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2005-10-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Great Balls of Fire! Scientists create GM mosquitoes that fire blanks

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Posted by .com 2005-10-10 04:33|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fluorescent testicles open up all sorts of erhem! possibilities. I can see them being a BIG hit at gay bathhouses.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-10 04:52|| 2005-10-10 04:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Clever idea, but of course the mosquitoes from the next region over would gradually diffuse into the mosquito-free regions, unless the target region is really, really big. Still, anything is better than the current situation.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 06:35|| 2005-10-10 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 "Look, Daddy, fireflies!"
"Ummmm, no son, not exactly....let's go inside and watch TV."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-10-10 07:33|| 2005-10-10 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The plan is to breed, sterilise

breed, sterilise ... ... hmmmm? Does anyone else see a problem here?

Well, if they get the technology down, florescent guys don't need to be gay.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-10 07:38|| 2005-10-10 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL 2b, got the joke now.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-10 09:38|| 2005-10-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if these guys are working on a GM solution to the killer bee population here in the Western Hemisphere?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-10 11:14|| 2005-10-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Wouldn't sterile females be better?

You can use yout imagination as to what might be usefully made fluorescent on girl mosquitoes...

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2005-10-10 13:12|| 2005-10-10 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, the methods used may have, over time, an unintended effect of increasing the size and aggressiveness of the species - read, [human] blood-sucking GIANT buggers, with all the reputation and attack frenzies of Africanized bees. DANG BETTER MAKE SURE THEIR RESEARCH IS D*** THOROUGH AND CORRECT A'FORE DOING ANYTWANG!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-10-10 22:38|| 2005-10-10 22:38|| Front Page Top

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