer in the early 2000s😳
@nochannel1q2321
@nochannel1q2321 Жыл бұрын
Excellent book. The guy who defected near the end of the Cold War who ran Biopreparat wrote his own book about his work inside the program. I forget the name of author of Demon in the Freezer, but they have done a couple of fiction books that are pretty good too.
@HyBr1dRaNg3r
@HyBr1dRaNg3r Жыл бұрын
@@nochannel1q2321 Richard Preston was the author, he also wrote The Hot Zone, which was also a great book(on Ebola)…I believe it is Ken Alibek that was the Soviet defector. Lol yeah knowing about the biopreperat from the early-mid 00’s was pretty scary…Also as soon as Covid hit, was kind of thinking “who tf is editing viruses and letting them leak?!”
@HyBr1dRaNg3r
@HyBr1dRaNg3r Жыл бұрын
@@nochannel1q2321 Blackpox was also nightmare fuel😰
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