Sterile mosquitoes. Which is actually a highly effective strategy for lowering mosquito populations. Also, only the females bite you - the male mosquito’s entire purpose in life, with no exaggeration, is to bang and then die.
…am I a male mosquito? I don’t bite. I bang, and…well one day I’ll die.
We sure? Do we want to trust Google with this? Why is Google involved at all. Feel a conspiracy with this.
Cynicism about anything evil corp does is well founded, but this has actually has a solid basis.
I assume they do it for reputation-washing -> look at this one good thing we do and ignore all the other evil stuff
I do not trust Google with this. If there’s any way this could ever be possibly weaponized it will be. Best case scenario it’s another wildly successful google product that they straight up abandon for no reason after like 3 years.
I dont see it explained, but wouldn’t this cause catastrophic issues with the ecosystem? Bats and such rely on them. How will this not cause a collapse?
Consequences?!?! This is America. We don’t worry about those AT ALL.
You trust google?
As a rule, no. But there are a number of scientific papers on this topic.
I don’t trust any of them. I’m familiar with their test projects they’ve done, one in Florida. And I know they’ve done something successful with that weird screw fly thing down south of the border.
Did. Trump killed that program, and now they have found screwworm flies as close as 30 miles from the border of California and Arizona.
It will devastate some of his biggest supporters if it makes it across the border, ranchers are total of dicks.
Ok now you’re venturing into conspiracy theory territory. Nobody wants a screwworm outbreak anywhere. They’re a categorical pestilence.Edit: I misread your comment - apologies.
What did I just say? That they successfully controlled the screw worm with it. Jesus Christ read it before you trash it.
lowering mosquito populations
Sure, since bees are doing so incredibly well (/s) let’s get the number of pollinators down even more. And it’s not like they are food themselves to others (/s)
Yes, I hate mosquitoes, but they’re a pretty significant part of the ecosystem. But Google is well known for their measured and thoughtful approach, and especially long-term planning, so I’m sure it’s going to be just fine.
There is literally no option to endanger mosquito species which act as vectors for human disease while people, agriculture, and wild mammal populations exist. This is local suppression in municipal areas.
32 million would be like fighting a wildfire with a spraybottle if your goal was eradication.
Eradicating disease is an option though as we CAN control transmission.
Only a couple of species of mosquitoes actually bite human beings. At least one of those species is not native to the United States. We can safely kill those species and it should not impact the diet of birds and other things, sincere will still be plenty of other mosquitoes to go around.
I’ll look forward to hearing that the program has been cancelled for no apparent reason in a couple of years after successfully delivering all of its objectives
The fact that Google is behind it is what makes it sketchy. I bet those mosquitoes are carrying 5G.
Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?
They are allying with the other parasites to seize control obviously.
I’m in favor of anything that gets us closer to making mosquitos extinct. Either the ecosystem adapts, or it’s now on an only-slightly-steeper nose dive toward total collapse than it is anyway with the amount of non-mosquito related damage we’re causing every day.
Like, if we’re fucked anyway, let’s be fucked in the relative comfort of a world without mosquitos!
Iirc they’ve done several impact studies and determined that wiping out the species that bites humans wouldn’t have a significant impact.
another one will easily take its place since there is more than 1 that can trasmit certain viruses, aedis ageypti is the one that transmits the most viruses. malaria usually only spread by anopholes mosquitoes.
Don’t tell Mr Bubbles. He’s relying on that cover story.
The intent maybe good but what is Google getting out of it? They are not saints definately.
They’re going to use blood to run data-centers, probably.
Makes sense, google has embraced it’s own parasitism and now is making alliances with other parasites.
I always really wanted to release a bunch of Komodo dragons in there, I think they’d thrive. They’d cull the population of… Many animals! Including Floridians. I think that’d be good for us, as humans I mean. Keeps us on our toes. I think we could have a very healthy Komodo dragon population in the Florida swamps before 2050. I bet they adapt super well. They have to! They always do. Good thing, not growing too complacent in ones superpredatorialism. Let’s put the beef where our mouths are, let the dragons prey on the slower ones, cull human population quite organically. It’s really not that far off from what we used to do like 20KYA or so. Back then we had snub nosed bears and let me tell you, they were no girl scout cookies either!
I’ve always been partial to releasing Siberian Tigers in North America.
They’d do wonders for the ecology!
Sounds like a billionaire/CEO are sick of mosquitos in their garden, homes, beaches etc.
One can only hope they have not been designed by AI. “Oh, sorry, I made a mistake, I see that now. According to current news, this killed XXXXX people so far.”
Surprised they’re asking.
Didn’t this already happen once, and it turned out that sterile mosquitoes aren’t as sterile as they thought? I might (and hope to) be misremembering.
and the wild species, breed faster than normal to compensate too.
