First meth lab home built in space by NASA contractor

Fred Fuchs, a Nasa contractor, has done what no meth lab cook has ever done before. He has taken a meth lab to the final frontier, where no police have ever been before.Yet, that is exactly what he wants law enforcement agents to do.  Find his meth lab. Fuchs wants all cops to know – when it comes to meth labs, they should expect the unexpected. Fuchs has hidden his meth lab so well, that even the DEA would have a hard time finding it or the pre-cursor chemicals or cooked meth that are located inside his lab.

Floating far above universities, corporate headquarters, and other buildings lies Fuch’s unreachable and untouchable meth lab, in a space where no one would think about investigating – in space. Not only is his meth lab in space, it’s buried deep inside of a virtual space commonly known as Second Life. If cops are lucky enough to find out how to get to Second Life, they still have to find the lab, which might have asking other people on Second Life about where he is.  Yet, if they’re asking about Fred Fuchs, few people will know anything about him. Fuchs doesn’t use his real name on Second Life. If you want to find Fuchs, you’d better ask for Gus Plisskin, his Second Life identity. No one is called by their real name in Second Life.

Fred Fuchs and his partner, Kevin Shaum, own a consulting company called  Fire Sabre, LLC.,  a company that builds environments that few people would ever consider building, like a virtual International Space Station, for instance. But, what makes Fuchs’ even harder to capture is that thinking “outside the box” is perhaps his greatest strength.

Second Life, if you’re unfamiliar with virtual worlds, is basically an environment much like what we have on earth, full of companies, corporations, colleges, universities, and people, which one exception. It only exists  on the Internet.  Unlike a computer game, what happens in Second Life is created by its members. It is a world unto itself, where  you can buy land, build houses, start companies, attend job interviews, visit colleges, attend seminars, and alot more. The possibilities that exist on Second Life are virtually endless. But, even though Second Life is essentially “make believe”, it has some very real world applications, where people can make “real money”, like Ailin Graef has. In 2006, Business Week announced that she had become the first real-world millionaire on Second Life. Yes, she made “real money” from the site.

“Anshe/Ailin achieved her fortune by beginning with small scale purchases of virtual real estate which she then subdivided and developed with landscaping and themed architectural builds for rental and resale. Her operations have since grown to include the development and sale of properties for large scale real world corporations, and have led to a real life “spin off” corporation called Anshe Chung Studios, which develops immersive 3D environments for applications ranging from education to business conferencing and product prototyping.”

From a safety standpoint, Fuch’s meth lab in Second Life is the perfect training ground for police, social workers, firefighters, and EMS personnel to learn how to deal with a meth lab situation as effectively as possible. Build it and they will come – at least that what Fuchs is hoping for. The structure of the meth lab is based on actual police photos of meth labs that have been found in the real world and Fuchs wouldn’t have it any other way. He prides himself on accuracy, whenever he reconstructs a real world scene in the virtual world of Second Life. So, the meth lab waits, floating high above the ground in Second Life, waiting for the police and others to arrive at the scene. Will they come? I guess time will tell.

Fuchs’  meth lab makes me wonder….

Can Gus Plisskin be arrested for manufacturing meth on the Internet and if he is arrested, will he be thrown in to a virtual prison or be sent to a virtual drug court?

What happens if his meth lab explodes? Will the injured be sent to a virtual hospital to be treated for their burns?

If every pound of meth made produces 5 to 6 pounds of hazardous waste, will Fuchs’ meth lab end up polluting Second Life?

Did he build his meth lab in space on Second Life to protect the property values of others?

Other places involved in this story that you might want to check out: FireSabre ,  Second Life, Second Life’s First Millionaire