Alien Plagues

[@cinderheart2720]

Sandy rediscovers Papa Nurgle.

[@bigsarge2085]

Grandfather Nurgle is pleased.

[@thebalalaikaremains2321]

Let us never forget that David Gerrold’s War Against the Chtorr had the invasion start on the cellular level. Humanity was getting wiped out before the first visible extra terrestrial showed up. Lone the series for the last gasp of humanity and how it’s still every person from themselves.

[@cornholiofan1995]

those books are kinda interesting. I thought the concept of an ecology thats evolved to be a singular entity that survives by assimilating everything around it and eating itself was also interesting. is that something lovecraftian-lenient iyo?

[@Bitterman97]

Sandy Petersen probably knows about every being that lingers within the layers of reality (including microscobic threats) and I love him for that. I really want a long running horror tv series like the Twilight Zone with him as a writer where certain heros like Doom Slayer or Ranger (or maybe Quake with a variant of Mjölnir) visit multiple realities and slay hyper dimensional dieties. Aliens, ancient monsters, sci-fi, fantasy fiction, wars, invasions, pandemics or all of the above whatever man I want it. PS. I also wouldn't mind him as the narrator

[@nolan412]

Measles is probably one you want as a child so the immunity reset isn't as devastating.

[@ugabuga2586]

allways love to see a sandy petersen upload!

[@jamesm8935]

Also a lot of viruses kill as a side effect after the viral phase is actually over, so in these cases the viral spread is complete already, it doesn't matter if the host lives or dies, so the outcome we might assume is evolving the virus actually has nothing to do with it

[@singletona082]

A theory I'd seen on why some diseases are as lethal as they are: They arne't intending on killing YOU, but they are designed to cause mild symptoms in a car sized cape buffilo so are geared for animals that take more irritation to get a response going, or are geared for bats who's immune systems are super weird compared to ours, or don't even target us but target helper microbes that live in us, or even target parasites that feed off of us but the new behavior introduced to the parasite is super harmful to people. And so on and so on.

[@kylenetherwood8734]

This would be the most dangerous thing about first contact with tragic human precedence.

[@mackdmara]

Two things I have heard of, that were like this. They are as follows. The first one is a species that speaks by chemicals. So they send a message to worlds they want cleansed, that is a lethal compound, but not by itself. They assume the other side will decode it and spread the chemical to read the message. It acts like a disease, spreading accross the biosphere when it mixes with air. It was a neat trick I thought. The second, is a biological species that uses organisms to speak. They pass these back and forth. Again, they send these parasites, that look to them like a benign communication. The idea is that the recipient doesn't know what it is until it is ingested, and by then it is too late. Those weren't my ideas, but they were cool ones. Of course, they are both easily avoided by us, but it was a neat way to tip the heros off that this species might not be friendly.

[@VerbuggterHerrderDunkelheit]

I really love these theories, they look at possibilities rarely looked upon in pop-culture

[@smurphy8881]

It’s funny that this popped up the day I start recovering from an illness.

[@georgekostaras]

After the cornhola virus I have newfound respect for pathogens

[@sanguinelynx]

The Andromeda Strain was frightening at the time for introducing the general population to the concept of an illness coming from someplace unknown outside of Earth. I thought it was so fascinating as a kid that the infant and drunkard were immune due to slightly altered blood chemistry.

[@boris2342]

Ah-CHOO

[@robertsalvia4406]

There was a scifi tv show (not a very good one or I'd remember its name) that had the main antagonist as a sentient virus. There is the original Thing, but I think that was more of a celular cloning monster than a weaponized bioweapon

[@neuralkernel]

I think I remember Spider Jerusalem deploying a similar defense mechanism... not sure if it was always deliberate, though.

[@vaarkobke3102]

There's a pretty interesting mod for Fallout New Vegas called SurvivalCore which adds diseases to the gameplay, really spices it up since plague outbreaks can happen, had a lot of fun as a Doctor character when suddenly a plague broke out in Megaton lol, had to burn the infected bodies, find people with mild infections to cure them before it gets worse. Now the even more horrifying aspect of the mod is that you can also use biological weapons, just look up "New Vegas Carnispore", creepy shit

[@kevinhisel]

I haven’t researched it, but we wouldn’t be talking about a species that evolved for this warfare but rather has the intelligence to genetically engineer diseases to where they can be asymptomatic carriers., right? From my naive perspective, it seems that a species that has simply evolved for this would be problematic because viruses and diseases spread, usually, between closely related species - at least within the same class of life (ie mammal to mammal). Which is something you mentioned with primates. Is there an example of disease that spreads between different phylum? Even if there was, it seems likely that the evolution would specifically geared for the environment it evolved in, right?

[@benji01]

A disease-carrying alien species is a super-scary concept, and it's a concept that I think doesn't get covered enough in horror. Since I have a phobia of certain insects, a human-size, disease carrying alien insect with high intelligence would give me a heart attack, haha. Malaria sounds terrifying! That's it, I'm hiding in my fridge. To all the mosquitoes reading my comment: come summer time, you guys aren't getting an iota of my blood, you pests! 😝

[@timbomb374]

If you think earth plagues are bad, imagine how terrible a plague from a much more evolved world could be

[@Myname-o7h]

hi sandy, love your weird/scary science videos this biological warfare wouldn't be the same as the mongols did back in the day, where they would catapult their fallen enemies' body parts over the wall of enemy cities, hitting them psychologically and spreading diseases?

[@brandenharder6378]

Bro you just described white people as if they were a new species

[@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec]

Wonderfully terribly horrible idea.

[@SneakyNinjaDog]

Slightly off topic but your arguments is another reason why the latest Bond movie is ... bad. Where M (and therefore England) is acutally developing a disease weapon that gets totally out of hand. M should have ended up in prison!

[@Khannea]

War against the chtorr