Fast Act. Anti chemical weapon weapon. Spray on, mop up. Good against VX gas, mustard gas, and other nasty stuff. Works within 90 seconds. Feel better now?
Upon contact with FAST-ACT the agent is quickly adsorbed and then destroyed. The destruction is confirmed by changes in the NMR spectra (SBCCOM) and by inability to extract the agent from the powder (Battelle). In 10 minutes 99% of GD and over 99.9% of VX is destroyed. After 60 minutes 70-80% of HD is destroyed.
I think I would stock it in any space that would be a very high risk target, I think any central city area. Living in the desert has a few advantages…
Even the smallest size seems too large to carry on a subway daily, but there hasn’t been a subway chem attack since Tokyo 1995.
I’ve been thinking about moving back to LA. The air is better on the beaches, but then there are those tsunamis. Life on earth is too dangerous.
Just follow my lead, Andi, and become a space cadet. :-) No skulking in some rat infested survivalist hole for me, oh no!
Space travel is just a bit pricey now and more cramped than a survivalist hole. Terra-forming Mars sounds nice, it looks a little like New Mexico…
…without the tumbleweed and roadrunners? :-)
Yes. There is a desert rodent that takes a single bite out of each of my low hanging tomatoes when they ripen. Next year I’ll go hydroponic and set all the plants up three feet.
I suspect Mars would be much more difficult but a high CO2 level is good for plants, may offset the low sunlight. The plants would grow much taller in the low gravity.
Living long enough to get to Mars while still vital is the biggest challenge. Twenty years is optimistic for colonization and the first to go would be an elite group.
Can you get the taste out of hydroponics? I thought it was all supermarket tasteless?
I don’t know. I will find out.
I want to grow my own so I can control everything that goes into it. In the process I want to learn enough about it to invest in commercial hydroponics.
I know that my home grown tomatoes taste much better than the commercial variety. After growing my own I do have a new appreciation for the produce I see in the market. With hydroponics I will be able to grow most of my own food on a very small plot of land, I don’t want to get into conventional farming.
The hydroponic industry can’t miss, water scarcity will be the cause of wars in the coming century. So even if it’s tasteless I will not go hungry. :)