Re: ENVELOPE STUFFING JOB
Eugene Leitl wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
How much laboratory experience do you have? Specifically, we're looking for people with experience handling white powders. Also,
Laminar flow bench, dude. And it's brown, not white, but you knew that already.
Powder color is the thing that's been driving me up a wall the past few days. People are panicking about the wrong dang thing. I'm tempted to scatter baker's yeast in a public place and powdered sugar nearby, and observe which causes people to panic. All that's left is figuring out how to do this enough times for meaningful results, without getting arrested... -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
At 06:42 PM 10/21/01 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
I'm tempted to scatter baker's yeast in a public place and powdered
All the packaged yeast I've ever seen is *way* too coarse to inhale, and if you did snort yeast, it wouldn't make it to the depths of your lungs.
David Honig wrote:
At 06:42 PM 10/21/01 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
I'm tempted to scatter baker's yeast in a public place and powdered
All the packaged yeast I've ever seen is *way* too coarse to inhale, and if you did snort yeast, it wouldn't make it to the depths of your lungs.
Oh, certainly. But snorting the powder wasn't the idea. The idea was to cause alurum and confusion. I figure, if the masses are panicked by powdered sugar and talcum powder, they might also be panicked by a pile of yeast. Except that they're probably too ignorant to be scared of a _brown_ powder. Which was the reason for the experiment in the first place. SRF -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
Steve Furlong wrote:
Powder color is the thing that's been driving me up a wall the past few days. People are panicking about the wrong dang thing.
I'm not at all sure that a large collection of anthrax spores would look like a powder. These things are far too small to see individually. A mass of them would look like a paste. Any visible granularity would either be because they had agglutinated into larger particles in some way, or because they had been mixed with a powder as some sort of vector.
I'm tempted to scatter baker's yeast in a public place and powdered sugar nearby, and observe which causes people to panic. All that's left is figuring out how to do this enough times for meaningful results, without getting arrested...
New emergency law in UK as of this week. Up to 7 years in jail for biowarfare hoaxes. In a world of cheap DNA sequencing, these well-known bacteria bear their ancestry with them like an audit trail. They are *American* anthrax. Why doesn't the FBI let some of those Arabs go without torturing them, and pick up some of the workers from their own biowar labs? Ken Brown
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