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Video: China’s missile defense-style mosquito zapping laser kills 30 bugs per second
Interesting Engineering ^ | July 07, 2025 | Abhishek Bhardwaj

Posted on 07/08/2025 12:04:25 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: MeanWestTexan

I guess in time they will also recognize other elements of the target humans, like helmet shape, uniforms, rifle.


21 posted on 07/08/2025 1:32:23 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

I’ve got bats and dragonflies.


22 posted on 07/08/2025 1:44:07 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Red Badger

Bring back DDT!


23 posted on 07/08/2025 2:42:13 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

My backyard was so swarming with mosquitos that I sprayed the whole place down with that Ortho or whatever stuff you hook to a garden hose.
It’s now my 4th summer out here mosquito free...
I guess the stuff really works!


24 posted on 07/08/2025 2:54:34 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Red Badger

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25 posted on 07/08/2025 8:12:57 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: BenLurkin
Sounds too good to be true.

Communist China: land of educated criminals.

26 posted on 07/08/2025 8:51:37 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: dljordan

We do too, but not nearly enough...............


27 posted on 07/09/2025 5:08:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Hmmm... hadn’t thought of that.

I have a friend that insists cyberis ahuge threat and a gamechanger.

Will mention this to him.


28 posted on 07/09/2025 5:38:00 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: sauropod

There are several types deployed. Israel has several.

Typically called “autonomous robot sniper systems”. Most are large and rather fortified, as they don’t move and are thus vulnerable to counterattack.

Now, they are going in drones and robot dogs, using much smaller weapons, to avoid this limitation.

(The 50cal was chosen to “reach out” beyond typical counter-sniper fire in part for this reason.)

These are deployed weapons, BTW. Not vaporware.


29 posted on 07/09/2025 7:48:10 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: sauropod

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12675883/Israels-terrifying-arsenal-ROBOT-weaponry-AI-powered-turrets-remote-control-boats-unmanned-attack-bots-used-IDF-prepares-scale-ground-invasion-Gaza.html


30 posted on 07/09/2025 8:05:57 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: crusty old prospector
What could possibly go wrong? “Honey, the mosquitoes are all dead but I am blind.”

"Honey? Honey? Where are you?

31 posted on 07/09/2025 9:33:15 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: BenLurkin
Sounds too good to be true.

Sounds like a great idea for something you turn on on your patio at night. Kill a few lightning bugs too, but eh, omelettes. If it is truly pet/human eye-safe.

Something you leave on / in your yard all day? It'll probably kill more beneficial bugs like bees and ladybugs then the amount of mosquito it takes out.
32 posted on 07/10/2025 6:16:13 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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