Your dream of a world without mosquitoes is one step closer to coming true - Oxitec wants to release genetically-engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys [More]Time was, we had a way to save untold millions of lives before the Opposite Day "progressives" took control of things.
Funny -- the same people who maintain we're all just here by chance, after millions of years of fortuitous mutations, are confident they can control the process and the outcomes and what happens in succeeding generations for a species with a life cycle measured in days. Hey, they presume to control everything else, so why not? Forget that they couldn't possibly have a reliable predictive model, any more than they can predict the wealth transf ... uh ... weather.
And funny, how the concept of guns in parks warranted a federal judge declaring she wouldn't allow it without an environmental impact study...
If any fiction writer out there needs a blood-feeding zombie apocalypse catalyst, releasing genetically-engineered mosquitoes into the wild seems about as plausible as any.
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They tried this years ago. Now the south has love-bugs!
The concept by the UofF was to create bugs that would breed with mosquitos and not produce. Instead the breed with each other constantly, usually dying on windshields.
The arrogance of humans on full display.
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