• BigBen103@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Fun fact before the test of the first atomic bom, the scientists who made it believed there was non zero chance the it would ignite the atmosphere.

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    11 months ago

    Physicists and chemists can’t actually destroy the world in such ways. But creating a deadly virus and releasing it by mistake or not is quite a realistic possibility.

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      11 months ago

      Well I haven’t been following the story anymore for the last year or so, but there were some suspicions regarding that level 4 bio-lab doing research on Coronaviruses in the very epicenter of the 2019 pandemic, Wuhan…