<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:47 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(No, not the <a href="http://w.a.s.ps" target="_blank">w.a.s.ps</a> - they are already over weaponized)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tiny wasps are trained to become excited when certain odors are present (goodbye sniffer dogs? ). Research reported in 'Where We Meet the World </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">by Ashley Ward (on the senses).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Unstoppable assasination. Odor can be put on the potential victim in many ways, like through food or handshake.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div>
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