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(Under a picture of a man in the Starfleet uniform looking into the holodeck.)
Computer, simulate a mid-twentieth century shower room. Eastern European architecture, metal fixtures, wooden doors. Now, feed the shower taps into a pressurized container of hydrogen cyanide and release enough of the gas into the room to kill 200 women and children
[Error Message] Hydrogen cyanide is air soluble. The conditions described would not allow for sufficient concentrations of the gas to form. Please change the parameters of the enclosure to achieve the desired effect.
Fascinating. Thank you computer that's all I needed for now.
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…and then the ship's AI turns off the safety interlocks, makes a striped uniform with a Star of David appear on the OP: who is seized by SS guards and is thrown into the gas chamber.
The USS Voyager's Chief of Security monitors this activity in the Holodeck.
Tuvok: ‘Fascinating. ’
Now, ignoring the specifics of how his description of the gas chambers and how he's likely an idiot who's getting things wrong, I'll "just" go by what is described.
This idiot can't fathom a gas being pumped in by a pressurized container of completely adjustable size filling an inclosed space and at the very least causong asphyxiation in crowd? I mean, I've certainly not done the math, but given a setup like that just pumping in CO2 sounds like it should kill with no limits on the size of the container pumping in gas and no time limits on deaths.
Man, I bet all of his fan-fiction holodeck adventures are lame.
“Fascinating. Thank you computer that's all I needed for now.”
I notice a distinct lack of math to support this position. Letting a fictional computer do the work is less than worthless. Though, to do the math, I imagine you'd actually need some details about how big the room is, how much gas you have, etc.
This is also dumb on another level. Even if the OP's right about "OMG holohoax! Me am so smart!", if you ask a computer like that to create that scenario, it'll do it. Because Evil Barclay here didn't give any constraints on the size of the room or amount of gas, the computer gets to set it up so that it will work, even if it's unrealistic.
What the fuck is he talking about? Pressurized? HCN cans were opened and dumped, by various means, into the gas chambers creating prussic acid in the process. The stuff was also used as a disinfectant for its potency. I could rattle off a list of what the Nazis used it for, but why? The original poster is a fucking idiot.
If he means the gas chambers were pressurized, he's wrong there too. The first recorded time the Nazis killed with HCN was in a dirt cellar under Block 11. Some records state the Russian POWs died within minutes. In truth it took about two days. (There was a miscalculation as to how much of the stuff to use.)
Arizona's planning to use the same gas to kill its death row inmates, despite the fact Zyklon B takes between 5 to 7 minutes to kill a roomful of people. And it's not pleasant.
ETA: oh right, I almost forgot: my usual challenge to Holocaust deniers is if they're willing to stand in a room filled with Zyklon B. It is, after all, not that dangerous - right?
After doing a quick bit of research, I’m pretty sure that they’re equivocating “shower rooms” (euphemistic) with shower rooms (like you’d find in a gym). And they’re treating hydrogen cyanide as if it could only kill if it took the form of a concentrated cloud, as if it were carbon dioxide or something. This is incorrect, it only takes around 0.1% concentration to kill a human within minutes (and 0.02% to kill a human within hours), so you don’t need huge quantities of it even though it disperses in air.
Also, “air soluble” does not appear to be an actual technical term.
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