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Reanimated viruses, never-sleep pills, robot soldiers, solar shields, killer foxes, limb regeneration &#8230; incredible coolness factors, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekpress.com\/2007\/01\/scariest-ideas-in-science.html\" target=\"_blank\">GeekPress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t these guys ever watch, like, movies? I mean, these things never end well. Reanimated viruses, never-sleep pills, robot soldiers, solar shields, killer foxes, limb regeneration &#8230; incredible coolness factors,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51507,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/the-incredible-shrinking-dinosaur.html","url_meta":{"origin":10391,"position":0},"title":"The Incredible Shrinking Dinosaur","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Jun-15 12:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some new research -- and cross-discipline studies -- indicates that the evolution of dinosaurs to birds was not quite as abrupt as seemed to be the case when the theory was first raised. 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