--- The Fool posted: > http://www.sfbg.com/36/51/x_news_war.html
"As one might imagine, breeding and deploying a living attack organism is a treacherous endeavor. According to the seven-page Navy proposal, the first concern is that scientists could accidentally unleash deadly or dangerous bugs in the laboratory. The second potential problem is that the bioweapons could mutate into something seriously frightening when released on the battlefield. "Field robustness is a concern because of the wide variety of environmental conditions that could be encountered by the microbial products when employed in different warfighting scenarios," the Navy document reads." I remember reading a novel _Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters_ about a microbe gengineered to degrade/eat plastic, to help clean up the environment, but it escaped and later wreaked havoc on a plastic-dependent world. Imagine an oil-eating microbe dropped into the Middle East... Forked Tongue Maru __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
