Scientist Claims Coronavirus Brought to Earth By Meteorite

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Scientist Claims Coronavirus Was Brought to Earth By a Meteorite

The mysterious coronavirus has a new name (The World Health Organization (WHO) changed it from 2019-nCoV to COVID-19), a new tally of victims (over 63,000 in mainland China at the time of this writing) and a new potential cause. No, the experts haven’t eliminated bats or another animal obtained at a market in Wuhan, or animals like the pangolin which are used in traditional Chinese medicine. A scientist in England claims that the deadly virus was brought to Earth by a meteorite that crashed in China last year. Viral panspermia?
In the case of the current Corona virus pandemic in China it is interesting to note that an exceptionally bright fireball event was seen on October 11 2019 over Sonjyan City in the Jilin Province of NE China. It is tempting to speculate that this event had a crucial role to play in what is now unfolding in throughout China. If a fragment of a loosely held carbonaceous meteorite carrying a cargo of viruses/bacteria entered the mesosphere and stratosphere at high speed ~30km/s, its inner core which survived incandescence would have got dispersed in the stratosphere and tropospher.
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Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham Astrobiology Center contributed to a paper submitted last week to The Lancet in which he proposes that a meteorite which crashed in October 2019 in Sonjyan City (also called Songyuan) some 2200 km (1360 miles) north of Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, may have spread “hundreds of trillions of infective viral particles” that were “embedded in the form of fine carbonaceous dust” as it blazed through the Chinese atmosphere until it fell to Earth. Wickramasinghe is a well-known British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist who strongly supports the idea of panspermia – space rocks and spacecraft carrying and spreading living organisms around the universe.

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Following the initial deposition of infective particles in a small localized region (e.g. Wuhan, Hubei province, China) particles that have already become dispersed through over a wider area in the troposphere will fall to ground in a higgledy-piggledy manner, and this process could be extended over a typical timescale of 1-2 years until an initial inoculant of the infective agent would be drained. This accords well with many new strains of viruses including influenza that have appeared in recent years.
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Yes, this renowned scientist actually said “higgledy-piggledy” – a 16th century British reduplicated phrase (like hanky-panky, helter-skelter, hurly-burly, etc.) that may or may not refer to the herding of pigs that are scattered about but definitely means in a chaotic or disorderly fashion. Wickramasinghe proposes that the main drop from the October 2019 meteorite occurred over Wuhan, but its viral cargo may still be falling over cities under its path. Does this mean other cities are in danger of a concentrated outbreak of the coronavirus like that in Wuhan?
We conclude by noting that we expect the pattern of further spread of the new coronavirus (nCoV) to be dictated mostly by primary infall until a high level of person-to-person infectivity might possibly be achieved and the virus then acquires the status of an endemic virus.
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When all you’ve been getting in bad news, Wickramasinghe’s conclusion that person-to-person infections occur far faster than getting the virus from meteorite-delivered space dust could be considered good news … at least in the case of the coronavirus. However, there are plenty of other meteorites burning up in the atmosphere on a regular basis. If they’re carrying other deadly viruses, no matter where in the world they burn up, they could still show up in China first. Why? In a previous letter to The Lancet written in 2003, Wickramasinghe said this:
A small amount of a virus introduced into the stratosphere could make a first tentative fallout east of the great mountain range of the Himalayas, where the stratosphere is thinnest, followed by sporadic deposits in neighboring areas. Could this explain why new strains of the influenza virus that are capable of engendering epidemics, and which are caused by radical genetic mutations, usually originate in Asia?
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Is Wickramasinghe on to something, or is he creating and connecting dots to support his belief in panspermia?

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nivek

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He may be on to something but maybe some of the meteor and dust deposited the virus closer to the ground in the atmosphere and contaminated humans and animals in the same month it fell to earth...It could have taken time to adapt and mutate to work in human hosts and once that threshold is achieved it could mutate faster and spread faster...

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nivek

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michael59 said:
How convenient.
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How do you mean?...

With the recent revelation about patient zero it seems China has been lying to the world about everything connected to this virus, even its possible origin...

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nivek said:
How do you mean?...

With the recent revelation about patient zero it seems China has been lying to the world about everything connected to this virus, even its possible origin...

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In a statement on Sunday, the Wuhan Institute of Virology denied that one of its employees was the outbreak’s “patient zero”.

