OT: X-Files stuff. The Pentagon is messin with our food.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...ect-army-defend-crops-critics-fear-bioweapon/

Not sure how many of you know this, but the X-Files was quite the prescient show. It had an episode where a shadowy group within the government was going to hijack a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center. This episode aired a few months before 9/11. And one of the main plot lines in the show was about this same shadowy group using bees to spread an alien virus.

 

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DARPA's been involved in some pretty wild R&D stuff for awhile (or at least rumored to be). It would be a very interesting place to work.

PSU is helping to fund the Insect Allies... can we turn the bugs loose on NCAA headquarters?

 

[Delco Lion]

What could go wrong?

 

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What could go wrong?

Nothing to see here folks...move along. The following on Lyme disease which I suffer from.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...sease-borrelia-burgdorferi-deer-tick-science/

"One theory—compelling but controversial—about the sudden emergence of the disease in Connecticut blames the accidental release of infected ticks during experiments at Plum Island Animal Disease Center, on Long Island Sound about eight miles south of Lyme.

Originally operated by the U.S. Army, then by the Department of Agriculture, and now by the Department of Homeland Security, the facility's official mandate is defense research relating to agricultural bioterrorism.

A book by Michael Carroll called Lab 257cites post-World War II experiments on Plum Island that involved using ticks as disease vectors for germ warfare."