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Thread #77802 Message #1425952
Posted By: robomatic
03-Mar-05 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: Auschwitz and other mass murder
Subject: RE: Auschwitz and other mass murder
Don'l:
You've actually said something with a modicum of sense behind it! (Was it a random event?) As usual, I suspect that your 'specific' count of how many research facilities and where things are are pulled out of your posterior, but the basic idea of bioweaponry capabilities is quite real. The Soviet Union in violation of bioweapons treaties with the US, came up with some really creepy stuff that is way worse than weaponized anthrax.
Have you read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six"? It puts a thriller aspect to the subject much as you put a cartoonish aspect to it. He has a group of "killer greenies" who decide to reduce the planet's human population by about 99.9% and of course, after they do that they don't need to be greenies no more.
I DOUBT that technology can come up with race specific weapons because of the extreme variability within races (and there are respectable folk who believe of course that 'race' has no scientific meaning).
But you can probably target a sub-species. And if you have a sample of a person's DNA, you can probably in future develop a poison that will shut down that DNA, in other words you'll be able to come up with a poison, put it in the reservoir, and kill one selected person.