>George Mason University’s Gregory D. Koblentz says, “Biological warfare favors the attacker.” One possible use of synthetic bioweapons would be to neutralize a ship or task force preemptively, before any active conflict, incapacitating a crew instead of killing it.
>A tailored incubation period or high presymptomatic transmission can be a matter of planning rather than luck. Programmed obsolescence, by which a disease dies after a set number of generations or fails to transmit in nontarget environmental conditions, can protect the attacker. Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Senior Colonel Guo Ji-Wei refers to this effect as “multiple vulneration,” the idea that overlapping biological effects can aid targeting.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/june/synthetic-bioweapons-are-coming
I told you guys this was possible and most of you said it was impossible:
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/57163171/#q57164357
Are you ready to accept that it's a real threat now?
archived post is about affecting a race/ethnicity, what youve linked is non-targeted, which is obviously possible
as for bioweapons, it is impossible to make a virus that targets a specific group of people becuse of how viruses interact with cells - we all look the same to a virus - but it is theoretically possible to make a virus that is more lethal to people with a specific mutation - like blue eyes - its just that at that point youre either blasting at multiple countries/ethnic groups/races because youve made it act too slow and its going to mutate + some people will resist it anyway, or youve made it act too fast and its going to be contained and do little damage
Only 1-2% of the human race has blue eyes and they're almost entirely in NATO countries. An additional 1-2% has gray, green, and hazel eyes: these people are almost entirely in NATO countries and Russia.
East Asian countries targeting non-brown eyed competitors find serious efficacy at relatively low cost.
more lethal to one does not mean non-lethal to other
again, it depends on how fast acting it is - if too fast, it will do too little for anyone to bother, if too slow, they dna nuked themselves + there always will be people that are more resistant to a virus
if you want to go that route its better to just target crops/farm animals in a region rather than people in that region
selecting for an EDAR allele is simpler and more effective to target asians. eye colour is polygenic enough to make life difficult.
Read the fucking post you reply to before vomiting forth your drivel
Shut the fuck up Chang
what makes you think i play ping pong, mutt?
>m-mutt!
im from eeu tho? Why are you mad? Cause ive used blue eyes as an example of a mutation? Are you autistic on top of being a mutt?
>eeu
what did he mean by this?
eastern-eu
stop feeding the poltard
>Engineer virus to express it's own gRNA and Cas9
>Target the gRNA to a conserved sequence that's only present in race x
Congrats, you now have a virus that inserts random mutations in the genome of race x, giving them cancer/making them sterile
youd blast like a third of the planet tho
>a viral gRNA
>conserved
>only present in race x
anon are you getting enough sleep
We should have nuked the communist chinks back to the stone age during the Korean war. I fear not doing so will prove to be a very grave mistake.
Now we can just wave our progress pride flags at them and watch as they cower from our hideous diverse bodies
of course it's possible, the human body and brains is just a PC to hack
how viable that would be i dunno
Launching a biological attack seems like a great way to get your country erased, especially if you've been tinkering with it's genetics. Given current circumstances I think much of the world is pretty jumpy regarding viral weapons
feds fear bioengineered pathogens more than almost everything else. this is one of those areas where the current status quo is similar to the situation the US found themselves in with some 20th century nuke projects, where the tech isn't pursued because it's scarily plausible, and to build offensive weaponry with it would be to invite escalation from adversaries for which there's no satisfactory countermeasure.
the problem at hand is that the CCP is descended from mao, who glibly endorsed losing 50% of the planet's population, not khrushchev, who recoiled in horror from hearing him say that.
It tickles me that the Soviets thought China was bug fuck shit insane over that and it caused them to feel goosebumps. The Soviets, right after the horrors of WW2 with Stalin and Hitler. Of course, looking at what China turned into and is turning into under Xi...
t. speaks to children of tuhao
i mean, they were that unhinged and they remain so
>Remain
I'd say thanks to social media and state propagandists that there's a more hardcore cadre of nutters than the party loyal of the past. Resembles a bit of Russian society when it comes to the hardcore ziggers in a way.
and after they themselves had done crazy shit like lysenkoism, ironically
You don't even have to target people. If someone were to enhance one of the common viruses that attacks corn or soibeans deploying it in middle America would only involve taking a road trip and hopping the fence along the miles and miles of unsupervised farmland and spritzing it on some scratched plant leaves/stalks or burying it in the soil at the base of some plants. The economic damage could be massive.
Why do you think the US prioritizes food exports? It's a great way to entice your enemies not to target your agriculture
A fair point but you assume a rational actor would be the potential attacker in that scenario. I know from firsthand experience that there are plenty of academic labs studying agricultural viruses looking for cures and enough of them are poorly supervised enough that a skilled and motivated individual could tweak one to be more dangerous.
Yes, but you can honestly say this about most things. All it would take is one asshole in the army stationed in Poland to fire a HIMARS into Russia and cause a war. All it would take is one revolutionary to sabotage the Three Gorges Dam and potentially kill millions. All it would take is three friends with a stick of dynamite to take down the entire Eastern US power grid. The reason these things don't happen all the time is because it's alot easier to say what would be possible to happen than it is to actually execute it.
Fair.
>A fair point but you assume a rational actor would be the potential attacker in that scenario. I know from firsthand experience that there are plenty of academic labs studying agricultural viruses looking for cures and enough of them are poorly supervised enough that a skilled and motivated individual could tweak one to be more dangerous.
those scientists should be put to hung by their entrails and their corpses paraded throughout the cities, inshallah
I worked for a few of them and I sort of agree. The most useful stuff I got from a rotation in one of their labs was a few plates and some silverware that were left in the cubicle I was assigned next to the lab.
>Are you ready to accept that it's a real threat now?
It was always a threat. A nation that develops a deadly contagious virus and a vaccine to it can wipe the entire planet and rule over what remains.
"Synthetic Bioweapons" makes me think of like, synthetic humans that are weapons - like imagine being able to 3D print synth women that are filled with explosive goo, able to bypass any ordinary detection procedures and seduce their enemies before exploding
wasn't that the plot of Iron Man 3?
I don't know, I never watched that. I'm sure it's been done in a few things though. Mezzo Forte has fembots that can explode.
Frog blast the vent core!
>Programmed obsolescence, by which a disease dies after a set number of generations or fails to transmit in nontarget environmental conditions, can protect the attacker.
I am pretty sure I've seen this exact movie plot at least a dozen times.
Can we please nuke China already?
Just make it a matter of doctrine that any confirmed biological attack will result in the activation of every single nuclear weapon we have, with a stated and explicit goal of "total extermination of your population," with the further understanding that overseas tourists, businessmen, rootless cosmopolitans, etc. will be put in extermination camps.