Let's re-think building that BSL-4 Bio Lab on Galveston Island, huh?

[elehhhhna]

It's going ahead full steam.

Assigned to improve U.S. biodefense research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an arm of the National Institutes of Health, has funded nine regional biocontainment labs and, more controversially, two national biolabs outfitted with BSL-4 facilities. One is the Boston University lab; the other is at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a growing center of bioterrorism research. NIAID awarded each university a one-time grant of $120 million to build the centers.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/wo/wo_asbrand021005.asp?p=0

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Things that make you go "hmmmmm" n/t

[babylonsister]

2. I live in Houston

and I had no idea. :banghead: Yes, Galveston doesn't seem to be the safest place for biolabs, does it? Another "what were they thinking" moment!

[papau]

3. Carolina Outer Banks - or Florida Keys - so many great locations

for Bush to choose.

Every time I think Bush could not have made a worse decision, he surprises me and modifies the decision - making it worse.

:-(

[Lilyhoney]

4. We build a facility to house and protect us from

the very evil we create.

Can we just stop the insanity for a few minutes while we finish cleaning up the huge mess we already have made?:shrug:

[riverwalker]

5. "the most dangerous viruses known to man"

Oh yeah, Mr. Homeland Security Headupyerass , let's put that facility on a hurricane prone coastline.

"National Biocontainment Laboratory designed for work on the most dangerous viruses known to man."

[mom cat]

6. I agree. Homeland Security cannot be trusted! I moved from Houston to

Boston and love both cities. Galveston is where I spent many happy days on the beach. HS has shown that it is a miserable failure.

visit:
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[Nite Owl]

7. And then we have

Plum Island smack in hurricane alley off the coast of LI, near Boston. What a place to put that one right near a high population, storm path.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=19400000

[Rainscents]

8. Plum Island is very scary place! Too many shit had gone wrong there...