Posted on 10/29/2001 3:56:35 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
A plane in North Carolina in Monroe just dumped a blanket of white powder over a daycare center.Not joking here..breaking on NC News station FOX 18
That is what I was asking. Next time I will post news that is happening in the society section and bury it.
I appreciate your post. Even if it turns out to be something innocent (I pray so), I would rather be informed about it.
I'm considering changing my screen name to 24/7!
Not only that, but we actually get the news here, many stories never seen on cable or local tv!
What you are describing is obviously a prank, or something other than infectious anthrax spores..
Infectious anthrax spores MUST be small and light. They WILL NOT fall to the gorund.
A REAL anthrax release from an airplane would NOT NOT NOT result in a white powder on the groundHow can you sit there and say this????? You do not know the chemical make up of the stuff they use(would use) You do not know exactly how it was distributed(*could be distributed)
How can he say that? Because he has read the same research materials I have. He's right.
Any anthrax in particles large enough to be visible as a powder falling from the sky would be mostly useless, it would fall to the ground rather than be breathed by anyone who hadn't been directly buried in the stuff.
Properly weaponized anthrax, suitable for aerial distribution as from an airplane, will be small enough that the cloud of the released material will become invisible within moments after release, as the microscopic particles separate and spread throughout a large volume of air.
If terrorists are dumping anthrax from planes that comes down like a cloud of dust, they're idiots because they're wasting the vast majority of their product, and not spreading it beyond the area *immediately* under the plane's path. And if they're dumping 1-5 micron anthrax from a low enough altitude that people are getting literally "dusted" with it, then they are again idiots who are wasting most of their weapon instead of spreading it far and wide via a high-altitude dispersal.
They'd be more effective running up to a crowd of people and saying, "here, sniff this".
You can play "blind"...you can BE blind...you can be stupid.
These stuffed shirts around here like to piss and moan, just for the sake of pissing and moaning....don't sweat em. Most veterans lurk and keep and ear open. If something developes the'll chime in. If nothing developes, nothing developes...
SR
Happens all the time...:~)
sw
The News Media have to apply some sense. It is pretty clear that this story is either a huge hoax or a piece of total nonsense. To report it seriously without evidence makes a mockery of those people who are truly under threat - primarily those who live and work in certain high profile areas of New York and Washington.
Gimlet, it seems the news media is applying some sense - I haven't seen it on any national news yet; apparently it's just being reported in the local area, and here on FR.
I also think sc01 has a point about Bank of America; isn't it the world's largest bank now?
What a preposterous statement! How insulting to the rest of the country.
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