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Why the Hell should I have to press “1” for ENGLISH?
It certainly sounds like an Onion story, but its been picked up by major newspapers.
Here is a Wall Street Journal link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html
Now a really cool story will be when they mount the lasers on the mosquitoes. That might make an interesting home defense system!
Last edited by DannyR; 03-17-2009 at 03:24 AM.
There's a sucker born every minute. And, clearly, many of them work for newspapers.
Has nobody stopped to consider the unlikelihood (is that a word?) of a laser that can shoot the wings on a moving target the size of a mosquito, that won't also toast the rest of the bug? And NOT harm anything else that might be around... like the eyeballs of the guy a few feet or yards downrange, that the skeeters were swarming around?
The people publishing this article, have been had. It's definitely Onion material.
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
I can hear my 10 year old now...........Mom mom buy me a mosquito killing laser..............the next evening the child is in the yard blasting everything with wings........... die sucker die!
You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word. ~ Gaffer
So I ran this whole mosquitoes laser thing by my 10 year old............he says, what? I said you shoot and kill mosquitoes with it, it is a laser gun...........needless to say he gets a big old grin on his face and said, where let me see it! Can we get a pic?
You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word. ~ Gaffer
Here in Puerto Rico mosquitoes are a problem year round but I use a low tech solution... first remove all breading areas, like wet leaves or standing water containers and then encourage breading areas for my local gecko population that loves mosquitoes as much as I love porterhouse steak... I've made several incubators for gecko's to lay their eggs in from scrap PVC tubes and the gecko population has doubled at least.
I don't think a mechanical system is practical because as I pointed out earlier they breed over such a large area... I think the absolute best method would be to build shelters for bats if you truely want to reduce the mosquito population as a whole because of their ability to accomplish the same result as the invention mentioned. If mosquitoes carry disease then only one has to bite you so in that case the only sure thing to prevent that is chemical spray that reacts to similar motion detection.
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