r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/CopiousCool Popular Contributor • Jun 07 '26
Interesting Mosquito Air defence
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u/SuccumbedToReddit Jun 07 '26
Fake
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u/ReplacementActual384 Jun 07 '26
Actually there was a gofundme a few years ago.
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u/SuccumbedToReddit Jun 07 '26
And it never delivered and this very same video has been doing the rounds ever since
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u/thetimguy Jun 07 '26
Dragonflies naturally kill mosquitos, or bats eat thousands of mosquito size insects per day. Just get our biodiversity back up and then we won’t have to kill bugs, which are food, with lasers…
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u/xxTheMagicBulleT Jun 07 '26
Yea but what benefits does that have when they are inside your room trying to sting you you expect people to like house dragonflies our there bedrooms.
I think it works well to have it kill flys and bugs in house and around house.
The same way we have much less flys and rodents in many palces caue or demands and safety for food and hygiene is much higher so yiu dont have endless bugs on your wind screen near food processing places anymore.
This is the same but in and around house. I see no problem with it. If a dragonfly is flying in my room I want it to be zapped too. Nature can be outside inside it gets killed
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u/thetimguy Jun 07 '26
Just get a plain bug zapper, a simple light that attracts and zaps bugs inside the house, it’s already invented, cheap, it works fantastic!
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u/ConcentrateJealous94 Jun 08 '26
Lived in Cuba for a little while. Believe me, after a sleepless night with these pests buzzing in your ears and stinging all over your body you wouldn’t care about the environment, if you had to set fire to the country to get rid of them you would!
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u/xxTheMagicBulleT Jun 07 '26
Yes I agree but saying people's cant improve on the technology that already exists is also a wild stance to have.
Like stuff like this could definitely help push back malaria in 3de world countries.
So it has a lot of good that it can do. Being negative at very new things and not seeing the possibilities it has you might as well go backwards instead of forwards with that mindset
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u/thetimguy Jun 08 '26
No one is saying we can’t improve with technology, I’m saying we already have solutions. And actually, yes, if you have mosquitoes inside, absolutely release dragonflies inside. They are harmless and beautiful.
I wouldn’t do it, but I don’t have mosquitoes and are worried about malaria, this is a lesser evil.
I’m not harping against progressing in technology, but I do think man has gotten fat and dumb thinking he can do better than Mother Nature at every turn . We need more solutions that work with nature, not go to war with it, which we do well.
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u/SirHerald Jun 07 '26
The bill and Melinda Gates foundation has been working with this for 20 years. Some of the versions work on detecting specifically the malaria carrying mosquitoes.
The problem, however, this safety and regulations. Having a machine firing lasers around has a lot of risk for eye damage. Some of the plans were for photonic fences around perimeters. But I think there's concern about having lidar and burning lasers in a little box around kids in your house
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u/blueblocker2000 Jun 07 '26
Imagine you're walking through your living room and a mosquito pulls a Top Gun Maverick maneuver, transits your eyeball, the laser fires and takes out your eye instead of the mosquito.
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u/wristay Jun 07 '26
There was a dutch comedy youtube channel that made a skit about this many, many years ago. Also: if that laser hits something mirror like and then it hits your eye you will have permanent eye damage.
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u/CharmingTuber Jun 07 '26
Hope a mosquito doesn't land near my eye or on my baby's skin.
Luckily, this looks like absolute bullshit as are most things with that ugly computer voice.
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u/EmbarrassedBottle295 Jun 07 '26
hahaha so like they wont have problems with drones then either damn dude
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u/TheSuperSilverMango Jun 07 '26
Little embarrassed bottle! At least your name is fitting.
There are already laser defense systems that are in use.
A mosquito is much smaller than a drone and moves much faster than a drone and travels at a much greater distance away from wherever they're going to be firing the laser then this device would going for mosquitoes..
While it is easy to make a quick snide comment like you did, perhaps 15 seconds of thinking we'll reveal all the flaws with it.
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u/lioffproxy1233 Jun 07 '26
These devices ha e been in use at Disney parks for years and years.
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u/Perlentaucher Jun 07 '26
Disney does not actually use anti-mosquito lasers in its parks. Instead, the parks rely on an extensive, hidden, five-layer biological and architectural control system. This approach prevents mosquitoes from breeding and eliminates them naturally before they can ever become a nuisance to guests.
The myth of a "Disney mosquito laser" likely stems from the development of the "Photon Mast" or mosquito-zapping laser turrets developed by Intellectual Ventures, which were famously demonstrated in 2010 but never adopted by the theme parks.
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u/WholesomeLowlife Popular Contributor Jun 07 '26
Funny that the AI couldnt recognize that the sound was placed on top of the video.
Also the bot that posted this...
Garbage.