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If we're branching out into possible non-life, prion diseases like mad cow or kuru have a creep factor. You could be terminally infected already, as you read this, and not know until you start getting clumsy and confused years from now. Also kuru is spread by long-term habitual brain cannibalism, so that's culturally uncomfortable.
This was not a good thread to read before bed
Good to know Lemmy is addictive enough to bait people into giving themselves nightmares, I guess.
Prions - yeah, they're definitly creepy. They're also hard to destroy, so they can accumulate in nature over time.
And while we're at it, I think Naegleria fowleri, the brain eating amoeba that lives in warm water and gets in through your nose should get an honorable mention!
Thank the decomposers, I guess.
Hey, I'm clumsy and confused already!
Me too, bro. That's a mood.