David Pfau notes cobalt-60 sterilization is the most hazardous phase.
@AlecStapp Scariest bit in all of this is the cobalt-60.
The manufacturing process for producing >200 million sterile screwworm flies a week can be summarized as creating a “76,000-square-foot artificial wound.”
This is grotesquely fascinating:
Many users reacted with disgust to the description of the massive artificial wound used for mass fly production in screwworm eradication, citing its unappetizing smell and appearance while one mocked Elon Musk.
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@AlecStapp Kinda figured it was a horrifying process given how the little bastards reproduce in the wild, the clockwork efficiency of machines can only do so much
@AlecStapp this is basically the screwworm equivalent of getting heavenbanned
@AlecStapp Silent Hill sequel but it's just a guy accidentally wandering into a factory breeding screwworm larvae
@AlecStapp Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
@AlecStapp This just a regular Tuesday in the Warhammer universe
@AlecStapp Pretty sure this is the plot of Saya no Uta
@AlecStapp On second thought I don’t think I need to eat lunch today.
@NoneLizard Yup
@AlecStapp My beautiful American industry.
@AlecStapp I remember wondering how they sterilized them, imagining them doing thousands of fly vasectomies or some silly nonsense, but this is much cooler
@AlecStapp Video game about a guy who gets in a car accident and sees everything as rotting meat
@eleganttap Never played, and now I’m not sure I want to
@Eric_Senpai1 Became an international industry!
@AlecStapp Defense Production Act to dual purpose data centers as screw worm factories
@uafsans Of what?
@AlecStapp
@AndronOcean Tried to warn ya!
@AlecStapp Grad school was like this
@seedmole Silent Hill?
@AlecStapp Elon Musk's bloated torso could make a suitable replacement