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Nuclear Mutant Flies Are Good For Africa?

Posted by Hemos on from the where's-homer dept.

D\monix writes "According to this article in Reuters, the International Atomic Energy Agency is going to start releasing massive numbers of tsetse flies "sterilized by a burst of radiation" into sub Saharan Africa in order to outnumber and thus eradicate the local fly population. My favorite quote? "The impact of the fly is difficult to exaggerate." You're damn right it is. Anyone else out there think pumping large numbers of mutant insects into the environment might be a bad idea?"

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  1. hell by super-flex-o-matic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now someone tell me colionalism died 40 years ago...

    i hope one of this flies mutates into a 50 stories tall uber-insect and...