tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4669072913676108172.post5054232909017034064..comments2023-10-09T09:13:33.136-03:00Comments on Upending : Resetting the Allied moral compass so that it diverged from the Nazis, not merely followed a muted parallel courseMichael Marshall http://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4669072913676108172.post-73122095170954848222013-02-20T10:44:44.740-04:002013-02-20T10:44:44.740-04:00Anthrax has been happily killing animals and human...Anthrax has been happily killing animals and humans for a long long time without any help from Science.<br><br>But a lot of the world's best scientists have struggled for 75 years to "weaponize" it without an clear signs of success: we are still in danger than the anthrax spreads back to the side that launched it.<br><br>Just as the Canadians failed to successfully "weaponize" the chlorine gas they tried to send over to the German side at Vimy : the winds changed it it ended up only killing Canadians !<br><br>A success weapon that your side invents has to help your side more than it helps the other side.<br><br>The hollow charge was invented by a big nation, America, but generally it has helped its tiny opponents (as used in IEDs) more than it has helped America.<br><br>The richer Allied medical forces did not want penicillin to help the poorer Axis medical forces more than it helped them, so they tried very hard to keep it a secret --- a frequent feature of weaponizing something.<br><br>Another way they weaponized penicillin was to try to make it a pure dry stable lightweight powder like sulfa powder, that could be just poured into a fresh war wound on the combat lines at the battle raged without need of skilled doctors giving IVs with help of refrigerated penicillin.<br><br>Later on , the dumb simple idea of ice lined plywood iceboxes did allow penicillin and whole blood to save lives on the front lines - no need for compilcated and nearly useless dried blood and dried penicillin powder !<br><br><br><br>Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.com