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[KO Traveling Hobo]

In a dark future, a deadly plague sweeps across the land. It kills indiscriminately. No one really knows where it came from, but a few old men with sombre faces remember old tales about gifs being uploaded into bacteria. Gifs became memes. It wasn't long after that the pestilence struck. Maybe mankind had gone too far and this was their punishment.

A man starts coughing violently in the corner.

Another man swears loudly, "Oh shit!", recognising the tell tale signs.

The others in the room realise they're already dead. The coughing mans face turns green as he contorts in his death throes. The last whisper from his bloodied, split lips:
"Here comes Dat Plague."

10/10

 

[SovanJedi]

Finally, a completely failsafe way to archive all of YTMND is soon upon us.

 

[HStallion]

So in the future we can take all bacteria with a specific gif. You'll get your Gonorrhea test results back and they doctor will be like,"I'm sorry to report the tests came back positive. You have a severe case of Jennifer Lawrence OK"

 

[Zakalwe]

In a dark future, a deadly plague sweeps across the land. It kills indiscriminately. No one really knows where it came from, but a few old men with sombre faces remember old tales about gifs being uploaded into bacteria. Gifs became memes. It wasn't long after that the pestilence struck. Maybe mankind had gone too far and this was their punishment.

A man starts coughing violently in the corner.

Another man swears loudly, "Oh shit!", recognising the tell tale signs.

The others in the room realise they're already dead. The coughing mans face turns green as he contorts in his death throes. The last whisper from his bloodied, split lips:
"Here comes Dat Plague."

Haha!

 

[GKSilKamina]

In a dark future, a deadly plague sweeps across the land. It kills indiscriminately. No one really knows where it came from, but a few old men with sombre faces remember old tales about gifs being uploaded into bacteria. Gifs became memes. It wasn't long after that the pestilence struck. Maybe mankind had gone too far and this was their punishment.

A man starts coughing violently in the corner.

Another man swears loudly, "Oh shit!", recognising the tell tale signs.

The others in the room realise they're already dead. The coughing mans face turns green as he contorts in his death throes. The last whisper from his bloodied, split lips:
"Here comes Dat Plague."

It's not the future we wanted, but it's the one we deserve.

 

[SneakersSO]

And this is just 1 of the incredible potential applications of Crispr. If we have enough time to research it, Crispr may singlehandedly revolutionize medical treatment as we know it.

 

[Etrian Oddity]

 

[Abstrusity]

This is how R-type happens and I don't see any goddamn R9-As around here.

 

[chaosaeon]

Horizon spoiler :

Spoiler

Isn't this sort of how they preserved all human knowledge ?

Neat.

 

[HStallion]

This is how R-type happens and I don't see any goddamn R9-As around here.

Just use the force.

 

[rec0ded1]

Kojima knew

 

[Poppy]

Finally, a completely failsafe way to archive all of YTMND is soon upon us.

i'm infected with lindsay lohan facial expression

call on meeeee
call on me

 

[goldensun]

In a dark future, a deadly plague sweeps across the land. It kills indiscriminately. No one really knows where it came from, but a few old men with sombre faces remember old tales about gifs being uploaded into bacteria. Gifs became memes. It wasn't long after that the pestilence struck. Maybe mankind had gone too far and this was their punishment.

A man starts coughing violently in the corner.

Another man swears loudly, "Oh shit!", recognising the tell tale signs.

The others in the room realise they're already dead. The coughing mans face turns green as he contorts in his death throes. The last whisper from his bloodied, split lips:
"Here comes Dat Plague."

Holy shit, well done.

 

[PackAPunchedMick]

I've read the op multiple times and I still haven't the foggiest what the fuck is going on

 

[Marow]

The article doesn't touch upon it and older ones about storing books didn't either from what I could find... but what happens if the bacteria replicates (particularly long-term)? That has me curious.

 

[Haly]

The article doesn't touch upon it and older ones about storing books didn't either from what I could find... but what happens if the bacteria replicates (particularly long-term)? That has me curious.

Self evolving memes.

 

[Tezzeractor]

I don't understand how this works. Wtf.

Using DNA instead of 1's and 0's. Turning bacteria into storage devices.

 

[Razorback]

Putting memes in the genes? Did Richard Dawkins come up with this?