“Recently there has been fake information about Huang Yanling, a graduate from our institute, claiming that she was patient zero in the novel coronavirus,” the institute said.

It said it had verified that the claim was not true.

It said Huang was a graduate student at the institute until 2015, when she left the province and had not returned since. Huang was in good health and had not been diagnosed with disease, it added.
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Chinese research lab denies links to first coronavirus patient
 
pigfarmer

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I've never read World War Z but now might be the time to pick up a copy.

Only recently hear it was written by Mel Brooks' son.
 
Standingstones

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Two novels come to mind concerning the Corona virus. Of course The Stand by Stephen King and to a lesser extent The Watchers by Dean Koontz.
 
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pigfarmer said:
I've never read World War Z but now might be the time to pick up a copy.

Only recently hear it was written by Mel Brooks' son.
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Have you watched the movie?...Its quite good I think, I like how the movie begins too...

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Shadowprophet

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I'm conflicted on this, It raises questions, Like, If a virus comes from some distant place in space, Would this constitute extraterrestrial life.

Firstly, Viruses are fundamentally considered to be alive, However, That's contested, And honestly being very liberal with the definition of life. Viruses are considered "alive" But only in the sense that life is widespread evolving chemistry. The distinction is contested because, by this definition, someone could say Rocks are alive. Or even site that life in itself Via panspermia came from rocks. So, The problem is, Could a virus come from a space rock? That Question is just a valid as Could a virus never come from space? It's possible.

But, Let's not mense definitions here. Viruses are very specific intricate chemicals that affect truly alive organisms in profound ways that we only began to truly understand in the very recent past. Some day, The definition of life, May not include viruses.

Are Viruses Alive?
 
Kchoo

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Yes, aliens, at least to our bodies...
Alive? Yes, in the sense that they use biology to replicate.
No, The sense that they are nothing without a host.

Something that exists only to infect, replictate, and infect...

Alien, yet would not exist without complex organisms to infect.... therefore somehow a part of us after replication? Could they be assisting in evolution by finding weaknesses, and weeding out weaker hosts, to strengthen and bolster a stronger entomology?

Evolution assistants/triggers?

Hmmmm????
 
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Kchoo said:
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Consider for a moment,

The term "alien" In a vast empty cosmos of forces and gasses and particles. We Search the heavens in near futility for voices from beyond, And we do this fundamentally because we can't conceive that we are truly alone in this vast emptiness. In this scenario, We, That is to say, All life as a whole came into existence By some creator deity that in him/or herself came from beyond or life fell on this earth from some rock that hit the earth, Life in itself, To its conclusive accepted origin, no matter what someone accepts concerning life. "It came from somewhere else other than here" Life by its very reasoning by its own function is the "Alien" to this empty dead universe. When Life dies, they call it, "Passing on" Most usually with the unspoken implication, that,

"We Return to where we came from" Weather that is nothingness or somethingness doesn't change the destination at play, To that, no one can deny, We return back to where we came from, As all life seems too.

SO, if Life came from that place that it returns back to, Then isn't life a traveler? An explorer from some other faraway place? An alien perhaps?


I mean come on, Humans,, They're totally aliens if you think about it.
 
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nivek

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pigfarmer said:
Actually, not all the way. Probably seen pieces of it. Heard the book was better.
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I'm not much on reading horror or zombie type books, I don't mind watching a good zombie movie though LOL...

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Shadowprophet

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nivek said:
I'm not much on reading horror or zombie type books, I don't mind watching a good zombie movie though LOL...

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Does, Evil Dead or Army of darkness count as a zombie flick? I loved those... Though they may fall more into the Demon kind of genre.

On that same note though, If you think about it, Friday the 13'th Nightmare on elm street and Haloween could technically be considered Zombie flicks as they repeatedly die and keep coming back. lol
 
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Italian officials have introduced measures to control what is now the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe.

There are strict quarantine restrictions in two northern "hotspot" regions close to Milan and Venice, in the Lombardy and Veneto regions.
 
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Last week on facebook i seen pics where my cousin and his wife went to Venice, and today on the news i see this bout Italy, so i get back on facebook to find out when they went to Venice, or if it was just a memory they shared from years ago or if in fact they was just there. Now him and his wife are longer on my friend list, so i check on there moms facebook to see if she posted it by chance, no such luck. weird.
 
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