r/anime Mar 09 '13

[Spoilers] Shinsekai Yori Episode 23 Discussion

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13

Wait, so this modified Anthrax virus is supposed to have remained alive for hundreds of years inside of a safe? Why would they store it inside a glass vial like that anyway if it were so hazardous?

The monsters they came across and the Shun sequences were really good...innovative and disturbing. It's hard to follow this story at times, but it never ceases to provide visual entertainment.

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u/JVSe92 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JVSeg92 Mar 09 '13

Wait, so this modified Anthrax virus is supposed to have remained alive for hundreds of years inside of a safe?

I'd say it's pretty feasible that the anthrax would still be alive. Anthrax is a bacteria that has the ability to form spores which can survive for hundreds of years and it only takes breathing some in to reanimate it; this is one of the traits that makes it such a viable biological weapon. So if this is supposed to be some enhanced, super-anthrax then I'd say it's completely possible that it could survive even millenniums.

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u/PhiloSlothipher Mar 11 '13

Leave it to Americans to make crazy bioweapons.