Posted on 10/07/2004 11:41:54 PM PDT by Razorism
Is this one of Saddam's mobile bio-weapons labs? A trailer found by the U.S. in Northern Iraq last year likely was used by Saddam Hussein's regime as a mobile biological weapons laboratory, and not to fill hydrogen balloons as some in Britain and the U.S. have charged, a view supported by exclusive photos
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I'm not a chemist, but I don't need to be a chemist to understand that all I need to inflate a weather balloon is an easily transportable container of a compressed light gas like hydrogen or helium.
Hydrogen is cheaper and in view of the fact that there is little risk of loss of life with a hydrogen filled weather balloon, I'd opt for hydrogen. But I sure wouldn't invest in a mobile fermentation facility to get it- I'd get it at a fixed-facility hydrogen manufacturing facility, which MUST have existed in Iraq.
That's economic insanity.
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