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What could possibli go wrong?
by tamaharbor 5y ago
What could possibli go wrong?
- Hallucinaut 5y agoExperts in five years: Huh... that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong...
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- smt88 5y agoThat is a legitimate question that people have very seriously studied. What do you think could go wrong, exactly? We have accidentally caused thousands of species to go extinct. We might as well make a deadly, replaceable species go extinct on purpose.
- inkeddeveloper 5y agoIt’s all about balance. If someone had killed Hitler, would something worse had taken his place? Or, how about in Australia where a fence was constructed to keep dingos out of the south. But dingos are a predator to kangaroos so the kangaroo population increased and now they are overpopulated. Butterfly effect kind of thing.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> If someone had killed Hitler, would something worse had taken his place? Unlike Hitler, there are countless mosquitoes. That enabled scientists to do controlled experiments. (Something the Australians didn't do with the dingo fencing, either.) I don't have a strong opinion on this measure. But before supporting or criticizing it, I would at least glance at that evidence.
- smt88 5y agoBut these mosquitoes are: 1) invasive in North America, so they already took something native's place; 2) not going to be eradicated; 3) not the only mosquitoes in their habitats On top of that, the testing of this technique has gone well multiple times in the past.
- georgia_peach 5y agoWhat exactly are your qualifications for the large-scale policing of nature?
- datashaman 5y agoThey did it last year. It worked. Nothing went wrong. That’s why they’re doing it again this year.