On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 4:37 AM, Rob O'Connor <xxxxxx@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

If a victim gets dosed with 10^6 devices, say, then they need to reproduce to get to at least the 10^8 required. (How the devices know how many copies they need to make is another problem that needs to be solved).

100x increase in numbers is ~6.6 doublings. If we use one of the fastest dividing bacterium like C. perfringens as an example, generation time is 10 minutes. Incubation time is 66 minutes.

So maybe instead of via a gaseous cloud. the initial dosage delivery is via a pressurized [crowd control] water cannon. If a victim is drenched in [10 to the 7th or 8th] devices, then total onset time should drop a bit, right?

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