• Bill Gates donates $4M to create mosquitoes that kill each other using sex
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Bill Gates donates $4M to create mosquitoes that kill each other..
If I was rich I would definitely donate money to genetically modifying insect species.
This is one of my favorite ideas for eradicating malaria. Just make them go extinct, it's a masterpiece
I remember the conspiracy that he created zyka to sterilize the human population
Now what do you do with the rest of the ecosystem now that you've extinguished an important food source, for a large variety of animals.
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better. When it comes to the major disease vectors, "it's difficult to see what the downside would be to removal, except for collateral damage", says insect ecologist Steven Juliano, of Illinois State University in Normal. A world without mosquitoes would be "more secure for us", says medical entomologist Carlos Brisola Marcondes from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. "The elimination of Anopheles would be very significant for mankind." Lots of experts agree that other insects would likely fill the hole left by mosquitoes.
I would imagine this is something Bill Gates has already considered. Only question is how vital they really are to the ecosystem if at all.
Kill'em all and let their mosquito god sort them out.
Well there is our answer. Gates has thought of everything. I wouldn't question him - he is smarter than all of us here.
I hate mosquitoes so much I don't even know what to type here but I want my hatred to known anyways
Mosquitoes are a menace in the south (just got 3+ bites on my legs recently) but I don't really want them extinct. Just shove a few hundred in a glass domed part of Florida and call it a day.
Let's be fair here, Gates is not a scientist. Gates' strength is that he knows which smart people are worth listening to, and he knows which smart people are going to use his money effectively.
There was a video I saw the other day on the lengths Disney goes to to get mosquitos to fuck off from their parks in Florida
I don't have much love for any mogul, but Bill Gates is about as benevolent as they come with his billions. Charity should be an expectation of people of his wealth and status and it's a shame that more don't live up to that standard.
Unlikely you don't just remove a major part of an ecosystem without repercussions.
Well, I've found a few more papers saying other small insects could fill the void within years, causing minimal collateral damage. Of course it's kind of unintuitive but I'll trust the findings of scientists over my own instincts about what would and wouldn't work in nature.
Where's the movie where this transfers to humans.
My only concern is that now there's a part of the ecosystem that needs to be filled, some other insect with take the role of mosquito (not the biting or carrying malaria part, but feeding animals etc.) And could potentially be worse than a mosquito
Pretty sure we can do without whatever needs them to live. Either that or it can adapt.
I think we have a Mosquito among us guys
Given how much he hates bugs, not surprised
That's just an urban legend to cover up that Bill Gates misread an email and thought he was funneling a few million into reviving Zima.
People who've studied this topic more than any of us seem to disagree. If they really can be removed that would be excellent. At one point infections caused by mosquito bites would've cost me both my legs or even my life without functioning antibiotics.
Well actually, he DID create zika. Now he wants to eliminate mosquitoes to cover up the evidence.
Mosquitos and Ticks need to be eradicated considering they do far more harm than good and won't affect the ecosystem if they vanish plus Malaria/Lymes
No, same goes for flies and ticks. everything would be better off without them.
Wasn't Bill Gates going to fund a laser that destroys the Mosquitoes or am I just being stupid?
Fuck it, that's all the rationale I need, get 'em Bill Gates. Let's steam roll ticks next, I'd like to be able to walk around my property without being eaten alive.
Imagine you're a scientist chilling in your lab when all of a sudden Bill freaking Gates walks in with a giant bag full of money and goes "I want mosquitoes to fuck themselves dead"
there is not a single creature that survives on them. Them just dying entirely would pretty much affect nothing at all.
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