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hm...
So there's this game I enjoy. It's called Plague, Inc. You play as a pathogen of some kind - virus, fungus, bacterium, etc - and try to destroy humanity. My strategy tends to be pretty simple: get as infectious as I can, infect nearly all the world, then become as lethal as I can in a hurry. As with any game, this works better for some disease types than for others.
One disease type is a completely fictional "Neurax Worm". It's a parasitic worm that lives in the human brain and can control thought. With this puppy, I can completely enslave humanity in about a year and a half (game time).
The game comes with several Official Scenarios. Things like "Can you make the black death kill everyone this time?" or "Can you still kill everyone if countries are paranoid and the land borders start out closed?". You can also play in free mode at varying levels of difficulty.
Why bring this up?
One of the Official Scenarios is to play an ancient virus recently thawed from the Siberian permafrost. A giant virus used to cold conditions, you have to repair the DNA and evolve it to be infectious to modern humans.
Guess what happened this week? Scientists found a giant virus in the Siberian permafrost and are planning on resurrecting it to study. http://www.livescience.com/43800-giant-virus-found-permafrost.html
Just for giggles, I pulled up that scenario last night and played through it. Yep, I can destroy humanity with this virus. That's...not entirely reassuring.
One disease type is a completely fictional "Neurax Worm". It's a parasitic worm that lives in the human brain and can control thought. With this puppy, I can completely enslave humanity in about a year and a half (game time).
The game comes with several Official Scenarios. Things like "Can you make the black death kill everyone this time?" or "Can you still kill everyone if countries are paranoid and the land borders start out closed?". You can also play in free mode at varying levels of difficulty.
Why bring this up?
One of the Official Scenarios is to play an ancient virus recently thawed from the Siberian permafrost. A giant virus used to cold conditions, you have to repair the DNA and evolve it to be infectious to modern humans.
Guess what happened this week? Scientists found a giant virus in the Siberian permafrost and are planning on resurrecting it to study. http://www.livescience.com/43800-giant-virus-found-permafrost.html
Just for giggles, I pulled up that scenario last night and played through it. Yep, I can destroy humanity with this virus. That's...not entirely reassuring.