Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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Make a T-Rex already.
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Glyptodon Pups Born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute made a breakthrough in the recreation of glyptodon, a prehistoric giant armadillo that went extinct nearly 11,000 years ago.
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bottom of the articleMake a T-Rex already.
Glyptodon Pups Born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute made a breakthrough in the recreation of glyptodon, a prehistoric giant armadillo that went extinct nearly 11,000 years ago.
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Make a T-Rex already.
Glyptodon Pups Born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute made a breakthrough in the recreation of glyptodon, a prehistoric giant armadillo that went extinct nearly 11,000 years ago.
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Some kid on Grandpa's HAM radio is gonna be like, "Uh... this is Earth 69 *snicker*. We will destroy your primitive race. *snicker*"
News headline: Scientists contact parallel universe only to discover they are more hostile than expected.
News headline: Scientists contact parallel universe only to discover they are more hostile than expected.
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This is getting to be like batteries. The breakthrough that will solve the problems is just around the corner!
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That is incredibly cool but goddamn imagine seeing that in ultra hd high res. Now that'd be something.
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One area of science that I find fascinating is the creation of mosquito gene bombs
How genetically modified mosquitoes are fighting malaria
This article tells the story of Target Malaria, a project that is fighting malaria with genetically modified mosquitoes
tldr: release a genetic disease into a mosquito population that results in sterile mosquitos after a dozen generations.
Other approaches look at making mosquitos luminscent, less able to fly or otherwise make them shittier mosquitos less able to breed.
I don't know of any large-scaled tests done in the wild, but I've been casually following it for years. There are a bunch of ethical considerations I don't really care about, and I don't know if the tech is ready for large scaled, wild testing and being held back by those ethical considerations or not. I figure at some point mankind will say fuck mosquitos and just dedicate some % of our money to constantly waging genetic war with them like we do against disease with vaccinations.
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code and release super skeeters that genetically modify the hosts.One area of science that I find fascinating is the creation of mosquito gene bombs
How genetically modified mosquitoes are fighting malaria
This article tells the story of Target Malaria, a project that is fighting malaria with genetically modified mosquitoeswww.selectscience.net
tldr: release a genetic disease into a mosquito population that results in sterile mosquitos after a dozen generations.
Other approaches look at making mosquitos luminscent, less able to fly or otherwise make them shittier mosquitos less able to breed.
I don't know of any large-scaled tests done in the wild, but I've been casually following it for years. There are a bunch of ethical considerations I don't really care about, and I don't know if the tech is ready for large scaled, wild testing and being held back by those ethical considerations or not. I figure at some point mankind will say fuck mosquitos and just dedicate some % of our money to constantly waging genetic war with them like we do against disease with vaccinations.
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We would be infecting them with this genetic material by a vector, right? Not hoping that they'd spread it naturally.
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I think I was making the assumption that if we were to go to the (monumental?) trouble of producing a genetically altered mosquito, it would be a solution that's at least an order of magnitude more effective than current ones.
If we have to frequently reintroduce the genetic vector, isn't that somewhat similar to just spraying? I'll admit, I don't know how much horny mosquitos get around. Maybe the coverage area of a fertile mosquito is much larger than spraying.