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Title: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Kirin on February 15, 2010, 07:23:59 AM
Weeee!  :O

So - Mossies do not fly with single wing.

http://www.20min.ch/videotv/?channel_id=46&video_id=46783 target= (http://www.20min.ch/videotv/?channel_id=46&video_id=46783 target=)
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: tassos on February 15, 2010, 07:53:11 AM
Mossie Down

...und wer hatts erfunden?

if Mosie had a cellphone he would still be alive

(http://1.1.1.2/bmi/www.bildblog.de/wp-content/mosi_glassarg.jpg)
...strangled with a wire from a phone

Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Demetrious on February 15, 2010, 09:27:21 AM
So instead of using DDT to kill mosquitoes, somebody poured millions of dollars into miniaturized lasers and radar target/acquisition systems.

HOORAY  :banana:
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: legoman on February 15, 2010, 10:13:07 AM
Quote
So instead of using DDT to kill mosquitoes, somebody poured millions of dollars into miniaturized lasers and radar target/acquisition systems.

HOORAY  dancing banana
lol thats the way it works always have to do the most expensive thing
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Slash27 on February 15, 2010, 10:24:12 AM
So instead of using DDT to kill mosquitoes, somebody poured millions of dollars into miniaturized lasers and radar target/acquisition systems.

HOORAY  :banana:

Like you wouldn't buy that!
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: MORAY37 on February 15, 2010, 10:26:27 AM
So instead of using DDT to kill mosquitoes, somebody poured millions of dollars into miniaturized lasers and radar target/acquisition systems.

HOORAY  :banana:

I guess you're not all that familiar with the issues that DDT has in avian and mammalian populations.  This may explain your satirical stance.

Ignorance will forever be bliss.....
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Kirin on February 15, 2010, 10:28:44 AM
Mossie Down

...und wer hatts erfunden?

if Mosie had a cellphone he would still be alive

(http://1.1.1.2/bmi/www.bildblog.de/wp-content/mosi_glassarg.jpg)
...strangled with a wire from a phone





I didn't know you were so aquainted with German (sub-)culture...  :D
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Strip on February 15, 2010, 11:16:28 AM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: MORAY37 on February 15, 2010, 12:21:45 PM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: morfiend on February 15, 2010, 12:43:24 PM
I guess you're not all that familiar with the issues that DDT has in avian and mammalian populations.  This may explain your satirical stance.

Ignorance will forever be bliss.....


  Yup!


   That exactly what I was thinking when I read the DDT comment.......sheese the easiest method isnt always the best.

    :salute
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Jayhawk on February 15, 2010, 01:33:21 PM
Keep following me around kid.  You might learn a thing or two.  

(http://www.njoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/high_horse.jpg)
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Jappa52 on February 15, 2010, 02:22:51 PM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Scherf on February 15, 2010, 02:52:37 PM
"I say chaps, it seems Jerry has some sort of new weapon to defend against our Mosquito operations.


Press on regardless."
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Karnak on February 15, 2010, 02:59:05 PM
Must be cool to be the smartest person on the planet....

 :rolleyes:

Strip
The problems with DDT are very well known.  The comment he was responding to was pretty dismally ignorant given the ease with which that information can be obtained.  You see that kind of ignorance pushed as "common sense" in a lot of environmental issues simply because people don't even try to obtain even a minimalist familiarity with the subject they are expounding on.
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: SIK1 on February 15, 2010, 07:27:20 PM
Oh hell yes! I want one. Does it work on flies too?
 
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Kirin on February 16, 2010, 01:02:37 AM
Oh hell yes! I want one. Does it work on flies too?
 
I guess if your program the target aquisition accordingly. They say it avoids shooting butterflies!  :cool:
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: MORAY37 on February 16, 2010, 10:12:48 AM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: ghostdancer on February 16, 2010, 10:30:25 AM
Okay you guys can pile on me ... but is anybody else a little disturbed by this? I mean I don't like mosquitoes and I will kill them when they are in my house and I will take measures to eliminate them from my yard. But to laser off their wings just for entertainment? Not sure how I feel about that.
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Lusche on February 16, 2010, 10:43:22 AM
But to laser off their wings just for entertainment? Not sure how I feel about that.

It's not for entertainment.


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Mr. Myhrvold said the software detects the speed and size of the image before deciding whether to shoot. It would reject a butterfly or a human, for example, and more powerful laser blasts could be used for locusts. In regions afflicted by malaria, the lasers could be used to create protective fences around clinics, homes, or even agricultural fields as a substitute for pesticides.

(...)

The idea of lasers — a miniature “Star Wars” weapons system — was thrown into the mix. “Everyone was like, ‘C’mon, be serious,’” Mr. Myhrvold said in an interview after the demonstration. After doing a little bit of research, he said, his team concluded that “this is feasible. We can actually do it. So we did.”
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/using-lasers-to-zap-mosquitoes/
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Maniac on February 16, 2010, 11:05:42 AM
OMG! So cool.

Where do i order one!

Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: SIK1 on February 16, 2010, 11:06:46 AM
OMG! So cool.

Where do i order one!



I'm guessing it aint gonna be cheap.
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: ghostdancer on February 16, 2010, 11:26:12 AM
Lusche, sorry from the initial post in the thread I mistakenly took this for entertainment since I don't understand the language on http://www.20min.ch/videotv/?channel_id=46&video_id=46783%20target=.

For the purposes you sight from that blog page I am fine with it.
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: rabbidrabbit on February 16, 2010, 03:44:50 PM
I'd buy one..

Article says it's a parted together demo model but could be made for under 50 bucks.  Someone smart will make a few calls and start selling these things.  Heck, I thought of the idea a long time ago but it wasn't feasible then.  It's useful and cool.  A sure winner there.
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Maniac on February 16, 2010, 04:11:41 PM
I would be a reseller for these in an instant.
Title: Re: Laser shooting down Mosquitos!
Post by: Tac on February 16, 2010, 04:12:24 PM
I find it amazing that the US military spent billions to make a weapon system to shoot down ICBM's in flight with a laser and took them decades...


and here's billy showing off the same thing, pocket sized, less than a few years in the making... a laser system that tracks, identifies and shoots down a very small, highly maneuverable target (that can zig zag unlike a missile in flight).