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[entremet]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=newshour

The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final environmental assessment of the plan, saying that the proposed field trial in Key Haven, a suburb of Key West, “will not have significant impacts on the environment.”
Now it’s up to the people who live there to vote in November on whether the trial can move forward.

The project was proposed by the British biotech company Oxitec and has been under review since 2011, well before Zika virus exploded throughout South America, up through Mexico and Puerto Rico and into Florida. But the decision came just days after the first local transmissions by mosquitoes were confirmed in the U.S., in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Mutant mosquitos, brehs.

The good thing about Zika hitting the US is we have more resources to put a serious fight compared to Latin America.

 

[mclem]

This is the opening ten minutes of a Kaiju film, right?

 

[Pai Pai Master]

MOSQUITO DEATH BATTLES

Give them cute little laser guns too

 

[Llyrwenne]

 

[ZombAid82]

'tis gonna end just fine, just fine, just fine.....

 

[j.rob]

Literally the start to a thriller/horror.

 

[Condom]

The good thing about Zika hitting the US is we have more resources to put a serious fight compared to Latin America.

The article states that they have already been used in Latin America

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Begun the Clone Wars has.

 

[entremet]

The warfare is genetic.

Parry’s company has been genetically modifying millions of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a lab with a synthetic protein that kills their offspring before they can emerge from larvae as adults and transmit the Zika virus or other diseases such as Dengue.

If wild female mosquitoes mate with sterile males, the population dies off rapidly.

Oxitec has already released millions of them in Brazil, Panama and the Cayman Islands. The results have been significant: They have reduced some local mosquito populations by more than 90 percent

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[obin_gam]

Cue up this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10

Then:

"Come Get Some"

 

[iNvid02]

well ok, as long as giant alien mosquitos dont invade earth in retaliation

 

[Nostremitus]

http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_k..._change_an_entire_species_forever?language=en

Seems relevant.

 

[MrCunningham]

This is the opening ten minutes of a Kaiju film, right?

This is also the plot to the 1997 Del Toro movie Mimic...

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Whatever science can do to battle the scourge that is the mosquito, I'm all for it. They can all die.

 

[Master Yoshi]

(I'm actually okay with this)

 

[entremet]

Are mosquitos needed for ecosystems, like bees?

 

[Diablos]

I'm all for this.

 

[Wensih]

Hopefully they'll have a label.

 

[Wilsongt]

All it does is make non-modified females infertile when bred witb. I await the freak out from this.

 

[Wensih]

Are mosquitos needed for ecosystems, like bees?

They're a food source for fish, birds, bats, and insects, so it could have ecological ramifications.

 

[Hip Hop]

Are mosquitos needed for ecosystems, like bees?

I believe so, they are food for others.

 

[Last Prime]

Are mosquitos needed for ecosystems, like bees?

Mosquitos could just be food for other creatures.

 

[Snaku]

 

[King Al B]

All it does is make non-modified females infertile when bred witb. I await the freak out from this.

 

[snacknuts]

Are mosquitos needed for ecosystems, like bees?

RadioLab did an episode about this. Short answer: it would probably be fine.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Can they please label these mosquitoes? Not that I am afraid of GMO mosquitoes, or anything, I just think that people should have a choice in knowing what kind of mosquitoes are biting them.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Are mosquitos needed for ecosystems, like bees?

Nope, they're basically useless.

 

[Shadybiz]

This is how it ends, then.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Won't the GMO mosquitos start a trickle down effect in the food chain where eventually all our animals will have autism?

 

[AlteredBeast]

Won't the GMO mosquitos start a trickle down effect in the food chain where eventually all our animals will have autism?

Fortunately, if you can call it that, the govt's chemtrails program affects mosquitoes, too. If it bleeds, it can die.

 

[Bowdz]

It is the literal Genophage. We are now Salarians.

 

[thelatestmodel]

eye-popping GIF

Can we not post stuff like this please? That's disgusting.

 

[Wilsongt]

Can they please label these mosquitoes? Not that I am afraid of GMO mosquitoes, or anything, I just think that people should have a choice in knowing what kind of mosquitoes are biting them.

Each mosquito will be required to wear a tiny badge that says "i'm gmo". the green badge of anti-gmo policy.

 

[Dirtyshubb]

Can we not post stuff like this please? That's disgusting.

LOL You serious?

 

[Noobcraft]

Cool. I read about these a while ago, it should be neat to see how (if) they work outside of a lab.

 

[Grug]

SKINNER
Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

LISA
But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

SKINNER
No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

LISA
But aren't the snakes even worse?

SKINNER
Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

LISA
But then we're stuck with gorillas!

SKINNER
No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Whatever it takes; kill all mosquitos please.

 

[EPaul]

Although i depise mosquitoes this doesnt seem like a god idea

 

[Harmen]

Please make them fluorescent as well.

 

[bucknuticus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc


edit: beaten!

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Allow i depise mosquitoes this doesnt seem like a god idea

Go look up the effects of the Zika virus and see if you still think this is a bad idea.

 

[jiggles]

Found some footage of a group of GMO mosquitos attacking Zika-carrying mosquitos on our behalf

https://youtu.be/8kG9j5Io6yw

 

[Frankfurter]

I just hope the side effects this might have, have been thoroughly investigated.

 

[Gator Bait]

Came for this, was not disappointed

 

[KingBroly]

Can someone break this down?

Is this like, stuff humans take, and when mosquitos bite them, they get this stuff in them, and it'll lead to them mating, and they won't be able to breed?

 

[breakfuss]

Can we not post stuff like this please? That's disgusting.

Lol idk why but I can't stop laughing at this

 

[Kozak]

Can someone break this down?

Is this like, stuff humans take, and when mosquitos bite them, they get this stuff in them, and it'll lead to them mating, and they won't be able to breed?

Science guys making their own mosquito.

 

[KingBroly]

Science guys making their own mosquito.

...

I await the eventual backfire from this.

 

[Grug]

Can someone break this down?

Is this like, stuff humans take, and when mosquitos bite them, they get this stuff in them, and it'll lead to them mating, and they won't be able to breed?

There's no "stuff" to be passed on by a bite. It's the genetic code of the mosquito that is modified. It's basically reprogrammed to make sure that any offspring of the GMO mosquito and the Zika mosquito are sterile and unable to reproduce.

Breeding them out basically.

 

[evilromero]

Love it when we release an animal into the wild to reduce/control the population of another. Wait, no I don't.