What if BB wasn't a computer coder but a geneticist? Is it possible he was investigating genetic manipulation to cure an illness or hereditary congenital problems?
It's been a while since I've dropped into this thread but I seem to remember that he died of starvation. Healthy people don't die of starvation in the time period between the last sighting of him and his approximate date of death.
Another curious thing I discovered after hopping on the geneticist train was that in 2017 a famous doctor in China was trying to alter the genomes of couples who were trying to get pregnant through IVF . The males were infected with HIV and the hope was the altered embryo would ensure the child would be born immune to AIDS.
The ethics of gene altering was concerning since it could ultimately change our species. However, a few years earlier a US committee of National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine thought it could be permitted if strict criteria were kept.
To make a long story short, it all blew up in the Chinese scientist's face. Here's a link to the story:
The untold story of the ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies
What if BB is an American scientist who was either at that symposium or heard about it and was working on a code to alter his own genetic make up if he was HIV positive?
