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brambolius
Profile Joined January 2006
Netherlands448 Posts
March 18 2009 09:56 GMT
#21
i have seen enough movies to know this kind of thing can only go horribly wrong.
nitram
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Canada5412 Posts
March 18 2009 10:46 GMT
#22
I really want to see a video of this
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potchip
Profile Joined October 2004
Australia260 Posts
March 18 2009 11:19 GMT
#23
To produce a laser beam powerful enough to make mozzies burst into flames immediately will definately hurt people, or at the very least a fire hazard. Alternatively, if the beam is weaker, some sophisticated tracking device will need to be built to follow the movement of a mosquito and sustain the beam, which is highly cost-ineffective.

A much bigger version of this is already being tested..Google YAL-1.
KaasZerg
Profile Joined November 2005
Netherlands927 Posts
March 18 2009 11:28 GMT
#24
The laser can be very weak. It has to boil a mosquto-intestine (kill), wrinkle a wing (immobilize) or disable a sensory organ permanently (blind).
Burning it to ashes in an instant is overkill though more satisfying.. With weak Lasers will only be dangerous to humans with a direct hit in the eye maybe.
garmule2
Profile Joined March 2006
United States376 Posts
March 18 2009 12:17 GMT
#25
Little known fact, but humans have a vestigial 'laser resistance' that was useless for the last couple thousand years because after the ice age ended the ozone layer slowly rebuilt and now blocks out most of the harmful cosmic rays.
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6639 Posts
March 18 2009 13:08 GMT
#26
This sounds like an awesome invention. I want one of my own, not that there are any mosquitoes here but there are plenty of other annoying insects.
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TheFoReveRwaR
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States10657 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-18 13:45:19
March 18 2009 13:42 GMT
#27
On March 18 2009 20:19 potchip wrote:
To produce a laser beam powerful enough to make mozzies burst into flames immediately will definately hurt people, or at the very least a fire hazard. Alternatively, if the beam is weaker, some sophisticated tracking device will need to be built to follow the movement of a mosquito and sustain the beam, which is highly cost-ineffective.

A much bigger version of this is already being tested..Google YAL-1.

My thoughts exactly. Not to mention the extreme difficulty of making it only target female misquitos. Africas eco system is already fragile enough.

Well not so much the hazard or hurting people but the highly cost inffective. Unless of course you want a feel good, media friendly project and you're a high tec software/technology mogul. And your wife is a bleeding heart save the world type person and you want to make her happy too. Oh wait!

I really wouldn't take this idea too seriously. I doubt it will ever be operational.
Being healthy, it has been said, really consists of having the same disease as everybody else.
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
March 18 2009 14:11 GMT
#28
On March 18 2009 20:19 potchip wrote:
To produce a laser beam powerful enough to make mozzies burst into flames immediately will definately hurt people, or at the very least a fire hazard. Alternatively, if the beam is weaker, some sophisticated tracking device will need to be built to follow the movement of a mosquito and sustain the beam, which is highly cost-ineffective.

A much bigger version of this is already being tested..Google YAL-1.


wow so they are already getting into SDI? I always appreciated the idea, so good on them .
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Tetris
Profile Joined January 2009
United States36 Posts
March 18 2009 14:23 GMT
#29
On March 18 2009 16:44 freelander wrote:
I need one but against people

Nuke inc
noobforfun
Profile Joined January 2009
Malta36 Posts
March 18 2009 15:00 GMT
#30
yes but this is going to be fucking expensive me thinks, if it is is gonna be a total failure
TopGear
Profile Joined November 2005
United Kingdom796 Posts
March 18 2009 15:09 GMT
#31
On March 18 2009 18:56 brambolius wrote:
i have seen enough movies to know this kind of thing can only go horribly wrong.


I, Robot? :D

But seriously, fuck mosquitos.. in the summer they seem to love me and argh they are so annoying when im trying to sleep + the next day when I wake up and am itchy all over and have these repulsive little bites all over me =[
MisterKatosS
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
France352 Posts
March 18 2009 18:22 GMT
#32
it sucks ! homing missiles would be way cooler than that
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Louder
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States2276 Posts
March 18 2009 20:23 GMT
#33
I'd pay 5 figures for something like this at my house holy shit. Mosquitos in my area are at epidemic levels basically every spring/summer
Tusk
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada427 Posts
March 18 2009 20:49 GMT
#34
Short Sighted.
sushiman
Profile Joined September 2003
Sweden2691 Posts
March 18 2009 21:01 GMT
#35
Seems like an extremely cost-inefficient and ineffective solution, albeit a really cool one.
1000 at least.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
March 18 2009 21:14 GMT
#36
I want a laser drone that kills terran marines, can i have that?
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9105 Posts
March 18 2009 21:21 GMT
#37
On March 19 2009 06:14 nttea wrote:
I want a laser drone that kills terran marines, can i have that?


Wouldn't it make more sense if it killed zerglings or scourges instead?
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
March 18 2009 21:24 GMT
#38
holy shit! this is fucking awesome! i want one..
are they for sale yet?
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anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-18 21:31:24
March 18 2009 21:29 GMT
#39
wow, pretty amazing how it can snipe such little insect, and moving at a rapid speed.
I hope this works for flies and moths.

On March 19 2009 06:14 nttea wrote:
I want a laser drone that kills terran marines, can i have that?

called Colossus
Blizzard is still working on the AI,
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
March 18 2009 21:29 GMT
#40
Am I the only one that is thinking 'pew pew' right now?

This is such an awesome invention...
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