<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">The Avantguardian</b> <<a href="mailto:avantguardian2020@yahoo.com">avantguardian2020@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Sigh. Of all people to scare-monger, I would have<br>thought Kurzweil would know better. I guess times,<br>they are a changin'. His article is to some degree<br>ridiculous. There is a flu epidemic every year. It<br>
would be far easier and cheaper for some terrorist to<br>simply get a sample of one of sick friends snot and<br>culture the virus, make a few simple modifications<br>that I will not discuss on a public list (there might<br>
be terrorists reading this), and amplify it up then it<br>would be to build a flu virus from scratch.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
My favourite would be to splice in genes to make psilocybin, or maybe borrow a few from ergot for an LSD-like effect.<br>
It would be quite a trip.<br>
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Dirk<br>