What’s Pandora?
The question is, “What’s Pandora?”
‘Pandora,’ is the name given to a giant virus found underwater in Chile and Australia.
Named, the Pandoravirus, it’s ten times larger than other viruses.
Scientists claim that only 6% of its genes have been seen on Earth, so where does the rest come from?
It’s claimed that this virus came from Mars which is plausible, except that they don’t know for sure.
China’s planning to take its first return mission by 2030 so we may find out then.
But if it’s confirmed that it did originate from Mars, then that would suggest it’s extraterrestrial and could be a danger to us.
However, with that said isn’t it possible that the virus has already been circulated by the oceans and sea creatures?
As I first mentioned, it had been found in both Chile and Australia which is separated by an ocean, only 12,726 km apart.
Therefore, if we caught and ate an infected sea-creature, or if a land-animal ate a contaminated sea-creature and then we killed and ate that land-animal, we too could become infected and are likely to spread the virus on-land to others – see where I’m going with this?
What’s scary, is that it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a reality.
But hey, I’m no scientist.
What do you think?
Author:
Charmain Ingleton
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