7th
Back from DCAR
No bandwidth right now for video but I’ll tell you the basics - PCR is negative for REDS in the sample, and positive for engineered algae strains in the contaminated ponds. We’re continuing to investigate, but the initial hypothesis is that somebody didn’t realize we were running a wild type operation and tried to seed them with an off-the-shelf industrial oil algae many of which, of course, produce biomass that’s indigestible to animals.
In short, not a big deal if that’s all it is.
Will be attending the European Friends of DCAR meeting to fill people in on the current status, and from there it’s either another field trip down with a truck full of gear, or I’m going to take another microstate survey contract from the UN and do the North Scots Island States, Iceland and Faeroes run. I’d quite like to spend a bit more time in DCAR but the executions… It was only three people but I don’t believe in capital punishment, even for rape. And I understand that they’re not going to do imprisonment or slavery as punishments, they’re not going to medicate…
I dunno. I never thought DCAR would get this far, but I never thought it would be like this either. We’ve got to continue getting the standard of living raised or their fragile political autonomy and civil rights framework are going to collapse. DCAR, DCAR, why oh why isn’t your luck better?
