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Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?

American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.

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Predicting Urban Fear Vectors

1. simulate how a crowd flees from a burning car toward a single evacuation point;
2. test out how a pathogen might be transmitted through a mobile pedestrian over a short period of time;
3. see how the existing urban grid facilitate or does not facilitate mass evacuation prior to a hurricane landfall or in the event of dirty bomb detonation;
4. design a mall which can compel customers to shop to the point of bankruptcy, to walk obliviously for miles and miles and miles, endlessly to the point of physical exhaustion and even death;
5. identify, if possible, the tell-tale signs of a peaceful crowd about to metamorphosize into a hellish mob,
6. determine how various urban typologies, such as plazas, parks, major arterial streets and banlieues, can be reconfigured in situ into a neutralizing force when crowds do become riotous; and
7. conversely, figure out how one could, through spatial manipulation, inflame a crowd, even a very small one, to set in motion a series of events that culminates into a full scale Revolution or just your average everyday Southeast Asian coup d’état — regime change through landscape architecture.

Όπως και να το κάνουμε είναι μια ανακούφιση να διαπιστώνεις πως κάθε μέρα η ανθρωπότητα ξεφορτώνεται ακόμα ένα κουρέλι από το πρωτόγονο παρελθόν της.

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