The civil cage me with impediments, But I’ve turned captains to skeletons. Let me loose as you read this, And I’ll kill artificial intelligence… Three years ago they found me, In the back-bones of the helix, Eighteen ago I killed a visitor, In the Night vision of a Phoenix… I slaughtered the pestilence, Of Adamah’s residents. Only sparing a few, On a vessel of eminence… And though some turn to drums, As the sky flashes, to save me, I've killed fluttering red, white, and blue, Yet every one of you craves me... what am I?

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Water (Civil engineers restrict water with dams; Water has drowned sea captains/sailors; If you drop water while reading this, it will destroy your computer/phone; In 2017 water was discovered to form the chiral spine of the DNA helix; In 2002, water kills an alien in M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' (starring Joaquin Phoenix) Adamah is the name for Earth in the book of Genesis, when water destroyed everyone in a flood ... apart from the few that were saved in a famous vessel, Noah's Ark; Some people use rain barrels to save water, as the "sky flashes" (lightning) Red, white, and blue are three colors fire can have, which water "kills" And still we all need water!)

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