A student on the last day of classes spills his "soda" right in the entrance to the cafateria minutes before lunchtime. The spill is ignored as the sudents pour in to reach their seats and wait in line to get their food. Hundreds walk through the spill getting it on their shoes and spreading it all over the lunchroom. Withing 30 minutes the entire room is filled with fumes, hundreds have been exposed to toxic levels of dimethylmercury. By the end of the day the chemical has been spread into every classroom, onto every student; thousands could be exposed, but none will know. The summer draws to a close, many students are away at college, then they start to die.
A suicide trooper strolls into the front entrance of a busy New York police station. He sits down, he open a water bottle, he dumps it out under his seat, he gets up and leaves. He repeats this at every precinct in the city. This goes on for weeks, the suicide trooper goes everywhere cops are. Thousands of cops are poisoned, and he himself is overcome with the poison. He crawls off to die and is forgotton. Months later thousands of police officers in New York are striken down. Chaos reins as drug lords and petty crooks rise up to take advantage of the lack of police. Murders, rapes, robberies, arsons... The national guard is called out, the city is shut down, the government is placed on high alert. Every police force in the country is stricken with fear, are they next?
Multiply this by 10 or even 100. Suicide troops visiting every ballgame, every football game, every basketball game. Suicide troops visiting the common rooms of major universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, CalTech. Suicide troops visiting every major police station in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami. They could even visit the lunchrooms of NASA, Boeing, Los Alamos, Ford, GM, Microsoft, Intel, and all of the fortune 500 boardrooms and offices.
Maybe they won't kill that many, but the sheer amount of terror inflicted on this country would paralyze the nation. Our sporting events attacked means no more sports, or large gatherings, attacks at universities would mean our nations greatest minds are in jeporady, an attack on our nations greatest corporations would send stocks plummeting and our economy into such a death spiral that it may take 10 years to emerge from.
The elimination of hundreds of the "best and brightest" of Americas future scientists, as direct casualties of mercury poisoning, as well as the degradation of the brains of the thousands of survivors through mercury damaging their neurons, in addition to the toxic contamination of the universities themselves, would constitute a far more lasting threat to America than the loss of a couple of buildings and the expendable bees within.
The minds that inhabit MIT, UCLA, Princeton, etc., are the very pinnacle of technological innovation that feeds Americas economy. The new technologies they develop are why our military is unbeatable, our economy #1 in the world, our culture so pervasive, etc.
Eradicating a few hundred of these elite brains will, in the short term, send us into a mild panic. But it's the long term effect, as the new ideas that would keep us in the forefront of world technology, never become as the brain of the graduate that would have thought them up is now dead or damaged.
This is chaos theory in action. Small actions in the beginning are amplified through time. The ol' "Butterfly flapping it's wings in Japan causes a hurricane in Florida" effect.
A suicide trooper strolls into the front entrance of a busy New York police station. He sits down, he open a water bottle, he dumps it out under his seat, he gets up and leaves. He repeats this at every precinct in the city. This goes on for weeks, the suicide trooper goes everywhere cops are. Thousands of cops are poisoned, and he himself is overcome with the poison. He crawls off to die and is forgotton. Months later thousands of police officers in New York are striken down. Chaos reins as drug lords and petty crooks rise up to take advantage of the lack of police. Murders, rapes, robberies, arsons... The national guard is called out, the city is shut down, the government is placed on high alert. Every police force in the country is stricken with fear, are they next?
Multiply this by 10 or even 100. Suicide troops visiting every ballgame, every football game, every basketball game. Suicide troops visiting the common rooms of major universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, CalTech. Suicide troops visiting every major police station in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami. They could even visit the lunchrooms of NASA, Boeing, Los Alamos, Ford, GM, Microsoft, Intel, and all of the fortune 500 boardrooms and offices.
Maybe they won't kill that many, but the sheer amount of terror inflicted on this country would paralyze the nation. Our sporting events attacked means no more sports, or large gatherings, attacks at universities would mean our nations greatest minds are in jeporady, an attack on our nations greatest corporations would send stocks plummeting and our economy into such a death spiral that it may take 10 years to emerge from.
The elimination of hundreds of the "best and brightest" of Americas future scientists, as direct casualties of mercury poisoning, as well as the degradation of the brains of the thousands of survivors through mercury damaging their neurons, in addition to the toxic contamination of the universities themselves, would constitute a far more lasting threat to America than the loss of a couple of buildings and the expendable bees within.
The minds that inhabit MIT, UCLA, Princeton, etc., are the very pinnacle of technological innovation that feeds Americas economy. The new technologies they develop are why our military is unbeatable, our economy #1 in the world, our culture so pervasive, etc.
Eradicating a few hundred of these elite brains will, in the short term, send us into a mild panic. But it's the long term effect, as the new ideas that would keep us in the forefront of world technology, never become as the brain of the graduate that would have thought them up is now dead or damaged.
This is chaos theory in action. Small actions in the beginning are amplified through time. The ol' "Butterfly flapping it's wings in Japan causes a hurricane in Florida" effect.
