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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.
10 points
Prions - yeah, they’re definitly creepy. They’re also hard to destroy, so they can accumulate in nature over time.
7 points
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