Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Puppet Masters

 A "prion" is a protein that occurs normally in life. Generally it is harmless. But if its form changes, its essence changes. By folding into an aberrant shape, the normal prion turns into a rogue agent. It then converts other nearby normal prions to change their shape. They then become rogue prions too. They then continue their contagion and become autonomous. So it becomes a disease. Not bacterial. Not viral. And it is a protein that reproduces but has no DNA.

Think of that. Reproduction without DNA. Reproduction by proximity.

In other words, it is probably an alien.

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