So we’ve got cows in Canada with Mad Cow Disease. It’s so much more fun to say “Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy”. Of course, the culprit behind this and other types of spongiform encephalopathy is the prion, which is a particularly tightly-spooled kind of protein. It will kill you, you pets, your neighbors, devalue your homes, rape your daughters, make your sons gay and your wife unfaithful, and it will use mentalic powers to format your hard drive and then stuff it with kiddie porn.
It’s just that fearsome.
Well, no. Seriously, it’s a nasty little organic structure. They’ve found that it is not killed by damn near anything - from microwaves to gamma radiation to fire to poison to pure chlorine to being fired out of a cannon.
It now seems clear to me… they’re nearly impossible to destroy. They’re more survivable than the near-almighty cockroach.
Remember kids, when your far-future descendants are put to the whip by foaming, twitching, giant filthy insects whose brains look like the center of a loaf of Amish bread, you heard it here first.
