OH SNAP! Candiru are terrifying. If I ever became a genetic engineer I would work on creating a leech candiru crossbreed that emits mind control chemicals! That would be my gift to the world. I plan on learning more about nanotechnology after I get my engineering degree and maybe I can make a modular robot that does the same thing.
A targeted virus / nanite / whatever that wipes out 95% of the viable human food sources.
Note, it must not wipe out all of them, just most. Imagine, if you will, a weapon that kills nobody, but sends the entire world into starvation, war and chaos.
No, see space won't boil your blood because your circulatory system is sealed. They have documentation of a guy being exposed to vacuum for a while during a piloting experiment that went somewhat wrong. He passed out but his blood didn't boil unfortunately, you'd have to open up the system somehow or generate a vacuum inside of it, which is what I am advocating.
My it's-been-a-long-day answer is some kind of device that slowly covers someone in paper cuts, and then drenches them with the venom/whatever of the bullet ant. I'll think on this and see if I can come up with better.
. It is for those unable to move, or when the columns pass through homes, that there is the greatest risk. There have been reported cases of people—usually the young, infirm, or otherwise debilitated who could not escape—being killed and eventually consumed by them, often dying of asphyxiation.
That means they suffocated...on BITEY ANTS. From the wikki.
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Serious Answer: I would have to agree with Axel on fire.
Note, it must not wipe out all of them, just most. Imagine, if you will, a weapon that kills nobody, but sends the entire world into starvation, war and chaos.
Cheery huh? ^.^
@Erwin: /thread
Kenshiro's fist definitely wins too.
The only thing that may be worse is if they threw in mind control. Mind control is always effin creepy.
1) Drowning in cat pee would be horrific.
2) Survivors would have to live with that horrid smell for years.
From the wikki.