• MTK@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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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      4 days 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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        4 days 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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          4 days ago

          More likely 10-15% of people die then everyone figures out it’s the water, identified the cause of death, develops filters to remove the toxin, and then the filter becomes commercialized.

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            4 days ago

            Like the first half of the movie is just what you would expect from a batman movie, but then after thousands die and batman catches the villan it just conintues into a documentary about how this event eventully led to the “2026 Water protection law” and the political fights around it.