All this makes me wonder if breathing the very Oxygen we need will be what kills us. After all lets not forget all the Micro Organisums floating around.
'I've heard they cause cancerous brain tumors'- everything supposedly gives you cancer nowadays. Like sneezing. That's bad. I dont want to die in a week's time- I'm only 18. Maybe I should look at my list of things to before I die... *gets out list* damm; Number One; stay in bed for 8 days.....
Being born has a better than 94% probability of being fatal, and that's assuming that those now alive will live forever. (Using this site to estimate the number of people who have ever lived to be upwards of 100 trillion)
Sadly thats the one thing we can be certain of and no cure as yet has been dicscovered. And thats ageing. However I am a Highlander so I'm immortal.
Hmmm... I say fight. *Throws out rapiers, puts on exciting music* Pessimistic? I suppose so, but then again how can one have a opimistic approach to bird flu? 'Well, less birds I suppose, annoying little buggers.'
In the science fiction novels, Darwin’s Radio and Darwin’s Children, Greg Bear explores the idea that viruses and plasmids are actually extracorporeal means of communication between individual organisms, just as we have internal messengers which operate from cell to cell. He takes his idea from the fact that current research is showing that a huge portion of the ‘junk DNA’ in our chromosomes may very well be bits of virus from plagues in the past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_Radio
That's a great thought. 'Do you know you may contain old bits of plague in your DNA?' Definitley my new chat up line.
