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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 07, 2018, 02:15:18 pm
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GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides meant to kill them
Saturday, January 06, 2018 by: Isabelle Z.
(Natural News) Getting bit by mosquitoes is never fun, and it can be downright deadly if they happen to be carrying diseases like malaria. Mankind’s quest to keep this nuisance under control, however well-meaning it may be, appears to have had the opposite of its intended effect as a new study shows how mosquitoes have evolved a type of genetic shield to protect themselves from chemical pesticides.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-01-06-gm-nightmare-humans-created-monster-mosquito-resist-pesticides.html (https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-01-06-gm-nightmare-humans-created-monster-mosquito-resist-pesticides.html)
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Come at me bro.
(https://i.imgur.com/B7gq4i8.jpg)
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Three words.
DDT
Bring it back.
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Not possible. They may be resistant to some but not all
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Why is this a “GM nightmare� This is natural selection in action, not genetic modification in the sense that term is usually used, namely, human insertion of gene sequences into an organisms genome.
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Why is this a “GM nightmare� This is natural selection in action, not genetic modification in the sense that term is usually used, namely, human insertion of gene sequences into an organisms genome.
Because Natural News is a crackpot site that hopes you only read the title.
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Because Natural News is a crackpot site that hopes you only read the title.
888high58888
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Three words.
DDT
Bring it back.
It never left.
In fact, it's continued use in agricultural (in places like India) is part of why we see this problem.
Fortunately, places that restricted it's use to mosquito control, like the US, don't have as many problems.
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Bring in the Spim Brothers
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvT3MHpffk#)
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It never left.
In fact, it's continued use in agricultural (in places like India) is part of why we see this problem.
Fortunately, places that restricted it's use to mosquito control, like the US, don't have as many problems.
Yep. There is nothing magic about DDT. Its just another chemical compound that mosquitoes can build up a resistance to. Its why we wisely avoid feeding antibiotics to industrially grown poultry in this country.
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Here in Florida we've started to see a giant mosquito. It's about 1 1/2 inches wide. Sounds like an airplane coming at you.
Neighbor got bit. He said it felt like a knife. It raised a welt about the size of a golf ball.
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Here in Florida we've started to see a giant mosquito. It's about 1 1/2 inches wide. Sounds like an airplane coming at you.
Neighbor got bit. He said it felt like a knife. It raised a welt about the size of a golf ball.
Do they look like this?
(https://therionorteline.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/florida-mosquito.png)
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Here in Florida we've started to see a giant mosquito. It's about 1 1/2 inches wide. Sounds like an airplane coming at you.
Neighbor got bit. He said it felt like a knife. It raised a welt about the size of a golf ball.
PS
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/10/monster-mosquitoes-emerge-in-central-florida/ (http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/10/monster-mosquitoes-emerge-in-central-florida/)
Apparently they're a Florida native mosquito species, as opposed to those tiger striped species we've seen the last several years from Asia, and don't carry disease that humans can catch. So the bite may hurt a bit, but you don't have to worry about any of the crazy viruses that the other ones carry.
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Yep. There is nothing magic about DDT. Its just another chemical compound that mosquitoes can build up a resistance to. Its why we wisely avoid feeding antibiotics to industrially grown poultry in this country.
:beer:
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If you nail them with pyrethrins, they will die. It's just that it is almost solely a contact killer. The half-life is measured in a few hours.
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Do they look like this?
(https://therionorteline.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/florida-mosquito.png)
The best defense is a good offense.
(https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KurdishPeshmerga.jpg)
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GM nightmare unfolds:
They decided to bring the Phoenix back?
(http://dev.hatchheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pontiac_phoenix_83-880x423.png)
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Do they look like this?
(https://therionorteline.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/florida-mosquito.png)
My kind of mosquito.
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Because Natural News is a crackpot site that hopes you only read the title.
:thumbsup:
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GM nightmare unfolds:
They decided to bring the Phoenix back?
(http://dev.hatchheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pontiac_phoenix_83-880x423.png)
OK, you win the internet for the day!!!
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GM nightmare unfolds:
They decided to bring the Phoenix back?
I would have gone with the Pontiac Aztek.
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I would have gone with the Pontiac Aztek.
The Aztek was ugly, but was a mechanically sound vehicle and you could fit a lot of stuff in them. There are a lot of them still on the road as well. X platform based cars, not so much.
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I would have gone with the Pontiac Aztek.
I almost got one of those because I knew it would be safe parked in a high-crime neighborhood.
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The Aztek was ugly, but was a mechanically sound vehicle and you could fit a lot of stuff in them. There are a lot of them still on the road as well. X platform based cars, not so much.
Edmunds said it best when it made the #1 spot on their 100 Worst Cars of All Time:
1. 2001 Pontiac Aztek: Drive one and you quickly realize that the Aztek's exterior design is its best feature. It's the very worst car of all time because it's the only car on the list to kill an 84-year-old car company. It's undeniable that the Aztek's utter hideousness drove the biggest and last nails into Pontiac's heavily side-clad, plastic coffin.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-worst-cars-of-all-time.html (https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-worst-cars-of-all-time.html)
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Edmunds said it best when it made the #1 spot on their 100 Worst Cars of All Time:
1. 2001 Pontiac Aztek: Drive one and you quickly realize that the Aztek's exterior design is its best feature. It's the very worst car of all time because it's the only car on the list to kill an 84-year-old car company. It's undeniable that the Aztek's utter hideousness drove the biggest and last nails into Pontiac's heavily side-clad, plastic coffin.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-worst-cars-of-all-time.html (https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-worst-cars-of-all-time.html)
All the bitching about that car was the styling. It had a bulletproof 3400 in it and all the other tried and true drive train and suspension components in the GM toolbox. No one ever bitches about Buick Rendezvous, but they were the identical car with different sheet metal.
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...No one ever bitches about Buick Rendezvous, but they were the identical car with different sheet metal.
Amazing that in their last two years:
Buick Rendezvous sold 61,249
and Pontiac Aztek sold 416.
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Amazing that in their last two years:
Buick Rendezvous sold 61,249
and Pontiac Aztek sold 416.
And the only difference between the two are their looks. Same thing happened with the 80's A body cars. Everyone bought Centuries and Olds and almost no one bought 6000's because they were dumb looking all around.......except for my old man. The Pontiac dealer gave him a better number on the '74 Montego wagon he was trading. The dashboard in that 6000 made you so depressed you wanted to steer into a telephone pole at 60mph.
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Frank Cannon wrote (about the Aztek):
"All the bitching about that car was the styling. It had a bulletproof 3400 in it and all the other tried and true drive train and suspension components in the GM toolbox. No one ever bitches about Buick Rendezvous, but they were the identical car with different sheet metal."
The guy across the street from me has an Aztek.
Still looks ok for it's age (in terms of holding up against deterioration), still seems to be going ok.