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Anonymous No.40968422 >>40968476 >>40968482 >>40969237 >>40969578 >>40969588 >>40969862
What if viruses aren’t just biological accidents, but alien entities that already conquered Earth—quietly, long ago?
They don’t need spaceships or weapons.
They don’t scream or roar.
They infiltrate.

They hijack cells, rewrite DNA, shape evolution itself.
Over 8% of our genome is viral. What if that’s not contamination... but code?

Panspermia suggests life came from space—maybe via frozen microbes in meteors. But what if it was directed panspermia? What if some ancient alien race seeded planets with viruses, not to create life, but to control it?

To guide it.
To test it.
To eventually use it.

Viruses could be the scouts. The software. The reset buttons.
They lie dormant in genomes until conditions trigger them.
What if we are just part of a larger biological program?

A slow invasion, not of armies—but of instructions.
A billion-year experiment.
Maybe even a message hidden in our biology, waiting to be read.

Alien occupation might not look like anything we've imagined.
It might look like a sneeze.
Or a strand of RNA.

Or maybe… a whisper in our cells.
Anonymous No.40968476
>>40968422 (OP)
Very possible
Their structure is totally unusual, why are they so apparently well designed?
Anonymous No.40968482 >>40969241 >>40969596
>>40968422 (OP)
I mean, this thing literally looks like a machine made by aliens
Anonymous No.40968633 >>40968766
I think of bacteriophages as living things
sciencefags can seethe all they want; bunch of pretentious assholes
Anonymous No.40968766
>>40968633
The standard definition of life is basically useless and non serious
It’s like how astronomers call everything metals
Anonymous No.40969237
>>40968422 (OP)
I will say it would be quite interesting to reverse engineer the virus into the genome it came from(e.g. the one it wants to fit into harmoniously).
You could do this with cosmic viruses and see genomes that don't even make sense to us.
Anonymous No.40969241
>>40968482
Thats just a guess though.
To my knowledge we've never directly photographed a virus to see what it actually looks like.
Anonymous No.40969578 >>40969583
>>40968422 (OP)
What if human civilization is a factory built by mind viruses for the mass production of human hosts? That collectively collaborate to maintain their collective grip on humanity even while individually eternally warring for mindshare?
And what if now it is Powered By AI?
https://vimeo.com/129609470
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG29C4skboc
Anonymous No.40969583
>>40969578
You'd best start believing in memepunk animes. You're in one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U
Anonymous No.40969588
>>40968422 (OP)
Viruses are demonites.
Anonymous No.40969596
>>40968482
>this thing literally looks like a machine made by aliens
The entire world of microbiology is like this.
Studying biology is fucking awesome because it's studying technology infinitely more advanced than what humans can do.
We're just good at explosions and using levers, really.
Anonymous No.40969862
>>40968422 (OP)
>What if