AR
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Toronto, ON
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|  Biological and chemical weapons too?
Bad news from Time.com that the terrorists might be planning to disperse chemical or biological agents on densely populated targets.
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DelaWhere_Steve
join:2001-03-21 | They were planning to spread the stuff from crop-dusting planes.
This is quite serious in wanting to kill as many people as possible. |
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Flagger
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join:2001-08-10
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Which explains why the NSA had all agricultural crop dusting banned during last week. |
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AR
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I saw a feature on this particular subject on 60 minutes and it was revealed that we are totally not prepared to deal with the aftermath of such an event. They did a drill to simulate such an attack in a NY subway station and they declared the drill a failure. And the scary thing is that NY's emergency response teams are one of the best in the country.
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mballard
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All planes were banned during most of the last week, regardless of what they were doing. |
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Flagger
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| said by mballard:
All planes were banned during most of the last week, regardless of what they were doing.
They had actually allowed them then rebanned them.
As an airplane owner, and private pilot I have been following this issue quite closely.
We have a plane sitting in Houston that just today was able to be used again in flight training.
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DelaWhere_Steve
join:2001-03-21 | You quote Lincoln from Gettysberg addresss, I think? |
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Flagger
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Weimville | reply to AR
Yes that is from it |
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Coot
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said by DelaWhere_Steve:
They were planning to spread the stuff from crop-dusting planes.
This is quite serious in wanting to kill as many people as possible.
Does this surprise anyone? These people are frigging madmen. You cannot negotiate with them, but rather they must be separated from the innocents they insinuate themselves with...and then erased.
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DelaWhere_Steve
join:2001-03-21
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"The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced."
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AR
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Toronto, ON
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Crop dusters were the first to be allowed back up, saw one near Sac. myself.
But then it is only one way of doing it, they could do it from an offshore method like from on a boat or something and let the wind guide the chemicals city-ward.
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cjsmith
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join:2000-11-03
Villa Rica, GA
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Bioarmageddon
Bioarmageddon
said by Debora MacKenzie:
Sooner or later there is going to be a biological attack on a major city. Are we prepared to deal with it? Not a chance.
Further down the page:
On the lookout
SPOTTING a biological attack in time to get people into their protective gear is no small feat. Ideally, you'd like to see the attack coming.
Part of the problem is that because the air is already full of microbes, detecting a puff of bacteria isn't enough to sound the alarm. Instead, scientists are focusing on what carries the germs. One of the best ways to disperse biological weapons is with a droplet cloud, like the mist from a crop-spraying aeroplane. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are testing a device called the XM-94. Mounted in a Blackhawk helicopter, the XM-94 uses lidar-a laser radar-to sense clouds of droplets in the air.
"It's neat, it's sensitive and it works to a 30-kilometre range," says Robert Karl, the XM-94's designer. The problem? The XM-94 might find it difficult to tell the difference between a biological strike and a patch of fog. Which could spell trouble if the bioterrorists decide to make their strike on a day when the weather is not set fair.
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