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Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos
wisebabo writes "Nathan Myhrvol demonstrated at TED a laser, built from parts scrounged from eBay, capable of shooting down not one but 50 to 100 mosquitos a second. The system is 'so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted.' Currently, for the sake of efficiency, it leaves the males alone because only females are bloodsuckers. Best of all the system could cost as little as $50. Maybe that's too expensive for use in preventing malaria in Africa but I'd buy one in a second!" We ran a story about this last year. It looks like the company has added a bit more polish, and burning mosquito footage to their marketing.
Well, to hell with the green movement... get me another 250 amp breaker box to my house! It's go time, you little bastards. I'm going to put some energy executive's nephew through college!
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And NOTHING ... I repeat, NOTHING ... is better than burning mosquito footage.
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..and a Roomba to clean up the mess, and you've got a party.
I love the smell of mosquito lasers in the morning... The smell, you know that burning insect smell... Smells like, victory.
... is going to throw a fit. A pissy hissy little fit. Good.
Infuriate left and right
Great.. Now we can look forward the evolution of the laser-resistant mosquito!
"Your donation of only $2 a day could help this African village purchase a mosquito defense laser . . . "
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YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Oh, sorry. I thought that was my cue.
Ah, the 'mirrorwing' mosquito. I can see it now. Maybe not so much once I get a reflected laser to the eye.
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Sorry, even at best it can only do 50 to 100 bugs per second. You'd need a lot of them.
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So why in the hell are we not nuking them all? why leave the males? So they can go find females that havent yet penetrated the perimeter and reproduce?
I say nuke them all from orbit. And biting black flies too.. The island where I vacation every year in Candada is rife with the buggers. you can see dozens of swarms of skeeters the size of a small house (the swarm not the skeeters) hovering near the tops of the treelined fields at dusk, and the flies along the beach in some areas make it impossible to inhabit without a beekeepers suit (they bite through tshirts). One year I had to run a 1/4 mile off the beach because I was being swarmed by the flies. I could feel them bouncing off the back of my head as I ran... not fun times.
It's a step in the right direction, but it just doesn't quite beat the competition yet.
Ha, you young Whippersnapper! Back when I was a boy, we used to track 'em in 11 dimensions. 11! And 8 of those dimensions were *dang* small. And if we missed a dimension, our pappy would throw us through a hole in it so we'd have to squeeze back into the outhouse in the 5th dimension. You kids have it sooo EASY!
Now, get off my lawn!
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Seriously, how self-centered are we?
God damnit this is /. how dare you come in here and try and spread your silly idea's about mosquitoes being important blah blah blah. What the hell man? THIS IS A GOD DAMN LASER WEAPON FOR KILLING BUGS! You don't get this? pewpewpew? no? FUCK! {throws chair}
Hire yourself out for parties. For $5/hour you could sit 10m away from the crowd and draw the mosquito's to you. You'd have your $50 in no time! You'd also have malaria, which is a bit of a downside.
Man, if you're the kind of person who says "wow, a laser that shoots down mosquitoes, how cool. Lets dangle my balls in front of it", then you don't deserve to reproduce :)
I'd be shocked if this laser is more powerful than 100 milliwatts
You mean burned or blind.
So then we update the targeting software with the new effective frequencies.
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Who needs to "evolve" an ecosystem full of bugs if you can just write it in Perl.
Cycle the shield frequencies Mr Tuvok!
Here in the interior of Alaska we have to plant trees close together in our campgrounds. That keeps the mosquitos with the larger wingspans from getting through. Heck, some of them have their own landing strip at the airport. Our mosquitoes are big -- scary big.
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