Declan McCullagh wrote:
It makes sense that human debris would be a portion of the waste removed, but compared to food items, dead rats, discarded trash and newspapers, it strikes me that it would not be an especially large portion. --Declan
Having been on the Underground this morning, I think I agree with you! Are we talking about the trains, the stations or the tunnels? Or the upholstery in the trains? Or what turns up in the vacuum cleaners of the overnight crew who fix them up after someone else has already removed all the dead McCrap? Maybe the Chinese Whispers have blown up a boring statistic into something silly.
At 09:47 PM 8/29/01 -0400, Ryan Arneson wrote:
Someone tell the Travel Channel in that case, they did a story on the London underground, including the Underground (big U) and mentioned this very thing. It was called "Underground London" and unfortunately, the last day they list as an air date is 8/25.
So it must be true then? OTOH I know people who have sampled the air in underground stations for spores and bacteria so on. There are a lot of odd organisms down there :-) Ken Brown