• MTK@lemmy.world
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    Wait until you hear about deadly toxin producing bacteria.

    You only need about 6 kg of Clostridium botulinum to produce enough toxins to kill all mammals on earth.

    Assumptions:

    • weight of a single bacterium is 1 picogram
    • a single bacterium produces 0.5 picograms of toxin
    • All mammals on earth are 1.4 gigatons of mass
    • a lethal dose is 150 nanograms per kg
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      Yes but the delivery is a problem. How do we package, ship and then get each mammal on earth to ingest 150 ng of the toxin?

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        Simple. Start a new plandemic and give out free vaccines! It worked last time, that’s why we’re all dead.

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        Well, if all it takes is 6 kg, I don’t think it would be that hard to make like a few tons and fly around the world throwing a kg at a time into any body of water you find.

        Sure, you wouldn’t kill everyone, but probably most 🤷‍♂️

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          I think about 96% of mammal biomass is either humans or domestic animals so if we ignore the 4% wild animals it suddenly because a much easier task.

          Like, throwing enough botulinum toxin into the ocean to kill all the whales would be annoying.

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            It would a lot less interesting.

            Literally everyone dies except a few that drink only bottled water. Society is now 90% people who believe that alkaline water is magic

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              More likely 10-15% of people die then everyone figures out it’s the water, identified the cause of death, develops filters to remove the toxin, and then the filter becomes commercialized.

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                Like the first half of the movie is just what you would expect from a batman movie, but then after thousands die and batman catches the villan it just conintues into a documentary about how this event eventully led to the “2026 Water protection law” and the political fights around it.

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      Genocide is evolutionary beneficial for the toxin producer, maybe there’s a ring of truth to it. Poison everything around you, free up resources for yourself.