At 11:13 PM 12/31/01 -0500, Dave Emery wrote: >or business - which can be accomplished with a vacuum cleaner or bicycle >pump - and using the resulting "backflow" to push poisons into a local >water-distribution system. Such an attack would use utility pipes for
A high-pressure water cleaner puts out ca. 100 atmospheres of pressure, and on the other end, can also flatten a hose if the water supply is shut off and the pump is running. John Y or 100K other structural engineers/architects can probably explain about the multiple-level tanks used in skyscraper hydraulics. As with microbes, the most insidious poisons are the ones that take a long time to show symptoms. Butyric acid squirts from vocal, immature lone wolves is the least of your problems. Damn, but Empire is expensive.
