DARPA WASTE-OF-TIME BUILT AT ARMY FORT: Takes about half a decade
DARPA's first "immune building" has been built at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri, the home of the Army's chemical defense training corps.
"Immune building" has been around for about half a decade. DD remembers seeing nonsense for it around the time of the start-up of Weapon of the Week. During one week's selection process for stupid and possibly evil wastes of money to write about, Immune Building was in a run-off with DARPA's Self-Healing Minefield. The Jumping Minefield won, for obvious reasons, balancing the evil part of the equation much better than IB.
"Immune Building" asked people to entertain the fancy that lots of builders might actually rush to want to make everyday structures which are resistant to chemical and biological attack. It's an idea that only makes sense in world where you're gassed with blister agents as a part of modern life.
Since we don't live in that kind of world, the "Immune Building" is a non-starter.
According to the p.r. one sheet on it at Ft. Leonard Wood, the "Immune Building" is to "Rapidly decontaminate and restore buildings to function."
It takes no heed of human psychology or even common sense.
For the sake of a fantastical discussion, let's assume a local business -- anywhere -- has been hit by anthrax mailings. Once the crisis has been sorted out, everyone rapidly finds no one wants to go back to work there. Ever. The value of the property plummets; it lies abandoned for awhile. Eventually it gets bulldozed.
It's like saying you want to go back to living and working at a SuperFund site. If you've no choice in the matter, maybe. Given choice, never.
Consider Gruinard Island, off the northern tip of Scotland, contaminated by British biowar anthrax experiments for decades. (Google bacteriologist Paul Fildes.) Eventually, the Brits found a way to decontaminate Gruinard. Salt water and formaldehyde treatment of the island was the answer.
Wow! Sounds great. Don't you want to go there for your retirement now?
Immune Building opens at Ft. Leonard Wood.
DARPA's first "immune building" has been built at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri, the home of the Army's chemical defense training corps.
"Immune building" has been around for about half a decade. DD remembers seeing nonsense for it around the time of the start-up of Weapon of the Week. During one week's selection process for stupid and possibly evil wastes of money to write about, Immune Building was in a run-off with DARPA's Self-Healing Minefield. The Jumping Minefield won, for obvious reasons, balancing the evil part of the equation much better than IB.
"Immune Building" asked people to entertain the fancy that lots of builders might actually rush to want to make everyday structures which are resistant to chemical and biological attack. It's an idea that only makes sense in world where you're gassed with blister agents as a part of modern life.
Since we don't live in that kind of world, the "Immune Building" is a non-starter.
According to the p.r. one sheet on it at Ft. Leonard Wood, the "Immune Building" is to "Rapidly decontaminate and restore buildings to function."
It takes no heed of human psychology or even common sense.
For the sake of a fantastical discussion, let's assume a local business -- anywhere -- has been hit by anthrax mailings. Once the crisis has been sorted out, everyone rapidly finds no one wants to go back to work there. Ever. The value of the property plummets; it lies abandoned for awhile. Eventually it gets bulldozed.
It's like saying you want to go back to living and working at a SuperFund site. If you've no choice in the matter, maybe. Given choice, never.
Consider Gruinard Island, off the northern tip of Scotland, contaminated by British biowar anthrax experiments for decades. (Google bacteriologist Paul Fildes.) Eventually, the Brits found a way to decontaminate Gruinard. Salt water and formaldehyde treatment of the island was the answer.
Wow! Sounds great. Don't you want to go there for your retirement now?
Immune Building opens at Ft. Leonard Wood.
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