• Malaysia Releases 6,000 Genetically Modified Mosquitoes into the Wild
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[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;27723500]As the past is shown us, whenever genetically altered things are released into the wild, something will probably go wrong.[/QUOTE] The past has never shown us how releasing genetically altered things into the environment will go wrong.
Well, we're fucked. [img]http://mrtopp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/giant_mosquito_attack.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27723482]I totally agree with this, back when I lived in Malaysia there were mosquitoes everywhere. Like, it wasn't even a question, it was just a facet of life. Mosquito bites all day, errday.[/QUOTE] I didn't know you lived in Malaysia. I mean, out of all places, for fuck :geno:
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;27723921]I didn't know you lived in Malaysia. I mean, out of all places, for fuck :geno:[/QUOTE] Some of the best 3 years of my life.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;27723284]Mosquitoes are low on the food chain and when you fuck with the bottom of the food chain you end up fucking with everything above it should something go wrong[/QUOTE] Yep [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27723571]The past has never shown us how releasing genetically altered things into the environment will go wrong.[/QUOTE] UH corn... tons of grains...
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;27724268] UH corn... tons of grains...[/QUOTE] Like... Examples?
This still isn't going to fix the fact that you always get bites when you're over there. [i]Every damn time.[/i]
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27724486]Like... Examples?[/QUOTE] Im going to bed i took my meds already... I'll pm you later tomorrow
I heard this was also going to be attempted with Malaria, but the male Anopheles would be sterile and as the females only breed once or something the numbers would reduce.
my god they'll kill us all
Soon these babies will be flying around the world [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/138662445_c2972744a4.jpg[/img]
AND THAT'S HOW VALVE DOES VIRAL MARKETING. /caps.
[quote]Dengue fever is a particularly nasty bug found in tropical and subtropical climes like Malaysia’s, causing nausea, muscle and joint pain, fever, headaches, rashes, and sometimes death if left untreated (in Malaysia it killed 134 people last year).[/quote] Hardly seems worth the research, especially if the money could have gone towards a more widespread medical system
We saw how big of a fail the 'Superbee' was. This will go horribly wrong.
What people forget is that around half of humans that have ever lived (depending how far you go back in our evolutionary history) were killed by diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, making this sort of thing extremely important. I read about this GM mosquito project in Time Magazine a while back. As far as I can remember, the Mosquitoes are engineered to be free from dangerous diseases and to be genetically superior to other mosquitoes, so they will, over time, replace the disease-ridden mosquitoes we have now. I may be remembering it wrong, but I think that's something along the lines of how this is going down. [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] Of course, this could be a completely different project, I assume it's the same on though.
They need to do this in australia with flies. Except make them not fucking annoying.
Wouldn't natural selection just kill the modified mosquitoes off since they don't live long enough to breed?
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;27714833]On another note:[/QUOTE] I love you [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] Also: [img]http://img.hindilinks4u.net/2008/08/Mansquito-2005-In-Hindi.jpg[/img]
I'm not stupid enough to believe it would happen, but isn't this the source of the 'outbreak' in some zombie film/game/book/TV series/raving lunatic's warnings?
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;27714868]Oh look, people fearing things they don't understand. 6,000 mosquitos is practically nothing though, they're probably the lowest thing on the food chain next to grass so everything that sits in the "Small animal" niche eats them so something tells me the modified insects won't have much of an impact on the existing population.[/QUOTE] Well let's hope.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27723571]The past has never shown us how releasing genetically altered things into the environment will go wrong.[/QUOTE] Killer bees man, the situation may be a bit different but still. KILLER BEES
[QUOTE=TheJunction;27729774]Killer bees man, the situation may be a bit different but still. KILLER BEES[/QUOTE] Killer bees were far from genetically engineered. Well, it's as genetically engineered as the mule.
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;27726811]Hardly seems worth the research, especially if the money could have gone towards a more widespread medical system[/QUOTE] dengue fever used to kill thousands of people
Watch as they all die because they have no idea how to live in the wild.
I see a good thing and a bad thing about this. The good thing is that they have a lower life expectancy, which means that by way of natural selection they'll most likely die out soon as they'll have less time to procreate in than their long-living counterparts. The bad thing is that this also means that there's no way this could actually work as the "normal" mosquitoes would always have an advantage over them, keeping these modified mosquitoes from becoming abundant enough in the gene pool to make a difference.
[quote] but naturally everyone isn’t thrilled with the idea of releasing altered DNA into the ecosystem. - The experimental mosquitoes, all male, were engineered to produce offspring that quickly die in hopes that shortening life spans will thin the population of Aedes species[/quote] oh wow, that is all magic i can't believe they can actually do that, i can only literally imagine what they are gonna come up with in about a thousand years
Oh god, imagine what the cloud of 6000 mosquitoes looked like. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=yuki;27723052]I'm not thrilled with releasing more fucking mosquito into the ecosystem. We should be trying to kill these fucking things.[/QUOTE] I hate them to, but their important to the ecosystem as a food source for most small animals, kill them off, small animals starve, then the larger ones, then herbivores become overpopulated, eating all the vegetation, thus killing themselves off
Good job Malaysia you idiots. Here's to waiting for a mutated dengue virus.
Well, the world is actually better off without them anyways. They don't contribute anything positive to the ecosystem except being a food source. But even then, those animals higher up the food chain would survive without them. [url]http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html[/url]
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