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Nuclear Mutant Flies Are Good For Africa?
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?"
Science Fiction authors have always thought it is a good idea; it makes a good story.
now someone tell me colionalism died 40 years ago...
i hope one of this flies mutates into a 50 stories tall uber-insect and...
Yet another example of a self professed slashdot expert posting without getting the facts... this kind of non-event has been done before to excellent results... do your background research someplace besides TV and comics... jeez, sadly, PT Barnum is proved correct yet again...
All I ask is for pigeons with frikin laser beams attached to their heads. - Dr. Evil
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of those things!