RE: Spare your hypothesis!
December 21, 2011 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 2:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Amount of energy required and thus size and practicality as a weapons platform assuming that said material is possible to manufacture?
(a common question for DOD contractors)
I once put forward the idea (as part of a DOD contracting firm) that it would be possible to distill compounds obtained from some very ubiquitous weeds that grow in N. America and disperse them via aerosol based warheads over potentially hostile areas at night, revelaing (in a hilarious way) under daylight who was breaking curfew. I was informed that my choice of active ingredient had some effects I wasn't aware of (I've since wondered why they were aware of them..lol) that would be pretty much terrible, and that such a system constituted a chemical weapon which violated a few key conventions of war. Ah well, could have been somebody.
Giant Hogweed btw, check out the effects of contact and then imagine the possibilities.....
(a common question for DOD contractors)
I once put forward the idea (as part of a DOD contracting firm) that it would be possible to distill compounds obtained from some very ubiquitous weeds that grow in N. America and disperse them via aerosol based warheads over potentially hostile areas at night, revelaing (in a hilarious way) under daylight who was breaking curfew. I was informed that my choice of active ingredient had some effects I wasn't aware of (I've since wondered why they were aware of them..lol) that would be pretty much terrible, and that such a system constituted a chemical weapon which violated a few key conventions of war. Ah well, could have been somebody.
Giant Hogweed btw, check out the effects of contact and then imagine the possibilities.....
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