Lasers against mosquitoes? Sound good to me.

Noah missed his chance to do some real good for us. He could have left the mosquitoes behind. Sure, bats and frogs might have had to find other sources of food, but I'm sure they could have evolved.
Anyway, the earth has these little bits of flying misery - a nuisance at best, deadly at worst. But, we've got lasers. The Wall Street Journal reports that scientists are experimenting with using lasers to knock off mosquitoes, one by one (emphasis mine), with lasers.

We'd be delighted if we destabilize the human-mosquito balance of power," says Jordin Kare, an astrophysicist who once worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

I think that you'd have to be a pretty good shot, but Monty Python has already shown us how it could be done.


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