Friday, September 20, 2013

What We're Watching

"Exploring the possibility of a deadly virus from space wreaking havoc on Earth after reaching the planet through aircraft or comets."

We're back to comets as bad omens spreading ill humours?

4 comments:

Weird Dave said...

Sir Fred Hoyle thought of it first.

Also Andromeda Strain.

Weird Dave said...

So did my comment get eaten by bugger or have I finally been banned?

M. Bouffant said...

Synchronicity Editor Notes:
Hoyle's fellow space cadet Chandra Wickramasinghe was on that very program.

No effing idea why a link to Sir Fred would have been trapped; Bugger's been quite buggy lately. We'll try to pay attention.

We're banned at The Daily Caller for some reason. (Probably "hell" or "damn.")

Weird Dave said...

We're banned at The Daily Caller for some reason.

Isn't that sorta a good thing?

And I have heard (though I have no idea if it's really true) that some fungus spoors are light enough to float to the top of the atmosphere, durable enough to survive the vacuum and hard radiation of space, and long-lived enough to last for interstellar journeys.
So who knows if what they found was really from out there but outer space epidemic is certainly not impossible.