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Fish Work as Anti-terror Agents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mr-limpet dept.

sdriver writes "San Francisco's bluegills went to work about a month ago, guarding the drinking water of more than 1 million people from substances such as cyanide, diesel fuel, mercury and pesticides. "There's no known manmade sensor that can do the same job as the bluegill." The New York City Department of Environmental Protection reported at least one instance in which the system caught a toxin before it made it into the water supply."

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  1. This is hardly guarding by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The bluegills are just sensors not guards. It's as dumb as saying one of those stupid "dogs" that bimbos like Paris Hiton carry around are guard dogs.

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  2. Not likely method by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Using cyanide to poison drinking water for a major city? It would be easy to catch the guys, they'd be the ones dumping the tanker truck full of cyanide.

    Plutonium would work much better.

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  3. so polluters are terrorists now? by petes_PoV · · Score: 3, Insightful
    OK, I'm fine with the idea of protecting people's water supply. But to say this is part of the fight against terrorism frankly, is ridiculous.

    ISTM that each time "terrorism" is included as a reason to improve public safety, it's just assisting the terrorist agenda by keeping them inthe news and instilling fear where it didn't previously exist.

    Better to celebrate the improvements that progress brings, rather than trying to keep everyone cowering in fear with cheap, sensationalist news copy.

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