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Wouldn't it be better to invest in vaccines, instead? A laser powerful enough to kill a mosquito seems to be powerful enough to cause retinal damage. Am I missi
by TriinT 17y ago
Wouldn't it be better to invest in vaccines, instead? A laser powerful enough to kill a mosquito seems to be powerful enough to cause retinal damage. Am I missing anything obvious?
- Devilboy 17y agoThis thing can selectively kill them by gender which is pretty cool. Vaccines only help against the individual diseases spread by mosquitos, targeting the mosquitos directly is useful too.
- TriinT 17y agoI can see that, but note that there are always budget constraints, and it would not be unreasonable to ask whether there are other more cost-efficient ways of killing mosquitos or fighting malaria. How many malaria-carrying mosquitos are there? Billions? Trillions? What would be the cost of burning them all with lasers? Given that biotech has made quite some progress, a more efficient solution would be perhaps to infect male mosquitos with some disease that does only kills female mosquitos, and when they f*ck the females, they would pass on the disease and remove malaria-carrying bugs from the face of the Earth.