An interesting read on how sarin kills. Those who pooh-pooh the discovery of sarin gas, however "degraded" it may have been, are whistling past the graveyard.
I only put a portion here. I encourage FREEPers to read more.
To: SoFloFreeper
That sarin is some nasty stuff. Remember Gulf War One?
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/gulfwar/cwagents/cwpaper1.htm#blisters1
2 posted on
06/22/2006 7:58:33 AM PDT by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: SoFloFreeper
very serious stuff
on a lighter note, my dog has gas that bad
3 posted on
06/22/2006 7:59:07 AM PDT by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: SoFloFreeper
Thanks.
I just sent it to a local radio host who was arguing with a lefty moonbat about Sarin.
4 posted on
06/22/2006 7:59:49 AM PDT by
fanfan
(I wouldn't be so angry with them if they didn't want to kill me!)
To: SoFloFreeper
Do the Dems understand that sarin = WMD?
5 posted on
06/22/2006 8:00:09 AM PDT by
truthluva
("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts + Arbua is a cesspool)
To: SoFloFreeper
Here is another site for more chemical description of it including antidotes that soldiers carry.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7541/nerve.htm
7 posted on
06/22/2006 8:01:26 AM PDT by
Mogollon
To: SoFloFreeper
Remember that Sarin is a gas and it is also colorless and odorless, making it even more difficult to be sensed by human beingsActually, IIRC, sarin in its pure state is an oily liquid, similar to the feel (if you lived long enough to perceive the feel)of baby oil. The trick to delivering sarin is to atomize this liquid into sufficiently fine drops over a sufficient volume that it all volatilizes into the vapor state.
The military has a surrogate compound, DMMP (dimethyl methyl phosphonate) that is harmless but has similar physical charateristics to sarin (MW, volatility, BP, etc) that they use for testing mock ups and countermeasures.
8 posted on
06/22/2006 8:01:53 AM PDT by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
To: SoFloFreeper
scratchin my head about sarin gas.
Sarin gas was released in multiple lines of the Tokyo subway, arguably the most crowded subway in the world.
12 people died, 54 injured and many with vision problems.
In a most confined space, sarin gas hardly did the damage one would expect. why ? or why not ?
To: SoFloFreeper
If libs want to argue about Sarin not being dangerous, point them to article about the munition destroying plant in Anniston Alabama. Seems they have quite a problem with old WW2 and up WMD (their term) weapons being destroyed in their town.
When you get FEMA to buy the town 23,000 gas masks, 100 plus sirens, air purification systems, window kits, and shelters. You obviously think old Sarin gas is dangerous.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/16/Worldandnation/Not_Iraq__but_Annisto.shtml
17 posted on
06/22/2006 8:56:44 AM PDT by
LowOiL
("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
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