Dr. Glen D’Souza

Yeah, probably a cigar.

That's not how a lab rolls.

Yeah, and they're weapons, but it's not one weapon.

There's like a million different ways to kill, right?

So, you know, you can put them in two broad classes.

You can have a weapon like a sword.

You can keep on poking your neighbor.

You can have these sort of teeny-weeny bombs.

You sort of unload into the environment and then kill whoever is out there, right?

So that's sort of the two broad classes.

It can get even more complicated.

You can weaponize something else, right?

You can have these viruses that you can sort of...

carry along with you, benign, and then suddenly decide, oh, you're deployed to attack a neighborhood.

And so, yeah, there's a million different ways how bacteria can kill out there.

Yeah, I mean, that's like a difficult question.

So at two levels, right?

Because we do not know how many bacteria are in the first place, right?

You know, we pretty much, I think, only describe about 5% of maybe most of all the bacterial life that is out there in nature.

Okay, but of what we know, I think there are estimates, depending on which environment you look at, right?