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BUGGED OUT Deadly ‘super mosquitoes that are even tougher’ accidentally created by scientists
The Sun UK ^
| 17 Sep 2019, 17:49Updated: 18 Sep 2019, 15:21
| Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
Posted on 09/18/2019 7:34:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Video at link............
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09/18/2019 7:37:01 AM PDT
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Man playing God. What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:37:54 AM PDT
by
Bitman
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:38:06 AM PDT
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: Red Badger
Remember the honey bee breeding program that started in Brazil and led to the explosion of angry critters known as Africanized Bees.
Wait until the geneticists start customizing the human genome. /#dread
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:38:26 AM PDT
by
ptsal
Well, at least they can finally stop saying Brazillians haven’t invented anything
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:38:34 AM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
To: NorthMountain
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:39:28 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
Dinks like this may actually kill us all
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:40:00 AM PDT
by
Spruce
To: Red Badger
Paging the Spims.....
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:40:34 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ptsal
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:41:26 AM PDT
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Red Badger
I seriously doubt if it was an accident. They created the AIDS virus and then sent it to Africa and then told the public that the AIDS virus was created when a man screwed a monkey.
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:43:23 AM PDT
by
sport
To: Red Badger
Oxitech should pay at least a million dollar fine.
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:45:37 AM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
To: Red Badger
Every species, humans included, have tons of genes that geneticists merely think are “inactive” or “have no function”, when in truth, for many genes, they do not know if they have any function or not. All they really know is they have no function that the geneticists know of.
Then there is the epigenetic factor, where genes either become inactive or become active only when some external factor causes them to “turn on” or “turn off”.
In short, geneticists do not know everything about the genes they study.
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:48:07 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Red Badger
I immediately thought of a 50’s Sci-Fi flick.
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:53:29 AM PDT
by
duckman
( Not tired of winning!)
To: NorthMountain
“Although the wild population did plummet for a short while, 18 months later it was right back up again. “
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F’n geniuses! >:(
This was a predictable effect.
You release a genetic weakness into the population, and that so-called weakness does not eliminate 100% of the effected population, then what you have effectively done is caused the entire population to overcome that weakness. Not by some effort of will or deliberate intent, but by merely surviving it. Those who survive the added genetic weakness are those whose genes were best suited to utilize the changes.
Oh, and then there are the side effect, otherwise known as “unintended consequences”
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posted on
09/18/2019 7:57:23 AM PDT
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z3n
To: Red Badger
I am shocked.
Genetically modified. What could go wrong?
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09/18/2019 8:00:13 AM PDT
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TomGuy
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posted on
09/18/2019 8:00:25 AM PDT
by
myerson
To: seawolf101
Nice picture of the Minnesota State Bird.
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posted on
09/18/2019 8:08:25 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: Red Badger
I know this thing about random variation and natural selection is deprecated among a certain set of the FR community, but here we have it in spades. Except in this case it was a deliberate variation, but we forgot that life is very very very very complex, and if you believe in evolution, then to get where we are today, life had to develop to adapt to, survive, and be strengthened by anything mother nature threw its way. So we try throwing something its way and we think we know how it will turn out.
Yet we are still discovering bizarre life forms in all kinds of bizarre environments where we figured life could not possibly survive.
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Seems scientists are always having these “accidents”.
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posted on
09/18/2019 8:13:29 AM PDT
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bgill
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