From:	Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:	Re: More Problems?
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:18:36 +1200

>>Couldn't? I resent that. Why couldn't it work?
>
>Um, because destroying the ShadowTalk world is Not Allowed?

You got me there.

>As for the virus: yes, all life on Earth shares a common ancestor and
>numerous similarilties, but there are so many differences between bacteria
>and seaweed and mushrooms and earthworms and oysters and cockroaches and
>pine trees and amoebae and slime molds and humans and all the rest that for
>a *single* virus to be able to infect and kill all of them is just plain
>impossible.

Yeah, but they were working on putting together a mixture of all sorts of
viruses, and if they missed some plants, bacteria, etc, then they wouldn't
have worried too much. Humans were the main target.

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON