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Re: BD adult survivors question (SPOILER: season 1 where are the rest of the women Good point,if they were like Meaghan they would not have realized their personal lethality until the older children passed the AoI,perhaps they are around but living in self imposed isolation. . Maybe the monks...

There are 2 possibilities(at least) regarding the BotA. They may as implied have been infected, fought off the infection and would now be a source of antibodies,which could provide a temporary passive immunity to the denizens of VS and Devon&Co. But this should also be the case with all the...

Hmm. other adult survivors. I wonder if the have anything in commen with the happy folks from Heaven's Gate?

Rank speculation follows; Perhaps the conflict at VS is less ideological and more generational? the adult survivors would have pre Death skills and knowledge but at the same time be limited to their sanctum (with limited jaunts in enviormental suits) while their children and grandkids...

In a blimp piloted by Zeke and renamed the Marie Celeste???

Deus ex machina, in the pejorative sense.

The guys in hoods may be the Big Death equivalent of the Black Death's Cult of the Flagellants. These happy campers roamed the countryside scourging themselves to atone for the sins of humanity..at least until Pope Clement VI told them to quit scaring people and go home.Perhaps Jeremiah's...

Re: Thieve\'s Honor(Spoilers) What is interesting is the parallel between the 2 communities.Theo/Rasmussen's group,ends as it begins , essentially a "robber baron"setup ,with power held by a few. Whereas TM is becoming something better than it was, with the emergence of two of the three...

Where did the children's chant come from and what did it mean originally? Just Jungian archetypes rearing their ancient heads from the pool of "collective unconsciouness" examples are the ,Self ,Animus and The Shadow. Were the stories about God and Heaven passed around by word of mouth or is...

yellow] To build on your example, a virus can malfunction and get inserted into host DNA without activation. Such a virus did not plan for that course, but took this course anyway. When after some time, something makes the cell synthesize proteins from the region where the virus is located...

As preface, and to muddle the waters further, the orginal quip about a non terrestrial origin for BD was more to the idea that the BD is just a kind of terraforming ,removing the pesky dominant lifeform from a world to be utilized. Secondly finding a bug, viral or otherwise that can infect and...

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Because the virus works with Human cells and Human proteins and Human nucleic acids Once you go subcellular the distinctions disappear and become more generic, not human nucleic acids as such but nucleic acids in a human sequence.And considering we differ from chimpanzes by only 3% not...

Re: The \"Firewall\" Thread (Spoilers) Actually Odin One eye Lord of the Hanged deliberately caused the heroes to be killed in battle and brought to Valhalla by his daughters the Valkyries. Not to keep them from Hel's grasp but so that he would have doughty warriors at his back when Fenris and...

Why assume that the BD virus is terrestrial in origin?

Viruses are not alive,motile,self aware ,or prescient.They are packets of protein and nucleic acid entirely and absolutely dependant on their host cell to reproduce.To do so they fuse with a specific site on the target cell wall. This specificity is critical and why ,as a example, we don't get...