On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On 03May2018 1221, Richard Aiken wrote:

Could we add something to turn the mucus - perhaps even the skin - of
people dosed with the compound a vibrant orange (or some other strange
color)? That way, those who don't get enough of a dose to be paralyzed are
still tagged for later investigation.

 IF you're spraying them with a water cannon, just add dye to the water - there are plenty that stick to skin very well, and only come off as the skin itself is replaced.


Yeah. But then you've also dyed all the property round about. Besides, a nanobot virus that turned the skin of all those exposed bright orange would get ALL the skin, not just what the water cannon happened to hit. Make the nanobot virus anaerobic and you wouldn't have to worry [much] about it getting passed to those who weren't actually at the riot.

Besides, nanobot viruses are cool science fiction. Dyes are boring real-world stuff. :)


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Richard Aiken

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