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Disease Collection
Collect viruses/diseases/etc, and wait until they become rare. Then sell. | |
Obtain fairly pure samples of disease - from the common cold, to anthrax. As with any other collection, eg. books, stamps, value will increase with time, rarity and collectors items.
For example - the common cold mutates every year; so, someone about now could collect a neat sum on selling a vial
of their prized "1924 common cold."
Furthermore - if at some point in the future, science manages to eradicate, say, a particular disease, and a quirk in evolution causes us to become very vulnerable to this no-longer-existing disease; then maybe Hussein's great-grandson would pay a large amount of money for your little glass tube of 1998 Influenza.
Much like wine collecting, really.
Center for Disease Control Trading Cards
http://www.cdc.gov/...s4kids/tradecrd.htm
This is legit people! [dgeiser13, Sep 13 2000, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Dispersion
http://www.eiu.org/...riments/dispersion/
"Your easy one stop choice for personal
lethal biological pathogens" [wrenchndmachine, Sep 13 2000, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Baked. If you search the web for 'Biological Warfare'., I think you'll find that your government already do this. |
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No, but I mean, for the commonners. Like, governments have archives and libraries, but people still collect books. |
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How would collecters make sure of the authenticity of the specimen? |
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<Much like wine collecting, really> |
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I'm trying to picture a girl coming to my house because I told her I have a great '92 Flu I think she'd enjoy.... |
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[normzone] I'd take a '92 flu over an '18 one anyday! |
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