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MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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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Mora@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Can I buy that on Amazon?

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- MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You can make it at home!
  
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  - ulterno@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just need to isolate the correct bacterium first.
    
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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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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- Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Deliciosa soup for their family?
  
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- MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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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  - ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    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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  - DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Are you a Batman villain, threatening to poison Gotham’s water supply.
    
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    MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    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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misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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.

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- mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I always wondered if the toxin didn’t kill the bacteria.
  
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  - ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Bacteria doesn’t have nerve cells.
    
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