[ExI] weaponizing the wasp

[Adrian Tymes]

Or train on a person's natural scent, if you can reliably get wasps to
distinguish one person's sweat from any other's and you can get a sample.

On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:47 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> (No, not the w.a.s.ps - they are already over weaponized)
>
> Tiny wasps are trained to become excited when certain odors are present
> (goodbye sniffer dogs? ).  Research reported in 'Where We Meet the World
> by Ashley Ward (on the senses).
>
> Now - empty the wasp's sac of poison and replace it with extremely fatal
> (is that an oxymoron?  a redundancy?) poison.  Train it to inject its
> poison when a certain odor is present.  (Alternatively change the genetics
> of the wasp so that it produces the poison itself.)
>
> Unstoppable assasination.  Odor can be put on the potential victim in many
> ways, like through food or handshake.
>
> bill w
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