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All you say is so true... That would make you a spoil sport, burst my bubble... I am going to have a little cry in the corner now. I really wanted a AI power

• Covzire 6y ago
  Shrug, add a nice zoom lens to make it's effective range several meters instead. Of course it would be far sighted but maybe you know most mosquitos will be several meters away anyway. Or have 3 cameras, one for the cm, one for the m and one able to zoom many meters to look at known problem spots like puddles or a bird bath.
  • hutzlibu 6y ago
    Or use a better method than a cheap camera. Like a radar and microphone like the other more famous project does. Because mosquitos have a distinct frequency of flapping their wings. Meaning you can then actually target the biting type. Because .. 95% of the mosquitos around actually do not sting humans(number from the back of my head from a friends paper some years ago). And killing them all has a quite negative impact on biological diversity.
  • onion2k 6y ago
    An alternative solution would be to genetically engineer bigger mosquitoes. This is why I should not be in charge of anything.
    • antonvs 6y ago
      Be sure to include some laser-resistant capabilities in the engineered mosquitoes, so that consumers will be forced to buy upgrades to more powerful lasers.
    • macintux 6y ago
      I'm sure there's an XKCD similar in spirit to your idea; if not, there should be.
    • bigiain 6y ago
      "Assume a perfectly spherical mosquito of uniform density..."
• danielheath 6y ago
  You know, you could use a bioreactor-powered neural-net driven drone to hunt them, if you kept a small bat as a pet.