RE: KV history/psychology - St. Jon has been reading minds again. ....

Thus the new Biochem arty round:  Instead of Anthrax or VX, it now
disperses 
Essence of Chamomile and Vanilla. *g*

Brian B

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From: "Bell, Brian K" <Brian_Bell@dscc.dla.mil>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: "'gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'" <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: RE: KV history/psychology - St. Jon has been reading minds
again. 
....
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:47:23 -0500

I can see it now... Each human infantryman is required to carry Aroma
Therapy Candles or KV calming air freshener or KV calming cologne.

-----
Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
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 > >On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jeff Miller wrote:
 > >
 >
 > >yet another possibillity is that pheromones are involved, but they
are
 > >inhibitory, rather than stimulatory: KV produce signals which tell
the
 > >others to calm down. when they enter frenzy, they stop producing the
 > >pheromone. this gives just the same dynamics as the
 > stimulatory-pheromones
 > >setup, with a few twists. sealed suits would lead to *more* frenzy
 > >(berzerker PA!), due to the isolation of the individual from the
flock's
 > >pheromones. tightly-packed KV would be less likely to frenzy
(increased
 > >pheromone concentration), spread-out ones more (vice versa). if KV
are
 > >moving fast, they are not letting the pheromone build up around
them, 
and
 > >so they frenzy.
 >

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