[STAR Wars] rebirth as a bug killer came thanks to Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft Corp. executive who now runs Intellectual Ventures LLC., a company that collects patents and funds inventions. His old boss, Mr. Gates, had asked him to explore new ways of combating malaria. At a brainstorming session in 2007, Dr. Wood, the Star Wars architect, suggested using lasers on mosquitoes.
Not only can the laser target a mosquito, it can also tell a male from a female based on wing-beat.
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Kill! Kill! Destroy! I am all for THIS war!
I see the maiden name coming out :)
Mark and I discussed this.
We fear that without mosquitoes bats will be want to collect blood from our necks.
However, we are developing a sonar "bat deflector".
Patent pending.
I guess I am my father's daughter. :-)
I guess that is the one redeeming thing about mosquitoes. They feed the bats and the birds.
I'll spring for lots of extra bird seed if someone will get rid of mosquitos.
Now that Nibiru is going to flood the earth again, we are building a big boat and are refusing two mosquitoes.
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