----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Crystall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: Ruining the Earth L3
> On 20 Jul 2001, at 15:11, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > > On 20 Jul 2001, at 8:35, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Humans are not about to eliminate life. Life is far more
> > > > resilient than we are.
> > >
> > > There are bioweapons which could wipe out every bit of animal life
> > > on this planet within days or less. Bio weapons make nukes look like
> > > popguns.
> > >
> > You have serious documentation on this? From what I read, biological
> > warfare is virtually worthless because it is very difficult to damage
> > the enemy with it.
>
> No, it's very difficult to damage JUST the enemy with it, or to use it
> on a purely tactical scale. Bioweapons are hard to control..VERY
> hard.
>
> Just from the materials I've had access to (most noteable a
> pathogenic strain of samonella) as a genetics student, I could
> easily have made a few citys very seriously ill.
>
What I read was not that it would get away and travel around the world to
kill one's own population, but that even conventional bombing would do a
much better job of killing people in a city than biological weapons. IIRC,
most diseases cannot simply be spread by dispersing them in the air over the
city. If a disease is airborn, then one needs to understand why it hasn't
spread already.
I recall that Japanese cult that tried to kill a number of people and ended
up only making a few sick. At the time, I recall people commenting on how
much harder these weapons were to use than other weapons.
Dan M.
